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Published by Koanoke Pcbltshing Co. "FOR GOD. if OR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. C. V. AV Ausbo5,-.Bosisbm Manager, VOL. U. PLYMOUTH, N. 0., FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1891. NO. 38. , ' irae NEW& Wra. C. Duncan, a New York salesman, has disappeared with $30,000 worth of diamonds. -A report comet from Silverton, Col., lhat Padlewaki, who assassinated General Silver- .eroff in Paris a few tndnths ago, or a man very closely resembling him, recently a p peared there. He purchased a burro and dis ppea red in the mountains.- David Ski winski, a traveling salesman committed suf- ' 'cide at Dudley, Pa., by hanging. . He had re ceived a letter from a young lady In Dudley breaking their matrimonial engagement.- Surrogate Ransom, of New York, has decided that the marriage of Eva L. Hamilton to Robert Rny Hamilton was void. William Coulter, v' well-known Michigan .far mer, murdered ;his father by shooting him with anNld shot gun. The tronble was broughtabout by a quarrel over the owner ship of a load of hay. -George Westinghouse has received $250,000 for hit air-brake patent from the London Air-Brake Company. James R. 0'NeiII,a Chicago and Northwestern freight conductor was shot by tramps when be attempted to put them off the car. The La flan & Rand powder mill, located one mile from Cresent, Pa., were blown up from uu . known causes. The buildings were completely demolished.- -At San Antonio, Tex., during a lovers' quarrel, Bertha Geers, thirty years old, shotand fatally wounded James Hartley, .., of Battery F. Third Artillery, and then com mitted suicide. John Miller, a drunken blacksmith, living In Rochester, stabbed and killed his son, with whom he had been quar- ! reling -General Miles reviewed the three thousand troops that were engaged in the In dian campaign, and immediately afterward several commands started for , their regular , quarters in other parts of the West During a freshet at Wassaie; N. Y., two women and a ; team were swept down with a bridge and , Crowned. r-r rank Edwards, aged eight years ' was washed into a sewer and drowned at Pat erson, N. J -C. E. Pratt, of Rabway, N. J., who recently inherited a fortune from his father in England, committed suicide. A bill was introduced in the Delaware IStnte Assembly to abolish the national jcuard system in that state. -Representative Met- afl, of the Washington legislature, handed to the Speaker $500, which he said had been .banded him to vote for W." II. Calkins for Senator. . A committee to , investigate .the charge of bribery was appointed. Watson C. Squire was elected senator.. Governor Hill was elected United States Senator, the vote on joint ballot being Hill SI, Evarts "9. Near Little Rock, James Huntley was killed dur- ing a riot.- The remains of George Bancroft were buried at Worcester, Mass. "Fire ( caused $70,000daroage at Hillsboro, N. D. .The opera house at Winona, Minn., was burned., , Loss, $7,000. The hospital of the Missouri, Kansas and -Texas Railway Cora jjany, at Sedalin, Mo,' was burned; loss $15,- 000. Forty patieuts were rescued.- The iCawker City (Kas.) State Bank is in the jhandsof a receiver.- Chas. Heury Lnders, n poet, died nt the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, where he was under goingtreatmeat' with the lymph.- The movements of tho troops from Pine Ridge (toward Rushville aroused the suspicion of the .Indians, who feared a surprise. The army jftnd Navy authorities in San Francisco have been instructed by the President to take charge of the funeral arrangements of King 3Calakaua, and pay the highest military and naval honors to the dead monarch. Isaac i from Bradford. Pa., who are said to have 'robbed their creditors of $85,000, were arrest, 'ed in Hamilton. Out. Captain Thomas F. Maloney,of the Eighth Regiment, N. G. P., was found drowned in the Susquehanna, The Kansas City Car and Wheel Works, at Kansas City, shut down for an indefinite period. The Rev. A. M. De Ford, of Horton ville, Wis., waa sentenced to five years at hard labor for raising bank notes. August Copp and Mrs. Henry Van Felt have been arrested in Chicago. Both were married and eloped from Belgium. Fifteen masked men wrecked and robbed a train near 'Brownsville, Tex. In McCarthy ville, in Montana, t three masked robbers killed two poker players, and fled with $700.- -Nearly a doxen window glass factories have shut down on account of an overstocked market and lower prices. Lieutenant Commandir Charles R, Black, U. S. N., diel at Hot Springs, Ark. Senator Cameron was re elected by the Pennsylvania Legislature.- 'Senator James K. Jone was re-elected in Ar kansas. -Senator Mitchell was re-elected in Oregon. Governor Reynolds was inaugur ated in . Delaware.1 ; He recommended some radical reforms, among others minority repre sentation. The Republicans of Washing ton nominated Senator Squire. -Senator Teller was re-elected by the Colorado Legis lature. -Senator Vance was re-elected in North Carolina. Governor Pattisou waa Inaugurated at Harrisburg. AGAINST THE LOTTERY. The Louisiana District four Rules Against the Constitutional Amendment. The District Court decided against ' the Louisiana .State Lottery Company and in favor of the State of Louisiana iu tho man damus suit brought by the lottery company against Ihe Secretary of State. The suit was to compel the Secretary' of State to promul gate the Lottery amendment to the Constitu tion, passed by the last'Legislature in order that the people may vote on it at the next c eotiou. H refused to do this on the ground that tne amcnameu was iicfcr yiujuj parsed by theLegb-lature, having been vetoed I y the Governor., ino un luemuro wn ecide whether the people shall have a right tendine the charter of the lottery company twenty-five years or not. The Dis-trii-t Ju.lpe te-dar sided with Gov. Nichols n l tie Swrftary f State in their view of the mutter, and refused the mandamus. The com-.him- will mrrv the question i.t osice tf tho t-upieinet ou! t'. It the Supreme Court n (firms t!r :.-vi inn t the lower tribunal-It will pre tut mi eten',ioB vt Vo lo'.ler.v gtbarter, KING KALAKIDA DBAI). The Ruler of Hawaii Expires in San Francisco. Bright'! Disease and L'rermla the tunic of Ills Demise Career of the Monarch of the Sandwich Islands. . King David Kalakaua of the Hawaiian Islands, who came to Californ'a a few weeks ago for the benefit of his health, died at 2.30 o'clock in the afternoon at the Palace Hotel, in that city, of Bright's disease of the kidneys. At the apartments of King Kalakaua during the morning the situation was one of anxious watching. Surgeon Wood of the United States steamship Charleston, and Dr. Sawyer remained by the bedside of the King through out the night, and in an adjoining room at an early hour gathered Consul McKinley, Colonel MacFarlane, the royal chamberlain, Colonel Baker, of the King's staff", Claus Pnreckels and several other friends of the King. . The malady a fleet hf? King Ka'akaua was of several years' standing, but it was not made visible to his medical adviers until last Thursday, when Dr. Sawyer and Dr. Taylor were called in for consultation by Dr. Woods. The decision was that Bright' disease held the Hawaiian monarch firmly in its grip. It seems lhat a year ago, under the car of Di. McGraw, the royal physician at the Islands, it whs observed that his majesty was prone to drop asleep suddenly at dinner, at receptions, at any time, in fact. The doctors attributed this to various onuses, ott did not seem to settle on any organic difficulty. They made examinations and analysis which developed the preseuce of symptoms of kidney trouble, but four years belore the King had suffered from kindred trouble, and soon after his re turn from hix trip to Southern California, the King suddenly grew worse. The King's remain will be embalmed at once. While no definite arrangements have been made yet for the funeral services, and the removal of the remains to the Islands, it is probable that services will be held in Trinity Episcopal Church, and that the re mains will leave for Honolulu on the United States flagship Charleston be: ore the close of the week. The next regular passenger steamer for Honolulu will not leave until January 27, and it is'probable that the first intelligence of the King's death will be received by the Hawaiian people when the Charleston arrives at the hnrttor of Honolulu with the remains of their King aboard. The flags on all the publie buildings in the city were placed at half mast and the Hawaiian ensign is also at half mast above the Palace Hotel. THE DEAD KING. , David Kalakaua was born November 16, 1836. He was descended from one of the chief families of the Sandwich Islands, received an edurntion, including a familiar knowledge of the English language. When King Katne hameha died in 187 J he was a candidate for the throne, but his opponent. William Luna lilo, was elected by the people and confirmed by the Legislature. King Luualilo died within a year, and on February 12, 1874, Kala kaua was elected to the vacant throne by a Legislature that bad been convened for the purpose. Ex-Queen Emma, the rival candi date received six votes in the assembly to thiriy-six for Kalakaua. The partisans of Queen Emma provoked disorder, which were quelled by the intervention of English and American marines. In the antuntu of 1874 the King set out on a tonr of the United States and Europe. He. was conveyed to San Fran cisco in the United States steam frigate Benicia, placed at his dicposal by the United Statec government, arriving in that city on November 28, 1877., On July 10, 1887, after 6ome political excitement, he signed a new constitution limiting the perogatives of the crown. A hostile movement against the gov ernment was made at Honoluin afew months ago by cadets who hud been educated abroad at government expense. The leaders were arrested aud punished.' King Kalakaua was a devotee of tht game of poker, and many stories are told of his giving his notes for losses, the notes seldom being paid. He was also fond of base ball, and attended a game at Los Angeles, Ca!., only a fewdays ago. THE KINGDOM. Hawaii, better known as the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands, is a constitutional kingdom. The islands are situated in the Pacific ocean between lat 18 50' and 22 15' N. and Ion. 151 45' and 160 30' W. from Greenwich. They are 2,100 miles southwest from San Francisco, with which port they are connected by a bimonthly line ot steamers. Theii loca tion gives them commercial importance, they being the only island north of the equator on the irreat ocean highway between the Pacific , coast of the United States and Australia, China aud Japan. They are last becoming a winter resort for travelers, owing to the salubrious climate, beautiful scenery and the constantly active volcano of Kilauea on the Island of Hawaii. Honolulu, on the Island of Oaku, is the capital of the kingdom, aud has a popula tion ot 2,100, and possesses the only available harbor on the group. The foreign population of the kingdom is rapidly increasing, and the soil has passed in large measure into the hands of Americans and other foreigners, who cultivate sugar-cane with imported labor Portuguese, Chinese and lately Japanee. The total area of the six islands is 6,670 rquare miles and the total population is about a Hundred thousand souls. THEY MADE A GOOD HAUL.' Farther Particulars of the Train Rob . toery In Texas A Narrow Kacape. Additional particulars have been received of the train wrecking and robbery on the Bio Grande Railroad on the 19th, in which the bandits secured $20,000 in silver shipped to New Orleans. The train left Brownsville in the morning with passengers for the steam ship Morgan, at Brazos. When twelve miles from there the train was derailed by obstruc tions placed on the track, at a point in the hills near Ihe river bank- Filteen marked men then plundered the express car, laking the silver shipment above mentioned, and rifled the United- States mail pouches. The passengers were then held up aud plundered of their money and valuables. The robbers then blindfolded the passengers and trainmen, forced them into a box car, locked them in, and left. The derailed cars caught fire irom the overturned locomotive, and, but for the timely appearance ot some farmers living near the scene, the Imprisoned passengers and trainmen would have perished. The fireman and engineer were seriously injured wheu the locomotive went over, but no Jives were lost. Officers are on the track of the bandit, but as the men are supposed to have crossed the rtver into Mexico, there is .littla prospect of their being captured. Ida Lewis, tKe life-saving heroine of ew port hits been nrged to go on the stage in a piny w ritten especially for her, but she re fuses! abbi-iuteiy to entertain such a p-ropofu-lion. FIFTY-FIRST C0NGRES3 Senate. S6th Day. The Senate was aain enscge'l on the Election bill. Senators Hampton and Pasco spoke agninstthe bill and Mr. Dixon supported it. At 0 30 P. M. a motion to ad journ wa defeated by the rppublicans by a vote of 32 to 27, nfler whieh several ot the amendments which hitd been ofFeied from the democratic tide were laid on the table. At 2.15 A. M. a motion was made by Mr. Ed munds and agreed to directing the sergeant-at-arms to use all necessry means to compel the attendance nf all absent Senators except those who are ill. S7TH Day. After being in continuous ses sion for 39 hours, the longest recorded for many years, the Elections bill wnslaid aside in formal ly; and the Senate, on motion of Mr. Hoar, at 6 o'clock adjourned. 38TH Day. The Senate met at 11 A.M. f The journal of Friday was approved, and uiurniDg DusmeRt whs proreeaeu wiin. At one o'clock the Election bill, was taken up as the unfinished business and Mr. Georce took the floor. After having rpoken for five hours Mr. George yielded the floor, with out having concluded his speech, and the Senate (at 6 P. M.) went into executive session; and soon alter ward adjourned. 3!TII DAY. Mr. George continued to speak at length agninst the election bill, but finally yielded to Mr. Aldrich to .make a motion, when that Senator moved t take up the cloture resolution. The Vice-President said the ayes Seemed to have it, and the resolution was read. Th s was followed by a motion by Mr. Aldrich to adjourn, which was carried, though after adjournment Mr. Ransom indi cated a purpose to contest the correctness of the Vice-President's decision in placing the cloture resolution before the Senate. 40th Day. This was another prolonzed session of the Senate over the election bill, the issue coming up on a motion of Mr. Gorman to correct the journal of Tuesday, which stated that Mr. Aldrich' motion to take up the closure resolution was determined in the affirmative. During the debate the Vice-President admitted that he did not formally declare that the motion was carried. Mr. Gorman contended for an aye-and-nay vote ou the motion to amend, and a long debate ensued, during which the election bill was strongly denounced by Senators Enstis, Vest and others. The Senate adjourned at midnight. 41st DAY. After a sharp struggle, a motion by Mr. Aldrich to take up the closure resolu tion W8s carried by a vote of yess 36. nays 32 Messrs. Jones, of Nevada, Stewart. Teller and Wolcott, republicans, voting with the democrats in the negative. This wus followed by several points of order and considerable debate, alter which the Senate took a recess until tomorrow. House 34th Day. Mr. Dingley; of Maine, from the Silver Pool committee, reported a resolu tion giving that committee leave to sit during the-session of the House, and granting it power to conduct the investigation outside of Washington if deemed desirable. Adopted. Mr. McComas, of Maryland, moved to take up the District of Columbia Appropriation bill, which motion was opposed, but prevailed yeas 122, nays 116. A motion to reconsider was tabled 128 to 123. The House then went into committee of the whole, with Mr. Allen, of Michigan, in the chair. Speeches were made by Messrs. Rogers, of Arkansas, on the Free Coinage bill; Shively.of Indiana, against the Shipping bill, and Langston, of Virginia, in favor of the Election bill. The Election bill was then read by paragraphs for amend ment, but no progress was made, and the com mittee having risen, the House took a recess until eight o'clock. At the evening session private pension bills were considered. 35th Day. The House went into commit tee of the whole on the District of Colombia appropriation bill, and spent the day in its discussion. No action was taken, and at five o'clock the committee rose and the House ad journed. 36th Day. The intention of the Demo crats of the House to resort toobstructive tac tics until a determination of the Senate on the t- L..-11 : r ..A .u : : cjrfcjuus uut was imnijirBiru una juontiUK, when Mr. Bland, of Missouri, demanded the reading of Saturday's proceedings in full in stead of in its abbreviated form. The discus sion became quite heated the Republicans condemning the filibustering tactics of the Democrats, and the latter upholding their methods as just and proper in the circum stances. The journal Was finally approved yeas 137, nays 101. TheSpeaker having laid belore the House Senate bill for the relief of Sarah E. E. Perine, widow of William Perine, . (for claims growing out of the construction of the monitor Naubno and the tugs Mnria nnd Triana), it was called up for action by Mr. Thomas, of Wisconsin, and after some dis cussion wus passed. At 5.20 o'clock the House adjourned. S7th Day. In the House there was a wild scene of disorder, growing out of a decision of Speaker Reed in regard to the approval of the journal.' Mr. Mills charged the Speaker with perpetrating a fraud, and intimated that Mr. McKinley ha not acted in an honorable manner. Affairs approached so near a colli sion that the Speaker had to call on the ser-geant-at-arms to restore order. The House then took up the District of Columbia appro priation bill. The committee rose without taking action, and the House being without a quorum adjourned. 38th Day. There was an exciting ronte't over the Approval of the journal, during which Mr. Roger, of Arkansas, severely reflec ted on Speaker Reed, and the latter sharply replied, defending his rulings. After a strong fight the House adopted a resolution closing debate on' the District of Columbia appropriation bill at 5 P. M., but when debate closed the Democrats disappeared, leaving the House without aquorora, and adjournment followed. 39th Day. At the conclusion of the chap lain 'a prayer, Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas, raised the point of order that there was no quorum present. After a few minutes delay, the Speaker counted 168 members, and directed the clerk to read the journal. After some de lay, by unanimous consent it was agreed that twenty minutes should be allowed each side for debate, the previous question then to be considered as ordered on the approval of the journal. The journal was approved by arising vote. The District of Columbia Appropria tion "bill waa then passed without further difficulty, and the House, on motion of Mr. Boutelie, of Maine, went into committee of the whole fMr. Burrows, of Michigan, in the chair) on the Naval Appropriation bill, gen eral debate being limited to fonr hours Mr. Boutelie briefly explained the bill. After f urther remarks by Mr. Sayers, of Texas, and Mr. Outhwaite, of Ohio, in opposition to the Shipping bill, the committee, without dispos ing of the bill, rose and the House adjourned. FORTY PERSONS KILLED. Two Town In Algeria Practically Wiped Oat by an Karthqnake. Further details of the destruction wrought by the severe earthquake in Algeria, reported on the 15th instent, have been received in Algiers. ( ' The towns of Gouraya and Ville Bourg were practically destroyed by the shock, and 40 persons were killed by the falling of walls. The amount of damage done to prop ?rty if SOUTHERN ITEMS. nrTErtESTiso vews compiled FROM MANY SOURCES. Bristol, Va., has voted $100,000 in bonds ta the proposed Danville and East Tennessee Railroad. - -.- ' An English syndicate has purchased the Eureka manganese mines in Page county, Va., for $200,000. It is announced that the Victoria furnace near Goshen, Va., has been sold to a wealthy syndicate for $230,000. . . . . , The Synod of Virginia in Lynchburg ap pointed Revjw II- H. Haws and D. A. Penick 10 conduct evangelical work. Ira Hicks and Arthur Ford, two Mormon elders, were beaten by masked men in Blount County, Ala,, and warned to leave the coun try. ' v" The new and uncompleted hotel at Bnena Vista, Va., with fourteen acres of ground, has been purchased by McCaudish & Clowes for $125,0U0. Engineer Geo. A. Etheridge, while oiling in a lactory on the Dismal Swamp Canal, Va., was caught in the machinery and terribly torn and brushed. Richmond. Va., is to have a new hotel on the site of tne present Valentine House. It is to contain one hundred and fifty rooms, and is to cost $150,000. Oliver J. Schoolcraft, formerly of Rich mond, Va., and well known in its society, has become a minister of the Church of Jngland and has a charge in the city ot London. The work of laying the rails on the Alex andria and Fairfax Railway in Virginia, will be begun in the spring. It is proposed that electricity be used as the motive power. Robert Frame, a miller, wai killed near Brownsburg, Rockbridge county, Va by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of a companion with Whom he was hunting. The Belt Line, James River Branch of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, connecting with the Atlantio Coast Line beyond Manchester, Va., will be opened February 1. A train of eleven coal cara and a passenger coach went over a trestle on the Cabin Creek Railroad near Charleston, W. Va. Conduc tor Irvin and several passengers were hnrt, but no one was killed. Judge J. A. Warder, city attorney of Chat tanooga, Tenu.,shotand killed his son-in-law, S. M. Fugette, wounded bis daughter and wai seriously wounded by Fugette himself. The Judge had been drinking. Miss Ida Hastings, of Wood county, W. Va., was burned to death at the Laurel Iron Works. She was in a room alone, anJ when help arrived was beyond recovery. Her faithful dog was terribly burned in trying to tear off her burning clothes. Henry Lee, a farmer of Yellow River, Ga., was killed, and John Britt, of the same place, was terribly injured by being run over by an electric car. 'ihe men fell through a trestle on the electric railroad, and the car ran into them before their presence was discovered. While Henry Jeter, who resides in the up per end of Lunenburg county, Va.,was on his way home, a highwayman approached him and demanded his money or his life. Mr. Jeter shot the robber dead in his tracks. The trial ut Roanoke, Va., of John T. Boyd on the charge of having placed dynamite or other explosive under the dwelling of Sarah A. Worton, with intent to destroy said dwell ing, resulted in a sentence of ten years in the peniteutiary. t The farmers in some of the outside coun ties of Virginia are finding difficulty in mak ing their labor contracts for the yeaft It is said that a good many colored laborers have gone away, and higher prices are being asked by those who remain. One of the victims of the recent Indian war was A. J. Hamilton, a former constable of Piest n county, W. a. Mr. Hamilton owned a large ranohe in Dakota, on which his sons were, herding cattle. He started with a friend to visit it some days ago, and on the road they were ambushed by hostile Indians and killed. At a conference in Charleston, W. Va.. be. tween Governor Fleming, Col. J. W. St. Alair, of the world's fair commissioners, and lead ing members of the. Legislature, it was de cided to ask the Legislature for $100,000 to enable the State to make an exhibit at the fair. Near Crab Orchard, Ky., Mrs. JaneMullins shot and killed her son Henry, eighteen years old. He had come home from the town in a hilarious mood, and picking up his mother's three-year-old foster child, was tossing it in the air. His mother commanded him to put the child down, and when he refused picked up a musket to compel him. - The boy seized the gun. A struggle ensued, in which the weapon was discharged,. killing the boy. In the Circuit Court at Wheeling, W. Va., in the case of Montgomery vs. the Pittsburg, Wheeling and Kentucky Railroad Company, a suit for $10,000 damages for injuries sus tained by a two-and-a-half-yer-old boy by being run over by a car, the jury awarded the full amount of the claim anu asked the court to appoiut a guardian fpr the boy. A case which has puzzled the physicians is reported from Stonington, W. Va. In a saloon fight Henry Blankenship was struck in the bead with an axe, and a piece of skull des cribed "as large as a man's band," with a quantity of brain,' washout off, and fell to the floor. Physicians said death would result in a few minutes, but it did not, and thtf patient is improving. One of the defective pillars in the Lee monument at Richmond has been removed. It has been sold to the Newcastle Land and Improvement Company, and will be shipped to Craig county, where it will be placed npon a foundation of stones from every Southern State, and upon the top of the pillar will be placed a figure representing the Craig soldier. The column will be immediately replaced with a good one. Mary Sharp, aged 19, a resident of Elm Grove, a suburb of Wheeling. W. V a., took a dose of rough on rats and died from its effects. The girl was respected and beloved by all who knew her. A week ago her lover, Hugh Wilson, a well known young man, left her, promising to return in the evening, but he did not keep his promise, and his sweet heart, who had loved him not wisely but too well, found the suspense too muoh to bear aud took the step which ended her life. TORTURED BY FIENDS. How Two Thieves Robbed and Outraged an old M an. John Walker and T.Frank tied and gagged John Toms, caretaker in Mrs. Jane Kilpst rick's country house, on Hamilton street road, a mile beyond New Brunswick, N. J., and robbed him of $o7. With bis hands tied behind by a rope fas tened to bis wrists, tbey then drew Toms up to a hook high in the wall of a small room up stairs until his feet barely touched the floor. They then barricaded the door of the room with furniture and left their victim to die. Torai wa discovered by Mrs. Kilpatrick, hi fariily living there having mised him and gi en the alarm. Toms, who is 55 years of fiKcJis suffering greatly from the inhuman treatmen t, inflicted upon him. hut will re cover. Vh perpet raters of the crime are ttill at iar;c, STATE OF TRAPS- A Better Feeling In Business Circles and Increased Demand. Monry Generally Kasler and the Market Slot yet Affected by Proposed Free . Coinage Railroad E-tmlngf. Special telegrams to Bradstrett'i point to an improved feeling in trade circles, though there is no general increase in demnnd or dis tribution. Continued cold weather has stimu lated demand for staple articles North and West, and at Philadelphia, Memphis, Chi cago, Duluth, Minneapolis, and St. Louis a fair movement is reported. Increased de mand for supplies for logging camps in the Northwest has resulted in some activity among dealers in groceries, clothing and pro visions. - Trade in Nebraska and portions of Kansas is quiet, with jobbers not extending linei of credit, preferring to await payments now past due. Omaha and St. Joseph refer to this state ot affairs, with dry goods, slothing, boots and shoes slow of sale. Higher prices lor grain and lower prices for hogs have caused Mis souri, Kansas, and Nebraska farmers to sell ireely. At St. Louis there is greater freedom in general distributive lines, but with pig iron prices shaded. Manufacturers of textiles report trade quiet, excepting those making upholstery. Anthracite coal is in higher demand and firmer in price, except at Chicago, where it is off 25 cts. per ton. Leather is firmer on the strong markets for hides, while crude rubber is reaching up toward 80 cts. Raw sugar is qnite firm, with holders not offering to sell. Coflee is 4c. higher on an improved demand. MONET GETNEBAIJ.Y EASIER. Money markets generally throughout the country ere easier, and rates have dropped noticeably at Memphis. At Duluth and St Joseph money is closely held, and not in abundant supply. The tendency of money continues eastward. Mercantile collections are quite irregular, and on the whole, only fair. Bank clearing at fifty-five cities for the (week are $1,190,288,388, an increase over this week last year of 1.9 per cent New York city's clearings, which constitute 6J.6 per cent, of the grand total, are a fraction less than those for the anme period last year, while at fifty-four other cities the gain is 5.6 per cent. Wheat is weaker, and bearish sentiraentap pears to dominate at the moment. Our own advices contradict extravagant stories current of wheat yield in Washington. Exports of wheat. United States and Canada, both coasts, (including t flour), equal 1,104,079 bushels, against 2,076,000 bushels last week, and 1,731, 896 bushels for the like week of 1890. The total exported July 1,1890, to January 15,1891, is 54.432,014 bushels, against 59,078,00 bushels in a like portion of 1889-90, a decrease of 4, 616,412 bushels this cereal year, as compared with last RAILROAD EARNINGS. . November net railroad earnings reflect a large business during that month, at unsatis factory rates. The net receipts of ninety-five roads aggregated $18,247,810, a gain of less than cue-fifth of 1 per cent. Gross receipts by the same companies gained 5.7 per cent during November over November, 1889. FAIR DEM AKD FOR DRY GOODS. Dry goods are in fair demand, but some lines are rather backward. Brown and bleached cottons are slow and weak. Woolens are in steady movement Print clothes are more active and slightly higher. Territory and pulled wools are active, but fleeces and car pet wools are in slow sale. Prices generally are firm and tend upward. Cotton specula tion is Jess active. Futures are steady and only slightly changed. Good grades are scarce and ic higher. The crop movement is the key to the price situation. The lighter than anticipated port movement is said to be due to baa roads. Business failures reported to Jlradtlreet't number 366 in the United States this week, .against 391 last week, and 355 this week last year. Canada had 51 this week, against 46 last week. The total number of failures in the United States, January 1st to date, is 903 against 1018 last year. WORLD'S FAIR BUILDINGS. Five of Them Are to Be Erected on the Lake Front. It is now a certainty that five of the World's Fair buildings are to be placed on the lake front, directly opposite and stretching north and south from the Auditorium. The matter was settled at a meeting of Michigan avenue propertylowners, who finally withdrew their objections, and formally agreed to the requests ot the World's Fair idirectors. The Illinois Cent al is yet to be dealt with by the directory, but,- whatever the railroad company does, the agreement for the five buildings on the lake front is to stand. If the railroad company can be induced to remove its tracks furtner eastward, however, the beauty and convenience ot that portion of the Fair will Le greatly enhanced The five lake front buildings are to be one permanent, and four temporary. The permanent struc tures will be the Art Palace, the Electrical Building, and the Music Hall. MARKETS, Baltimore Flour City Mills, extrn.5.u i 65.25. Wheat Southern Fultx, 9(1.03. forn Southern White, 56r'9c, Yellow, Ga58c Oate Southern and Pennsylvania I750c Rye Maryland and Pennsyl vani 798 c. Hay. Maryland and Pennsyl van a 10.u0$10.50. Straw Wheat, 7.00$S.(h . Butter Eastern Creamery, 2628o., near-by receipts 19i'0c Cheese Eastern Fancv Cream, 10101m Western, 89Jc .Egg 'J S27c. Tobacco, Leaf Interior, l$l.du, Uoo I Common, 4$5.00, Middling, 6$8.00, Good o fine red, 9$U.0A. Fancy 12$13.O0. New Y0RK-Flour Southern Good to choice extra, 4-255.85. Wheat No. 1 White .04105J. Rye-State 56&60c. Corn-Southern Yellow. 694591c, Oats White, State I9i50c. Buffer State, 256$ 20c. Cheese State, 78ic Eggs -2728c. PinLADWHlA Flour Pennsv! vania laney, 4.25$4.60. Wheat, Pennsylvania and Southern Red, 1.001.0OJ. Rye-Penivhn nia, 5557c. Corn Southern Yellow. ".( 82ic. Oats 48(49c. Butter State, 27Ai,jn;. Cheeae New York Factory, iOf&loic. Els State, 293530c. CATTLE. Baltimore Bepf-4.25t4.75. Sheep- U0(5J$5.00. Hogs l-25$4.5i. N e w York Beef ctiof&f 7.00. Klu-ep -l.00$3.75. Hogs 3.40$4.25. i East Liberty Beef MOuLM 70- Slu-ei - U00$o3Q. Hog--S.rx3$i:mj. ;; GOVTERK0R FRAHCIS T. NlCHOIA ol Lou Is Una, is dismembered to a remarkable extent lie has Wt a le? and an arm and an eye. He lost his leg at Chanceiiorsville, and his arm was carried awsy by a cannon bull at Wiij-catr. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. , Joseph and Willie Barren, aged 10 and 1 rears, were drowned at Cassville, Wisconsin, by breaking through the ice on the Missis sippi river. ' During a thunder storm at Washington ville, N. Y-, John Treraper's farm was struck by lightning. Five cows were killed, but the barn was not set on fire. Harry Lewis, Dennis A. Simmona and Joseph flushes were killed by the explosion of sticks of giant powder in Ryan's Camp, near Dead wood, South Dakota. - A SLEIGH containing Milt Gilmore, Grant Fleming, Rube Babcockand Charles Ream, all larmers, was struck by a train nearCJyde, Ohio, and all the occupants were killed. The three-year-old daughter of Mrs. nenry Beaver, of Irvington, a suburb of Indianapo lis, died of what physicians pronounced to be hydrophobia. She was bitten by a dog three months ago, receiving a scalp wound. A TEAis ran off a bridge near Cromwell, Conn., and the engine and baggage car went down and broke through the ieeinto the river. The train hands were in the baggage car. Some of them were badly hurt, but no person was killed. As THE stenmer Danube discharged her cargo of Salmon at Victoria, British Colum bia, the cases were piled under a large shed. Suddenly the floor gave way and a gang of men and 1000 cases of salmon went Into the water below. Three men were killed and one fatally injured. A BOB sleigh upon which 23 persons were coasting in Troy, N. Y., became unmanage able aud ran into a brick building, makingan opening in a 12-inch walk James Mahanand Patrick Kane were badly hurt Several ot hers received bruises. - . TllE ground in the vicinity of Port Bowk ley, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., is settling and the people are ' becoming lhorouehly alarmed. The pillars have been "robbedJ' in the upper vein of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company's collieries and the sinking of tha surface is at tributed to this cause. The Second District school, a handsome new building, has settled eight inches andjWill have to M rebuilt , John Tierney attempted to replace a globe of an incandescent light which had become broken in a building in Boston, and in so doing took hold ot the brass ring at the small end instead of the glass end. He recei ved a heavy shock which killed him instantly, and in his fall he carried the globe and wire with him to the floor, the former so tightly gra-ped in his hand that the wire had to be cut before it could be removed. . - . NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL THE President has approved the act in re gard lo the construction of the Baltimore and Potomac Railrond in the District of Columbia knowu as the Atkinson bill. The Senate confirmed the following nomi nations: J. W. Palmer to beCoIlectorof Cus t"ns, District of Bangor. Me., and E.H. Bry ant to be collector at Machias, Me. Henry ii. Swan to be .United States Judge' for the Eastern District of Michigan. Chief Justice Fclleb announced that Justice Brown had been assigned to the Sixth Circuit This was the circuit of the kte Jus tice Matthews, and is the one from which l...f ..-.. ... .Ml Senator Paddock introduced a bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to in spect all v esse s that carry export cattle to foreign countries aud to prescribe rules and regulations fur the rccoiniiiof'.ation of cattle ' on shipboard. Anj ves el failing to comply with the regulations is to be refused clearance papers. The House Committee on the Improvement of the Mississippi River has about agreed to report to the House in a modified form the bill introduced by Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, to repair and build the levees of the Missis sippi River and to improve navigation. It is probable that the bill will carry an appro priation of $l(),000,OUO for the porpone con templated, and, instead of confining the im provements between the head of the posses and Cairo, it may provide for the improve ment lrom the forts to .orae ditanoe above Cairo, so as to benefit various points in Mis souri. t . Senator Manderson introduced n bill making an appropriation of $W0,000to enable the Secretary of Wcr to cause an exploration and survey to be made of the interior of A'aska by scientists selected from the various branches of the Government. This bill has been reported favorably to the House and is now on the calendar. , THE Finance Committee of the Senate di rected favorable reports to be made upon thu nominations of Nathaniel P. Hill, of Colo rado; Lambert Tree, of Illinois, and William A. Russei, of Masachu8etts,to be commission ers to consider the establishment of an inter national coin or coins, as recommended by the Internationa! American Coulerence. The House Committee on Commerce or dered a favorable report on a bill to permit railroads to give reduced rates to commercial traveler and carry an extra amount of bag gage for them free of charge. The House Committee on Indian Aftjaiifi has about completed the Indian approprinti&'t bill, which will amount toS6,950,0H0a again t $6,742,76" for the current fiscal year. . A STEALING STAMPER. Lot of Letters Rifted In the Fhlladel- phta Poitoffiee. , "' . ',, ; Edwin II. Blundin, a "stamper" in the post, office in Philadelphia was arrested, charged with stealing and rifilng letters. Tweoty-nne letters were found in his overcoat pockets, to gether with a large roll of greenback, and several hundred stamps. Blundin's method of robbing the mails was most ingenious, and he operated so shrewdly that for eleven weecs no proof could be fastened on him, although he has been under constant surveillance. He was very expert, and it was his habit after finishing his own work to assist bis fellow workmen, and it waa while rendering this assistance that he stole the letters. Of the twenty-one found on him only two had passed .through his department His method of operftion, after obtaining the let ters was to open them, destroying h e en velope, and, after extracting the valuable conteuto, redirect another envelope in a disguised hand. When arrested he broke down and confessed that he hsd been stealing since November 1. It is believed that Blundin has opened over a thousand letters and that his stealings amount to over several ; thousand dollars. About five hundred complaints of loss of money from letters hare been received by Postmaster Field. - . . - -. . OVER A HUNDRED KILLED. Frightful Kxploeion of Fire Iamp In a Colliery la Rnasta. News has been received in London of terrible explosion of fire damp in a colliery at Jasiuowata, near the ciry o Charkow, in J EuropeanRussia. , t Only meagre details of the accident ha-v ' hffn learned, but it is knew n that over hu' I dreJ of the miners have I ceo kiilfi.
The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News (Plymouth, N.C.)
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