INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS.
VOL. VIII.
COLUMBUS, N. G., THUB )DAYV JANUARY 15, 1903.
NO. 40.
A FIERCE BLIZZARD.
Exlremely toff Temperatures" Afflict
Northwest.
LABE MICHIGAN BOATS FROZEN UP
Street Cars Forced to Suspend Oper
ations Blizzard at NUes and Three
Rivers. ..v;;-:v,-;
Detroit, Mich., . Specials-Lower
Michigan has been in the ' grasp of a
snow storm Sunday, that in the west-
tern part of the State assumed the
proportions of a blizzard. Lake Michi
gan is lashed by a 40-mile wind into
a condition that made it impossible
for boats to leave their berths. At
Benton harbor, the street car Bervlco
is stalled and Sunday trains on the M.
B. H. & C. Railroad had to be aban
doned. Three Rivers and Niles" report
a blizzard, the temperature very low
and trains delayed by the snow. At
Grand Rapids the storm is the- worst
of the season4 and I the temperature has
fallen 2d degrees since noon. At 3
o'clock it was 10 degrees above zero
with the wind blowing a gale. In De
troit five inches of snow fell. Trains
from the West were from one to two
hours late.
Milwaukee Expects 5 Below Much"
Sickness and Suffering.
Milwaukee, Special. The thermom
eter registered 2 degrees below zero
early Sunday evening, and it is pre
dicted 5 below before daylight. A very
high north wind is blowing and few
persons.1 are on the streets. Similar
conditions exist throughout-the State.
A number of physicians report con
siderable 1 sickness in this city on ac
count of the cold weather because
meir pauenis; urn uul uave sumaeui
fuel to keep warm. In many instances-
nhvsicians furnished certificates 10
supplies of oual, i'tt iwyf3r7"tlle3e
could not be filled; "
The stock of soft coal on hand in
Milwaukee is estimated at 100,000
tons, and dealers say there is not tho
remotest probability of a soft , coal
famine. Most of the big manufacturing
concerns of the city liave guarantees
from dealers that make their position
secure. Large shipments of all rail
soft coal are being reecivea aaiiy.
Most of the cities and towns in the
State outside of Milwaukee report a
fairly good supply of coal on hand and
where there is a scarcity of coal
plenty of wood can be had:
Chicago Pastors Preach on the Coal
Situation. .
Chicago, Special. The temperature
in Chicago Sunday dropped 24 de
grees An less .than- two .hours and it
is hovering around; the zero mark.
Late in the day a brisk northwest
wind sprang up and intensified the low
temperature. There is much suffering,
but as the worst cases of destitution
have been provided for by charitable
institutions, no deaths have been re
ported during the day.
r, ooqi situation .remains un
changed and its causes and effect were
isi;Daseu ujt.ujouj v.v,0w -
their sermons Sunday. The actual
' m- f J a nnmliino fir
soarcn xor eviaeuct; m n tuuiumv
coal dealers for the purpose of forcing
rip the price of fuel in. the Chicago
market will be resumed by tne special
sfand jury which began its task Sun
day. ; ''-!-A :"" " " . :
Suffering and Death in Chicago.
Chicago, Special. Two hundred thou
sand persons in Chicago are suffering
torn ailments directly due to cold
and exposure resulting, from the coal
famine according to the. weekly bul
letin of the health department . issued.
Sorioug results are already seen in a
heavily increased rate of deaths.
The death rate last- weeK waBixv
per under five yas of age was; 19.02
Per ( ont greater than in the corres-
nondinr- wpaV of last year, and among
Persons over 60 years of age it was
26.7 per cent, greater.; ; . - . .
fcaiec and Snow storms in ."h.w.
of unneuallv ; mild weather has - given
- r v H
wav tr,! i vnfnm of severe
CU1U, .
sales and snow storms are prevalent
over Great Britain. , In the nortn oi
Kngiand and in Scotland, the fall of
snow has been very heavy, trains havo
been imbedded in snow drifts and loco
motives have been derailed. Hungry
Passengers have been kept for hours
on. the snow-bound trains Much dara
asc has been done by floods . in Ire
land. ,:.
Five Degrees Above at Kansas City,
Kansas City, Special. The lowest
temperature of the ; present v cold
weather was v 4 degrees above zero
early fthis mornlne A sharp wind
ade f the ; most uncomfortable :of the
winter. There is much suffering among
the poor, owing to - the' high v price pi
coal, but there Is ho scarcity, of .coal,
in many towns of Kansas and. western
Hissonri; however, fuel of every kind
be purchased. v
Awful Cold, But No Fuel Famine In
, St. Paul.
-St., Paul, Special. Although the
thermometer registered . but 2 degrees
Mow zero Sunday was one tfe
most disagreeable of -the winter.. A
Si ?ortn1west wind greatly intensi
fied the cold. .While fuel is Scarce and
li 8?2 fn?Itions have nt yet reach
m famine stage and there is but
little suffering, y ;
A Lawyer Frozen n naih i
Omaha, Special. Wra. D. Beckett,
a prominent lawyer of this city, was
found on the roadside,, five miles west
or the city, early Sunday, frozen to
death i Beckett had been ill for sev
eral days and he is believed to have
wandered into the country and to
have fallen exhausted, where he was
found Sunday by a dairyman. ,
Below Zero In Nebraska.
Omaha, Special. Sunday was one of
the coldest of the winter; 1 degree be
low zero being registered this morn
ing. Sunday night the thermometer is
lower. The cold wave extends through
out Nebraska, parts of Iwa and De-
Kota. ' ' i ,7v v
, Fye Degrees Below in Burlington.
I BurltrnIowa, SpeciaL With
the temperature1 degrl-blow fzerq:
snow is drifting before '.a heavy wind.
Death of Dr. Ramsay. ;
Salisbury, N. C, Special. Dr. James
Graham Ramsay, of this city," one of
the last
surviving
members of
the
Confederate Congress, died in tho
80th year of his age at' the home of
his son, Postmaster James H. Ramsay
at 2:45 o'clock Sunday : morning. Un
til six months ago, when he began fto
decline towards his death, Dr. Ram
say enjoyed a singularly green: old
aSe. th natural and proper reward of
ind temperate life
'FfrS
" flay Reopen Office.
Columbus, Miss:, Special Minnie
Cox, who lately resigned as postmaster
at Iridianola with her husband and
late negro assistant, passed , through
Columbus en route to Birmingham.
Minnie Cox stated that she xpected to
be allowed to re-open the.Postoffice at
Indianola soon. She further said that
the most prominent residents of the
city had always endoned . her for the
position and that the were still her
friends. She stated tjat these friends
are working in her ehalf and an ef
fort will be made if have the- postof-
ronnonpii nnde her charge, bu.
with another assisent such as
postoffice shall apjrovei .
the
Off Foi'Llbefla.
New York, Spefial. li the steerage
of the White Star stealer Teutonic,
which sailed Wednesday
r Liverpool J
were 32 colored men, 12 tmen and 10
children, who are going Liberia to
settle. They come from Twin county,
Georgia. One of the men E d: "We are
just poor farmers. Busiiss was .not
very good witn us, so wcui wseiuw,
sold out our larms anu Kumsm
to Liberia to Degm
party have about $2,000.
gain.'
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News of the V&
Senator Russell A. Alg
of Detroit,
the United
who-is at present serving
States Senate by appointbnt of .Gov-
ernor Bliss was last nig
nominated
, by the j bint Republican
iicus of the
Legislature to fill out tB
unexpired
McMillan.
torm nf former
Senate
J General Alger's .election
30tn js assured.
n January
.van Associin . for
the
Advancement of Sciencebpolnted
committee to : prepare a tttable n
a
me-
ial t0 jjajor waiteiteea.
Mine SuperlntendenSlled.
Mocksville, SpeclaLbrge . H.
Trumble, aged about So yb, lost his
life in a gold mine at 2 clock
Thursday afternoon. ,::MmM
4me here from Mllwkchris., sev
eral months ago ,and had manage.
Sent of a gold ttM15vfs
"it of MocksviUe, locatek Yadk n
Tounty, near the Davie YadWp
finG The accident was caJby some
hBUng machinery overt
ning Mr. TrumDic unuu
. death
resulting instanuy,
. fit hft United States s
le pine
lumber used yearly in mi
Amounts to tour
during
feet
or the product of four hu
of virgin .forests.
acres
DEATH IN A WRECK.
Terrible Calamity Resists in Death of
Seven Persns
SEMOUS CRASH NEABTPITTSBUKG
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The Collision Was Caused By Care
Iessness on the Part of a Flagman
Who Has Disappeared.
Pittsburg, Special.-As a result of a
collision between ar: passenger train
and the rear end of a freight train, on
the ' Monongahela : division of the
Pennsylvania Wednesday night at
Cochrane Station just above Dus
quesne, seven men are dead, one is
dying and five others are injured. 5
v The dead are: C.rE. Stroud, bag
gagemaster, Elizabeth accommoda
tion,, of Homewood ; C. M. ' Boehner,
brakeman of accommodation, Pitts
.burg John Stewart passenger, resi
dence?unknowh:i two unknown for
eigners, killed outright ; two unknown
foreigners, died on way to. hospital.
The injured are: T. D. "Cook, will
probably die before morning ; Sans.
Sullanoksky,
shoulder blade frac
tured;, Peter Kimosky, burned; John
Smith, seriously injured : Mike
Chonlck, slightly injured ; Mike Gen
till, slightly injured. :
The passenger, train in the wreck
was the West Elizabeth accommoda-
uon, wmcn lert FittsDurg at 3:uo p.
m. It was on time and had a clear
track, according to the displayed
signals. At the siding at Cochrane it
k-intolthe - jfiariXt--
ghr which rhad "taken the switchT
but failed to clear the main line. The
ofttcials of the road attribute the dis
aster to the failure of Patrick Quinn,
the rear brakeman of the freight, to
see thai his train had fully cleared.
Up to 11 p. m., Quinn has not been
located. - .
When the ; passenger train came
along the caboose of the freight over
lapped the; .main track enough to
oatch the j tender ., of the passenger en
gine, which was forced back upon -the
combination baggage and smoking car
with terrible force. , The thirteen pas
sengers were jammed against the rear
end of the car into almost a solid
mass. Three of the victims were ap
parently killed outright, two of the
other four were literarally roasted to
uath, and the two who died on the
way to the hospital were so badly
burned that recognition was almost?
impossible. Immediately after the im
pact fire in the stove in the smoker
communicated to the ! woodwork. Con
ductor Cook was found unconscious
under the charred body of Baggag
Master Stroud. He is so badly hurt
that he can hardly live through the
night. y
.. Strange to say, not a truck except
the tender left the track, the -passengers
in the coaches ; being thus
protected from harm. No one outside
of : the smoker ' was- injured and tho
tracks were cleared within a short
while after the accident. -
New Witness in Wilcox Case. 4
. Elizabeth City, Special. A new and
important witness is to be introduced J
at the new trial' of James Wilcox next
week. The witness is a man .named J
Norris, residing In Baltimore, . though
he resided here up to and during the
early stages of the Cropsey mystery;
At this writing Lawyer Andrew Crop
sey, of Brooklyn, is en route to Balti
more to meet Norris and accompany'
him to this city. The nature of Norris'
testimony, cannot:, be ascertained,
thought that it will greatly concern the
fight of Wilcox , is evidenced by the
caution maintained by the attorney
for the prosecution.
Safe Blowers Arrested.
; Columbia, S. C, Special. Chas.
Howard, Edward Dugan, Thomas Nolan-
and William McClantry are under
arrest here, on the charge of having
robbed numerous banks and postoffices
in South Carolina. They have, been
spending money lavishly here for some
time and the police spotted them. .-The
Secret Service officers , were called Into
consultation ad the arrests soon fol
lowed. , -
WORK OF CONGRESS
Pointed Discussion on Coal Tax and
Other flatters. !'
The Senate again discussed the Vest
resolution requesting the finance com
mittee to prepare1 and report a bill re
moving the duty on anthracite coal,
and Mr. Aldrich replied to some criti
cisms of Mr. Vest made last Tuesday.
Mr. Mdrich insisted that the resolu
tion would not accomplish the result
sought and also that it infringed the
constitutional rights of the House in
respect to revenue bills. Mr, Aldrich
said that a Democratic Senate i vote!d
to put a duty of 40 cents on coal in
1894, and that they favored free coal
,except .on the day when -they i could
have voted free coal into ithe ; tariff
bill. - Mr. Aldrich said the high! price
of coal in the country now was hot
due to the present tariff. Mr. Vest, in
replying, said .: it was an open secret
how the rate of 40 cents a ton was put
on coal in the Wilson bill. There were
five Democratic Senators opposed to
the bill who were in a position to dic
tate what should be placed in! the bill
and' that their votes were needed to
pass the measure. President Cleveland,
he said, had urged free coal on ! Con
gress, "we were held up," said Mr.
Vest, "to use plain vernacular, and told
if we dared to put free coal in the
bill it would be defeated. A compro
mise therefore, was effected on the
basis of 40 cents a ton. What does it
matter how anybody voted in 1894 ".
he inquired. "Is that an answer to the
poor, freezing people who demand im--mediate
relief?" He referred to his
former statement that the rates, in the
Dingley bill were made so high as to
Tender possible the negotiation of reci
procity agreements and said it was
based on information he believed to
be true. . ,: . " " ; I-
s Mr. Hale defended Dr. Dingley say
ing the .statement attributed to him is
radically opposed to all his utterances
and involved the charge of insincerity.-
. -:-V'.;a
. AjsirTili
orruptcdto remark that her did not
consider that there4had been a reflec
tion on Mr. Dingley. Tne policy or his
party, he said, had been exemplified in
the reciprocity treaty negotiated and
pending, ;and that nothing but the self
ish greed of the people whose protec
tion is -reduced prevents the ratifica
tion of the pending treaties. )
"None of us," said Mr. Hale; refer
ring to the alleged interview with Mr.
Dingiey; "would want our sincerity
impugned by somebody five years after
our death."
Mr. Tillman, replying to Mr. Hale,
said there was no accusation' against
Mr. Dingley's character or sincerity.
The Senators who sympathized with
the Senator , from Missouri were not
hard up for arguments on the trust
question. ' ; ; '
"This is certainly put forward jiow
as the one argument," retorted Mr.
Hale. -.
Mr. Tillman said that Congress only
had been assembled three weeks and
"we have hardly " gotten over cur
Christmas drunks yet." f
The Vest resolution went' over to
come up on the next legislative day.
Mr. Nelson did not conclude his-re-marks
against the omnibus statehood
bill. "; .v-: -
House Proceedings. t
The House passed the Philippine
constabulary bill as it was reported
from the committee, except for an
amendment limiting ' the number of
assistant chiefs to four. -The bill pro
vides that the chief of constabulary
and the assistant chiefs who are
United States army officers, shall have
the rank and pay and allowances ; of
brigadier general and colonels. The bill
also provides that when the Philippine1
scouts are ordered to assist the con
stabulary they shall be under the com
mand of the chief, or assistant chiefs..
Mr. Maddox, of Georgia, opposed the'
bill and said in the face of the request
of the Secretary of War yesterday for '
$3,000,000 for the relief of the people of
the Philippines, it was. wrong to in
crease the pay of army officers at the
expense of the Filippinos. He thought
there must' be plenty of generals in the
army who could be detailed for .this
duty if higher rank is necessary.
"There is General Funstdn," said he.
.4fHe would make, an elegant chief ;.of
police (laughter). .If colonels are
needed, the woods are full of them."
. j An amendment offered by Mr. Jones,
of Virginia, to limit the number of as-'
sistant chiefs undex the bill to four
was adopted. v ' : --: "
The resignation of Mr. Lanham of
Texas," who has been elected Governor
of Texas, was laid before the House.'
The resignation Is to take ejfect Jan
uary 15. At 4:35 the House adjourned.
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Retirement of Hobson.
In the Senate the bill providing for
the settlement I of Captain Richmond
Pf Hobson was called upland brought
forth : a protest frosa Mr.". Cockrell, of .
Missouri, who thought that Congress
should not be made a Court of Ap-
peals to hear applications from officers
after they had been declared fit for ser
vice. . -.: .:y:-
Mr. Morgan; of Alabama, character
ized it as an exceptional case and said
he did" not intend that Captain Hob
son't reputation or character should be
damaged by any objection made
against him. . ; ..
, With . some warmth, Mr. N Cockrell
said he did not Impeach Captain Hob
son's character, and the Senator from
Alabama could not twist his argument
in that manner. v .
"The Senator from Alabama is not
in the habit of twisting," said Mr.
Morgan. "He is as straight as a die, aa
straight as yon are."
Mr. Morgan gave notice that he
would continue to call the bill up until
justice is accorded to Captain Hob
son; "-i ." ' -:t-'-v ..
PROM1NENT PEOPLE.
John D. Rockefeller save awav over
$5,000,000 last year.
Andrew Carnegie's sifts of nublic li
braries are on the decline.
General Miles will visit the EuroDoaa
capitals before returning to the United!
States.- : .
In consequence, of the recent attemnt
upon his life King Leopold of Belgium
nas, resolved not to ride in his motor
car in the future, and has ordered It
sold. ; , ,
The Rev. Thomas H. Lewis has the
rare distinction of being president of
two colleges at one time the Western
Maryland 'and the Adrian, of Adrian
Mich. -
Samuel Burwell, of West Union, O.,'
the oldest editor in the State, has re
tired from active worfc arthe age' of
eighty years, having been in the har
ness for half a century. r
Professor Morisani, of Naples Uni
versity, who holds the position of phy
sician to Queen Helena of Italy, is both!
in stature and proportions the most di-i
minutive doctor in the world. j
Emperor; William intends to include1
in the commission to bring his sift of
.a statue of Frederick the. Great to
America descendants of Gorman, offi
cers who fought under Washington,
Dr. Steiner, of Sandusky, Ohio, who:
will write Tolstoi's biography, is ai
Tolstoian disciple, and has worked as
a day laborer with the immigrant peo
ple of the United States to study their
needs. ' . " .'
The Pope is an enthusiastic philatel
ist, and the priests of Cashmere are in
tending to present to him on the occasion-of
his silver papal jubilation, a
unique collection of. obsolete stamps of
Jemma and Cashmere. ; :
Tvhen Dr. Lorenz was in Baltimore,
and as he was about to ; take his car
riage in front of his hotel, a well
known citizen and admirer took his
solid jrnld watch' frntn lite fnTinrirl'
pressed it into his 'hand, telling him to
keep it as a token of his admiration.
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. NEWSY CLEANINGS.
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During the last year 80,000 Jews ern
igrated from Roumania.
; Herr Caspar Gerstlee, the oldest man
in Lower Austria, has just died, aged
110. ;v. ;.; ; - ; .:
The heirs of Wagner, the composer,
received $115,000 in royalties from his
operas during 1902. -
- A steamer has been launched on the
Upper Zambesi River, above the 'Vic
toria Falls. It is called the Living
stone. :,r.-.
; Experiments in the use of electricity
as an anaesthetic are about to be made
on human subjects by a French doctor
at Nantes. . ,-. ; , . .
I The last; year, according to reports
from the' German yards, was one of
great activity i in the shipbuilding in
dustry of Germany.
In Galicia the wage of the farm la
borer has been so reduced that he is
starving to death on a pittance of from
three to sixteen cents a day. -
"Put my gun in my coflin," was the
request made in his will by, Francis
Bagoly, a Hungarian big-game hunter,
who has died, aged ninety-eight. 4
! Sidney Clark, of Black River. Wis.,
the Inventor of the paper collar, is now,
at the age of ninety-three, at work on'
what he calls a spring automobile. f
- A proposal wjll be made to thje
French Parliament to transfer the re
mains of Rehan, Balzac, Micvhelet and
Edgar Quintet to the Pantheon, Paris, i
The Sultan iof Turkey insists thai?
every ruler or p.olitical personage
should die a natural death. rOther man
ners of death are not "recognized" offi
cially by Nischan Effendi, the censor, j
During recent experiments' in Berlin,
by the aid of the invention of Dr. Pu
pin, an American, for lessening the re
sistance in long-distance telegraph antC"
telephone wires, messages sent by tele
phone were audible,, to persons stand
ing thirty feet or. more away from the
receiver..
- A man might be happy In having
money to give away and yet not grow
conceited about it