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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.' X 11C 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 ' j - 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. ;, Jf . ' " ' i , . : .. . -Y :' . . . 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. . . .. i , - . NEWSY CLEANINGS. -' ' ' ' y i t 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