The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, September 04, 1889, Image 2
The Rural New Terler announces that
there is an agitation among the small
fruit-growers for the imposition of a
tariff on bananas.
The British naval authorities believe
they have secured plates absolutely im
penetrable by missiles fired from any
gun at present invented. A plate ten
inches thick is being cast for experimen
tal purposes.
The phonograph has been used for
the purposes of diplomatic correspon
dence. The Italian charge d'affairs in
London tent Signor Crispi, the prime
minister, a letter upon a phonograph
cylinder as being the safest means of
communication.
Tall towers in there days would seem
to be paying investments, observes the
New York Mail and Erprets. Mr.
Eiffel is said to be raking in the sum of
$10,000 per day from the entrance and
elevator fees paid by those who are
anxious to surmount his great structure
in Paris.
The projected Congo railway in
Africa, 260 miles in length, connecting
navagable waters that are now sepa
rated, is estimated to cost $5,000,000,
of which $1,000,000 are to be subscribed
in the United States. The company is
to have a wide strip of land for road
way, 3000 acres per mile, and 20 per
cent, of the export duty collected on
all material shipped over its road.
Kaiser William's predilection for the
navy has now become a by-word. The
German ruler loses no opportunity for
showing the officers and men of his fleet
that he wishes to secure for them as
privileged a position as that always en
joyed in Prussia by the army. Naval
reviews are now as popular, and there
seems a probability of their becoming
almost as frequent as military specta
cles.
Lances are reasserting themselves as
war weapons in France, quite a number
having been served out to some men of
the nineteenth dragoons, quartered at
Saint Etienne. This is the beginning
of a regular innovation which may pos
sibly end in the lance becoming as
popular a weapon in the French as in
the German army, in which, by the
way, it is now no longer confined sim
ply to the Uhlan regiments.
The Chinese Evangelist of New York
city gives a list of 123 Chinese schools
and missions in this country. The
average attendance, so far as given, is
about 1,600. This total does not in
clude the missions of the Pacific coast,
in connection with which there are 217
Christians. In schools in New York
and Brooklyn there are thirty-five
schools with an average attendance of
Elans.
A law leaves it optional with the
United States Government to coin each
month any sum between $2,000,000 and
$4,000,000. Since the law went into
effect $330,000,000 have been coined,
of which $60,000,000 remains in the
Treasury vaults. It is evident, com
ments the New York Graphic, from this
balance that the country is not absorb
ing the silver dollar as rapidly as it is
being coined, which is at the minimum
coinage fixed by law.
Miser Hilton, of Kentucky, who,"be
fore his death, burned thousands of
dollars in currency, the hoardings of
years, left a manuscript containing
shrewd maxims as to the acquisition and
keeping of money, which, in print,
occupies nearly three-quarters of a
newspaper column. His pleasure was
in accumulation, pure and simple, and
the selfishness naturally developed was
such that he could not bear to leave his
savings, which he had never enjoyed,
for the enjoyment of others.
HAYTI’S VAB ENDED.
The Straggle for Supremacy in
the Black Republic Over.
Hippolyte Conquers Legitime and
Enters Port-au-Prince.
The war in the little Black Republic of
Hayti is over. General Hippolyte is the vic
tor. Legitime held out with determination
until two weeks ago. Minister de Sesmai-
sons had assured him that he had the sym
pathy of France, and that should all ether
resources fail he would receive substan-
tud, aid from the great European Republic.
ild De Sesmaisons the “re-
_ De Sesmaisons ti
sources” had all given out, and reqi
oft promised aid from Paris. The best the
French Minister could offer was an asylum on
the French cruiser in the harbor. This boon
was readily accepted by Legitime, and he
placed himself under the protection of the
French flag.
Then the Northern troops entered the
capital, after a complete surrender by Legi
time’s Generals.
soon the turbulent blacks were suppr
The city is now quiet.
Admiral Gherardi, of the United States
Navy, now controls the situation, assuring
safety to all foreigners with the American
man-of-war Kearsarge, Her Majesty’s steam
er Forward and the French cruiser Kergue
len.
Municipal affairs will be reconstructed im
mediately and the outlook at the moment is
that there will be no further trouble and that
the commerce of Port-au-Prince will be at
once re-established.
It is believed that not more than a thou
sand men lost their lives on both sides dur
ing the war just ended, but considerable
property was damaged.
The total number of ludiaus in the
Dominion of Canada is given as 124,589,
of whom 37, 944 are in British Colum
bia, 26,363 in Manitoba and the north
western territory, 17,700 iu Ontario,
12,465 in Quebec, 8000 in Athab iska,
7000 in the Mackenzie district, 4016 in
Eastern Rupert's Land, 4000 on the
Arctic coasts, 2145 in New Scotland,
2038 in the Peace river district, 1594 in
New Brunswick, 1000 in the interior
of Labrador, and.319 in Prince Ed
ward’s Island.
History of the Struggle.
During more than a year past the Repub
lic of Hayti has been the theatre of a revolu
tion in which all the horrors of barbaric war
fare have made it anything but a pleasant
home. In October, 1879, Louis Etienne
Salomon, who had heretofore led a
life of almost unequalled vicissitude, was
chosen President, receiving eighty-two out
of the eighty-seven votes cast in the con
stitutional election by the National Assembly.
From that date till August of last year he
was virtually a dictator under the forms of
Republican Government. He was re-elected
President in June, 1886, by the unanimous
vote of the Assembly.
Early in July terrible conflagrations made
havoc in the Haytian capital, and seemed to
be the signal for a concerted insurrection.
A few days later the flag of revolt was un
furled at Port-au-Prince.
The insurgents advanced from the north
upon the capital with such vigor that on the
10th of August Salomon fled to Cuba. He
went to France and died in Paris October
19.
When Salomon retired from the Presidency
his successor was named in the person of
Senator Legitime, who was the choice of the
Catholic clergy, whose influence had largely
contributed to the successful rising against
the dictator. Legitime established
his administration at Port-au-Prince.
Meanwhile the whole country burst into re
volt. Early in November a large army,
headed by General Hippolyte, threat
ened Port-au-Prince. All the ports
were declared blockaded by the pro
visional government. France only of all
the foreign powers formally recognized the
government of Legitime. After a short and
bloody battle December 5 Hippolyte captured
the town of Mirebalais, the forces of Legitime
being compelled to fleo in disorder.
On the Seth of January, 1889, the troops
of Hippolyte captured the seaport town of
Grandseline and butchered 300 of the
army of Legitime. In several encounters the
utmost barbarity of cruelty was displayed
on both sides, the forces of the govern
ment usually being defeated. On March 10,
Legitime sent to the insurgent general a com
mittee accompanied by M. de Sesmaisons,
the French Minister, bearing proposals for
tfiilliMj if ~
r enge
of April, at the head of 2000 men, he surprised
the town of Petite Riviere, captured it and
burned its 600houses. England joined France
in the recognition of Legitime, while Germa
ny instructed her ships to respect his block
ade of the Haytian ports. Our own govern
ment refused to recognize either party as a
legitimate Power.
Hippolite captured the towns of Marchand,
Marmalade and St. Michael in the first week
of May, opening communication between St.
Marc and Gonaives. A week later two of
Legitime’s generals fled before the insurgents
and Hippolyte rapidly advanced toward Port
au Prince, while the army of Legitime was
fast being reduced by panic and desertion.
Headed by our Minister, with the advice
of Admiral Gherardi, the foreign powers
generally declared Legitime’s blockade inef
fective, and the downfall of his power be
came from that date only a question of time
as to his powers of endurance.
AN OPERATOR’S BLUNDER.
Three Men Instantly Killed and Four
Fatally Ii\jured.
Tho accommodation train, due at Parkers
burg, "W. Va., at 11:10 a. m., collided with a
special east-bound train, carrying Baltimore
and Ohio officials, at a point between Petro
leum and Silver Run, twenty-five miles from
there, on the main line of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. The accident was caused by
wrong orders being given to the engineers.
The special train was ordered to pass the
accommodation at Petroleum, the farther
point east, and the accommodation to
pass the special train at Silver Run,
the farther point West. At the time
of the collision both trains were going
thirty-five miles an hour. They met on
a sharp curve, and without a moment’s
warning dashed into each other, wrecking
both engines and a baggage car, instantly
killing Engineer Layman, fatally injuring
Engineer George Rowland, and instantly
killing the two firemen, James Fletcher and
John Bailey.
One of the officials, named Hunter, was
perhaps fatally hurt. A Mrs. Manley, of
Central, W. Va., was badly injured.
Councilman Robert Malley was cut and
bruised. Baggagemaster Rose was cut. A
colored porter on the special was thrown
through a glass door and probably fatally
' ‘ Th<
injured.
escapes.
sere were some marvelous
Sam Wah Kee, the richest Chinaman
in New England, is worth about $100,-
000. He wants to go to China with his
family for two years, snl has been
hanging about the Boston custom house
of late trying to prove to the authori
ties that he is not a laborer. He fears
that he will not be allowed to land
when he returns to this country from
China. He is an importer and whole
sale dealer of Chinese staples, and has
made a fortune since he came to
America.
The Siamese T.ntns.
Chang and Eng were brought to Bos
ton in 1829 by Captain Gibriel Coffin
in his brig, the Sachem. Mr. Hale
travelled all over Europe and the United
States, exhibiting the twins for C p-
tain Coffins benefit. At last they came
of age, and having meanwhile learned
enough English to converse freely and
enough American to take care of them
selves, held on to their own receipts,
then amounting to about $2,000 a week
over the expenses. On this, as is
tikll known, they soon married sisters
in North Carolina and settled down
there to enjoy their ease.
tttt.t.t:!) by students.
A Montreal Lad Dies in the Hands ol
Careless Doctors.
George Prendergast, a boy employed by
the Sobiston Lithographing Company at
Montreal, Canada, had two of his fingers
caught in the machinery and badly crushed.
He went to Montreal General Hospital to have
them amputated. The house surgeon being
absent, two young students, both under
twenty years of age, instead of calling in the
consulting physician, who lives only a block
away, undertook to do the job themselves,
and to stop the boy’s yelling began giving
him ether.
The lad's mother remonstrated, but waf
told to mind her business. They guessed
they knew theirs. In fifteen minutes the
patient was taken with a fit of vomiting, and
within half an hour he was a corpse. The
students were arrested to await the coroner's
inquest. The boy's brother wanted to shoot
them.
STAKVATI0N IN EGYPT.
Twenty Deaths a Day and the Living
Fating the Dead.
TJat* NEWS EPITOMIZED.
From Khartoum, Kassala, Tokar and other
towns and villages on the Nile in Upper
Egypt come distressing accounts of famine.
There are twenty deaths from starvation
daily in Tokar alone, while in the whole
stricken district the bodies of the dead are
eaten by the living.
Two mortgages, aggregating 164,000,000,
have been filed in St. Louis against the
prr perty of the Wabash Railway Company.
The Central Trust Company, of New York,
filed a first mortgage for $34,000,000 and the
Mercantile Trust Company filed a second
xxiartgagefor $30,000,000.
Eastern and Middle State*.
Charles Keller, of Philadelphia, and
two girls named Mamie and Winnie Colli-
gan, aged seventeen and twenty years re
spectively. were carried over the falls at
Easton, Penn., while boating. The girls
were drowned.
Rev. Fred A. B arnitz, of Middletown,
Penn., a retired clergyman, and Charles H.
Carpenter, of Philadelphia, were fishing
from a boat on Swatara Creek, near Middle-
town, Penn., when they were drawn into a
whirlpool and drowned.
Mrs. Mart Hrvcx, and Mrs Emms White,
of Byron, N. Y., were killed by an engine at
a railway crossing in Rochester, N. Y.
Alfred Porter, aged about nineteen
years, of Dover, N. H., a student of Dart
mouth College, was accidentlally shot and
instantly killed at Kenniston’s TaljtnH, by
Herbert E. Towle, of Dover.
The Finance Committee of the World’s
Fair Committee met in New York city and
organized: Jesse Seligman, the banker, sub
mitted a plan to raise money without asking
Congress for help.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
made arrangements to establish a pension
system for its employes, the first of its kind
in the United States. Tho pension plan will
be introduced in connection with the com
pany’s relief association.
The body of Frederick Wilcox, aged
twenty-six. was found hanging in a hayloft at
Virgil, N. Y. He was to have been married
in a short time. Temporary insanity is the
alleged cause.
The New York State Committee met at
Saratoga and decided to hold the Democratic
State Cox
1st.
onvention in Syracuse on October
Two cotton mills at Providence, the Wau-
regan and its leased property, the Notting
ham, and a woolen mill, the Thornton
Worsted Company, have failed, the result of
the recent failures of Lewis Bros., of New
York city, and Brown, Steese & Clark, ol
Boston.
A tornado of thirty minutes’ duration
passed over Winthrop, Me. Rain fell in tor
rents, accompanied by very heavy thunder,
and the wind blew a gale. Corn and other
crops were seriously injured, barrels of ap
ples were blown from trees in orchards, and
numbers of trees were prostrated by the
gale.
The Keystone Furnace Company, of Read
ing, Penn., has failed. Liabilities $500,000.
Joseph Popa, a thirteen-year-old boot-
black, testified that he saw a man set the
Seventh avenue (New York city) tenement
house on fire in which ten lives were lost re
cently.
A gasoline still at the oil refinery of A.
D. Miller, in Allegheny, Penn., exploded with
a frightful noise, and the entire plant was
immediately fired and rapidly destroyed.
The engineer and a watchman were killed.
The property destroyed was valued at $225,-
000.
Governor of New York, respited
Giblin, the wife murderer, sentenced to be
hanged August 23d, for sixty days.
Christian W. Luca, a groceryman of
Brooklyn, N. Y., was stabbed to death by a
burglar named Charles McElvaine. The mur
derer was captured, and made a full confes
sion.
State Treasurer Carter, of New Hamp
shire, has received for redemption a certifi
cate for $150,000, it being the last outstanding
war obligation of the State.
William Repper, receiver of taxes for
Y.. has not made
Treasurer and
ordered to seize hie
property. The deficit is said to be about
$18,000.
; were
South and West.
Andrew Johnson, a barkeeper, and a man
named Peterson, a blacksmith, were drowned
while fishing on Camp Lake, W is.
J. C. Lyons was killed outright, C. W.
Pauly fatally mangled, an engine and eight
cars were wrecked and a large number of
cattle killed in a wreck at Montgomery, Ind.,
caused by the engine striking a cow.
Walls constituting part of the ruin of the
brewery recently burned in Fort Wayne,
Ind., fell, burying five-men. Charles Ruhl,
Martin^ *
ohn Gleason and Henry Kent
badly hurt.
Assistant Postmaster Dewet, of Hunt
ington, Ind.,‘ has defaulted for $6500. The
fugitive clerk took $600 of Postmaster Swint’s
money, who is completely ruined by the
theft. He has turned over to his bondsmen
the paper of which he was editor.
President Harrison, Private Secretary
Halford, Attorney-General Miller and Sec
retary Rusk left Deer Park, Md., for Indian
apolis, Ind., where the President was to
spend several days before returning to Wash
ington.
Frank Morris, John Heii, James O’Brien
and Brodie Morris, miners, of Charleston, W.
Va., were caught beneath a fall of slate in
the mines of the Connellton Coal Company
in Fayette County and killed.
Dr. E. Parsons, said to be the oldest prac
ticing dentist in the United States, died a few
days ago at Savannah, Ga. He was born in
Northampton, Mass., in 1806.
The flourishing city of Colfax, 111., on the
Illinois Central, has been almost entirely de
stroyed by fire
The President was enthusiastically received
and entertained by the city of Cincinnati,
after which he resumed his journey to In
dianapolis.
At a session of the Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows at Rome, Ga., Colonel Adolph
Brandt, while opposing a resolution, fell
dead in the hall from an attack of apoplexy.
He was a prominent lawyer of Atlanta, and
widely known throughout the State.
While out hunting near Eldora, Iowa,
Banker L. F. Wisner was accidentally shot
and killed by his only son George, aged about
twenty-three. Mr. Wisner was President
and principal owner of the Hardin County
(Iowa) Bank.
Bud Renaud has been found guilty, at
Purvis, Miss., of participation in the Sulli-
van-Kilrain prize-fight, and sentenced to $500
fine.
The Republican State Convention of North
Dakota has nominated E. S. Tyler, of Fargo,
for Governor: John B. Ray, of Grand Forks,
for Auditor; Booker, of Pembina, for Treas
urer; Flittie, of Traill, for State Secretary,
and Corliss, of Grand Forks, for one of the
Supreme Judges.
The United States gunboat Petrel did not
quite develop the required horse-power dur
ing the official trial at Baltimore. She de
veloped 1080 horse-power, just twenty less
than the contract requirement.
“White Horse,’’ the Chief of the Crow
Indian tribe, has been murdered by an un
known assassin. His remains were thrown
into the Yellowstone River, in Montana.
General William Mahone was nomina
ted by acclamation to be the candidate for
Governor of the Republicans of Virginia, in
State Convention assembled at Norfolk, Va.
Washington.
The Department of Agriculture was closed
ror a day on account ol tne (leatn oi ex-uom-
missioner of Agriculture Watts at Carlisle,
Penn. Mr. Watts was Commissioner during
Grant’s administration.
There are seventeen contested seats in the
House of Representatives, the papers being
already in the custody of W. H. Mobley,
clerk of the Committee on Elections. The
cases are with one exception (Indiana) from
the Southern States.
The bond purchases by the Treasury De
partment at Washington from August 3,
1887, to and including August 17, 1889,
aggregated £177,624,800, at a cost of $204,514,-
871. These bonds would have cost $240,543,-
277 at maturitv, so that the saving has been
$36,028,405.
The Argentine Republic, through its
Charge d’Affaires at Washington, Mr. Er
nesto Bosch, has addressed a formal invita
tion to the United States Government to tak«
part in the second international cattle shov
of the Argentine Agricultural Society, to be
held at Buenos Ayres. The show opens on
April 20 and closes on May 11, 1890.
Superintendent of Census Porter has
appointed Charles E. Taft, of Little Rock,
Ark., special agent on skip building.
The contractors of the new cruiser Balti
more have notified the Navy Department at
Washington that they are ready for the offi
cial trial of the vessel.
Major J. S. Davis, Department Com
mander of the G. A. R. t of Nebraska, died
in Chicago a few days ago from dropsy,
superinduced toy a wound received at the bat
tle of Gettysburg in 1863.
Foreign.
King Humbert, of Italy, has conferred
the title of Count on Thomas A. Edison, the
inventor, who is nowin Europe.
EnwARD Conroy, United States Consul at
Porto Rico, is dead. He was one of the old
est members of the consular service, having
been appointed Consul at San Juan, Porto
Rico, April 21. 1869, from Pennsylvania. He
was a native of Connecticut, and was fully
eighty years of age.
Augustin Arroyo de And a has been cho
sen President of the Mexican Congress, bv
virtue of which office he becomes Vice-Presi
dent of the Republic.
The betrothal is announced of the Dukeo*
Nassau to Princess Margaret, youngest sister
of Emperor William of Germany.
Three miners were lulled by an explosion
in a colliery at Hanley, Staffordshire, Eng
land.
Herr Lachmann, editor of the Londoner
Journal, a weekly newspaper printed in
German in London, England, murdered his
wife and child, and then committed suicide.
A dynamite cartridge accidently ex
ploded in a coal mine at Domen, Hungary.
Five persons were killed and a number of
others injured.
A famine is threatened in Montenegro
owing to the failure of the crops, and en
demic disease is now extensively prevalent.
Ex-King Malietoa and other exiles have
returned to Apia, Samoa. The ex-King w g
warmly welcomed by the natives and his own
flag was hoisted. King Mataafa also greeted
Malieto& with cordiality.
A new steamer just completed was mSE-
ing her trial trip from Shanghai, China,
when her boiler hurst and thirty persons on
board were killed.
Severe hail storms passed over parts of
Austria. Many persons were killed. Much
damage has been done by gales on the English
coast. Severe storms also prevailed through
out France. Telegr&phic communication was
greatly interrupted.
Cuba has established a signal service
bureau.
Thirty thousand dock laborers are on
strike for higher wages in London, England.
News comes fr>m Victoria, British Co
lumbia, of the seizure by the United States
revenue cutter Rush of two illegal sealers,
the Minnie and the Pathfinder, in Behring
Sea; both were dispatched to Sitka, Alaska,
with a prize crew,
A banquet was given to Electrician Edi
son at Paris. In a speech Premier Tirard
said that France and America were united
by indissoluble ties. Hon. Whitelaw Reid,
the American Minister, made a brief speech.
Mr. Edison said he was grateful for the kind
ly welcome extended to him.
The delegation of American workmen wera
entertained at dinner on tho Eiffel Tower in
Paris. United States Minister Reid was in the
chair. M. Bartholdi, Mr. Depew and others
spoke.
DIPHTHEBETIC SCOURGE.
A Reign of Terror in an Ohio Town—
The Disease Beyond Control.
The State Board of Health has informa
tion from Moscow, Clermont County, Ohio,
* town of 600 inhabitants, which vividly
describes a reign of terror resulting from
disease at that place.
There existed an epidemic of diphtheria in
ithe most fatal form. The disease broke out
about two weeks before this report was re
ceived and spread so rapidly that when the
(State Board of Health was first notified there
fwas twenty-six cases and several deaths.
Since that time there have been twenty
more coses and numerous deaths. The town
Was in a state of wild excitement. The citi
zens were building sulphur bonfires in their
yards and sprinkling the public streets with
lime.
Dr. McKibben, the Moscow physician,
stated that the disease had become uncon-
trolabla and that medical assistance was
needed. He telegraphed to the State Board
of Health for assistance.
SHOT BY A MINISTER.
The Minister Says He was Provoked
by Being Hit With an Egg.
The Rev. D. Helmrick, pastor of the
Earl Palmer, a pojJulitf young man of Coun-
»il Bluffs at Neola, duf mg the night. Palmer
was the successful suitor for the hand of Miss
Ella Porter. The preacher objected to the
match, and in his opposition used strong
language against Palmer. The young couple
were married in Council Bluffs, July B. From
that time the feeling intensified. On Sunday
before the shooting, the minister says, some
one gave
that he i
evening —— - ——
country and saw several men near his barn,
one of whom was standing in the doorway.
He called to them to go away, when he was
(truck by an egg. He then drew his revolver
ind fired and the man in the doorway, who
proved to be Palmer, fell dead with a bullet
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Austria has made Von Moltke a Colonel.
President Harrison is deaf in his right
ear.
The Sultan of Turkey is said to be aging
rapidly.
Four sons of Siam are being educated in
England.
Jay Gould is one of St. Louis’ largest own
ers of real estate.
The Czar of Russia spends an hour a day
chopping down trees.
Constantine, heir to the Greek throne, is
in his twenty-second year.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talhage has a brother
who is a missionary in China.
Men. 7ans are extending much hospitality
to ex-Speaker John G. Carlisle.
Emperor William, of Germany, is to
make a tour of Alsace-Lorraine.
Dr. Brown-Sequard, discoverer of the
famous “elixir of life,” is an American.
Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa’s war Gover
nor, is now living on a berry farm near Iowa
City.
Ex-Senator Joseph MacDonald, of In
diana, has a legal practice worth $15,000 a
yoar.
Senator Evarts has gone to Europe for
treatment for his eyes, which are troubling
him much.
The Shah of Persia has one fondness which
will increase his popularity in New England.
He likes American pie.
The Hon. S. S. Cox, is the only living man
in public life, who voted for the admission of
Oregon as a State, February 14, 1859.
Robert Burns Wilson, the rising Ken
tucky poet, began writing verse at an early
agq and is now thirty-seven years old.
Electrician Thomas A. Edison, will
visit the Krupp works at Essen, Germany,
before the termination of his visit abroad.
The late S. L. M. Barlow, of New York
city, left an estate of about two million dol
lars, largely accumulated in his law practice.
Jay Gould’s “History of Delaware Coun
ty, New York,” written when ho was twenty-
one, is a rare book now, worth forty dollars.
A son of Admiral Farragut, is modestly
working as a clerk in a New York counting
room, rather to have some occupation than
for the money it brings him.
General G. W. C. Lee, a son of Robert
E. Lee, who is at the Hot Springs in Virginia,
is an uncommonly large and _ powerfully
built man, with grizzled gray hair and short
beard.
Fanny Bignon, who is praised by zoolo
gists for a recent paper on the anatomy of
the lachrymal gland of the green turtle, is
one of the remarka >le women of Paris. She
studied zoology at the Sorbonne, and has
combined the careers of student and teacher.
Geroximo, the Apache, who has been a
risoner of the United States Government
LATER NEWS.
Jim McCoy, the noted desperado of .. uth-
western Texas, has been hanged at San An-
tonjo, Texas, for the murder of Sheriff Mc
Kinney.
The west side of the town of Fair
mont, Vermilion County, HI., was entirely
destroyed by fire. The loss is $30,000.
The Montana Republicans met in State
Convention at Anaconda and nominated T.
C. Power of Helena for Governor.
Four more men have been killed as a result
of the Howard-Turner feud in Harlan
County, in the mountains of southeastern
Kentucky.
Governor Cooper, of Colorado, has called
the President’s attention to the depredations
of the Ute Indians in Colorado. He wants
troops sent there.
Superintendent of the Census Porteb
has appointed Professor Charles TV. Smiley
and Captain J. W. Collins as special agents
in charge of the statistics of the fishing in
dustry. Both gentlemen are at present em
ployed in the United States Fish Com
mission.
Count von Moltke’s brother Louis, an
ex-Postmaster-General of Denmark, is dead
at the age of eighty-five years.
Messrs. Gooderham & Worts have sold
their distillery in Toronto, Canada, to an
English syndicate for $6,000,009.
Cholera is raging at Bagdad and Baso-
rah in Arabia. Orders have been given to
place military cordons around the towns.
An epileptic in a hospital for incurables in
Ghent, Belgium, made an attack with a
razor upon the other patients in the institu
tion, who were in bed at the time. He badly
gashed the throats of twenty-four of them.
The American sealing schooner James G.
Swan has been seized in Behring Sea, with
235 dead seals aboard, by the United State*
revenue cutter Richard Rush.
The United States man-of-war Galena has
left the Brooklyn navy yard and sailed for
Hayti. Captain Summers is in command.
Milford, Conn., has celebrated its two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary by a ser
vice in the First Congregational Church, and
a re-union of the Milford family.
Robert Clark, a seventy-year-old far
mer, hanged himself to a tree near Plain-
field, N. J.
Charles D. Chambers, recently released
from the Penitentiary at Philadelphia,
boarded the Pacific Express on the Penn
sylvania road, near Lancaster, Penn., and
endeavored to rob the passengers. After
shooting one of the porters he was over
powered and locked up.
After a tour in the Western and Pacific
States, the Senate Committee on Reclama
tion and Irrigation have arrived at San
Francisco, where they will take testimony.
Henry Shaw, the millionaire philanthro
phist, of St. Louis, and founder of Shaw’s
Garden, is dead.
Henry Roberts was hanged at Butte
Montana, for the murder of J. W. Crawford,
one of his employes.
In a quarrel at a primary election at
Newmen’s Grove, Miss., W. H. Bradston
was killed, and his cousin, W. F. Bradston,
mortally wounded. Four others were badly
wounded.
Perry Thrall, a had character, of Mexi
co, Mo., on his deathbed the other day con
fessed to the killing of William Van Deven
ter and his wife, for whose murder Bill
Dudy, a colored man, was hanged. *
S^jJEnslky and S. T. Fowler, while en-
gaged
County, W. Va, of
coal and slate
leave largo f amilh
C. E. LYBARGEd^HJSEnaster at Milwood,
Knox County, Ohio, shot at his daughter
Daisy but missed her, the ball striking Mrs.
Lybarger and fatally wounding her. Ly-
barger then blew out his brains.
Nicanor Bolet Beraza and Alejardo
Urbaneja, two prominent editors, have been
appointed delegates from Venezuela to the
International American Congress, which
meets in Washington next October.
The Acting-Secretary of the Treasury made
the following appointments: Cabell White-
head, of Boise City, Indian Territory, As-
sayer of the Mint Bureau at Washington; W.
R. Compton, of New York, and J. F. Meyer,
of Iowa, chiefs of division in the Sixth Au
ditor’s office; A. C. Anderson, Assistant to
the Superintendent of Construction of Life
saving Stations for Rhode Island and Massa
chusetts.
A hurricane at Buenos Ayres has sunk
many lighters and inflicted considerable
damage upon shipping and cargoes.
A tower similar to the Eiffel Tower in
Paris, but twice as high, is to be built in Lon
don, England.
Captain Wissmann, commander of the
German East African expedition, has
marched from Dar-es-Salaam to Bagamoyo
and has repeatedly repulsed bodies of na
tives which he met along the Kingani River.
A CIRCtJS IN A SMASHUP.
One of Barnum’s Trains Derailed Near
Potsdam, N. Y.
The second of three trains of the Barnum
& Bailey show has been wrecked about two
miles and a half east of Potsdam, N.Y., while
en route on the Rome, Watertown &
Ogdensburg Railroad from Gover-
ceur to Montreal. A broken axle
w&s the cause. Twenty-four ring horses, in
cluding one of the four chariot teams, aad
two camels were killed. Six cars were de-
railed and two were telescoped so that every
thing in them was crushed.
On either side of the track were distributed
the bodies of the dead horses, while here and
| there, tethered to fences, were poor beasts
l with injuries rendering them useless. At the
! side of the highway were one camel, several
sacred cows and steers and various other ani
mals rescued from the derailed cars. The
cars were crushed and twisted and piled up
on the track. The elephants, which were in
the first car that was derailed, were not hurt,
and have been taken from the car.
Barnum’s partner, J. A. Bailey, says the
loss will be iu the neighborhood of $40,000.
He thought that the loss of the day’s receipts
at Montreal would have been about $18,000,
and some of the horses that were killed were
very valuable, and cannot be replaced, for
two years are required for training them
after the ritrht kind have been secured.
A QUADRUPLE EXECUTION.
Four Murderers Suffer the
Death Penalty iu New York.
or some time, has grown so fat that he looks
very little like an ideal chieftain. He was
Lot well at Fort Augustine, Fla., but at
Mount Vernon barracks, Ala., he has in
creased in weight rapidly.
Professor E. P. Crowell, of Amherst
College, Dean of the Faculty and Professor
of Latin, is totally blind. He is almost fifty
years old and lost his sight five years ago
through illness. His knowledge of Latin is
so accurate that he has been able to hold
recitations as if he had the open book before
him.
C. P. Huntington has gone to Europe to
consult with the Kin *
projected Congo (At
i gone to E
Belgium e
a) railroad.
FLOOD VICTIMS.
Terrible Suffering Among Them
dieted Unless Help is Givem
The suffering among the victims of the late
disastrous flood in the valleys of Slate, THick-
■ er, Tygart, Lee, Sandy and other creek
ralleys debouching from Limestone Moun-
tain. in West Virginia, the scene of the fetal
I cloudburst, still continues, with a prospect of
i still more suffering as the nights grow colder.
Many families are huddled in extemporized
: huts, built of rough boards, along the creeks
and glens of the dismantled territory.
Many are taken care of by the more for-
; tuna to, but poor hill farmers, who have
■ opened their doors and their hearts
! to their ruined neighbors. The
charitable of the neighboring villages and
cities are doing all In their power to relieve
the sufferers, hut all the help they can render
will be entirely inadequate to place the hun
dreds in comfortable or even safe condition
for the coining winter. There will be terri
ble suffering among these people when the
cold weather sets in unless outside relief it ex-
tended.
All Four Were Legally Strangled
for Killing Women.
, TERN justice has over-
‘ taken four women mur
derers in New York.
.Charles Carolin, Pat
rick Packenham, John
' Lewis (colored), and
James Nolan were
hanged at the Tombs
prison on two gallows
early in the morning.
A large crowd had
gathered in the sur
rounding streets, but
order was preserved by
numerous policemen,
and inside the noted
prison only those duly
WJ 'XWL authorized by law and
the press representa
tives were permitted to
witness the quadruple
execution.
CaROLIN. Packenham and No
lan were executed at eleven minutes to 7
o’clock and Carolin and Lewis at three min-
Ut Alfdted without flinching, as they said they
would.
From the hangman’s
standpoint, it was a
“beautiful job.” It
took only a remarka
bly short time to send
the four murderers
from life to eternity.
The only approach to a
blunder was in the case
of Lewis, the colored
man, whose death, al
though instantaneous,
was caused by asphyxi-
ition instead of dislo-J
cation of the vertebrae.
;led frightful-
He struggl
ly, but the end came as
P
V lj
3
1
with him as
with the rest.
The quartet of mur
derers walked onward
to meet their Maker as packenham.
if they were to witness the execution of some
one else and not that they were the ones to
swing at the Sheriff’s ominous signal. Not
one of them trembled, and one—Lewis, the
black man—even smiled
as he came in view of
the forbidding looking
instrument of death.
Carolin, went to his
death with curses on
his lips and a scowl on
his face. Only a min
ute oefore he was taken
from his cell he kissed
the crucifix and knelt
in prayer. Yet he died,
blasphemy on his lips
and a felon’s glare in
his eyes. Lewis’s in-
-raw i /k/a junctions to him to
HU'/'ft rm “die like a man” seemed
to enrage him even
more, and his curses
were stopped only by
the falling of the weight
at the end of the hang-
NOLAN. man’s rope.
Packenham and Nolan died quietly. They
both confessed just b^ore they were swung
off that they were gui^y t * ie crimes for
which they were about to n 10 -
The bodies were cut
down, placed in hearses
and carried away for
burial. Justice was
satisfied, and the Tombs
resumes its wonted air
of gloom and misery.
Two other condemned
murderers are still
within its walls. One
of them, Henry Carl-
ton, who murdered a <//
policeman, is awaif*— /i!
the recent of i
lin, wno shot Mrs.
Madeline Goetz, while
trying to pass a coun
terfeit hill in her hus
band’s store, has been
respited by the Gov- lewis.
emor for sixty days. He was refused a new
triaNby the courts.
Ferdinand Carolin murdered his wife,
Bridget, on March 16, 1888, at 47 Stanton
street, by strking her on the head with an
axe while intoxicated.
Patrick Packenham, who was formerly a
New Orleans policeman, cut the throat of his
wife, Margaret, March 13, 1888, at No. 212
West Twenty-seventh street, because she re
fused him money with which to buy liquor.
Twice he was threatened with arrest for
heating the woman and attempting to throw
his son out of a window, and an hour later he
committed the crime for which he suffered.
James Nolan shot Mrs. Emma Buch on
November 20, 1888, at No. 9 Second avenue,
because she announced her intention of
leaving him.
Jack Lewis, colored, deliberately killed
Alice Jackson, a mulatto woman, on July
17, 1888, at 84 West Third street, because she
refused to live with him any longer, he har
ing previously shot her and made her a
cripple.
ONE MORE FATAL DAM.
Three Lives Lost and a Wide Sweep
of Country Devastated.
The Spring Lake reservoir, near Fiskville,
in the southwest corner of Cranston, about
fifteen miles from Providence, R. I., which
supplies a number of mill villages along the
Pawtucket River, burst during the afternoon.
Three persons were drowned and much dam
age was done to property.
A man named xeaw, who was about a
quarter of a mile off, noticed the water com
ing through the masonry of the dam, as he
describes it, as a stream about as big as a
barrel. The hole was apparently growing
larger very radidly. The only living object
in sight was a cow, a few hundred yards
across the fields, which Yeaw succeeded in
rescuing, although the water was up to his
Meanwhile down the valley were Mrs.
Greene Tew, aged sixty; a Mrs. Hawkins,
l ninety, and Mrs. Tew’s son, seven years
aged:
old.
prepared
down by
by the swords of the Knight
THE NATIONAL NAME.
Pittsburg has already tried nine \
The Clevelands play nervously these day
Connor’s batting percentage is still i
Ryan, of Chicago, leads the League 1
getting. \
Chicago’s stone wall infield is once morl
complete.
Louisville has purchased Ray’s release
from Boston.
Burdock, of Hartford, is to take a nlnfl
South this winter.
Young pitchers are blooming out this yeajf
with great success. #
Six of the Pittsburg players were recently!
fined for drinking.
. St. Louis has made forty-two home run#
in ninety-nine games.
Hoover is doing about all the catching|
for Kansas City just now.
McGuire is considered the greatest pitches
in the International League. i
Duryea, of Cincinnati, is still the Mng
American Association pitcher.
Bio Jim Whithxy is putting up a good
game in the International League.
John M. Ward, of New York, is aa great
a favorite with baseball players as ever.
The Chicagos have played with more con
fidence since Williamson returned to
place at short stop. P
No baseball organization has had more
ups and downs since its organization than
the Pittsburg Club.
Deaf-mute Hoy is the only Wa
ian who has played in every game and'
r New Yorker.
nor the only
Last season Clarkson won only one gamy
of the three against Pittsburg. This year ha
has made it seven straight.
The New Yorks have as a team, up to lata
date, made thirty-three home runs, fifty-twoi
three baggers and 132 doubles.
Captain Irwin has introduced disci]
into the Washington Club, a quantity
tofore almost unknown among the Senj
The only players now in the Nation* !
League who were members of the organizaj
tion when it was formed are Hinaa Anson/
O’Rourke and White.
George Wright is the only man who has
ever mastered the science of both haaahaH
and cricket, and who is looked on by most
ball players as being without a rival.
Arthur Cummings, a Brooklyn boy, was
the first to make use of the out curve as far 1
back as 1869. He could make a ball sail like
a curving clamshell when thrown against the
wind.
A more patient player is not to be found
in the Association than Robinson, of thq
St. Louis team. He has been sent to first
base on balls seventy-seven time in as many
games.
Thirty-eight games have been played bg
League clubs this season without making a
fielding error. Washington and New York
were, however, the only teams that played
perfectly in the same contest.
Saturday is known throughout Conneott}
cut as “baseball day,” all the important
games being played on that day. This
arrangement accommodates the men in tho
factories, who are great lovers of baseball.
While the Bostons were in Indianap
Manager Hart tried his best to bur the raj
lease of short-stop Glasscock, but President
Brush wouldn’t have it. Hart offered I
cash and two player* who, Hart says,
worth $4000 each.
The ten leading batters of the
Association up to a recent date were:
Tucker, .358; second. Burns (Brookl
third, Lyons, .341; fourth, Orr. .SJL,,
Holliday, .330; Larkin, .330; O’Neill,
eighth, Milligan, .233; ninth, Hamiltoz
tenth, Comiskey, .315.
As far back as 1870, 20,000 people went ou|
to see the national game played. The corn
testing teams were the Red Stockings, of CjhM
cinnati, and the Atlantics, of Brooklyn,
latter administered to the “Reds” their j
defeat after they had gone through their ]
>ious season without being vanquished.
LEAGUE RECORD.
Wok. Lost. Pmrotn
Boston 1 60 33 .645
New York 58 86 .617.
Philadelphia 52 44 .543
Wa
6*•sasas
AMERICAN
81 61 .887
ITION RECORD.
St. Louis. •««.». •••
Brooklyn 67
Baltimore... a.. 58
Athletic 55
Cincinnati 55
Kansas City 42
Columbus 89
Louisville
Won.
Low. IS
. 70
33
.680
. 67
34
.663
. 58
42
.580
43
.561
48
.534
60
.412
. 89
66
.371
. 22
82
.212
LONGEST FAST ON BEC0BD.
Robert Marvel Dies After Abstaining
From Food Sixty-seven Days.
Robert Marvel, the Marion County (Ind.)
fasting wonder, died after sixty-seven days
of abstainment from food or drink. He was
nearly eighty-five years old. His case has
been the marvel of the medical world. Thou
sands flocked to see him from all parts of th#
State. When his friends attempted to give
him food he would make strange sounds.
During the entire fast he partook of only
about a quart of liquid nourishment. His
bowels remained wholly torpid and inactive.
He became terribly emaciated, and
the walls of the abdominal cavity
hyeme withered and shrunken to
the extent that when lying on bis back the
articulation of the backbone could plainly
he aeon. He slept well, his respiration being
regular and even. His pulse was irregular.
The cause of his condition was paralysis. The
disease completely destroyed his hearing, but
his eyesight remained excellent to the last. It
also robbed him of his speech and nothing
| intelligible could be gotten from him. He
died without a murmur.
His trouble began with apoplexy and par
alysis. He was born in Sussex County. Gel.,
October 7, 1805. When a young man he was
a sailor for seven years.
His fast is the longest on record, so far as
known. The most prominent case of volun
tary fasting was Tanner’s, and it will be re
called that he ate nothing and drank only
water during forty days.
They were walking through a strip of
wood and were overtaken by the flood and
drowned. Their bodies were found in the
wood, through which the water quickly ran
until it emptied into the Pawtucket River.
The river rose rapidly and caused consider
able alarm among people along its banks,
who thought that the Ponegansett reservoir,
the biggest in the State, had gone. Many of
them left their houses and fled, but the flood
subsided as rapidly as it had come.
The dam was built m 1887 for the service
of the Pawtucket Valley Company. The
reservefr covered eighteen acres and con
tained about 35,000,000 gallons of water. The
Haiti is 925 feet long, seventeen feet nine
inches high and eight feet wide on top and
thirty-five feet wide at the bottom.
A CHILD TO HANG.
Twelve-Year-Old Henry Winford Sen
tenced to Death.
Perhaps the youngest criminal to have the
death sentence passed upon him in North
Carolina is Henry Winford, aged twelve,
just doomed to hang in Salisbury
on October 25. Last March Henry went
to the home of Mrs. Barger, an old widow
who lives near Bostain’s cross roads in Row
an County. It was about midnight. Raising
the window the boy crawled into the bed
chamber, where he soon gathered up a lot of
jewelry. He then made an assault upon the
sleeping woman. He fled but was afterward
captured. It is asserted that nothing but his
extreme youth saved him from the grasp oi
Judge Lynch.
At the grand review of the Knights of
Pythias at Eagle Lake, Ind., two large
rattlesnakes obstructed the line of march and
to spring. They were speedily cut
THE MARKETS.
The returns of a recent school election
in 'ff atikas show that 50,000 women voted ou
school matters, and that a large proportion
of school officers this Year are to be women.
34 NEW YORK.
Beeves *.... 3 57%@ 4 60
Milch Cows, com. to good.. .30 00 @45 00 :
Calves, common to prime... 2 75 <g) 3 50 j
Sheep - @ 5 4S i
Lambs 6 25 @ 7 25 3
Hogs-Live 4 50 @ 4 90^
Dressed GX© 8)d
Flour—City Mill Extra 4 25 @ 4 40 ;
Patents 4 75 @ 6 00 ?
Wheat—No. 2 Red MX®
Rye—State 53>£@
Barley—Two-rowed State... 80 @ 87 :
Corn—Ungraded Mixed 43X® 46 m
Oats—No. 1 White — @ 87 !
Mixed Western 24 @ 29 j
Hay—No. 1 95 @ 1 OO t
Straw—Long Rye 70 @ 80 '
Lord—City Steam — © 6.20o ’
Butter—Elgin Creamery.... 18 © 19 j
Dairy, fair to good. 13 @ 17 .;
West. Im. Creamery 10 @ 14 <4
Factory GX®
Cheese—State Factory GX®
Skims—Light 6 @)
Western 6 ©
Eggs—State and Penn 18 ® 183t
buffalo. '
Steers—Western 3 25 @ 3 90'-
Sheep—Medium to Good.... 4 25 @ 4 60
Lambs—Fair to Good 4 50 @ 5 50
Hogs—Good to Choice Yorks 4 70 @ 4 75
Flour—Family. 5 00 @ 525.7
Wheat—No. 2 Northern — @ 91 ^
Corn—No. 8, Yellow — @ 39J4
Oats—No. 2, White — @ 29j)#
Barley—No. 1 Canada. — © 74 ^
boston. '
Flour—Spring Wheat Pat’s.. 6 00 @ 6 40 ,»
Corn—Steamer Yellow 49 © 49>§
Oats—No. 2 White 38 @ 40 3
Rye—State 65 @ 70-q
WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef—Dressed weight 5X® 6}
Shee£—Live weight k ^ m
Hogs—Northern 5 @
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour—Penn, family 4 00 @ 4 25 1
Wheat—No. 2. Red, Aug ... 82if@ 88i
Corn—No. 2, Mixed, Aug... 43}v#
Oats—Ungraded White
Potatoes—Early Rose 25 @ 80'
Butter—Creamery Extra IGX® 11
Cheese—Part skims 6
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