The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, September 11, 1891, Image 2
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[ YALPABAISO CAPTUM
Balmaceda’s Army Rooted by
the Insurgents.
The Demoralized Government
Troops Fleeing to Santiago.
The
war in
A dispatch from Washington say. :
first official news from the seat of vi
Chili reached the State Dspartment this
evening, in the shape oT a dispatch from the
United States Consul at Valparaiso. Its
contents put a new and surprising face on
the contest which has been carried on for the
last six months or more between the Gov-
erarnent of President Balmaceda and the so-
called Congressional party. According to
the statement of the American Consul at
Chili’s chief seaport, that city, the most im
portant in the Republic, has' fallen into the
bands of the Congrewonal army, and Bal-
tnaceda's forces have sustained a defeat
which is almost certain to prove fatal to the
Government cause.
The Congressional army, which boldly
landed north of Valparaiso a few days ago,
seems to have crushed the forces with which
Balmaceda and his Generals hastened
to the defence of that city; and the
victorious Congressional troops, after a
bard straggle, are now in possession of
the great port on whose control the main
tenance of a Government at Santiago, only
thirty miles distant, absolutely de
pends. Consul McCreery’s dispatch to
the State Department is unequivocal as to
the outcome of the battle between the Con
gressional ists and the Balmacedists, and the
subsequent surrender of Valparaiso. Here
is what be sends to the State Department by
the cable line, which apparently has just
been reopend:
“Valparaiso.—Battle fought near this city
this morning. Government forces badly
beaten. Heavy losses both sides. City sur
rendered to Opposition, but in band of Ad
mirals American, German, French and
English fleets for good order. No commu
nication from Santiago. Ooposition forces
now entering the city. McCreert.”
Mr. Julio M. Foster, who is assisting the
. -jtv, received
_j New York:
Valparaiso in
our power. Viva Chili. Trumbdll.'”
The sender is Richard Trumbull, one of
the Congressional agents, who is now under
Indictment for violation of the neutrality
laws in connection with the equipment of
the Itata.
An hour after the despatch from Mr.
Trumbull came to hand the following des
patch from Mr. Viel. the confidential agent
of the insurgent party at Lima, Peru, and
addressed to Mr. Pedro Montt, the principal
Congressional envoy in this city.* was re
ceived at the headquarters of * the party
here;
“Triumph complete. Valparaiso surren
dered.”
The Chilian rebellion began in January.
There had been a struggle for many months
between President Balmaceda and the
majority in Congress, each charging
the other with unconstitutional con
duct. The President dissolved Con
gress; thereupon the majority of
Congress went on board the fleet, which
hoisted the banner of insurrection. The
army remained faithful to Balmaceda. The
fleet took possession of Iquique, in northern
Chili, and made that city headquar
ters of the insurgent forces, with Montt,
Silva and Barros Luco as a governing junta.
The most interesting naval engage-
ment of the war was the destruction by tor
pedoes of the insurgent flagship Blance En-
calada. Owing to intervening descent and
mountains. Iquique was safe from land at
tack, and up to the present expedition against
Valparaiso there bad been no important land
engagement.
Before the rebels started for Valparaiso, or,
to give the exact landing place, Vina del Mar,
they gave commissions in their forces to a
number of adventurous Englishmen and
Americans of some military experience. Upon
their first attack at Vina del Mar upon the
Balmaceda army of about 12,000 men, the in
surgents were repulsed, and upon this fact
the Balmacedists caused to be tele
graphed throughout the world the state
ment tliat the insurgenftmAhaeii cnmnletelv
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and. Middle Statea.
Governor Page, of Vermont, informed
Red field Proctor, Secretary of War, that he
would be aonointed to succeed Senator Ed
monds as Senator from Vermont.
President Harrison journeyed from
Saratoga. N Y., to St Albans, Vt.; he
made eight speeches in the com se of the
trip.
The National Convention of the Daugh
ters of Liberty was held at Waterbary,
Conn. A membership of over nine thousand
persons was reported.
The American Bar Association met in
Boston, Mass.
The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists, in con
vention at Harrisburg, nominated W. W.
Hague for Auditor General and George
Drayton for State Treasurer.
The Mayc- and City Council of Altoona,
Penn . were arrested on complaint of the
City School Board for refusing to do away
with a sewage nuisance.
The body of Herbert Mapes, the Colum
bia College athlete, who was drowned while
bathing at Fire Island, off New Jersey a few
days ago, was discovered in the surf at
Water Island, eight miles east of the Surf
Hotel.
President Harrison spent the night M
the house of ex-Governor Smith in St. Al
bans. Vt. Next day he addressed great au
diences at Richmond, Waterbury, Mont
pelier, Plainfield and St. Johns bury, Vt.; at
Montpelier he spoke in the Capitol to the
members of the State Legislature.
The search for bodies in the ruined build
ing in Park place. New Yotk City, was
ended, sixty-one corpses having beien re
covered . Of these, fifteen are unidentified.
Secretary Tract witnessed the fleet
manoeuvres of the North Atlantic Squadron
and the Squadron of Evolntion off Bar Har
bor, Me.
Robert W. Carpenter. Trial Justice
lawyer and Chief of the Fire Department of
Fox boro. Mass., has disappeared, charged
with embezzlement and malfeasance in of
fice.
Samuel Clarke Pomerot, formerly
United States Senator from Kansas, died a
few days ago, at White ns ville, Mass. He
was born in Southampton, Mass., January 3,
1816.
President Harrison made an address at
the fair of the Vermont Association of Road
and Trotting Horse Breeders at W bite River
Junction.
F. W. Vanderbilt’s imported yacht Con
queror has been seized by Federal officers in
New York Harbor for customs duties esti
mated at $35,000.
Much damage was caused in Newark, N.
J., by a tornado which swept through part
of the city.
The President delivered speeches at Rut
land and Proctor, Vt., leaving the last named
place at night on his return journey to Cape
May, N. J
Thirteen of the victims of the Park Place
(New York City) disaster were buried to
gether in Evergreen Cemetery from the
Morgue, where they had been since they had
been recovered. They had not been identi
fied.
John Baxter, a painter in New York
City, committed suicide, after the murder iu
cold blood of his wife, Mary, and his two
children, Kate, aged five, . nd John, aged
three. No reasons for the crime were
given.
Crops were destroyed and houses were
carried away by a storm at Berlin, N. Y.
Miss Addie Taylor, aged fifty-five, and
Charles Smith, a young boy, were drowned,
and others bad narrow escapes. At Hoag’s
Corners, Dunham’s mill, one tenement
house and two iron bridges were washed
away.
Tn Norwegian ooTler Frey, bound from
an English port for Drontheim, caught fire
and was burned to the water’s edge when
near Bergen. Eight of her crew were
drowned. Seven were saved.
Extensive flood* are reported in West
moreland County, England.
Smallpox is epidemic ia Tegueeigalpa,
capital of Honduras
A gang of five hundred armed pirates are
creating havoc in the Province of Wenchow,
China. Their progress through the country
has been marked by the most cruel and cold
blooded crimes. Villages have been burned
right and left by them when refused hospi
tality, and the inhabitants—men, women
and children—slaughtered by the miscre
ants.
The population of Canada is 4,823,334, an
increase of 1L52 per cent, in ten yearns.
A terrible thunderstorm swept over the
Trieste district of Austria. Lightning struac
a church at Tualis. Three women were
killed. At Piaa a hunting party was struck
by lightning. One member of the party was
kuled on the spot.
At the Electric Works in Posen, Germany,
the conductors on the root of the works were
being repaired by a number of employes,
when by some mishap the full current was
turned into the wires and three of the men
received fatal shocks.
Marie Taglioni, the famous danseuse,
who retired from the stage in 1866 and was
married to Prince Joseph Wiadiscb-Graetz,
died at the Chateau-Heillgen, near Taschau,
Austria, in her fifty-eighth year.
A collision occurred inside Fort Phillip
Heads, Melbourne, Australia, between the
steamers Gambler and Easbv. Seven min
utes after the collision the Gambler gave a
forward lunge, her bows rose high out of the
water, and she sank stern first, carrying
with her five saloon passengers, fifteen steer
age paseengers and six of the crew. AL
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DISASTER
Fatal
Col laps
New
m
a Building
City.
Nearly Five Score of People
Lose TheiiMLives.
South and West.
Andy Ford, colored, and a companion of
Harmon Murray, the desperado who was re
cently killed, was lynched at Oak Grove,
Fla.
Will Lewis, colored, aged eighteen years,
was taken from the calaboose at Tallahoma,
Teun., by eight masked men, and hanged to
a tree. Lewis was a drunken rowdy.
The town of Charleston. Ark., has been
burned. Total loss $50,000. The court house
records were destroyed. At Moody, Texas,
a disastrous fire occurred, destroying half J
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Berne, Neb., if a Swiss town.
France claims 1,000,000 Socialists.
Cleveland has 25,000 Bohemians.
The United States have 250,000 Swis?.
Arizona has a Beekeepers’ Association.
The rice crop is reported above the Aver
age.
Floods at Toyama, Japan, damaged near
ly 9000 houses.
Grand Forks, North Dakota, is building
a wheat palace.
France is accumulating gold to pay for
American wheat.
Forest and grass fires have done great
damage in California.
There are eleven cables running from the
United States to Europe.
The blueberry crop of New Hampshire
has been an enormous one.
Rain has ceased in India and crop pros
pects are again growing worse.
The permanent tramp population of
the United States has been estimated at 60,-
000.
Reports from South and Central Amer
ica bring news of large crops and great pros
perity.
Provision dealers say that fruit and
vegetables have never been so plentiful of
bo cheap.
Jacob Steele, the oldest man in Pennsyl
vania, died at Uniontown a few days ago,
aged 108 years.
Gales and hurricanes along the Spanish
coast have wrecked many vessels and caused
serious damage.
England is now suffering from the potato
blight, which caused so much distress in Ire
land last winter.
The financial crisis in Portugal L* becom
ing acute. Gold and silver have disappeared
from circulation.
The Attorney-General of Texas has de
cided that nuns may teach in the publio
schools of the State.
The catch of Irish maekerel.this year has
fallen off one half. It is feared the business
will be ultimately destroyed.
The testof powder with the army twelve-
inch breach loading rifle at Sandy Hook, N.
J., was not wholly satisfactory.
There is danger that the price of grain
be f oroed *o high au to curtail the edi
tion in European countries.
HKampbbll. by defeating HobaP
B^Uomers' 1'ennis Tourns*
|^^KL’ re t
A rickety
Park place, New
ing the noon hour a
bursting into flames
How many people
fn the ruins was noi
after the accident,
mated at seventy-fi
hundred.
The collapse i
by an explosion, a*
within earshot,
explosion, that the
gave way.
The fallen buildi
72 and 74 Park pla
Occupying the g;
ing three numbers
bronze and gold
drug store, and A
rant.
Ellis & Macdonal
the second and thin
and the South Puh
floors of No. 74.
The fourth and
were occupied by
graphers.
Careful estimates
tragedy showed
came there were th
of Liebler & Maassf
twenty-five men
twelve men and wi
aid’s book bindery
South Publishi
women in the
feld; nine men
F. W. Trippe,
sidewalk—mak
There is a co;
ion as to the cause
the wrecked building
was no explosion, b
street near the sc,
port of an explosion.
It seems probable 1
printing presses, whii
floors, together with
their motion, prove ’
ing, and caused the
It was just the i
restaurant in the
filled. It accommoda'
the windows overheai
be sewn catching a
munched their lunchi
There were several
Btreet, among them a
in a baby carriage,
wore playing together
store, and a horse atf
wagon was standing
Above the noise
could be heard the <
ten big presses
building vibrated
revolution, just -
before.
Then there
Some who hean
by a heavy report, as
was followed Aby the
and the gratiyig, raspi
beams and timbers.
A dark cloud of d
rose to the height of i
it had cleared fire bu;
lapped over to tha adjoil
west.
The street was in an
A dozen or more who
jured were helped into
man was discovered sta
the debris. He had a b
He was pulled out and
Another had rolled c
of the wreck in a big
helped to his feet cc
The mother with her ba|
I and the three little child;
j be seen
Ins + -*ntJy,
| the lapsed
kr/egto atte
Mkl < cJouci
wdi
ek building in
collapsed dur-
| ago, the debris
dead thirteen !
five unidentified ,
Of the eighteen recovered
have been identified. The
bodies were taken to the Morgue.
One of the saddest features of this disaster
is that its long list of victims were in the
main the fathers of families who leaned on
their support for the necessaries of
life, or sons and daughters with
those dependent on their earn
ings. A large majority of them were in
youth and with few exceptions they were all
of the best class of American working peo
ple. Nearly every death recorded means the
desolation of a home.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
DAMAGE BY FLOODS.
ied and burned
ty-eight hours
>ber was esti-
»y reach one
|ly proceeded
me of those
here was no
oors merely
Nos. 68, 70,
vacant.
remain-
Rosenfeld’s
W. Tripp’s
n’s restau-
f tile
fcry took up
70 and 72,
p the same
inghout
i, litho-
after the
ital crash
| pressroom
ried in it;
staur&nt;
McDon-
oys in the
men and
|is Rosen-
: store of
|>y on the
opin-
iple ii
lof
People in
ay there
|re on the
the re-
of the
te upper
aused by
tie build-
stersen’s
hly well
[>ns. In
?n could
they
in the
infant
lildren
drug
t express
f e street
Maass’s
The
every
I months
sound,
ipanied
led. It
Ig walls
Iwisting
Mr and
[Before
^ris and
; to the
stant.
fitly in-
r One
^aist in
i head.
immit
le was
Inhurt,
riage
Id not
r ile in
them-
E ier, men and women,
and fell down the fire
ch street side of the
"had streams playing
Cfront and rear, while
iluged the ruins from
An hour after the fire-
the fire had been con-
of digging for the dead
r the accident the first
fTHS'Hi'front of where
Ten and about twelve
tie man’s face was all
jlrst. A heavy scant-
|had been disengaged
i them to the sidewalk
iet covered them,
of a laborer, in
|nd with a rub-
was maimed and
I foot and his life had
out. The fire had not
i the city dead wagon
coffins drove up.
waiting for it.
ini Louis Gai-no, a
lo said he could sup
rers within a short
Jscue. The Inspector
lein if the city did
pe up in a little
scoured Mulberry
his sixty mea
own the street and
ire. In the meantime
i policeman through
;r, and asked every
i work to sign it and
forty volunteers, and
\ the Italians gather-
j half-burned timbers
pwn to thy corner,
p. They worked all
liontinua until all was
! after the building
who were digging
;he eastern end of the
by a plaintive cry
m beneath them. A
for an hour after
, and ten feet
came upon the
Then soau big
aside, and un
space just big
a small child,
I Heagney, nine years
rank Heagney, the
iMamie was found
(mother small body,
le, her sister. She
| hole in her head,
I gushing. She was
men, stretched on
[ay-
spread a rubber
, a hatless man,
shot eyes, pushed
b-d. He snatched
|se, and with an
knees over the
he passionately
dead child. The
g the dead turned
|tears.
smpted to lead the
lh the desperation
l the force of four
>m the place,
is the child’s bodv
box and carried
Heagueys.
(formation obtain-
second day after
| number of killed
ired. Up to roid-
eightaen bodies
the ruins. The
more than a
i kept constantly
is, but the ruin
mass of bricks,
so tangled and
bo pinned
jt of ponderous
was necAssa-
The Italians
of the fire-
.ware kept at
Chicago seems invincible.
The market for ball players is becoming
glutted.
Chicago’s new pitcher, Nicol, is quite a
batsman.
Shannon has taken charge of the Wash
ington team.
Bennett, of the Boston League Club, has
been catching since 1876.
In Boston they think Strieker is the quick
est man now playing ball.
Dennt, once the king of third basemen,
has been released by Cleveland.
It interferes with most baseball players’
good work to be captain of a team.
Dalrvmple, who once led the League
batters, is hitting harder than ever.
Hamilton, of Philadelphia, leads the
League in batting and base running.
Sutcliffe, of the Washingtons, leads
the country in batting. He has an average
of over .400.
Galvin, of Pittsburg, has bean pitching
ball since 1874, and never knew what it was
to have a lame arm.
Louis Bierbauer, Captain and second
baseman of the Pittsburgh League Club, has
asked for his release.
Baseball has taken a strong hold on the
Caban public. There are over seventy-five<
clubs in that little island.
There is trouble in the New York team
and Connor and Glasscock want their re-'
leases. They don’t like Ewing.
Anson, of Chicago, is generally very"
lucky in his “finds.” His last, Vickery andi
Shriver, apparently are one of his luckiest.
Despite the Rusie-worship of the New
Y'orkers, John Ewing, when in condition, is
the most effective pitcher in the New York
team.
The New York Club has signed Pitcher
Arthur Clarkson, late of the New Haveni
Club. He is a brother of the famous John'
Clarkson.
Browning, of Cincinnati, has lined ’em,
out this year in great style, and now holds;
third highest place in the batting list of the
National League.
The quickest game on record was played' ■
at Albany, N. Y., the other day. It took! j
only twenty-seven minutes. Five innings' ;
were played when rain interferred.
Two years ago, three pitchers did all the
twirling for the New York team, and did it!
effectively, too; but now It has six pitchers
and the management is groping after more.
Welch, of the Baltimores, still maintains;
his reputation as one of the greatest centre-
fielders ever seen on a ball field. Some of the'
catches made by him in Boston were of a
phenomenal character.
Boston’s Association team have now a
string of heavy hitters in Brouthers, Duffy,
Farrell, Joyce, Richardson and Brown that
will compare favorably with that of any
seven men in any club of the League or As
sociation.
Harry Wright, of Philadelphia, has some
unique ideas about handling his pitchers.
He makes all of them put the ball over the
plate and inveighs against bases on balls.
He insists upon speed and makes a
particular point about watching base run
ners.
Freeman, the phenomenal left-hander re
cently signed by the Washingtons, is proba
bly the youngest pitcher in the professional
ranks to-day. Before he was signed by the
Washington team he had pitched but twenty-
four games, and had not yet reached his
twentieth year.
“Mike” Kelly of the Boston Association
team, has signed a contract to play with the
BostA League Club the remainder of this
it'-and of next season. This contract calls
for a salary of $5000 per annum and an addi -
tional sum in case of the success of the club.
Kelly said he was to receive $22,500 from the
gue.
Ok all the playets who have talked about
quitting only two have made their words
good by retiring from the diamond when
there was an engagement in sight. They are
McCormick and Sunday. The magnates that
drew them away from the diamond differ
widely. McCormick went to the race track
and Sunday to the pulpit.
national league record.
BrMjpes, Dams and Tracks Swept
Away In Pennsylvania.
Great damage was done to property in
Pennsylvania by a storm, and mnch fear wai
occasioned, but fortunately no lives were re
ported lost.
Conternation reigned at the Bowman
Evangelical Camp Meeting near Mohrsville,
Penn. Lightning struck a number of trees,
and some of them falling came dangerously
near crashing upon tents. A regular stream
of water rushed through the woods and car
ried awav bedding and furniture.
Near Wernersville, Penn., on the Lebanon
Valley branch of the Reading Railroad, just
after the engine of a freight train passed
over a culvert In safety, the pulvert was
washed away and the entire train of ten
cars plunged into the culvert and were car
ried off. August Kobn, a tramp stealing a
ride, had a leg broken and his arm injured.
Over one-third of a mile of track was
washed away.
Another culvert at Fritztown, Penn., on
the Reading and Columbia Railroad.between
Reading and Lancaster, was washed away.
At Mohrsville, Penn., eight dams, each
half an acre to an acre in extent, were
washed away and the hat factories and mills
will be unable to resume until the dams’
breasts have been rebuilt.
The bridge and three piers of the Reading
and Southwestern Railroad Company at
Hendelton, Penn., were carried away, and a
mile of ite track belonging to Daniel Riegel,
John Mogle and William F. Koller. were
destroyed by lightning. The loss is $10,000.
The breast of the big dam at the Robeso-
nia furnace, which furnishes Robesonia,
Penn., with water, broke and gardens,
fences, vegetables gardens and roads were
all washed out and trees uprooted. Over
300 feet of the Reading Railroad Company’s
track near Robesonia Station was carried
away.
The storm in Northern Lancaster County,
Penn., was the heaviest in sixty year?.
Seven bridges, a number of buildings, sheds
and fences were washed away and many
cattle were drowned. At Millway an im
mense oil tank was carried 100 feet. Half a
mile of track of the Reading and Columbia
Railroad at Denver was washed away.
HUM) FROM A BRIDGK
STARTED OPT TO KILL,
Two Men Slain and One Wonnded by
a Father and Four Sons.
Milton Kendall and his four sons—George,
Lamar, Popsey and Milton—went into
Georgetown, Ky., on a recent morning for
the purpose of killing their nearest
neighbors, John James and Burrill James.
They succeeded in killing John, mortally
wounding Burrill, at the same time killing
John A. Montgomery, Coroner of Scott
County.
The Kendalls went that morning to the
house of widow James, which is six miles
from Georgetown and within half a mile of
their own. They accused Burrill James of
having robbed their watermelon patch and
said they intended killing the entire James
family. As they were armed the James boys
ran away. John James swore out warrants
for the Kendalls and they were arrested but
gave bail to appear that day for trial.
On the trial morning the James boys ar
rived in Georgetown first. About 10.30
o’clock John James went to a barber shop
where he had left his rifle and secured the
weapon. As he stepped out the door young
Milton Kendall, who was standing
within thirty feet, shot him through
the right lung. He was carried into a back
room whither Milton and George Kendall
tried to follow him for toe purpose of fin
ishing him. The barbers begged them not
to shoot any more and they left.
Burrill James had in the mean time run
into John Montgomery’s hardware store to
get a gun, but old man Kendall saw him,
and fired, killing Mr. Montgomery.
Overtaking Burrill James at the back
door, the elder Kendall fatally shot him with
his pistol immediately over the heart. He
then joined his sous near the Court House,
and together they defied arrest for half an
hour, finally giving up their arms and going
to jail.
All the parti^P^e well connected. Old
man Kendall hx been a magistrate, and was
for years Chairman of the Democratic Com
mittee of Scott County.
Won. Lott. ct.
Chicago.. .66 40 .623
Boston....60 42 .588
New York.55 42 .567
Philadel.. .53 49 . 520
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
.Per|
Won. Lott. ct.
Boston....76 32
6*. Louis. .69 40
bai.dmore.58 46
Athletic.. .54 51
L>i
Won. Lott, ct
Brooklyn. .46 55 .455
Cleveland.47 58 .448
Pittsburg. .42 62 .404
Cincin’ati..4‘2 63* .40(
RECORD.
Fet
Won. Lott, ct
.704:Columbus.50 59
,63SiMilw’kee. .45 61
.558 Wash’gt’n.SS 65
.514 Louisville..38 71
DUEL IN A CAR.
Bryant, a Train Robber, Killed by
Marshal Short, Who is Also Dead.
Charles Bryant, one of the noted Dalton
gang of train robbers, who was captured the
other day in the Cherokee Strip by Deputy
United States Marshal Ed. Short, was shot
and killed by his captor after he had fatally
wounded Snort. The duel occurred on a
Rock Island train, on which Short had placed
his prisoner, intending to take him
to Wichita, Kan. He placed Bryant in the
baggage car, going outside to guard against
eny attempt at rescuo. He left a revolver
with the baggageman for protection. The
baggageman laid the revolver down and
Bryant soon secured it.
As the train was slowing up at a station
he opened the door of the car an! immedi
ately began firing at Short, who was on the
platform, a bullet going through Short’s
Dody. Short returned the fire and gave
Bryant a death wound. Short was
also mortally wounded, but both men
kept on firing until their weap
ons were emptied. Bryant was the
first man to drop, and he fell head foremost
down the steps. Short caught him by the
leg and held him with bis head almost touch
ing the ground. He called to the conductor,
and when he got to him, he said:
“I have got him. Jim, and he has got me.”
The prisoner was dead when picked up, and
Short died in 1 en minutes.
THEY “PLAYED JAIL,”
Ami Smothered Three Children in a
Little Iron Box.
The mystery surrounding the recent trag
edy in which the children of Mr. and Mrs.
George Hamillon, of Ironton, Ohio, were
found smothered to death in a chest in
whi h they had been fastened has been
cleared up.
William Warnick, a playmate of the
Hamilton children, admitted to his mother
that Kirche Gurliche and a boy named Pem
berton. together with himself, while “play
ing jail,” locked the children in the chest,
and being called to supper shortly afterward
forgot to let them out.
When told that Warnick had confessed the
boys told the same story. The mothers of
the children are crazed with grief, but it is
not likely anything will be done in the mat
ter as none of the boys is over eiKht years
old.
CABINET MINISTER KILLED.
The English Postmaster-General
Struck by Lightning.
The British Postmaster-General, the Right
Hon. H. C. Raikes, is dead. Mr. Raikes,
who was just recovering from an indisposi
tion, went out walking in London, when he
received a severe electric shock during a
thunder storm.
He was immediately taken to his home and
medical assistance promptly submitted. Ill
ness, however, had so exhausted the Post
master-General tnat his strength was insuf
ficient to enable him to meet the sudden anik
terribly exacting demand thus made upon it.*
PEASANTS STARVING.
Many Russians Compelled to Eat
Grass and Leaves.
The Prince of Wales is taking great inter
est in the matter of the persecution of the
Hebrews in Russia, and in the condition of
those who are coming to England. The
Princess of Wales is co-operating with him.
A clergyman living at present in the Prov
ince cf Kazcn, Russia, has written a letter
in which he gives a harrowing description
of the sufferings of the unfortunate peas
ants of that province, brought on by
the failure of the crops. Large
numbers of them, he says, are in an absolute
state of starvation. Many have been unable
to obtain bread for weeks, and in their ef
forts to sustain life they have been compelled
to eat grass and leaves. In one of the vil
lages of the province, consisting of 140 houses,
the clergyman visited all the peasants. Here
were found sixteen persons in a terri
bly emaciated condition, and slowly
and painfully dying from starva
tion. Of ail the residents of the houses
only twenty were found eating ordinary
food in a quantity sufficient to keep them
alive. In other villages there was a similar
state of destitution and distress. In all of
them numbers of persons were found either
dead or dying from starvation.
There is no immediate prosperfc of any
betterment in the condition of the peasantry,
and it is feared that, driven on by the pangs
of hunger, they will attempt to gain food
by any means, lawful or unlawful. There ia
much excitement throughout the province
among the poorer classes, and an outbreak
may occur at any time.
The wine and raisin crops in southern
California are the largest for three years.
The raisin grapes are loaded with' fruit.
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Beeves 3 50 (3> 6 25
Milch Cows, com. to good.. .25 00 @45 00
Calves, common to prime... 3 00 @6 25
Bheep 3 50 @ 5 15
Lambs 4 50 @ 6 80
Hogs—Live 5 70 @ 6 15
Dressed 7 @ 8J
Flour—Citv Mill Extra 5 25 @ 5 50
Patents 5 50 @ 600
Wheat—No. 2 Red Ill @1 125
Rye—State
Barley—Two-rowed State...
Corn—Ungraded Mixed
Oats—No. 1 White
Mixed W estern
Hay—Fair to Good
Straw—Long Rye
Lard—City Steam
Butter—State Creamery....
Dairy, fair to good.
West. 1m. Creamery
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Cheese—State Factory
Skims—Light
Western
BUFFALO*
Steers—Western 2 00 @ 3 60
Sheep—Medium to Good.... 4 25 @ 4 65
Lambs—Fair to Good 5 75 @ 6 00
Hogs—Good to Choice Yorks 5 25 @ 5 40
Flour—Winter Patent 5 25 @5 50
Wheat—No. 1 Northern..... — @ 1 17
Corn—No. 2, Yellow 71 @ 72
Oats—No. 2, White — & 33
Barley—No. 2 Canada — & 90
BOSTON.
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Seeds—Timothy, Northern.. 2 00 @2 -»
Clover, Northern.... 10 @ 11
Hay—Fair 14 00 @15 00
Straw—Good to Prime 14 00 @14 50
out. ter—Firsts.. 18 @ 20
WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
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Sheep—Live weight 4 @ 6
Lamas 4}^@ 65
Hogs—Northern
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A Passenarer Train Falls Eighty
Feet Into a Creek.
Over a Score Killed and Many
Seriously Injured.
A dispatch from Statesville, N. C., says.
The most terrible railroad disaster that
has ever happened in North Carolina oc
curred on a recent morning at Boston’s
Bridge, which crosses Third Creek, two miles
west of this place.
The westbound passenger train on the-
Western North Carolina Railroad (No. 9),
which had passed Statesville on time (at 1:4J
a. M.), was hurled from the bridge, a dis
tance of about 100 feet, the engine, tender,
baggage and second-class car, the first-class
coacb, the Pullman car and the private car
of Superintendent Bridge all going down into
the creek.
The train was composed of a baggage and
mail car, second and first class coaches. Pull
man sleeper, and Superintendent Bridge’s
private car. Daisy. The sleeper, which was
from Goldsboro, usually contains a good
number of passengers from Northern points,
and last night was no exception.
The run to Statesville was made on time, a
distance of twenty-five miles, but just af
ter leaving Statesville there is a high
stone bridge spaning Third Creek, and
down into this creek plunged the
entire train. a distance of at least
sixty-five feet, wrecking the whole train and
carrying death and destruction with it.
Twenty passengers were killed octright,
nine seriously injured, and about twenty
badly bruised and shaken up.
The scene at the wreck was awful. The
night was dismal, and to add to the horror
of the situation, the water in the creek was
up. It was only through the heroic efforts
of those who had hurried to the scene of
the wreck that the injured were not
drowned.
The accident was caused by the spreading
oi the rails. The bridge was not injured and
trains are running on schedule time. Twenty
dead bodies are now lying in a warehouse at
(Statesville. The injured are having the best
of care at private houses and hotels.
A drummer named George brawley, from
Atlanta, and one or two other passengers
who made their way from the wreck anve,
came to town and gave the news of the dis
aster. The town was soon aroused and
citizens and vehicles hastened to the scene of:
the wreck and began the work of rescue.
Some of the passsngers had crawled from the
car windows, and were perched on the tops:
The cars were cut open, and as many of the
passengers as could be found were dragged
out dead, dying and some alive and others
mortally injured.
By daylight 2000 people were on the
ground. The dead and injured were brought
to town, the injured comfortably quartered
at the hotel and private houses, wnere they
could receive medical aid. The dead were
laid side by side in a long row on the floor j
of a large tobacco warehouse, where the
bodies were identified and tagged.
It was impossible to say on the morning
after the acident how many were killed and
drowned. Up to twenty-five minutes past
five o’clock twenty dead bodies had been
taken from the wreck and the second class
car had not been reached, which is partially
under the water. Twenty-five is not an
overestimate of the number killed.
Dr. Sikes, who was killed, had just been
assigned to missionary work in China, and
was to have left for that country on Septem
ber 26 next. He was married.
The Moores, who were killed, are promi
nent in literary and social circles, and are
well known throughout the South. They
were returning from a summering in the
Blue Mountains.
The train fell from the north side of the
track. The engine lies on the embankment
on the west side of the creek, the first class
car on top of the second class and Superin
tendent Bridge’s car partially covers the
sleeper.
It is supposed that as the engine was run
ning forty miles an hour on down grade. It
. struck the bridge and the rails spread. The
t-^e ties-afe rottea the approach
and this was probably the causa of tae acci
dent.
THE LABOR WORLD.
/
Chicago has a woman engineer.
Harlem has a woman Upholsterer.
, New York grocers will build a hall.
Italy’s labor market is overstocked.
Liverpool has 50,000 dock laborers.
San Francisco has Chinese coopers.
New York laundry hands are fighting
Chinese.
New York compositors will hold a State
Convention.
Indianapolis (Ind.) laundry girls average
$5.50 a week.
New York has an Italian shoemakers’ K.
of L. assembly.
A colored man is boss over a gang of
New York whites.
The President of the Boston Waiters’ Al
liance is a colored man.
New York working girls have a society
for sending poor children on vacations.
Trac ion car conductors in Philadelphia
have to pay for broken car windows and the
like.
The Socialist Labor party of Italy is
growing rapidly. It has now over 100,900
members.
An association comprising 300 employers
has been started in San Francisco to resist
the encroachments of trades unions.
The Paris waiters not only insist upon
their right to wear beards and no uniforms,
but also to smoke when not actually serving.
The production of cloth at Fall River,
Mass., has been curtailed 20,000 pieces in tha
past two weeks, owing to a scarcity of weav
ers.
The Municipal Council of Piacenza, Italy,
has granted $1500 annually for five years to
the labor unions in that city for their free
employment bureau.
The Socialist Workmen’s Congress at
Brussels, Belgium, has passed resolutions
condemning the sweating system and piece
work.
Bismarck recently entertained a trade
society of limeburners and brickmakers at
Friedrichsruhe, where he has extensive
kilns.
Notwithstanding the fact of the depres
sion in the iron and tin plate trade, and the
falling off of the demand for coal, 10,000
miners in Aberdare District, South Wales,
have gone on a strike.
In the Chicago City Directory just pub
lished many names were omitted owing to a
refusal of tbe members of labor organizations
to give their names and address be
° • . j . _ _ * ;_a.: I
>ecause it
was printed at a scab printing-house.
The railroads of the country employ 700.-
000 men. Each year they lose 2006 of their
number in killed, and 20,000 of them are in
jured annually. It is estimated that 3,000,-
000 people depend on these employes for a
living.
The South Australian Parliament has set
aside $25,000 to purchase land near Peters
burg for workingmen to build on. Tha Free
Education bill, advocated by the labor or
ganizations, has also been carried by a two-
thirds majority.
The number of cotton mills working in>
India is 114. Thesa mills give employment
to over 99,234 persons every dav. Out of
these 114 mills, eighty-two are In t&e Bombay
presidency, of which sixty are in the town
and Island of Bombay.
The raisin crop in Fresno County, Cali
fornia, is tbe largest on recor. 1. The growers
made great efforts to secure white labor, of
fering $1.25 per day for grape-pickers, with
board, and $1.75 without board. They failed
to get any adequate supply and were forced
to hire Chinese, who have advanced the
price fifty emts a day over *ast year. Fully
4000 Cninese are now engaged in tne Fresno
vineyards.
Shakes are so abundant and troublesome
in the country about Talcott Mountain in
Connecticut that the farmers in the vicinity
have clubbed together to hire a man to lull
the reptiles. He is paid five cents a head,
and manages to make from $3 to $5 a day.
The proposed Odd Fellows’ Temple h*
Chicago III.,is to cost $4,000,000,and wilThave
a main frontage of 225 feet, rising to 556 feet
above the ground, this central portion hay*
ing thirty-four stories.