The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, April 01, 1892, Image 2
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THE BIG BRITISH STRIKE.
‘Oyer 300,000 Stop Work in the
« English Coal Fields.
Eailroads and Factories Crippled
by Lack of Fuel.
A dispatch from London, England, says?
The majority of the coal fields in Great
Britain are idle. The grand total of men at
ptay is about 450,000. In Durham the men
to the number of 80,000 are on strike against
/reduction of wages, but in all the other dis
tricts the men have simply decided to takes
week, fortnight or even three weeks’ holi
day in order to restrict the output of coal.
The collieries of Lancashire, Cheshire,
Yorkshire, North Wales and other districts
■ are idle. The miners of Scotland. South
Wales and Northumberland are working
quietly.
The miners of Durham are holding en
thusiastic meetings, and have resolved that
mnder no circumstances will they yield to
the proposed reduction.
This movement on the part of the miners
,has caused the greatest disturbance in the
British labor world, and in the manufactur
ing centers, that has been known since the
American Civil War when so many hun
dreds of thousands of the cotton operatives
of Lancashire would have starved out for a
“boundless charitv.
The Miners’ Federation has led in the
strike movement. It claims the exclusive
honor of having forced the miners’ wages
iforty per cent, above the rates of 1888. The
advance was wrung from the masters in
successive driblets of ten per cents, and five
;per cents. The last installment of the forty
per cent.—that is to say, the concession of
fifteen per cent.—made little more that a
year ago, was given in three sub-instail-
ments.
The minors outside of the Durham district
say that the present movement is not against
:the reduction of wages, but to prevent the
reduction of wages at any time in the fu
ture. They are afraid from the way that
;the owners of collieries have been outbid
ding each other for the custom, especially
of large corporations, a general reduction
oannot be far off, and they have adopted
this method of raising prices.
The latest cablegram in regard to the
ctrike, received just before this side of the
paper went to press, stated: Flintshire, in
Wales, appears to be the only place where the
order of the Miners’ Federation to leave off
■work has not been obeyed by the members
of the association. The latest estimates of
the number of miners who are now idle place
the figure at 350,000. Owing to the closing
down of other inhustries because of the strike
fully 200,000 men in other employments
have been thrown out of work.
The full effect of the strike will not be felt
immediately. In many cases manufacturers
who have large coal stocks will endeavor to
tide over a week’s stoppage, but if the strike
exceeds a week in duration their supply will
soon be exhausted, and they will be com
pelled to shut down. Fifteen thousand coal
miners are idle iu North Staffordshire. Un
less they resume work in a few days the pot
teries will be compelled to close down, throw
ing 50,000 men out of work.
The miners who have stopped work are
observing the “strike” purely as a holiday.
Large numbers of them are taking advan
tage of their idleness to leave the districts
in which they work, and to visit friends
elsewhere. There is no excitement what
ever.
The Northeastern Railway will withdraw
380 pv ; «enger trains from its li ies because
of lac*, of fuel, and will reduce work in its
workshops four days a week.
The London gas companies report that they
have coal enough to last a month. The
Shipping Federation is preparing to meet
the London coal porters’ refusal to unload
foreign coni. Agents of coal firms are
negotiating in France for supplies
from Pas-de-Calais companies. Cargoes
of coal are being shipped from Ant
werp. Tjbe dock laborers in London and
Antwerp /are not allowed to know wnence
the coal cjime or whither it is going. In the
Leeds district the strike is severely felt.
Nearly jail the large mills and the iron and
stestfttrks are reducing the numoer of their
or suspending work altogetb er.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
The Attorney General of Pennsylvania
has filed at Harrisburg a bill to test the le
gality of the Reading leases.
Laceyvtlle, Wyoming County, Penn.,
is almost wholly wined out by fire.
The Rhode Island Republicans met in
State Convention at Providence and nomi
nated a ticket headed by V. Russell Brown
for Governor.
The steamship Missouri sailed from New
York for Russia. Stowed away under her
hatches were 5,000.000 pounds of breadstuff s,
the voluntary offerings of the American
people to the starving peasant* of Russia.
This, it is estimated, will he sufficient to save
and preserve 20,000 people for one year.
The boiler of engine No. 303 exploded on
the Catawissa branch at McAuley, Penn.,
killing two men and injuring three others.
Frank Jeyrille, of Altoona, Penn.,
threw a lighted lamp at his wife Mollie and
she was roasted to death.
Chares Shaw, of Portland, Me., widely
known as “Steeple Jack.” while repairing
the spire of a church at South Livermore,
fell from the top and was instantly killed.
The Secretary of the United States Treas
ury, Charles Foster, returned to New York
from his trip abroad, much improved in
health.
The restriction on the anthracite coal
production agreed upon in New York has
commenced. The largest collieries in Penn
sylvania are being shut down.
The heaviest snowfall of the season de
layed traffic considerably in New York City.
The Supreme Court of Connecticut de
cided the case of the State against Con
troller Staub in the State’s favor.
The carrier pigeon loft at the United
States Naval training station at Newport,
R- 1., which was established three or four
years ago by officers of the station since
transferred, has been abandoned, as the
Government failed to become interested.
Fred Mil ley, a mill watchman of Pitts
burg, Penn., killed his wife and himself.
His wife was jealous and upbraided him.
The new British bark Windemere, bound
from Milford Haven in ballast for New
York and Calcutta, ran ashore at Deal
Beach, N. J., about a mile north of Asbury
Park, during a blinding snowstorm. The
crew were rescued, but the ship and cargo
will be a total loss.
A FIl/ND JjTEANGLED.
His Death Hastened by the Hangman
Palling at His Legs.
- Frank Schneider, who with his wife, as
saulted and murdered many servant girls,
has been executed at Vienna, Austria.
^Bcbnjider was gibbeted after the Austrian
He was entirely broken down as he was
led from the cell to the scaffold. As he saw
the stake and spike, from which be was to
be hanged, rising above it, his Bslbrfr faca
‘turned a greenish hue, anI JSi ncd
almost to be carried to tne spot. Ine staki
il the top of it a spike about six
inches long.
i- There Were three steps to lift the doomed
'criminal up. He was lifted to the spike, smd
the back of his neck held cloce to it. Then
a cord was passed around his neck, fasten
ing it tightly to the spike, and he was
strangled to death. «
To hasten his end the executioner pressed
bis arms around the mouth and nostrils of
the dying criminal, while one assistant held
And pulled Schneider’s arms, and another
pulled his }egs, The wretch died in fot
minutes. The bpdy was
the stake.
South and 1 West.
A severe blizzard, accompanied by a
heavy fall of snow, prevailed throughout
Southern Illinois.
Walter A. Snyder, an insane clerk in
Tiffin, Ohio, shot aud seriously wounded
two of his employers and a fellow-clerk, and
then killed himself.
Senator David B. Hill, of New York,
made an address before the Mississippi Leg
islature, at Jackson, iu which he advocated
the repeal of the McKiuley tariff and Sher
man silver laws.
Professor Clarence O. Dockery, aged
twenty-seven. Principal of the Alexandria
(La.) Business College, engaged in a friendly
scuffle with P. Gallagher. Dockery’s foot
caught in a bracket and he fell to the floor
and broke his neck.
Senator Hill, of New York, spoke to a
big crowd at Birmingham, Ala. At the
conclusion of his address, James W. Ridg-
way, District-Attorney of Kings County,
New York, made a brief speech. In the
evening Senator Hill and his party were the
guests of the Hill Club at a banquet. Sena
tor Hill and his friends them left for At
lanta, Ga.
Delegates to the Republican National
Convention were elected by the Iowa State
Convention at Das Moines. They were un
instructed.
Senator Hill, of New York, spoke at the
banquet of the Hibernian Society at Savan
nah, Ga.
Reports from various points in the West
show that winter wheat was less hurt than
might be expected, and the crop may reach
within fifteen per cent, of the phenomenal
one of last year.
While officers were conveying Heflin and
Dye, colored, murderers of an old woman in
Farquhar County, from Warrentown to Al
exandria, Va., they were met by a crowd at
Hgymarket, who overpowered them end
' ‘ rs to the woods near by
-Ttf' lyncESaihem.
During a quarrel at Rosebury, Oregon,
A. Hansbrough, brother of Senator Hans-
brouzh, of North Dakota, was stabbed and
killed by Nicholas Jones.
The heaviest snow storm of the season
prevailed in Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama
and Mississippi. “
The Rev. H. D . Benjamin,of Portsmouth,
Ohio, hanged him self while suffering from
dementia.
The extensive tobacco factory of Liggett
& Myers, in St. Louis. Mo., was damaged
by fire to the extent of $345,000.
etch died in four
left suspended
COTTON OVERPBODOOTION.
Report of the Statistician of the De
partment of Agriculture.
The March report of the Statistician of
the Department ot Agriculture shows that
the production of cotton of the world ex
ceeded the consumption more than a million
and a half of bales in 1890, and further
greatly enlarges the excsss in 1891, glutting
the markets, increasing visible stocks dur
ing the past year more taan one million one
hundred thousand bales, and reducing the
Liverpool price of middling upland from
0 l-10d. in January, 189), to 4>gi. in Janu
ary. 1892.
It states that in two years this country
has produced au excess above normal re
quirements of more than two million bales,
and indicates a heavy reduction in breadth
as the only possible remedy, otherwise the
agriculture of the South will suffer worse
than Western agriculture ever has.
It declares that the Cotton States must be
agriculturally self sustaining; that new
crops must be introduced, as the agricul
tural population has outgrown tne capacity
of cotton to support it.
A CRY FOR FOOD.
Twenty Million People Dying of Star
vation in Russia.
The following piteous appeal has been
cabled from St. Petersburg to this country
by the committee of American citizens sent
to Russia: If the American people knew
the extent of the suffering in the famine
districts of Russia they would everywhere
com to tee rescue. Twenty mill
ions of people are affected and in danger of
death trom starvation. Typhu* fever is
rag.ng in many provinces, and horses and
cattle are perishing of hunger.
Does this not appeal to the hearts of those
able to help?
Russia is deeply grateful to the American
peoole for what they have done.
Thediscribut.ou of supplies is under the di
rection of tue Amer.can Minister and an ex
cellent committee. Nothing will ue wasted.
Every particle of food will be properly dis
tributed. Help us! Rudolph Blankenburg,
A a Drexei, Jr., Alexander VV. Biddle,
Committee.
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AN IDLE GUILLOTINE.
First Execution iu Switzerland
Twenty-Four Years.
The first execution that has occurred
Switzerland since 1868 took place the other
day at Lucerne.
The culprit was an Italian named Gatti,
who after assaulting Mile. Degan, a teacher,
murdered her. He was executed by the
.guillotine.
Washington.
President Harrison issued a procla
mation declaring the higher rate of duties
under the reciprocity clause of the tariff act
iu force on Deducts from Colombia, Hayti
and Venezuela.
The fifth birthday of Benjamin Harrison
McKee, the President’s grandson, was cele
brated in the White House. The full Ma
rine Band was stationed in the corridors
playing selections for his thirty boy and girl
guests. They caihe laden with pr&enis.
CSkPTA, oi Brooklyn,
N. Y., “hXs Been appointed State Railroad
Commissioner of New York by Governor
Floweret a salary of $80)0per fS&r.
Secretary Elkins issued an order creat
ing for the War Department a Bureau of
Intormation such as the Navy Department
has long found of the greatest usefulness
and profit.
Dr. Mott Smith, the newly accredited
Minister from Hawaii, was formally pre
sented to the President at the White House.
The Senate, in executive session, con
firmed the nomination of Judsoa C. Clem
ents, of Georgia, to be an Interstate Com
missioner, vice Bragg, deceased.
General Porter. Minister to Italy, has
been ordered to return to Rome, and it was
announced as probable that Minister Fava
would return to Washington.
After five hours spent in secret session the
Senate confirmend the nomination of Will
iam A. Woods, of the Indiana District beneb,
to be additional Circuit Judge for the
Seventh Federal Circuit. Seven other of
the new circuit judges appointed under the
provisions of the Evarts act of March 3,
1891, were then eonfirmei without opposi-
tlDD
Secretary Elkins issued an order de
tailing Colonel Robert Williams, Assistant
Adjutant-General, to special duty in the
newly created Division of Information.
The President sent to the Senate the nom
ination of Charles S. Aldrich, of Illinois, to
be Solicitor-General, vice \V. H. Taft, re
signed.
Secretary Elkins has amended Army
regulations so as to provide that no person
under the age of twenty-one years shall be
enlisted or re-enlisted witbont the written
consent of his parents or a legally appointed
guardian.
The National bank note circulation is now
$161,000,000, an increase of nearly $20,000,000
since July last.
The President signed the commissions of
the nine new Circuit Judges and ordered
that they be forwarded to them at once, sc
that there may be no unnecessary delay in
their entering upon the discharge of tueir
functicns.
Lerdo,
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Foreign.
Typhoid fever is raging at Villa
Mexico, 220 deaths having occurred
ten days.
Sir Henry Bouyerie William Brand,
Viscount Hampden, lor thirty-two years
Speaker of the British Housa of Commons,
is dead.
Four of the crew of a pilot boat which
foundered near Atherfleld, Engianj, were
drowned.
Adolph Guenzburg, of St. Petersburg,
the leading Hebrew banker ia Russia, sus
pended payment.
There was an explosion in Paris, France,
attributed to Anarchists, in barracks in
which several hun I red soldiers were sleep
ing; the building was badly damaged, but
nobody was hurt.
The steamer Indiana, from Philadelphia,
carrying provisions for the reliaf of the
famine sufferers in Russia, reached Libau.
Tax correspondence between Secretary
Blaine and the Canadian delegates to the
recent conference at Wasnington was
transmitted to the Dominion Parliament at
Ottawa.
An avalanche occurred at Belluno, Italy,
by which eight persons were kiliel and con
siderable property destroyed.
Abraham Wanola, found frozen near
Winnipeg, Manitoba, was lost in a snow
storm four days, during whica he carried a
neighbor, Mrs. Rainage, nntil she expired.
In the British House of Commons the
Irish members made a strenuous attempt to
sscure a separate Irish exhibit at the Chi
cago Fair; it was voted to give $50,000 for
England’s exhibit; the Folkething of Den
mark appropriated $06,000 for the Danisd
exhibit at the Fair.
General Rkina Barrios was inaugu
rated President of Guatemala with much
ceremony. The country is in perfect peace.
John £L Steuart, United States Consul
to Antwerp, Belgium, died a few days ago
at Paris- He was oue of the oldest officers
in the Consular service. In President
Grant’s first term he was appointed Consul
to Turk’s Island, San Domingo.
The identity of the Liverpool (England
murderer and his victims has been dis
covered. He is Frederick Deeming, a
member of a good family residing in Birken
head. England.
At Duisburg, in Rheinish Prussia, the
boiler of the tug boat Heinrich, plying on
the Rhine, exploded. The deck of the tug
boat was shattered. Six men, including the
captain, were killed.
A threk-stoby house in course of erec
tion at St Petersburg, Russia, collapsed.
Thirteen workmen were killed by the fall
ing walls.
There have been 775 deaths from yellow
fever in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during tae
last fortnight. The crews of twenty-three
steamers have been attacked by the fever.
A butcher shop in Fulham, London, Eng
land, was burned, and four occupants of the
builaing perished ia the flames.
It was stated in Berlin, Germany, that
General von Caprivi, Imperial Chancellor,
had tendered his resignation at the Cabinet
meeting as a result of the protracted contest
on the E mcation bill, which, as Prussian
Premier, he has championed from the first.
THE LABOR WORLD.
The Crede (Col.) miners get $3 a day.
There are 30,000cash girls in New York.
Siemens steel is to be manufactured in
India.
Great Britain produces 10,000.000 tons
of furnace slag annually.
A forqk and gun company at San Fran
cisco, Cal., will employ 4000.
The European Powers have taken meas
ures for the relief of the unemployed.
The shoemaking business in California is
controlled almost entirely by Chinese.
It is said that there are 5,000,000 women
in Germany who earn their own living.
The New York Central is soon to build
car shops costing $500,000 at Buffalo, N. Y.
Many iron and steel furnaces iu Pittsburg,
Penn., are being cooled off, owing to the
overstock.
There exist in P.ussia no laborers' associ
ations comparable to the traie unions of
other countries.
Mr. Winans, the Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction in Kansas, was formerly a
bricklayer in Atchison. He built his own
fortune.
Railway schools for children of railway
employes are maintained by the railway
companies of India at a very small expense
to the pupils.
A statistician has estimated that every
worker in an American factory consumes
over $93 worth of American agricultural
produce in a year.
The workmen employed to dig out the
ruins of a cheese factory destroyed by fire at
Pittsburg. Penn., struck for higher wages
because of the bad smell
The wheat harvest in the Argentiue Re
public this season is said to be so great that
much difficulty is being experienced in ob
taining labor to gather it.
In Germany 27,485 children between
twelve and fourteen years workod in the
factories in 1890; in England 86,499 under
thirteen years were employed.
Working days are of very unequal
lengths iu Russia, varying from six to
twenty hours, the average given in the re
port as an estimate being not less than
twelve hours. The rule is so indefinite,
Jjgweyer, that jkere is never any claim of
overtime possible.
Interesting information upon the un
willingness of the working class to subscribe
in early life for an old-age pension is afford
ed by a great English firm of cotton spin
ners. They offered to subscribe $5000 to a
pension fund on condition that the work
people subscribed upon an acturial scale,
but this proposal was rejected by a vote of
more than two to one.
Much suffering has been caused in Queens
land by stagnation of industries. In one
day 400 women and children besieged the
Labor Bureau in Brisbane begging for re
lief. The crush was so great that many
fainted. Husbands have gone into the
country seeking wmrk, leaving their fam
ilies destitute, and the women and children
are dependent upon tjie Government for
food to keep them alive.
CALAMITY AT SEA.
Seven Sailors Asphyxiated on a Cattle
St earner.
Seven men out of fourteen who slept in the
forecastle on the steamer Navarro, waich
had sailed rrom Boston, Mass., for London,
England, were found dead in their btldksthe
second morning out. These men are P Mc
Cabe, J. McDonald, J. Gourke, William
Smith, E. Gadistein, E. Perquin and A.
Ford. The men were buried at sea Their
seven companions had a narrow escape from
the same fate. The Navarro was compara
tively a new steamer of 2515 tons register,
commanded by Captain Goiooechea. She
loaned 404 bead of cattle an 1 a general
cargo.
In addition to the crew she carried four
teen cattle men, one boss foreman and two
refrigerator men.
The fourteen cattlemen slept in the fore
castle in rather close quarters. Cattle
men do not go aboaru a ship, as a rule,
in the soberest condition, and the
first day at sea has generally a dis
quieting effect physically. The Navarro’s
cattle men were of the ordinary variety.
The first night at sea came, the cattle
were fed and bedded, and the cattle
men then sought the forecastle, The
weather was cold and stormy, the
men tired and sleepy, and some one sug
gested that a fire be piled high with coal.
This was done, and some one else c.osed the
portholes. None of the men noticed the
fact of ventilation until too late. The
quality of the coal on the Navarro was un
utterably bad.
One by one the men dropped to sleep,
aided, doubtless,by the gaseous atmosphere.
As the hours roded on the gas became
denser, ami the men in the upper
bunks were enveloped in its deadly
embrace. In the morning, as the men did
not appear at the usual hour to attend to
the wants of the cattle, the Captain ordered
them routed out. The boss cattleman and
some of the crew entered the forecastle and
were almost overcome by the deadly at
mosphere. Tney found seven men dead and
seven almost dead.
CULTIVATION OF HEMP.
A Census Bulletin Showing the Acre
age and Yield.
A Census Bulletin shows the total acres of
land devoted to the cultivation of hemp in
the United States in 1889 to have been 25,054
acres, and the production of fiber 11,511 tons,
valued at $1,102,602. The average yield per
acre is 1029 pounds and the average value per
acre $44.01 or $95.79 per ton. Kentucky pro
duced 93.77 per cant, of the total hemp crop
of the country. Illinois produced 4.83 per
cent, and the remaining six States from
which hemp was reported had an aggregate
yield of only 161 tons.
Although the crop of 1889 was more than
double that of 1879, hemp production is re
garded by those engaged in it as a declining
industry, a condition which they attribute to
foreign compe rition and to some extent to
their own lack of improved machisery for
breaking and cleaning the fiber.
COLLIERY HORROR.
Scores of Men and Women Per*
ish in a Belgian Mine.
Fire Follows an Einlosion
Cuts Off All Escane.
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An accident occurred a few days ago in the
Anderluis Colliery, near Charleroi, Belgium,
which resulted in a great Joss of life. Two
hundred and thirty-Tonr men were working
in a gallery 400 feet below the surface, when
there was a terrific explosion of fire-damp.
Forty of the miners escaped by means of the
second shaft and sixteen others were rescued,
having received probably fatal injuries. The
cage and the ventilator at the mouth ot the
pit were shattered by the explosion. The de
struction of the ventilator added an element
of great danger to the situation.
The explosion occurred at 8 o’clock in the
morning. The shocit caused by it resembled
an earthquake, and the ground for a large
area in tbe region of the colliery rocked and
trembled for several seconds. Houses were
shaken to their foundations, windows were
smashed, and crockery and ot.ier arti
cles of household ware thrown about
and broken.. Almost before the
tremblings caused by the mighty explosion
had entirely died away the people began to
rush from their dwellings, and crowds of
excited men, women and children flocked to
the mouth of the pit Almost every family
in the place had a relative or friend among
the men employed in the mine.
As soon as the deadly fumes which had
been rushing up the shaft in stifling volumes
had been dissipated, and it was thought that
the pit could be entered with some degree of
safety, a willing band.of hundreds of brave
men volunteered to descend into the abyss
and begin the work of rescue.
The shock of the explosion detached huge
masses of rock aud earth and the galleries
are so blocked with the debris that it was im
possible to approach nearer than one hun
dred yards to the place where the great body
of the miners were working. Besides the dirt
and rock the carcasses of forty horses blocked
the approach to the lower gallery, and these
had to be cut up and removed before the
rescuers could proceed
The cries and prayers of the crowd were
redoubled as the men at the windlasses in
response to the signals of the rescuers began
to haul up the limp and blackened forms of
from thirty to forty of the miners. The vic
tims were either dead or badly injured and
the face of each was fearfully disfigured. A
great sheet of flame must have swept
through the mine, as the hair, beards and
eyelashes of all the unfortunate men had
been completely burned off, and their bodies
were badly burned.
Among the bodies recovered is that of a
fourteen-year-old girl. That she suffered
indescribable agony is shown by the young
face, which is so horribly distorted that it
cannot be recognized. The blackened fea
tures are swollen almost beyond all sem
blance to humanity.
After it was found that the fire was gain
ing in strength a consultation was held be
tween the mine owners and the engineers,
and it was decided that as there was not the
slightest doubt that everybody in
the mine was dead the only course
left open for them to follow if
they hoped to recover the bodies was to
flood the mine. Preparations were being
made to carry out this plan, but before any
water could be pumped in cries of “Fire!”
were heard on all wides, and at three
o’clock the flames ascended to the pit’s
mouth and sparks were scattered iu every
direction. A few minutes later an immense
column of flame shot through the ventilat
ing shaft, piercing the thick clouds of smoke
that were overhanging the shaft. The sight
was grandly magnificent as the mass
of fire shot upward, but it meant certain
death tor every person in the mine This
fact was fully recognized by the onlookers,
and tbe wailing and shrieks of those near
the pit’s mouth increased in violence as the
lurid flame tore their last faint hope from
them.
In the meantime water had been com
menced to be thrown into the burning pit.
Betore it had descen ’
converted into
tremendous ro
the horror of the si
The scene has seldol
in the mining disasters'
etruction of the build 1
proceeded without op[
o’clock only tbe walls were standing.
All the heavy machinery at theTSioutb of
the pit was destroyed and fell crashing down
the shaft. This acted as a damper against
the flames ascending the shaft to the sur
face, and thereafter little fire could be seen,
but it could be heard roaring and seething
through the galleries far below the surface.
The calamity has crushed the entire
£bar]?roi district. Nothing is heard save
lamentations for ’the dead. Many of the
women who have lost theif only support
have become hysterical through grief and
the doctors are busy attending to them. In
some cases all the surviving members of
families still surround the blackened pit’s
mouth, attracted by the very horror that
has rendered them without a head.
The Minister of Public Works has ordered
the distribution of relief, and the work is
now being carried on.
By official computation of the number of
victims in the Anderlues tragedy, it appears
that there were 234 men and females in the
shaft, of whom 154 are dead, eighteen in
jured and sixty-two savea.
BLIZZARD IN THE SOUTH.
distance it was
escaped with a
hicn added to
In.
: ever been equalled
If Belgium. The de-
kgs on the surface
Isition, and by seven
The Fruit Crop Greatly Damaged by
Snow.
A howling norther with a heavy rain
swept over all Texas. In an hour the ther
mometer fell from seventy to thirty-four
degrees. The clouds were heavy with an
occasional fall of raia. Fruit and early
vegetables escaped, but there is no doubt of
everything being in imminent danger.
Peaches, plums, apricots and pears were in
bud or mil bloom, while market gardens
everywhere were far advanced.
At 10 o’clock in tne morning the northern
hurricane culminated in a storm of sleet,
snow and ice. Fruit trees, covered with
full bloom, were coated with ice. There
was hardly any hope that anything would
be saved.
It began snowing and sleeting and con
tinued all day. The groun i was covered by
about three inches of snosv and sleet and the
fruit crop was destroyed around Jefferson,
Texas. Untold damage will result.
Six inches of snow fell at Little Rock,
Ark., the heaviest known for years. Great
damage is reported to the fruit crop every
where.
The snow reached such a depth at Mem
phis, Tenn., that the electric cars on all the
lines were unable to run. It was the
heaviest fall of snow in that part of the
country for many years.
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YOUNG GIRL LYNCHED.
She
ami
Put Poison in th^ Coffee
Nearly Killed a Family.
The lifeless form of a colored girl was
found dangling from a tree on the road lead
ing to Rayville, La., a few mornings ago-
It was identified as that o*. a fifteen-year-old
servant of W R. Helmor, who resides on
the Greenville place, twenty miles from
there.
The girl became offended at the action of
a colored man, also employed in tne house,
and m seeking some mode of revenge she de
cided to put poison into his coffee. She put
the ’ oison into the coffee intended for the
family meal.
About nine persons drank the concoction
anti eleven had a very narrow escape from
death. The girl acknowledged that she in
tended to kill the man, and she did not care
particularly who else suft'-ered.
That nigat some parties started oat to
bring the girl to the jail v at Ravville, but
they had not proceeded fair before a masked
party overtook them and strung the girl up
to a tree at the first crossink.
“Buckskin Jennie,” a) conspicuous
character among the Indian trjibes about Del
Norte, Cal., is dead. She was thought to
have committed a number of nkurders among
her own countrymen and the whites, but the
crimes could not be traced to (her. Jennie
would shoulder a rifle and go oei the warpath
with as much nerve as any of Vher brothers
and was as quick on the trigger as any of
them.
FIFTY-SECOND 00NQBESS.
In the Senate.
52d Day.—Mr. Vest’s Postoffice Buildings
bill was passed House bill to amend the
act to provide for the performance of the
duties of the President in the case of the re
moval, death, resignation or inability both
of President and Vice-President, was re
ported and placed on the calendar. It pro
vides for the succession of the Secretary of
Agriculture after the Secretary of the'In
terior Senate joint resolution authoriz
ing the Librarian of Congress to exhibit at
the World’s Fair such books, papers, docu
ments and other articles from the library of
Congress as may relate to Christopher
Columbus and the early history of America
was passed.
53d Day.—The Urgent Deficiency and
Military Academy appropriation bills were
passed Mr. Berry introduced a bill for
the adjustment of the rights of the Indians
in the Indian Territory, with a view of hav
ing that Territory admitted as a State. Re
ferred Mr. Morgan introduced a bill to
increase the facilities of the Postoffice De
partment for obtaining the use of buildings
for postoffice purposes.
54th Day.—The House bill ratifying the
act of the Arizona Legislature, appropriat
ing $30,000 in aid of Arizona’s exhibition at
the World’s Fair, was passed Mr. Hale,
reported a bill for the construction (by con
tract) of three battle-ships, two armored
coast defence vessels, five gun boats and
eight first-class torpedo boats Mr. Peffer
introduced a bill to create a pension fund by
an income tax on millionaires to give idle
laborers work on public improvements.
5oth Day.—In the temporary absence of
Vice-President Morton, Mr. Mandersoa,
President pro tern, of the Senate, occupied
the chair Mr. Frye reported the Senate
bill exempting American coastwise sailing
vessels, piloted by their licensed masters or
by United States pilots, from the obligation
to pay State pilots for services not rendered.
Calendar Mr. Peffer introduced a bill to
establish an electrical experimental station
to determine whether electricity can be used
in the propulsion of farm machinery. Re
ferred to Committee on Agriculture.
56th Day.—Mr. Casey reported a bill
to establish a uniform standard of wheat,
corn, oats, barley and rye. Calendar
Mr. Hawley introduced a hill appropriating
$50,009 for a pedestal and statue to General
W. T. Sherman in Washington. Referred
The calendar was then taken up, and
several minor bills were disoosed of.
In tbe House.
57th Day.—Senate concurrent resolution
was agreed to authorizing the joint commit
tees on printing to ascertain the most suit
able site for a new Government Printing Of
fice in Washington The floor was then ac
corded to the Committee on the District of
Columbia, aud a number of local bills were
passed—The House then went into Com
mittee of the Whole (Mr. Wilson, o! West
Virginia, in the chair) on the Army Appro
priation bill
58th Day.—The debate on the Free Wool
bill was continued, speeches being made by
Messrs. Coombs, Walker, Scott, Clupan and
Dockery.
59th Day.—After the transaction of some
routine business, the House went into Com
mittee of the Wnoleand the discussion of the
Free Wool bill was resumed by Messrs.
Sayres and Bryan.
(jOth Day.—Half an hour was con
sumed iu determining who should be the
author of the digest of the rules for the
P resent Congress. The struggle was be-
ween Mr. Smith, the former journal clerk,
and Mr. Crutchfield, the incumbent. Mr.
Crutchfield was victorious The debate on
the Free Wool bill was then continued,
speeches being made by Messrs. Payne and
Ellis.
61st Day. —There was a colloquy beeween
Messrs. Williams and Walker concerning tae
latter’s speech The debate on the Free
Wool bill was continued The evening ses
sion considered private bills.
NEVSY GLEANINGS.
Maryland is full of wild ducks.
There are over 5600 silos in Wisconsin.
The great lakes are open for navigation.
Yellow fever is raging at Brazilian
ports.
The financial condition of Italy is im
proving.
The number of postmistresses In the coun
try is 6335.
Salt Lake City, Utab, is having a natu
ral gas boom.
The Tiber has inundated the lower parts
of Rome, Italy.
cotton trade has al-
THE B|ngal (India)
most ‘collapsed.
Two armed U nited States cutters are tc
be placed on the lake-.
The Yaquilas Indians, of California, are
again on the warpath.
The annual revenue from salt in tbe East
Indies is about 835,000,000.
The foot and mouth disease is spreading
among the cattle in Belgium.
Greece is reported to be in a state of pop
ular excitement bordering on revolution.
The plot to assassinate the Sultan of
Turkey has been traced to Russian sources.
The Southern California orange crop is a
total failure owing to frost and heavy winds.
There are at present thirty-four vacancies
of cadetships at the Annapolis Naval Acad
emy.
General O. O. Howard, who is making
a tour of Mexico, says the Garza insurrec
tion is a small affair.
A “whale back” steamer 500 feat long,
to carry passengers, will be built for the
World’s Fair, Chicago, III.
The Governor-General of Canada issued
a proclamation enfranchising the Indian
population in British Columbia.
Eight German publications have been
suspended for commenting on Emperor
William’s Brandenburg speech.
A second army of locusts from Chile has
been frozen to death in its attempt to cross
the Vica Mountains into Bolivia.
Distress by the drought is increasing in
India. In many disti’icts the water is fail
ing and the condition of cattle is serious.
Fostmastee-General Wanamaker of
fers a gold me lal to the railway postal clerk
in each of the seven divisions who makes the
best record in 1892.
According to official reports,no less than
fifty-two schooners have cleared, or are
about to clear from Victoria, British Co
lumbia. for the purpose of capturing seals
in our forbidden territory.
The Senators and Representatives who
went to Kentucky to attend the funeral of
the late Congressman Kendall were com-
E elled to ride twenty-five miles through a
finding snow storm over a mountarin road
and wade through streams in weather so
cold that their fool was frozen. Their fives
were often in peril.
GRAND DUKE LUDWIG IY.
The liuler of Hesse-Darmstadt and
Son-in-Law ot Victoria Dead.
The Grand Duke Ludwig IV. died a few
nights ago at Darmstadt. Three of his
daughters and Prince Ernst Ludwig, his
heir, w ere at his bedside at the time of his
death. The city is in mourning. In the
English quarter, where the Grand Duke
was especially popular, manv houses are
draped.
The Grand Duke Lulwig IV. was the
nephew of his predecessor on the throne of
Hesse-Darmstadt. He was bora on Sep
tember 12, 1837, and married in 1862 the
Princess Alice, second daughter of Queen
Victoria. She died six years later alter
bearing him five daughters and one son,
the present Grand Duke. Iu the
war of 1866 he commanded a brigade in the
Hessian contingent, and in 1S70-7I the
Twenty-fifth Infantry division of the Ninth
army corps. He distinguished himself
by his bravery at Gravelotte and in
the fighting on the Loire. In June,
1877, upon the death of his uncle. Grand
Duke Ludwig III., he ascended the
throne. In 18S4 he married Frau voa Kole-
mine, nee Countess Czapska, but was di
vorced from her shortly afterward. He was
liberal in his political views, and desnite his
tendency toward Englishmen and English
ways, was a much more popular ruler than
his son is likely to be.
KILLED BY BOBBERS.
Mexican Bandits Capture a Sate With
10,000 Silver Dollars.
One of the heaviest and boldest robberies
ever committed in Mexico took place a few
days ago near Durango. C. W. Brittain,
manager of the Vacas mines, left Durango
for the mines with 10,000 silver dollars in an
iron safe in a wagon. He was accompanied
by J H. Herndon, a young American, and
three Mexican guards. When within seven
miles of Constancia, fifty-five miles from
Durango, about twenty-five men rode up
from behind and commenced shooting. Juan
Castanaeda, one of the guards, was killed,
and Herndon was severely wounded. The
fire of the bandits was returned by Mr.
Brittain and his guard, and one of the roo
bers was killed.
The lash was put to the horses, but the
robbers gained rapidly on the wagon, taking
it and the money captive. Mr. Brittain es
caped into the chapparal with Mr. Herndon
in nis arms. They made their way to Con
stancia, where they notified the military
authorities. A detachment of troops went
at once to tbe scene of tbe robbery,but when
they arrived at the spot they found that the
safe had been broken open and robbed.
Ice harvesting operations oa the Penob
scot in Maine, are over for (he season, and
it is estimated that about 890,009 tons have
been housed. The ice is thinner than usual,
ranging from ten to fourteen inches iu
thickness, but in excellence of quality this
ivear’s harvest was never surpassed. It is
'likely that all holdings will be disposad of at
from $1.25 to $1.75 per ton, and tuat will be
paying business. The crop will furnish
cargoes for about five hundred sail of large
schooners.
A Virginia City (Nev.) youth was
recently detected in the act of snooting an
arrow, with a cigarette attached, through a
broken window m the rear of the jail to
some boys who were imprisoned therein.
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It is
wheat crop is a failure. It is feared that
great distress will prevail all this yeaf
throughout the Republic.
THE MAEKETS.
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Late Wholesale Prices ot Countrj
Produce Quoted in New York.
12 BEANS AND PEAS.
Beans—Marrow, 1891, choice.f2 09
Medium, 1891, choice..., 1 75
Pea, 1891, choice 1 75 @ —
White kidney, 1891, choice 2 20 (if 2 25
Red kidney, 1891, choice. 1 85 @ 2 00
Yellow eye, 1891, choice. 65 @1 70
Lima, Cal., per bush.... 1 60 @1 75
Foreign, medium, 1891.. 1 65 @ 1 70
Green peas,ISOLnar bush.... 1 32W@ 1 35
1801, bagsiHA....^ 130 @ —
1891. ScotcB^. — @ 1 35
BUTTER.
Creamery—Penn, extras
Elgin, extras
Other West, extras
State dairy—half firkin tubs,
fall ends, extras
H. f. tubs and pails, Ists.
H. f. tubs and pails, 2ds.
Welsh tubs, extras
Welsh tubs, Ists
Welsh tubs, 2ds
Western—Im. creamery, Ists.
Im. creamery, 2ds
Im. creamery, 3ds
Factory—Fresh, extras......
Fresh, Ists...
Fresh, 2ds
Rolls—Fresh, extras
Fresh, 3ds to Ists
CHEESE.
State factory—Full cream,
white, fancy 125/
Full cream,colored,fancy 12 125/
Fuller, good to prime.. 11 @ llVj
Common to fair 9%(g> lOJj
Part skims, choice 10 (® —
Part 8kims,good to prime 8>£@ 95*
Part skims, com. to fair. 6 8
Full skims 5
Pennsylvania—Skims — (as 3
EGGS.
State and Penn—Fresh...... 14
IVestern — Fresb, fancy
Fresh, fair to good
Southern—Fresh, per doz....
Western—Ice Bouse
Limed, per doz.,.,,
FRUITS AND BEKR1ES-
Apples—King, per bbl
Spitzenberg, per bbl 2 09
Baldwin, per d. h. bbl.. 2 00
Greenings, per d. h. bbl.
Grapes—Western N. Y., Ca
tawba, 5 lb basket.....
Western N. Y., Concord. —
HOPS.
State—1891, choice, per lb.,.
1891, prime
1891, common to good...
1890, choice, per lb
1890, common to prime..
Old odds
LIVE TOULTRY.
Fowls—Jersey, State, Penn.,
Western, per lb
Chickens, Western
Local, medium to prime
Roosters, old, per lb........
Turkeys, per lb
Ducks—N. J., N. Y., Penn.,
per pair..,.
Western, per pair
Geese, Western, per oair....
Southern, per pair
Pigeons, per pair
DRESSED POULTRY—FRESH KILLED.
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POTATOES AND VEGETABLE?.
Potatoes—Jersey, bulk, bbl.. 75 ig 1 12
State Rose and Hebron,
per ISO lb 1 25 @ 1 31
State,other kinds, 180 lb. 1 00 @ 112
L. I., in bulk, per bbl... 1 62 @ 1 75
Sweet potatoes. Jersey, bbl.. 159 (g 3 0G
Cabbage, L. I. per 1(X> 2 00
Onions—Connecticut,red, bbl 2 25
Orange County, red, bbl. 1 75
Orange County, yellow. —
Eastern, yellow, per bbl. 2 25
Eastern, white, per bbl. 5 09
Squash—L. I., marrow, bbL.
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Turnips, Canada, per bbl.... 60
Celery—Fla., per doz. roots. 60
String beans, Fla., per crate. 4 00
Lettuce. Southern, per bbl.. 1 59
Tomatoes, Fla.,per bush crate. 1 00
LIVE STOCK.
Beeves
Milch Cows, com. to good..
Calves, common to prime..
Sheep. »*•..».•«.• ..........
Lambs
Hogs—Live
Dressed
GRAIN, ETC.
Flour—City Mill Extra......
Patents
Wheat—N o. 3 Red..........
Rye—State
Barley—Two-rowed State...
Corn—Ungraded Mixed
Cats—No. 1 White
Mixed Western
Hay—Good to Choice...
Straw—Long Rye
Lard—City [Steam
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Mink, dar<i, fine. 1
Mink, brown....
Red tox 1
Gray fox
Raccoon, each..
Skunk, black.... 1
Skunk halt strp’a
Skunk, striped..
Skunk, white....
Opossum, large.
Opossum, :ned -.
Muskrat.’ spring
Muskrat, winter.
Muskrat, fall
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Padgett
WILL PAY
THEFREIGHT
■ SAY!
DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU
Can buy any article of
FURNITURE,
Cooking Stoves,
Carpets, Mattings,
Window Shades and
Lace Curtains, Cor
nice Poles,
BABY CARRIAGES,
Clocks, Mirrors, Pic-|
|tures, Dinner Sets,
Tea Sets, Chamber|
Sets, Mattresses,
Comforts, Blankets
and a thousand and
one articles needed
in a house delivered
at your depot at the
same pr ce that you
buy them in Au-I
jgusta?
I CARRY EVERYTHING
You need, and can quote
you prices that will sat
isfy you that I am giving |
a dollar value for every]
dollar paid.
Special Offer No. I
To introduce my business i
neighborhood in tne quickest
manner, I will ship you one Be
Suite complete, consisting of Or
stead, full size and high head
Bureau with glass. One Vv ash i
One Centre Table, Four Cane Seat
Chairs, One Rocker to match, well
worth $20; but to introduce my goods
in your neighborhood at once I will
deliver the above suite at your railroad
depot, all charges paid,
FOE ONLY $16.50,
When the cash comes with the order.
BESIDES this Suite, I have a great
many other Suites in Walnut, Oak,
Poplar, and all the popular woods,
running in price from the cheapest up
to hundreds of dollars for a Suite.
Special Bargain No. 2
Is our elegant Parlor Suite, seven
| pieces, walnut frames, upholstered in
plush in popular colors, crimson, olive,
3lue, old gold, either in banded or in
I combination colors. This suite is sold
for $40.00. I bought a large number of
| them at a bankrupt sale in Chicago,
hence I will deliver this fine Plush
Suite, all charges paid by me, to your
nearest railroad depot, for $33.09. Be-
J sides these suites 1 nave a great many
other suites in all the latest shapes and
styles, and can guarantee to please you.
Bargain No. 3
Is a Walnut Spring
duced from $9 to $7.
Seat Lounge, re-
All freight paid.
E
Special Bargain No. 4
Is an elegant No. 7 Cooking Stove,
trimmed up complete for $11.50, all
charges paid to your depot; or a 5-
hole range with trimmings for $15.
Besides these I have the largest stock
of Cooking Stoves in the city, includ
ing the gauze door stoves and ranges, |
and the CHARTER OAK STOVES!
with patent wire gauze doors. I am
delivering these stoves everywhere, all
freight charges paid, at the price of an
ordinary stove, while they are tar
superior to any other stoves made. Full j
particulars by mail.
109 rolls of Matting, 40 yards to tbe
roll, $5.50 per roll. 1009 Cornice Polls,
25 cents each; 100 Window Shades,
3x7 feet, on spring roller and frigued,
at 37>^ cents each. You mu^t pay
your own freight on Cornice Poles,
Window Shades and Clocks.
Now, see here, I cannot quote you
everything I have got in a store con
taining 22,600 feet of floor room, be
sides its annexes and factory in another
part of the town.
jgsf“I shall be pleased to send you
anvtnirig above mentioned, or will send
my catalogue free if you will say you
saw this aavertisement in The Aiken
Recorder, published at Aiken, S. C.
JgT'No goods sent C. O. D., or on
consignment. I refer you to the editor
and publisher of this paper, or to any
banking concern in Augusta, or to the
Southern Express Co., all whom know
me personally.
Yours, etc.;
L. F. PADGETT,
DYER BU1LDIH8,
805 Broad St.,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
Proprietor Padgett’s Furniture,
Stove and Carpet Stores.
Factory, Harrison St.