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SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY DAY TIKE.
Queer Facts and . ...... Thrilling Adven- ..
tures Which Show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.
“I was chased once by a box-car,”
said an ex-railroad man. “It was out in
Colorado, the land of steep grades and
sharp curves. We day were with sliding down
the mountains one a baggage
car aud two coaches. I was on the rear
platform descried looking at coming the road down when the I
a box-car
grade at a rate of speed that was ap
palling If it struck us we were gone
sure, for it would smash the entH-o tram
into of kindling-wood and pile hope it up in one
the gorges. Our only was to
either outrun or wreck it. The engineer
caught sight of it at the same instant
that I did, and put the lever down
among the tallow pots. “It appeared
impossible that we could hold the track
on the sharp curves while moving more
than a mile a minute, but we did, and
the box-car continued to saw wood. If
■we _could once get to the foot of the
S rade wc ^’ 0 uld be * af ?> but that was
soon seen to , be impossible. continued Rapidly as
we were going the box-car to
gain upon us and now we could see that
it was loaded with iron. Something
must be done and that quickly All the
passengers had tied into the forward
coach, and were hanging on to the seats.
I signalled the engineer to shut off, set a
brake hard on the rear coach, pulled the
pin and the engineer opened the throttle.
We had not gone one hundred yards
before the box-car ran into the coach
and sent splinters flying a quarter of a
mile high. Both went plunging over
into a chasm, aud I hunted up a passen¬
ger who had a pocket-flask, aud rein¬
forced my nerves.”
George Francis Dobson, a Spiritua¬
list, of Muskegon, Mich., has perfected
a scheme, death he thinks, by which ho hopes
at those still to be able to material prove positively
to in the state that
his spirit exists. He went to Pittsburg
a short timo ago and obtained a large
glass be cylinder, air-tight so constructed that it this can
sealed quickly. In
cylinder he has suspended with fine
copper wires two pieces of metal, so
light that they may be brought in con¬
tact with each other by the slightest
motion of air within the cylinder.
Wires pass through the cylinder, one
connected with a battery and the other
with a telegraphic instrument. He has
made arrangements for his friends, just
before the spirit leaves bis body, to seal
him in the cylinder, so that his spirit
may be kept from departing and at the
same time be enabled, by a series of
sfftnatie disturbances of the aT^vithin
CViUvUti!» CJilUnUliiCALu ViVi
friends through the telegraphic iastru
ment. He is dying with consumption,
and the wait public probably will his not experi¬ have
long to for the test of his
ment, If it should prove successful
friends are pledged after three days to
unseal the cylinder and allow the spirit
to depart and then seal up and bury the
remains.
Thomas ^lle.v, a veteran, 103 years
of age, lives in Tyler county, a few
miles above Parkersburg, W. Va. Mr.
Allen is a hale aud hearty man, whom a
casual observer would take to be not
over 70. Every day in the year, rain or
shine, cold or warm, he walks from his
home to tho Post Office, a distance of
three miles, and return. He is the
recipient of many newspapers, dailies
and weeklies, scat him by admiring
friends. Mr. Allen served under the
Duke of Wellington, in the war with
Napoleon; under General Scott, in tho
war with Mexico, and entered and served
in the war of the rebellion on the Union
side. At the time of his last enlistment
he was 72 years old, but his physical had ap¬
pearance so belied his years that he
no difficulty in passing muster as on the
lesser end of 45. The old man has un¬
doubted written evidence not only ofhis
great age, but of his history as a soldier.
He says that the last time he heard from
his father was some time during the last the
war, when he was still living, at
great age of 101 years. His mother died
at tlie age of 89 years. The old man
looks as if he would he able to tackle
another decade or two before “going
over the range. ”
Mrs. Robert Johnson, of Sonoma,
Cal., has 200 high-bred Angora cats, and
three servants devote their entire time
to them. Mrs. Johnson is a widow to
whom money is no object, she being
worth several millions. The San Fran¬
cisco Examiner says that besides the cats
Mrs, Johnson has a lot of other pets.
There are parrots from all over the world.
Cockatoos and paroquets perch on high
stands or fly about the aviary with mad
glee until the place is a feathered pande¬
monium. Then iu another huge which cage
are a large number of canary birds
sing to each other al! the while. Out¬
side the mansion are a lot of kennels in
which dwell some very well-known
prize-winners among dogs. These dogs
are smooth or woolly, large or tiny, and
have two keepers iu charge of them.
Then there are a lot of Japanese donkeys
and some splendid specimens of Holstein
cattle and Jersey cows with soft eyes.
A hundred horses and mares of Elec¬
tioneer stock complete Mrs. Johnson’s
menagerie.
Dcrixo the recent severe weather in
Scotland a very extraordinary shot was
made by e .ur . -banes Ross s puntsman. ,
A large number and ot urUs were seen succeeded si ing ,
on the ice, the puntsman
in getting xwtmn a ou six y yar » o* j
of the bir _
them, bome s ro e as e ^ n
was fired but the total number killed bv .
the dischirge was 14J, they inch der
several species, but the majori y were
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doubtbM rendered much more destruc-f
live than it would otherwise nave been.
owing to the pellets skidding ° alonw on
tue the flat flat surface surtace of ot the tne ice ict. j
A terrible wolf story is reported
from Belgrade bv the Yi<-nna corre-i
spondent of the'London Daily News.
A {wpe was driving in a sledge in broad !
from'Svilajuay daylight with hi* younsr man servant
to Svilajuar, wood. when a herd The
of wolves burst out of a
V v f flretl into tli^ i orol^c a . and one*
dropped dead, while the others ran away.
The pope was anxious to secure his
booty, and with the servant went to
fetch the wolf. As he dropped it into
the sledge the horses, who were tremb¬
ling on account of the wolves, shied and
ran awav. The pope cried totheservaut:
i*You must catch the horses or else we
are both lost. My rifle is iu the sledge.”
The young man ran for dear life, but it
took him a long time to catch the
frightened animals. When he had driven
back with them to the spot where he left
the pope lie found the topboot* with legs
and feet in them, blood-stained tattered
clothes, aud the long gray heard of his
master.
There alighted f from a southbound
tra!n at Kai sas C itv, oldest Mo., one day re
H per h a ps the married couple
itt Missouri. Thev were Mr. and Mrs.
Q w Quick c of A pp ‘ ieto „ C itv, and they
were 0 „ their way jo Rich Hill with
lheir ’ w IL Quick. their home,
with all its conteuts , llt Appleton City,
having been destroyed bv fire. The old
entlelnan was tX)ni in Albemarle county,
in 1794 aud has voted for ever y
I)0m ;, K . 0 o{ tl)0 Democratic party for
p res j f ] en t his first vote being east for
j ames Monroe. He came to Missouri in
^is youth, and was married to his wife
on his 21st birthday. She was born in
Bowlin £ „ Green, Ky., ninety-six with rears her
” 0 a d came to Missouri
‘ nts wllen ahe was 0ldv two years of
Both Mr and Mrg . Q uic k have
b e 0n members of the Methodist Epis
c0 1 , Church South nearly sixty years,
A passenger train on the B. and O.
ran into Woodstock, AY. Va., a day or
two ago with a milch cow standing cud on
the engine’s pilot, chewing her as
placidly and calmly as if that mode of
travel Was an ordinary affair of daily
occurrence. The engineer saw distance a cow
standing on the track a short
ahead of the train when about a mile
out of the to-wn, aud as it was impossible throttle
to stop the train he opened animal the with rush,
wide and went at the a
expecting to knock it entirely off the
track. Instead of being thrown off from her
the track the pilot lifted the cow
feet, and the momentum of the traiu
carried her up on the engine's pilot,
where she was lodged train safely and without
injury when the lifted came off she to walked a stop.
AVhen tho cow was
away quietly and unconcerned.
Some interesting notes have been con¬
tributed to a North Borneo newspaper
by Mr. Crcagb, the Governor of British
North Borneo, respecting a recent visit
made by him to the island of Banguey.
There he found a tribe of Dusuns differ¬
ing widely in language, religion, and
customs from other tribes bearing that
name. in Marriages the are performed families. iu the
forest presence of two
There The rite is consists no public in <transferring gathering or feast. drop
a
(jftWu » v. : liVOfcatWit xi
a wooden knife in the calf of the man’s
leg to a similar cut in the takes woman’s the bride leg.
After marriage where the he man resides in future
to her home,
as a member of tin family.
Six miles south of Sedalia, Mo., a
singular cyclonic phenomenon noticed was in
visible. A small cloud was
the northwest, moving in a southeasterly
direction, whirling and twisting like a
writhing serpent. Immediately in front
of the cloud was a monster crane, which
was being borne along by the force be¬
hind it, and in apparent enjoyment of
the situation until it encountered a tree
and was killed, and the tree snapped in
twain an instant later.
One of the queerest railroads on this
continent is the Salisbury and llavey, in
New Brunswick. It is but twenty miles
long, and, although it connects with the
Inter-Colonial road, an admirably con¬
structed line, it Is confessedly unsafe.
A printed notice hung up in the cars
cautions passengers that it is well to get
out and walk on reaching a certain
bridge, and it was long the custom to
push the cars over this crazy structure
before the mighty engine was trusted
upon its rotting timbers.
A remarkable curiosity, showing the
durability of Washington cedar, can be
seen on the Austin ranch on Lake What¬
com, Washington. It is a cedar log two
feet in diameter, over which lias grown
a spruce tree four feet in diameter. Over
the main root of this and directly over
the log is another cedar tree three feet
in diameter. All the trees, including
the log, are perfectly sound. The log
has probably lain there several hundred
years.
The Empress of Austria, w ho is making
a tour in Spain, is extracting a good
deal of amusement hy following the
practice of the good Haroun al Rascheel
and hobnobbing with very humble folk,
A little while ago Her Majesty w ent
into a confectioner’s shop iu Seville
followed by a poor woman begging.
The Empress made the woman sit down
at the table and eat cakes with her,
chatting freely all the while.
Fish-hatching in China is sometimes
under a setting hen. A.dt some days
s warm emu sun.' tied In to wate r well warmed
bv tbe There the little fish are
nursed beTurnedffitoalake until thev are strom* enough to
or stream
An illicit distiller, named Charles
Carroll, of Buchanan County, Ya., was
pursued by revenue officers, and took
' The officers
refu „ c j n a Tacan t barn.
y no idea that he was concealed therein,
an(J „ the , canje jn si(?ht o{ it| one 0 f
t | jem laid a wager that he coaid put a
bullet through a knot-hole in the door,
He fire<l and a groan followed thc re
port Carroll had his eye at the hole
aad rcce j ved his death wound.
Socicrt .. a.**** m>s’-fer-t-eatini? !>«“., ™
interestni ii a
match which took place a few nights
a^o. The feet had been nicely boiled ■
by a good housewife and cash prizes
were offered to those who should devour
tfae j t number . Fiat prize went second to .
a maa who ate ten of the feet and
f 0 a hoy who disposed of eight.
.
Mb. Ginn, the Iread of a well-known
publishing house in Boston, has a benevo
lent streak in his nature not often mani
fested in bunnesg in quite the same w
Ly oth^r Tn^n. ha^ 5 numt^r
( KAWFORPVILLE, UA. « If AY, APRIL 21, 1893.
young women in bis employ, and keep,
it barrel of apples in bis establishment
where they can get access to it ; and no
matter how freely they help themselves,
the barrel never gets empty.
The newspapers of Santa Clara,
Mexico, report the recent death of Senora
Dolores Machado, of Mieuoz, who resided
at Quemado, Ililario. She had attained
her 118th year; aud she left fourteen
children, fifty-one grandchildren, 120
great-grandchildren and forty-eight oldest
great-great-grandchildren. Her
daughter is 101 years old.
Mr. Samvel Harmon, of Fox Hill
Penn., claims that he has eaten in the
last twenty years 3,650 pies. half 11 pie is regu¬ each
lar consumption has been a
day. Mr. Harmon declares that he has
never known what dyspepsia is like, and
his neighbors and townspeople say he is
a man of truth and veracity.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
A French statistician has been making curious
and lias published some rather
calculations as to tlie height existence. of man Ilis at
various periods is that of humanity his the
contention at com¬
mencement of its career on the globe
averaged 1(5 feet 0 inches in height. had
At the time of Charlemagne it
dwindled down to 8 feet 8 inches.
At present the average height is 5
feet 4 inches, and iu the year 4000
the height of man will be in inches.
Showing the forethought in nature of
decreasing the size of man; as if he mul¬
tiplies so largely, more space will be re¬
quired and there would not he room for
all even now were man to be close on 17
feet high.
Says an amateur iu astronomy: “One
of the most startling facts that I have
learned about other worlds than ours,
and one that brings tho immensity of
the sun before the mind in an impres¬
sively practical way, is this: that if the
earth were placed at the centre of the
sun, and the moon should retain the
same relative position it now has, the
distance from the earth to tho moon
would be only a little more than half tho
distance from tlie centre of tlie sun to its
circumference—that is, the entire orbit
of the moon, 480,C00 miles in diameter,
is not much more than half the size of
tlie sun, which is over 8i>0,000 miles in
diameter. It seems to me that nothing
can convey to the mind an idea of the
immensity of some tilings in the universe
aud the smallness of others—our earth
for example—in a more practical of simple way
than this plain facts.” statement
astronomical
The announcement was made some
time ago, and created no little interest,
of the invention of a tool by which
sculptors and others engaged granite in thecarv could
of marbi'* alone. o<-
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borious handiwork. The details of this
mcchuuieisnq as recently given, show
that it is worked by two or three cells <>f
storage battery, giving four to six volts
and eight to ten amperes of current.
The device weighs about six pounds, the
and is provided with a plunger, ra¬
pidity of stroke being regulated by a
button on the side of the tool; the
stroke can also be made to vary from
one-eight of an inch to one inch, at a
speed varying from 300 to G00 strokes
per minute. Instead of having to strike
the tool itself, the operator needs only
to guide its movements, and is thus
able not only to accomplish the work
much more rapidly, hut to give greater
attention to tlie working out of the de¬
sign. Although six pounds is the heav¬
iest tool thus far constructed, it is
claimed that the widely principle extended of flic and ma¬
chine can he ap¬
plied to very many purposes, from the
most delicate sculpture to the heaviest of
granite drilling and mining; it is found
particularly useful for the carving of let¬
ters and similar work, where it is neces¬
sary to follow accurately straight or
curved lines.
How Mall Clerks Assist (lie Memory.
The railway postal clerks have a unique which
method for learning the routes on
post offices are located. Take, for ex¬
ample, the State of Pennsylvania, in
which there are over 5,1)00 offices, Hie
prospective mail distributer buys a
quantity of blank cards—about tho size
of an ordinary visiting card—and on
each of these he writes the name of an
office. On the back of the card he writes
the name of thS route by which the office
i s served with its cards—say mail. Taking from in hand
a pack of these 50 to
Id0—he goes over them one after another
studiously, looking ot the hack each time
and getting the name and route clearly
associated in his mind. The second time
},e goes through the pack he finds that
he knows the half of the routes by read
; n g the name of the office. It is a dull
student who, upon going over a pack them of
cards a dozen times, does not know
thoroughly. The method h so simple it is
and such an aid to memorizing that
0jj aJ{ )argfl routes clerks work but half
timc > thc oth, ' r half b ‘' in K devoted torest
“d study. The rna.l clerk at home,
continually reminded of coming examin
at ions, carries his cards wherever he goes,
running demonstrative them over at clerk" every opportunity, the New
One on
York and Pittsburgh R. P. O. is famed
f or having learned the State of Ohio in
four days. As he shuffled over his cards
he walked from £ garret to cellar, and vice
v , rsa> from daw untH the shade, of twi
lierht fell. On the fourth day he went to
the examiner's office and separated Ohio
without an error.
it is related that the wife of a postal
c i er k adopted tbe card method for in
....... ia French. «.
noe * I,je of tfle wd* she wrote the
French word and on ithe: other the Lag
ish equivalent to be learned. Another
lady, hearing of this, used the same s\s
tf ' m successfully for learning mythol g,,
“ Ma ™> f » r ,^stance,
00 ol J e side of the card, a .d war on
the other. I he method has so many a< -
vantages over the old ami tedious way of
learning from the pages of i I*ook that it
might he utilized with advantage by
toKhers in search of new methods of im
rting instniction.—[Philadelphia Bar;-
TELEGRAPHIC L ■Ik S|
The News ot the World coi i t
Pithy and Pointed pan
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Classes of Rcfl.V 1
- — i NBmL. iHowed 3
No more imtn’grants N. S ’ being
to laud at Halifax,
fumigated. :
•A letter received in from
Tippo Tib’s son confirn a irport his of
the death of Emin Pasha d all goo
pj ‘ e Ration
Eu fi cn>ive!lv ticasur f the
al Federation of A meric- the w home
113,000 :.,i ’ to Justin McCar 9; -
fll , ld • 9' Jit
Hjg*: involving.
ed the entire fountain s<
a loss of $200,000.
A New York special c p ; tsday says:
Messrs. Drexel, Morgan ‘
-■
cepted the reorganizath *fhe Rich
inond Terminal company
The Eagle tvooleu mil! Hubbards
town, Mass., were total! JStroyal by
fire early Tuesday mornir. The Cause
is unknown. The loss is l t%f75,000 ' to
#100 000
A dispatch from Broo «Y«, N. V,
says: The planing mills, '! ber yards
and stables of Voorhis ifc <*> • 011 Newton
creek, were destroyed by . Thursday
morning. Sixteen Valua hotges were
burned to death. 1 Th total loss is
$150,000.
A Boston special of j-iday says Ha¬
waiian Minister M *t b. Rjh who is in
9 0 ® ' R ov
Boston, says that ine p ■M " 11
eminent of Hawaii will appeal to
England or Germany f<f support, aud
that each of these natio: 3 stands ready
to respond to any overt a P3 -
Reports front differ < sections^ of
Michigan, shows th»t th torm of M od
day night prevailed all -e the southern
portion of the state, leav destruction
aud death in Ls wake, x t .was most
severe ______ iu tlie southwesue u portion «herc
most of the damage was lone and several
lives lost.
A New York special e Monday says:
Another act ion has just een htrself begun the by
Eva Mann, the wom .n . ding
lawful widow of RC H*.V Ham¬
ilton, to recover what si® Maims to ho
her rights. The latter, aonsists of her
dower interest in tho I p assemblyman s
estate, amounting to o-'t $130*000.
A Ni w York dispute of Wednesday
says: The Atlantic ‘dual Insurance
Cnmpany has begun t r * u f? holders of
insursuce policies on V.klCh H'i* ,
Liverpool i have V* - given lost. The
companies ■r up as
cargo was valued Ht $ >0,000 The ves
sel itself was insured 1 tho White Star
Com; any’s reserve fun
A special from Little Rock says: An¬
other terrible hail and rain storm pre¬
vailed in Arkansus TV r-dny night, do¬
ing great damage to I. uses and fences.
Hull in large quantii r came with ter¬
rible force. Report ; >m bottom lands
are that an overflow is eminent at
Lonoke. A numbe f stores were un¬
roofed. A family i tied Hill, consist¬
ing of six members, residing in Ashley
county, were killed i the recent cyclone.
Among other securi i s, the New York
stock exchange, on '-Vudi esday, listed
$5,700,000 Met. mb Trust Company
certificates Savannah of deposit V. issued first in exchange consoli¬
for and tern
dated mortgage 5 pet cent bonds of the
Central Railroad and Banking Company
of Georgia and $3,00 iidated ,000 capital stock
and $2,000,000 cm. first mort
gsgc 5 per cent, twenty-five year gold
bonds of 1018 of the Detroit Gas Com
pany. The exchange will be closed
Thursday, April 27th
The A. S. Holmes Oil Refinery Com¬
pany, at Buffalo, N. Y., covering twelve fire
acres of ground, w > destroyed by
Thursday morning, gethcr with twenty
freight ears and a train of oil ears. Thir¬
ty thousand barrels < oil were also burn¬
ed. The fire was started by an engine
dropping coals in some oil which was
running on top of water in a little oi'ch.
The wind blew the fl imes into the works
and an explosion U wed. Three fire¬
men were slightly inj ured by one of the
explosions. The lot? will be heavy.
A meeting of ttn pid city transit com¬ held
mission of New York was
Tuesday afternoon, The session was
understood ti be ch: fly for the purpose
of hearing John M. Bowers’ opinion build- on
tbe legality of the f florae for tbe
ing of the undergo .rid road, proposed
by R. T. Wilson A: Co,, the bankers,
Ou Saturday list they proposed to raise
$15,000,000 of prw$« capital and have
the city lend its or< ’ tor $35,000,000
additional capital, and then 1. Iu the
road at their estims d cost of $ >0,000,
000. _____
BEHRING F A MATTERS
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The American Side Presented.
A Paris cable dispatch sais: Upon tin
resumption of the sitting of the Bobrina
SC a court of arbltr tion Thursday Mr.
James C. Carter continued the presents
ijon of the American side of the cast
commenced Wednesday. He read let
j ( f . r3 bearing upon the question at issue,
gen t fly Mr. Blsine when secretary of
state to fiir Julian Poncefote, the British
1 minister st Washiri *on, and commented
. “‘“n them.
this point Senator John L. Morgan,
one “nited of the arbitrator* on the part of the
1 State* inquired of whether convention Canada
h>!( ) approved the draft a
i t efor , j ord Salisbury !»-««. had made his sug
■*,*. .o >
nuestion was left to a discussion, tn
j whjc li Mr Cartel Fir Charles Russeit,
of Counsel for <.-ea*. Britain; bir John
qkompson, of Ca aas, one of the at hi
traUrs, and Senator Morgan took part,
reflected oi.ort.
Teacher—What is a hero’
Tommy—Tho who marries a he
•oioe.
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lx East. Prussia a irger area of land than
usual is being cu rated to sugar beet*,
9 ^ log to tbe Tow j re of grain.
THE GOVERNORS MEET.
Organized in Convention at
mond—Tlie Proceedings.
A Richmond, Va , special siys:
Promptly at 12 o’clock Wednesday Gov¬
ernor McKinney, of Virginia, entered the
chamber at the bead of the southern
. u t es were consumed in shaking hands
and introductions. Governor McKinney,
^ 8 tj|] standing on tho floor, rapped the
b ody lo order and said: “Gentlemen, it
’• is a time honored custom iu Virginia to
open all deliberative bodies by asking
God’s blessing.” He then called upon
Mir. Nelson who offered a brief hut ter
prayer, at the close of which the
govcrnig; proceeded to deliver a brief
l JUt w p'come to the visitors say
mg that be wished tins would be a work
-mg and not a talking body.
I* He then nominated Governor Fish
^^ ^srrxrTssj* drew - '
{ , athrrillg of !he convention
* large crowd of spectators, w ho filled
j| u . gtllH te gallery and the space in the
chamber outside of the railing. B> sides
ifcuvvrnor McKinney them were present
Gnveruor Fishbank, of Arkansas, who
origitiatcd the convention movement;
Governor Fo-ter, of Louisiana; Uovernor
Brown, of Maryland; Governor Jones,
of Alabama; Governor Carr, of North
Carolina; au<f Governor Stone, of Missouri,
Governor Tillman ofSouth Caro
Ima. The other states represented b,
Tepm-sseo delegates were and Vest Georgia, Virginia. .Mississippi, Iven
tucky, Texas and Florida were not rep
resented.
SECOND DAY.
Thflf convention of southern governors
was called to order Thursday morning by
President Fishback. The committee on
peymanegt organization reported through
Governor McKinney, recommending that
the temporary officers be made perma¬
nent, and that, upon all questions before
the convention, each state shall bcenti
tledjto one vote, to bo cast by the gover¬
nor, atifl if he lie not present, by one of
the delegates from the state, selected by
the Teflteseutatives. This was ad p ed.
Governor C>.rr, c f North Carolina, offer¬
ed the following resolutions, which, un¬
der th&niles, was referred: ami
First. hi order that work may he now
hereBeaun, it ia recoommoiulccl that tho rov
eniors of these states ppoint several persons,
one to Investigate caiefully ouch one on tlie
following suWeets in it h relations to immigra¬
tion to that Rtk tn Direct trade, lals r and . ni
ployment, mining, ehma oo.y and health,
advertising and manufuetmfag; and tin so per¬
sons, gtuler th" direction of tlie governor of
that state, shall e i-opcr to with turn in such
immigration work in tie may direct.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
im imlmUM IhiY^IupiW'wt Iluvlng
tlie Past
Tbe review of tin- in<!n trial nituatiori in
south for tho past wook hKowh indvistrioR tho following
among tho important now oHtab
lishod for tho ho yen dayn. 'J ho l ox.au City Im¬
provement company, of Oalventon, Texan,
capi al f2,000,000; flu electric plant to cont
$ 00,000 at Iiumingh'im, iioston, Ma , l>y th.* General
Electrical company, of Muhh, ; the KIk
ItlverC’oal Mining company, of rhurlonton,
W. V., capital $30,000. a brewery with $225,000
capital at Mid ilcHomough, Kv., by tlm Nett
ftou h Brewing and Iue company; the Lyon
Manufacturing. O., of Louinville, Ky., capital
$ 100 , 000 ; the National Machine company, hIho
of Louisville, capital 9100.090; a cotton mill
fit JoneBVillo, K. C., to ront $59,0( 0, by T. I-.
HuinuR und MHHOciatfH; a hair-4 factoiy w.tli
$50,000 capital at IIiotory, MIhf., I»y tho Hto
venflon Murmfuo bring company; a cooperage
company at Abi- land, Ky., capital $50,IKK), hy
the National Htave and Loop*rage company,
and a $40,000 j ottery at Now Decatur, Ala,, by
the Potter*' Flint oemp/ny.
Thirty-BO von now industries w< re ob abliihed
or incorporated during the week, three ujKtcma
of waterworks, find 14 new buildingB.
Among tho new in hmtrien not already re¬
ferred to are a brewery at Wheeling, W. Va.;
brick and pottery worka coating ck at
Galveston, T« x.. by the Lnt rpn«e lir and
Pottery Co.; u dMiiilery ut Covington, Ky.; an
electric lighting p'antnt Donaldson vile, La. ;a
roil 1 r pr eepji flou in ' mill at White Pjna/J onn.,
and an ic • factory at 1-aGrange, i ex. A 25 ton
charcoal furnace ih reported at liivervidc, Ala-;
foun :ii h and machine Hhop* at. A*h ville, N.
C., WiiliH, lex., and Montgomery, W. Va.;an
irrigation company ut In-cob Gity, Tex., and
ochr** works on a large scale ut GarteiBVilIo,Ga.
T1 6**o are altto reporter! a $30,00 0 cotton seed
oil mill ftt Palestine, Tex >«, by the PahatiiK
Cotton 8 ed Oil f 'o.; cot ton m lln at Morgan-
11 n and BlH'-y, N* and Mount Pleasant, H.
(L, and a woolen mill at Newberry Mdia, the Va.
Among the woodworking plants of week
are a barrel factory at Collin 1 *. Ky., La.; furnitnra
factories at Middlesboroiigh. mil's and Charles¬ Kiv
ton, W. V».; and Mtw and planing li Ilock. at
CTH lde arnl Gieenfebo'O, Ala., h< k Ark.,
Jacksonville, Fla., Orangeburg, h. C., Bristol,
Term, an*! Quran City, T< uh.
Wa er works am to be estahlisherl at Cull¬
man, Ala., and TnlJaboma/D n«., and enlarge I
at P< tersburg, Va. 'ihe new bu Idin*/» include
husinrss hoii8«8 at Atlanta, Os., Louinville,
Ky., Houston and Han Marcos. 'Jexan; court
houses a* Klberton, Oa„ and Wsynesboro,
Miss.; a public hall at <’harlcston. B. C.; hotels
a* Atlfliita, Ga-, New Orleans, La., and Mont
vile, Va , and school buiidingH at Greenville,
T« no., and Port Lavaca, I exas.*—Tradesman,
fChattanooga Term )
PERU APOLOGIZES
For Ihe Outrage Perpetrated on One of
Our Consular Agencies.
A Washington special <»f Monday says:
The Peruvian government has taken the
initiatory steps toward complying with
the demands of the United States that
reparation be made for the outrage com
mitted on one of its consular agencies in
Peru. It was not until Monday morning
that the name of the place attacked,
which was omitted in the first dispatch
from Minister Hicks notifying Secretary
Gresham of the affair, was made known
to the state department. The informa
tion was contained in a cablegram from
Minister Hicks, stating that the consular
agency is at Mollendo, Peru, and that in
answer to the demand for satisfaction
made by the administration the govern
ment of Peru immediately removed the
tub-prefect of the department in which
Moffendo is situated, and promised and, to
provide suitable reparation; fur
therinore, that the government has ex
pressed its regrets for the occurrence,
This information is entirely eatisfac
lory to the United States government.
The name of the consular agent at
Mollendo, which is omitted from the dis¬
patches received from Minister Hicks, is
William R. Griffith. He was appointed
from Pennsylvania, March 30, 1889.
Nc new* has been received by Secretary
Gresham concerning the reported consulate out¬ ic
rage airainst a United States
Bolivia.
THE FIGHT IS ON.
The Crisis in Central Railroad Attain
Has Been Readied
The Richmond Terminal People Ask
for Mr. Comer’s Dismissal.
A great surprise was sprung on the
United States court at Savannah Tues¬
day afternoon, when, without any warn¬
ing whatever, Henry Crawford, of New
York, attorney for tlie Richmond Term¬
inal, addressed the court and stated that
he had just filed two motions. One
asked that Receiver Comer of the Cen¬
tral systi m be discharged and all con¬
tracts under the receivership be annulled
on tho grond of illegality. The other
moved that the order of Judge Speer in
regard to the reorganization committee
authorizing loans to the Central be set
usieiu on the ground that said orders
were imprudent, irregular had and erroneous
and that the court no jurisdiction
whatever in the cause to enter such
orders and that tho same are entirely void.
Tbcso motions were filed under the
Itowena Clarke bill, which placod the
Central in the bauds of a receiver.
The ease of the Central Trust company
vs. the Central railroad had been called
before Judge Pardee and everything was
progressing calmly when these motions
wore read and foil like a thunder clap on
the lawyers assembled.
Judge II. B. Tompkins made an argu¬
ment for the Central Trust company,
asking the appointment of an independ¬
ent receiver Ur tlie Savannah and West¬
ern on the ground that it was a competi¬
tive system with the Central and hail not
been properly managed by tho receiver.
Ho watt answered on behalf of tho Cen¬
tral by Captain Cunningham, who said
that tho interests of the Centra! and the
Savannah and Western were mutual aud
affidavits were produced showing in that
there was with no competition except con¬
tho same roads.
TAKEN BY BUHI’ltlSB.
This argument, however, becAtno of
when the Ic.rminal . , ,
minor importance I
people sprung their motions. Mr. W.
G. Oaknian, receiver, and llenry Craw -1
lord, attorney for tlie terminal, crtirui
down from New York Monday night and
until tho case was sprung no one knew |
anything about their mission, which I
had an air of mystery about it.
When Mr. Crawford addressed tho
court and read the two mo
lions under the Itowena Clarke bill above
outlined, Judge Pardee slraiglrtcnod up
to listen to every utterance and every
eyo in th" court wag intent upon tho
speaker. Mr. Crawford said ho appear
ed to represent the Richmond Terminal
r ,vy, which owned 42,000 shares of |
ni i ,1 at wok th if. h oi been disfran¬
chised by that court T iuva.jpA. • tv.
3(strict court with BCtutg iu
ship with tho reorganization committee
and said the court ad no Corporation. right to ap
point a receiver for a sAlrent
“Tho proceeding whereby « district
judge takes charge of nu interstate sys¬
tem of railroad*,” said ho, precedent. “aro most
unusual and entirely without
The property has been illegally and im¬
properly administered—under authority
of the court and its receiver—and orders
have been r> “hi d which will not hear
the test of i.vu igatlon, and are illegal
from beginn eg to end. I refer to the
order authorizing the receiver to borrow
money without stating in the, petition
to tho court to what use the money
was to be put. But most unusual of ull
was the order authorizing the receiver to
contract a loan witii the Hollins syndi¬
cate, and making it contract that the syn¬
dicate could negotiate collateral securi¬
ties belonging to tho Central Railroad
Company ns soon ns its bonds fell due if
they were not paid. Tbl? order was most
unusual and without precident. and arid wo
shall move that it lie annulled tho
receiver discharged.” Mr. Crawford was
in the midst of his argument when the
court adjourned until Wednesday morn¬
ing.
The United , at btate. . court „ • room „ was
crowded to the extent of its capacity
tVcdne-day morning, everybody continuation waiting
«P*cUnoy to hear the
of the sensational speech of Mr. Craw
ford, attorney for the Richmond lerrm
aal. who was expected to make some
pretty strong charges. He continued his
argument on the motions already intro¬
duced stating that the receiver of
the present day manages collusion property af¬
ter liis own fashion in with the
courts. He began a criticism of Judge
Speer’s actions, but was interrupted by
Judge I'artee who prohibited him he from said
luither criticising Judge Speer as
the action of the district judge was not
germane to the discussion. Au arrange¬
ment will be made by the attorneys to
set a date for the hearing of the motion
to discharge the receiver before Judge
1'ardec at New Orleans at an early date.
BIG DEAL IN IRON.
T he Mahoning Valley Interests Form a
Combination.
A special of Thursday from Youogs
J town, Ohio, says: Tbe consolidation of
I the vast iron int rests of the Mahoning
: valley, including all the mills of
Youngstown an i those at Girard,
Pomeroy and Warren, will no doubt be
completed within the next few days.
New Y> rk capitalists arc in the city now
to close up the big iron deal. The con
solidathm will include properties of the
Union Iron and Steel Company, con
trolling Cartwrights,the Youngstown,Gi- The
rard, Warren and Pomeroy mills.
Brier Hill Iron and Coal Company, the
Yi ungstown Steel Company, thc
Brown-Bonnell Iron Company, Ma
honing Valley Iron Company, Andrews
Brothers’ Company, At drews-ILtcbcock
Company and tbe big plant of the Ohio
j [ Steel Company. The traufer between of $7,000,* these
properties will involve
j 000 aud $10,000,000.
Always keep posted on nil public mat¬
ter-, to be able to do this subscribe now.
A man in Wolfe County, Kentucky,
has been disfranchised for life for sailing
hi* vote.
Advertise in rids | aper and thus in
( 1 ■ • ! -• your business.
NO. 34-
A COAL MINE HORROR.
Huudredu of Men Entombed aud Great
Loss of Life.
A London cablegram of Tuesd.y says:
A spark from an engine ignited a and gas
coal pit near Pont-y-I'ridd, Waes,
caused the gas to explode. A large num¬
ber of miners were at work at ihe time,
and the explosion caused terrible havoc.
Three hundred miners are entombed in
the mine. The engine house is in Amies
and there is the greatest fear that hun¬
dreds may have perished. The rescuers
who went down were driven back with¬
out being able to bring more than five of
the (lend and the fate of the other miners
is iu doubt. The most agonizing scenes
are witnessed and throngs of men, below— women
and children—relatives of those
are crowded about the mouth of the coal
pit.
WORK OP RESCUE.
At the entrance of the shaft, a rescu¬
ing party as formed by the the pit survey¬
or. The pai ij wot ss far as landing
at the scam where t’ e fire started but
were driven back almost immediately by
the dense smoke issuing from tho seam.
Tho surveyor took his men lu ck to tho
surface. After a half hour’s rest they
went down again aud forced their way
ten yards into the workings. They found
four dead which they brought back with
them. Attempt to go further into the
workings were vain, as the woodworks
were burning and 1 .rge masses i f ruins
were falling incessantly from the roof.
One of the l-escuiug party who ventured
too fur was killed.
LATEST NEWS OP THE DISASTER.
The latest news from Port-y-Pridd is
to the effect that the fire in the mine has
been quenched. still The xious fumes of gas, drive how¬
ever, are so n as to out
those who undertake to explore the mine
iu search of the dead and for the rescue
of those who might be living. Many of
the explorers are suffering severely from
the effects of the smoko and deadly gases
which they encountered. Further search
will be necessary to ascertain the full ex¬
tent of tho calamity,
FIFTY THREE CORPSES.
At 11 o’clock Wednesday evening, tho
pit had become so cool that three explor
jng parties were able to descend and go
tuQU distance into the seam, they found
three dead men, but discovered no trace
0 f main Ho<ty of miners, who were
cut from ,, Rca .|, y t | 1<: fl imcs .
Up t( , 3 ( ,v,ock Thursday morning, from
fifty.three corpses had been tsken
j| 1( , , )d Searching parties had f und no
g j„ n that any of the missing miners were
glH1 a)lTC Tho h, d j cg 0 f eleven men
W( . re huddled behind a door, ns if they
sought shelter there from a hurricane of
fiery sparks sweeping by. Other bodies
w( , re found in the return a rways where
t[ lf , victims were caught doctor while has probably
tr -j n „ t() C ienpe A exam
inud th „ | )adit . H and reports that all of
tho vi'-tlm* (JieiJ of suffocation, The
tMUmhiffui, q»rtif- are of found tho O'J’UHOU'LiW under the
ot h e r hoflics will ho
. )des 0 [ )yhig everywhere in the
i m j ue
Workmen on (lie World’s Fair Build*
lugs Have a Walk-Out;
In obedience to the order of the Build¬
ing Trades Council, 4.000 union me¬
chanics, employed at the World’s Fair
grounds did not go to work Monday
morning. The trades ornamental represented iron are
carpenters, hod painters, carriers, tin and shy :’ iron
workers, cornice work*/! etc.
workers, lathers, i <d plas¬
The bricklayers, stone cutters
terers are not included.
T he men claim that the Council ot Ad¬
ministration of the World’s Fair has
broken faith with the allied trnues upon
the arbitration question. The men are
quiet, hut as fust as workmen auptoached
they were taken in hand liy \ md
requested not to go to work. interested Probably
eighty per cent of tho trades
did not work. During the morning a
messenger was sent from the administra
tion building inviting the representatives The ia
of the strikers to a conference.
vitation was at once accepted. the
U was 10 o’clock at night when
meetin h „ between the council of adraiuis
trBtilJlJ Hn(1 the representatives ol tho
bui|di , rades C0U ncil came to an agree
men t which iw to continue throughout
the entire iL period of the exposition, and
uoder wh 'urther trouble is impossi
b|# qho men received the format con
cession of a minimum rate of wages and
yielded to the demand of the exp sition
officials that they may employ any labor nmu
whether he is a member of any or¬
ganization or not. looking toward
The first step peace
was made when a committee of the
strikers submitted to the world’s fair
council the following council proposition: will That to
if the world’s fair agree
submit tbe dill rence* between the men
and the exposition to arbitration at 4
o’clock p. tn., April 12th, the building
and trades council will order the men
back to work at once pending the result
of arbitration. The budding and trades
council binds itself to abide by the deci¬
sion of the arbitrator*. One arbitrator
is to be selected by the building and
trades council, one by the world’s fair
management aud a thir 1 by the two.
A BUILDING WRECKED
Aud a Number of People Go Down iu
the Bains,
xb rre was au explosion in tbe Sals Ca
] a dia Company’s mills in Mat arc, Spain,
Wednesday. The roof of the building
w39 h] owu 0 ff aad struck the ground
mor8 than a hundred yards from the
I j f ouuda tioas. The walls were rent and
most 0 f ihe flooring torn up. All the
1 pi ed by the at work
mpn tnl 0 j men were
w h e n the explosion occurred. Most of
t h em went down in the wreck. The
W ork of rtscue was begun at once. The
de#d bodies of nine workmen and the
manager have been removed from the
ruins so f» r
A Missouri Cyclone.
Meager particulars were received Tues¬
day of a cyclone at Page Gity, Mo. Three
people were killed and a large number in¬
jured. The most terrific hailstorm that
has been known in that section for years
visited St. Louis Tuesday night at 8
o’clock. The falling stone* hit upon the
skylights with sufficient force in many
ins'ances to break th-m. _ .
