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GEJSERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS,
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
The government of Brazil has re
arlopted the old flag.
A artin Earquhar Tapper, the author,
f is dead; aged 79 years.
I served Thanksgiving throughout day was generally ob
the country.
midland A heavy snow storm prevails in the
, counties of England.
White’s drapery establishment at Al
dershot, Emu., was burned Thursday.
, Loss
is £10U,000.
There are 7,500 dockmen and lighter
men on a strike at Bristol, Eng. The
trade of the port is paralyzed,
Q ue 0 j tbc buildings ” of the Hartford,
: Cou et workg va9 burned Friday.
Loss * m ’ 000 < iasuvaDC,j * 1W «°°°.
Frederick Douglas has arrived at
Hayti, presented his credentials, and has
* ecu tendered a reception by the presi
dent.
An explosion took place in a colliery
at fourteen Bochum, Prussia, Thursday, in which
persons were killed and four in
jured.
The Duke of Cumberland will insti
tute suits in French courts to nullify the
will of the Duke of Brunswick on the
ground of insanity.
The Truth building, owned by Frank
Wilson, proprietor of Truth , at Toronto,
Canada, w as gutted by fire Friday. Loss
estimated at $90,000.
The chamber of deputies at Rome,
Italy, the on Saturday, voted urgency foi
consideration of the bill to abolish
anti-French differential duties.
The Portugese steamer Alegoas, with
ex-Emperor Dom Pedro and his party on
board, arrived at St. Vincent Saturday.
All members of tbe party are well.
In Salt Lake, Utah, Judge Anderson
has denied the application of those
Mormons who have taken endowment
oath for admission to citizenship.
King Leopold, of Belgium, has sent a
telegram to Henry M. Stauley, congrat
ulating him upon the completion of his
task, and inviting him to visit Brussels.
The strike among ;he employes of the
Western Railroad company, at Paris,
France, has ended by tbe men yielding
to the terms of the company. The
strikers resumed work.
-^ D 0 ® c i a l statement by the assessors,
P lace ® 1the aS8e83ed Val ? ation th * 8 y ear °J
$1,009,500, and the number of buildings
burned 330.
The Andrew Jackson league, of Chi
cago, have taken measures to aid the
ladies of Nashville Hermitage associa
tion in preserving the home of Andrew
Jackson.
While the collector of tbe Commercial
National bank was counting $2,800 in the
general office of the German-AmericaD
bank at Cleveland^ O., Saturday after
noon, a thief snatched $2,000 and es-
The $5,000,000 world’s fair guarantee
fund at New York, was more than com
pleted Saturday, the grand total is now
$5,028,942. The world’s fair committee
has decided to continue to receive sub
scriptions.
Secretary Kremer, of the flood relief
commission, at Johnstown, Pa., practi
Pa., operated by J. C. Haydon – Co.
Fireman George Peacock, aged twenty
five, was burned to a crisp. The build
i n g is a total wreck.
A Leeohburg, Pa., dispatch says that
estimates of conservative citizens place
the loss by Wednesday night’s fire at
$150,000 to $175,000, with ... about $75,000
insurance. The fire is supposed to have
originated from natural gas. The popu
lation of Leechburg is about 3,500.
Fire started in Keyport, N. J., Fri
day morning in Leyrer’s bakery, which
destroyed five buildings and caused a
loss of over $65,000. Jacob Leyrer was
burned to death, and Mrs. Leyrer and
Jacob Leyrer, Jr., were terribly burned,
and may die.
The Chicago Times says that Maggie
Schreiner, who poured kerosene oil on
her husband on June 25, lb88, and then
set fire to it, burning him fatally, is
suing the order of Foresters for $2,000
Interest and principle, on a death benefit
of $1,000, which she claims as ben
(ficiaryof the dead man’s estate.
President W. W. Young, who, with
Cashier John Hoerr, both of the Law
rence, Mass., bank, were charged with
embezzlement and accepting money from
depositors after the bank was insolvent,
surrendered himself Thursday night and
gave bail m the sum of $2,500 for hear
ing ik xt Wednesday.
Fire broke out in tbe Delavan gas
house at Albany, N. Y., Saturday
morning, communicated and the flames, gaining head
way, to the paper house
pf Jacob Leonard – Son, and the Albany
Casket company. Both were a total
loss. Several other buildings witfe dam
aged, and the loss will reach $75,000.
Corvillain, proprietor of the cartridge
factory at Antwerp, which blew up in
September and killed so many people,
and his engineer, have been convicted of
homicide by imprudence. Corvillain
was sentenced to four years and six
months, and the engineer to one year aud
one month’s imprisonment, and to pay a
fine of 2.500 francs each.
SCHLEY COUNTY STEWS.
the Arrangements Have been made by all
coal operators of the Monongahela
Valley, to close down their mines
indefinitely, as the few works in
demand operation have demonstrated that the
of the miners can not b *. con
ceded, with the price of coal as low as it
is at present. The suspension will effect
5,000 men.
Exports of specie from the port of
New York for the weekended, Novern
tar 30th, amounted to $319,110 of which
$8,047 was in gold, and $31!, 167 in sil
ver. All the silver and $2,300 in gold
went to Europe, and $5,257 in gold went
to South America. Imports of specie
for the week amounted to $195 005, of
which $109,485 was gold and $80,120
silver.
The day after Dom Pedro sailed from
iuo Rio Janeiro Janeiro, tne the provisional nrovUmnal government wovernmenr
of Brazil telegraphed to the Brazilian |
minister, the at Lisbon, directing him upon
general ex-emperor’s arrival to tender him a
reception. The Brazilian colony
here regarded this action as dictated by
delicate consideration on the part of the
provisional government toward Dom
Pedro. ~
hopeless Thursday forenoon John Chana, a
paralytic, aged 35, was found
dead on the floor of his hovel at Potts
town, Pa., with a leather strap loosely
fastened around his neck. Some main
tain that it was suicide, while others say
that it is a case of foul play, though sui
cideisthe generally accepted theory.
Until recently Chana was a fine specimen
of physical manhood. It is related that
ble one day he cursed his creator in a terri
maimer when he fell over, struck
dumb and paralyzed from head to foot.
He remained in this condition until his
death.
BOSTON’S BLAZE.
A HURRICANE OF FLAME DEVASTATING
BLOCKS OF HANDSOME BUILDINGS.
Fire started shortly before 8 o’clock
Thursday morning on the upper floor of
the six-story granite block, Nos. 69 to
87 Bedford street, Boston, Mass., owned
by Jordon, Marsh – Co., and occupied
by the Shoe and Leather exchange,
blown Darrell – Co., Woonsocket
Rubbrr company Solomon, Hebert
– Rapp, John S. u gb r – *
and the branch office of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company on the
ground floor and about fifty offices of
out-of-town boot and shoe and leather
manufacturers on the upper floor. The
fire evidently had complete possession of
the upper floors before it was discovered.
In a short time the flames had leaped
acres* Bedford. Kingston and Columbus
streets, and by 9:15 the handsome brown
stone Ames of Bedford building, on the opposite
comer and Kingston street i,
was amass of fire. An half hour later
the rear of all the buildings on Chauncey
street, on either side of Bedford street,
were on fire, and the fire department was
apparently unable to cope with it. Out
of-town fire apparatus were sent for and
there were probably seventy-five steam
the ers surrounding combined the fire by noon, and by
efforts of the vast
army of firemen and engines,
the tire was finally subdued.
In a three o’clock extra the Globe gives
tke following estimate of the loss: Loss
on buildings destroyed, as per assessor’s
valuation, about $600,000; estimated
damages $200,000, to other buildings, not destroyed
A careful estimate of tbe loss
on merchandise, $1,700,000. Total loss,
Careful estimate of an old assessor,
$2,550,000.
THE BURNED DISTRICT
sex and Columbia streets. Westward
of this, the entire block bounded by
and Bedford, the Kingston and Chauncey stieets
Rowe place, and westward of
Bedford these buildings, on Chauncey street,from
to Exeter place. There are
about 200 firms burned out and 100
agents of New York and western firms
have their headquarters destroyed. The
seventy-nine insurance companies known
to be interested, carry an aggregate in
surance of $2,600,000 on the burned
property. The total loss, according to
the latest conservative estimates, will
reach $4,000,000. Two firemen—Daniel
Buckley, unmarried, and Frank P.
Loker, who has a wife and child, we
missing and are supposed to have per
ished in the flames. A good many peo
pie were injured, several of them ss
nously.
ALDERMEN SENT UP
SEVERAL PROMINENT CITIZENS OF PITTS
BURG, PA., WILL GO TO JAIL.
Aldermen Callan, Dougherty and
Maneese, and Detectives Bauder,
Doyle, Nagle and Bender, convicted
of conspiracy to defraud in accepting
bribes io settle illegal liquor selling
cases, were sentenced Friday morning by
Judge White, of tbe criminal court of
Pittsburg, Pa. Callan got three
years in the woikhouse, and
Doughty one year and Maneese
six months in jail. B inder and his chief
detective each got three years in the
workhouse, Nagle one year and Bender
six months in jail. The aldermen are all
quite stood prominent high and wealthy, and always
in the community. Their
method was to have the detectives enter
suit against settle unlicensed liquor dealers and
then the case for a consideration
without reporting the matter to the
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SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIO US POINTS IN THE SO UTH.
a condensed account of what is going on of
importance in the southern states.
Granville Young, postmaster at Rugby,
Tenn -> has been arrested on the charge
of riflin S letters.
The Debardaleben Coal and Iron com
pany, of Birmingham, Ala., has increased
the pay of miners, at Blue creek mines,
? rom December 40 to 42 J cents P er ton > commenc
mg 1st.
Six cars loaded with 275 negroes passed
£ Pacific ro "g h railroad, Anniston, on Sunday Ala. on night. the Georgia The
were toMiSSiDoi from North Carolina on
^eir way to Mississippi
Ihe will of the late Mrs. Charles
Crocker, of San Irancisco, was filed for
probate Tuesday. She bequeathed her
entire estate, valued at about $11,000,
to ^ er iour children.
The committee which has been inves
tigating late the affairs of the office of the
A. R. Woodson, city collector of
Richmond, Va., have found a shortage in
his accounts of about $45,000.
A furnace company with a capital
stock , of . $30,000, nnn . all „ , held ,, , by , local
ta '>s ls organized Birmingham capi
. was at on
Friday The company will build a one
Hundred ton furnace at once,
A conflict between the States of Vir
ginia and Maryland seems imminent in
consequence of the proclamation of
Governor Jackson throwing open the
dredgers. waters of Hog Island flats to oyster
Bishop Keener, of the Southern Meth
odist church, at Columbia, S. C., on Sat
urday delivered an official utterance con
demning the peculiar doctrine of “holi
ness” which has many adherents in both
Northern and Southern churches.
Peter McLaren, of Canada, purchased
on Friday the Doutha survey, contaiu
ing 84,000 acres, lying in Allengheny
county. Virginia, from Philadelphia
parties for $300,000. The property has
on it fine timber and valuable minerals,
McLeod – Anderson, tobacco ware
housemen, of Louisville, Ky.,
failed Wednesday. The firm con
Bists of Dr . George W . McLeod and
James A Anderson, both of Versailles,
Th ey assigned all property belonging txemp- to
th not subject to homestead
fcj on
Sheffield, Ala., celebrated Thanks
. . „ , by sending, .. , by
river route to
Bou i?’ ^! ee hundred tons of pig
lron - ^ shipment was the first iron
ever sent by river. It was the virtual
°P emDg of tlu ' new rou e - * 1 “ att * r
of great consequence to Sheffield, and
proportionately district to the entire mineral
of Alabama.
A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn.,
says: Miss Emma Abbott sent for the
secretary of the Ladies’ Hermitage Asso
ciation on Saturday, and after express
ing her admiration of the character of
Andrew Jackson, and wishing the ladies
success in their efforts to beautify and
preserve the hermitage, she presented
them with a check for $100.
Near Huntingdon, W. Va., on
Wednesday, the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad bridge crossing Guyandotte
river, fell while a freight train was
into crossing it, precipitating the entire traiD
the river. Engineer R. V. Free
man was killed. The rest of the crew
had a miraculous escape, sustaining only
The slight bruises. The wreck was complete.
time. bridge has been condemned for some
A dispatch from Aspen, Col., on
No loss of hum.au life is reported yet,
though several parties are known to have
been in the neighborhood of slides. Two
buried, men were caught in Lincoln gulch and
together with their team and
wagon Ihe men were slightly injured,
and the horses were killed.
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TRAIN ROBBERS
ARMED TO THE TEETH, CAPTURE AN EN
GINE, MAIL AND EXPRESS CAR.
A dispatch from Fort Worth, Texas,
8a y 9, Sixteen mounted and heavily armed
boarded the south bound Santa Fe
J g ertram Tuesday night, at Ber
J. ’ a small station in the Chickasaw
; Indian territory, and cut the en
d mail and express £ loose from the
They th n ran the train
two todea and threw the fireman
off the locomotive. Two miles
further on the engineer was
thrown off, and after running four miles
further, steam was turned off and the
engine killed. Then the robbers began
an attack on the express car. The guard
and the messenger fired twenty shots,
but fi na Uy gave in after the robbers had
literally riddled the .car. The money
ito i ea [ s between twenty and thirty
thousand dollars. The passengers and
ma il were not molested. United States
marshals are in pursuit of the robbers.
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A WIDOW’S REWARD
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A dispatch from Wilkesbarre,Pa., says:
A few months Parsons^ ago, Chief of Police Wat
kins, of while under tbe influ
e nce of liqu r, was killed by being
struck by an engine 1 while sitting on the
platform of the Delaware and Hudson
ra ilroad. His widow filed a claim in
cour t for $10,000 damages against John
Schumacher, a very wealthy saloon keep
er, who had sold her hu-band liqfurir
.vhile he was visibly affected by it. The
C ase was up before three arbitrators,
who, on Wednesday afternoon, awarded
the widow $2,600.
CONDITION OF TRADE.
R. G. DUN – CO.’S REPORT FOR WEEK Er d
.
ING NOVEMBER 30.
R. G. Dun – Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: The two heavy fires, with
aggregate losses estimated at $15,000 000
or more, may have an influence upon
® evera i branches of trade which cannot
yet be estimated. Prior to the Boston
fire the boot and shoe trade there had
been quite paralized by the fire at Lynn
aQ d as to the leather trade a little ad
vance York it was anticipated, while in New
was by many expected that the
temporary withdrawal of the demand
would cause some {all in leather. The
B ° s * oa ° re of Thursday destroyed heavy
J^ 1 ^d^nd ^LbuUdin™^!
ne Q emana ; IteDuiidin in both
eities hl . l create sudden demand
w a f 0l
materials and labor. Heavy concurrent
losses may shake some insurance compa
uie8i and affect the fi afvn oes of firms
burnt;d out- But ral prosperitv
j ar g e ^cumulation of available capital
wd [ probably render the influence of
these disasters comparatively narrow and
brief. In other respects the situation is
quite as encouraging as it has been for
some weeks past; the volume of business
is unsurpassed and pressure in money
markets, though not ended at New
York, has seemed to be abating elsewhere.
Reports from other sections are without
exception, favorable on the whole.
Western cities, without exception, find
nowhere trade good. Money is fairly active, but
stringent, at the western points
reporting, and the accounts regarding
collections are better than usual. Cotton
is unchanged, though receipts the pust
week exceed last year’s by 16,000, and
exports by 49,000 bales, and sales have
been 378,000. Coffee has not moved,
tliongh 290,000 bags have been sold. Su
gar is stronger with more active distribu
tion, but Spreckles again announces that
his war with the trust is to the death,
and his work is about to begin. The
shoe towns have all been shipping more
largely than usual and the demaucl con
tinues exceptionally good, for the sea
son in leather products generally with a
prospect of some increase because of the
Lynu fire. The great boom in iron abroad
with spe culative excitement rarly wit
nessed and rapid fluctuations in prices,
causes rience teaches some apprehension, because expe
that such rapid and ex
cited movements are usually followed by
ugly reactions. Unparalleled produc
tion in this country still continues and
other furnaces of large production are
about to go into operation and yet
prices are firm at Philadelphia.
Though warrants have been quoted a
little lower at New York the demand for
manufactured forms, continuing large at
full prices. There has been no important
change in finances, but merchaudflfe ex
ports, though small for the week, have
been nearly eight per cent, larger than
last year for the month. The value ol
exports in October w r as not only greater
thau in any previous October, but has
never been exceeded in any month, ex
cept slightly in one, December, 1879.
With au unprecedented excess of exports
over 000 in imports, amounting to over 29.000,
that month, and another heavy
excess assured for November, the rate oi
foreign exchange has scarcely altered
for two weeks. The reported decision
that treasury deposits with banks shall
be gradually withdrawn, 10 per cent, of
them by the end of January, has been
expected, because these deposits when
made were intended to be only tempo
rary. and will give the treasurer am
ple time to put an equal amount into
circulation in other w r ays. The treasury
paid out during last week $1,200,000
more than it had taken in, an 1 the rate
for money has not changed. Business
failures occurring throughout the coun
try last week number for the United
States 210; Canada, 39; total 246,
against 277 last week.
ALABAMA JUTE.
A HEW AND VALUABLE WEED DISCOVERED
THAT DISCOUNTS JUTE.
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the Tbe discovery Birmingham Age-Herald reports
by Mr. F. J. Fuller of a
valuable weed growing wild in Jefferson
county, Ala., or rather an important use
for it. He calls it “Alabama jute,” and
he exhibited strips of the covering or
bark five feet in length, stronger by far
than jute,and finer. Mr. Fuller said that
the bark could be easily stripped from
the stem, and when passed through an
ordinary cane mill, would come out al
most clean. He thought that the weed,
growing pounds wild, would yield a thousand
of fibre per acre, and this could
be largely increased by cultivation. Ho
was confident that he had discovered a
substitute better than jute for cotton
bagging, and one which would add a
new product to every southern farm and
urove a great saving to cotton planters.
A CELEBRATED CASE.
THE QUESTION OF THE VALIDITY OF AP
ASSIGNMENT SETTLED.
The court of appeals at New York hat
decided to be valid the celebrated as
signment of Reinsdopf – Co., clothing
merchants, who assigned in September,
1884, to J. W. Mack, with liabilities ol
$1,388,000 and preferences about $600,
(, 00. Eleven suits on behalf of one
hundred creditors were brought to set
“ 8ide fc he assignment. The court de
cided tha t the preferences which were
attached were bona fide and correct in
crQT 7 particular. Toe decision affects
man attaching y litigations in various states where
creditors have attached large
sum> of money ow'ing to debtors, and a
hirge amount of money locked up for
five years past, will now be distributed
among the preferred creditors.