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INTERNATIONAL, medical congress.
One of the most important meetings
of the medical profession lias convened
session at Washington, D. C., being the ninth
of the International Medical Con
gress, and about 2,000 practitioners are
hand. ....
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cian in attendance, Dr. Fanny Dickin¬
son, of Chicago, "who is the first woman
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M. secretary, General John D. Hamilton,
United I)., supervising surgeon general
States marine hospital service;
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finance committee, Newport, R. I.; chairman
Richard J. Dunglison,
M. D., Philadelphia; chairman executive
committee, Philadelphia; Henry II. Smith, M. D.,
associate secretary, Wm.
B. Atkinson.
FOUND AT LAST.
Mr. Gamble, a citizen of Anniston,
Ala., who has just returned from a visit
to the City of Mexico, reports that he
saw and recognized in that city Marsh T.
Polk, the defaulting state treasurer of
Tennessee. He says that he knew Polk
well, and that he is now engaged in bus¬
iness in Mexico, It will be remembered
that circumstantial accounts of Polk’s
illness, death and burial in Tennessee
were published several years ago.
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BURNING OF THE THEATRE ROY
AL AT EXETER, IN ENGLAND.
During Hie Periornmuce of “Romany Rye’*
A Fire ITretiks Out, and 150 People
Lose Their Liven.
The Theatre Royal, at Exeter, England,
took fire during a performance of ‘ ‘Ro¬
many after Rye.” The occupants of the pit,
an awful struggle, escaped, but
many There of them were greatly injured.
and was only one exit terrific. from the gallery,
the rush there was Scores
were trodden under foot and suffocated.
Fire escapes were brought to the win¬
dow and many inside were rescued.
injured Sixty corpses have been removed, The
survivors were sent to the hos¬
pital. The mortality is estimated at 100.
The structure was built after the latest
designs, and was elaborately fitted, being
considered one of the prettiest in Great
Britian. There was a full house, and
everything was all right until the end of
the third act, at half-past ten o'clock,
when a drop scene fell and in a moment
the whole stage was a mass of fire,
and a wild panic ensued. Occupants of
tie after stalls, pit and dress circle escaped
a dreadful crushing, rnauy being
badly bruised. The actors and actresses
fire were in their dressing escaped. rooms when the
originated began, and all The rapidly, fire
filling in the flies and spread dense
the theatre with a smoke.
rushed Occupants of the upper circle and gallery fran¬
to the windows screaming
dows tically, and many jumped from the win¬
and were injured, and others were
rescued with the aid of ladders from the
verandas. The fire blazed fiercely, light¬
ing flocking up the whole city. People were seen
to the scene in thousands, in¬
quiring for friends. the theatre when
The scene inside
the fire broke out was an awful
dience one. Some men implored the impossi¬ au¬
to he cool, but it was
ble to check the frantic rush. The thea¬
ter hose was brought into use in a few
minutes, but the water had little effect
on the flames. The actors and actresses
were taken out from windows with the
aid of ladders. They lost everything
except what they wore at the time. Up
to the press time one hundred and thirty
bodies have been recovered. They are
almost unrecognizable. Thirty injured hospi¬
survivors have been taken to the
tals. Fire burned throughout the night.
Search for the bodies proceeds slowly.
In many cases every shred of clothing is
burned off and the bodies look black and
raw. There are various reports ns to the
origin of the fire. It is only certain that
the flames broke out in the scene-shifters’
department. The fire brigade arrived
five minutes after the breaking out of the
flames, but the efforts of the firemen were
without effect. A majority of the vic¬
tims were men and boys. About thirty
women were burned.
When the fire started, a drop scene was
lowered to prevent the draught. Some
of the actors opened a door to escape,
causing the fire to burst through the drop
scene and to ignite the gallery. wedged The
flames overtook people who were
in an immovable mass and roasted them
to death, and many who were rescued
alive died soon after being brought out
of the burning building. escaped Tfie without occupants seri¬
of the dress circle
ous harm.
NAPOLEON hi
Arrangements are now perfected for
the removal of ihe remains of Napoleon
III, and the Prince Imperial from Chisel
hurst,, England, mausoleum to the new Farnborough mortuary
crypt in the on
Rill, but the date of the ceremony is uot
yet stated. Two great red granite siir
cophogi, not unlike the one at the
Invalides, have been placed on either
ride of the altar. That of the Emperor
was the gift of Queen Victoria to the
Empress Eugenic, but the miter buys the
other for her son herself. Meanwhile
the coffins arc in the church at Chisel
hurst. Tiieir removal will be the occas
ion of a solemn and magnificent function,
it, being Queen Victoria's command that
full military honors be paid to both
father and son, and doubtless an ira
mehsc crowd will be attracted from Lon
dOE.
RUSSIA'S COTTON .MILL.
The Russian court chamberlain, Mit
eliagoff, Prince Demideff and a party of
mill’onaires, are inspecting the cotton
fields of Bokhara with a view to select¬
ing a suitable site on the line of the
projected Samareand railway for a cotton
nu. "L A large portion of the material
and the overseers will be American.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
BUDGET OF NEWS GATHERED
HERE AND THERE.
Many Railroad AecIdents-WUat Is Trans
(tiring in Temperance Matters—Social
And Religious Gossip
Should Atlanta, Ga., go “wet” in the
proposed election on the prohibition $1,500.
question, a license to sell will cost
Savannah, Ga., has been visited by a
gang of professional burglars, who do
up their work in the most scientific man
ner.
A strike of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad brakemen was started at Bir¬
mingham, Ala., for higher pay and many
firemen followed suit.
The steamer Avollon, of the Maryland burned
Steamboat Company, was totally
at Queport, Va., on the Great Wyomica
river; loss $90,000; insurance $60,000.
Judge Thomas J. Simmons has been
chosen by the Georgia Legislature to fill
the judgeship in the Pautaula circuit
made vacant by the death of Judge Hall.
A fire started in the engine house of
the Barren Fork Coal company, near Flat
Rock, Ky., and destroyed costly ma¬ is
chinery used in mining. The loss
$ 200 , 000 .
M. E. Reid alias James Merwin, agent
of the National Express Company at
Glen’s Falls N. Y., was arrested at Hen¬
derson, N. C., charged with the theft of
$6,000 from the company.
The Union Waiters’ Association, of At¬
lanta, Ga., at their annual parade, made
the best show in appearance, good people man¬
ners and marching, of any colored
that have appeared in public in the South.
Dr. R. B. Adair, of Gainesville, Ga.,
who is stopping at the St. James Hotel,
in Washington, D. C., was knocked
down by a horse and wagon while cross¬
ing Pennsylvania avenue, and was in¬
jured.
The corn fields in the Dismal Swamp and
of Virginia are overrun with bears,
some of the farmers have killed or cap¬
tured several in a single night. Ihe
Norfolk markets are well supplied with
bear meat.
Roy Sisk aud Dock Stat, two boys
aged about 16, were hunting doves near
Huntsville, Ala. Sisk’s gun was acci¬
dentally discharged, in the face, the blowing whole charge off his
striking and him the of his skull, causing in¬
nose top
stant death.
At the last term of the superior court,
in Augusta, Ga., Mrs. Killian got a ver¬
dict of $12,000 from the Augusta & Knox¬
ville road on account of her husband be¬
ing killed while working on it. The road
asked a new trial, but it was refused by
Judge Roney.
At Greenville, Ga., a negro brakeman
named Dave got into a quarrel with a
negro, Bill Kendall, and threw a brick,
struck Kendall on the head, glanced and
hit Edgar Mitchell, a white railroad man,
just above the ear. Kendall was not hurt
much, but Edgar is unable to he about.
E. A. Pledger was run over and killed
by a freight of the Central Railroad at
Midvillc, Ga. Mr. Pledger was mechanic about
fifty-five or sixty years of age, a buried in
by trade. His remains were authorities.
the cemetery by the town
He was under the influence of whiskey
at the time it is said.
The fast mail train leaving Richmond,
Va., for West Point, when nearing Fair
Oaks station on the Richmond, York
River & Chesapeake road, ran into a
mule team, which was crossing the
track, killing both mules, demolishing
the wagon, and so injuring the driver, a
farmer named Verrell, that he died soon
after reaching West Point, where he was
taken.
The Committee on Education of the
Georgia House of Representatives authorizing has
reported a school bill a levy
of one-tenth of one per cent on the tax¬
able property of the state for school pur¬
poses. This law would raise, it is said,
$306,000 net which, with other moneys
appropriated, would give a total fund of
$806,000, sufficient to keep the schools
open four months in the year.
The people of Charleston, S. C., have
just issued an official document showing
the wonderful progress made in the
resurrection of a year, since the earth¬
quake. It shows that 6,956 residences
and other buildings were rebuilt or re¬
paired; 271 new buildings erected; rebuild¬ a
town in itself. The cost of the
ing and repairs was $4,204,775; Charles¬
ton spent, on this work $3,000,000, the
balance coming from outside the city.
A white man named Houston in Au
gusta, Ga.. has engaged lawyers to convict pros¬
ecute Berrian Rachaels, a county
guard, for having his nephew whipped. is
Houston stated that his nephew, who
a small boy, was employed on the Sand
Bar Ferry road, near where the convicts
are working, and that a few days since
he refused to do something Rachaels de
rnmided him to do, when Rachaels had a
burly negro convict to catch and whip
the boy severely.
Two women were in caught at work in an
illicit distillery Habersham county,
Georgia. They were Mary Ann Dover
and Sarah Adaline Dover. Deputy Col
lector Strong aud Deputy Marshal Nix
were scouring the country near Clarkes
ville, when they came ujron the distillery
in active operation, the women being en¬
gaged in making corn whiskey and apple
brandy. The officers destroyed the still
and other apparatus, but when it came to
arrests, their gallantry got the best of
them and they let the women go.
When Sherman left Columbia, S. C.,
on fire, there was but one house on the
principal thoroughfare left. No. 243, on
the east side of Main, between Richland
and Lumber street, This sole survivor
was destroyed by fire a day or two since.
NO. 29.
The house was a two-story wooden
structure, occupied and by Airs. M. C. Bo¬
land and family, was owned by A 1
exander Civil, who built it in 1863." At
the time of Sherman’s VisTTit was rented
and family. occupied by Theodore Huchet And
TERRIFIC BLOW.
Ohio Is Visited by a Tornado, Which Causes
Much Damage—No Lives Lost.
A tornado struck Sylvania, Ohio, blow
ing down two gas well derricks and
wrenching a boiler from its brick foun
dation. Three horses in a pasture were
killed by falling trees. farmer All tall trets
were leveled. One had fifty
acres of fine timber all blown down. A
brick school-house, at Michie, was de¬
stroyed. The track of the tornado was
south by east from there along the line of
the Toledo & Ohio railroad, and is from
one to two hundred yards wide. No
fences or tall trees are standing. Com
is scattered and houses aud barns arc un¬
roofed for miles. At Wntersville, and
other villages to the southward, much
damage was done. The slate roofs of a
number of buildings were badly damaged
and the towering chimneys of the main
building of the insane asylum were blown
down, crushing in the roof. The total
loss to the insane asylum is $8,000. Dr.
Embry, assistant driving superintendent ihe grounds of the
asylum, was into at
the time. His wife and little daughter
were with him. His buggy was over¬
turned aud all three were thrown out.
The doctor held on to the horse, which
with the vehicle, was lifted and carried
several rods. Ilis wife and child wore
carried over a hundred feet aud dropped
into a ditch of two feet of water, from
which they were rescued unhurt. The
Wabash train met the center of the tor¬
nado and the smoke stack of the locomo¬
tive was blown off.
the catholic university.
At a session of the Catholic University
held in Washington, D. Philadelphia; C., were present Bish¬
Archbishop Ryan, of
ops Spaulding, of Peoria; Marty, of Da¬
kota; Mase, of Covington; Revs. Dr.
John S. Foley, of Baltimore, and Chap
pelle of Washington, and Messrs. Eugene
Kelly, of New York, and Thomas Wng
gaman, of Washington. The selection
of a site was determined upon and Wash¬
ington City selected ns the choice of a
majority of the archbishops and bishops
of the United States. Plans for the build
ings were presented and adopted. the It
was resolved to begin work during of
present fall. Rev. Dr. Keuno, bishop
Richmond, Va., was elected as first rec¬
tor of the university. A building com¬
mittee, consisting of Archbishop Wag Wil¬
liams, Bishop Keane, and Thomas
gaman, was appointed. It is said that
eight million dollars university will be required solid to
build and place the on a
basis. Of that amount about $700,000
has been secured, including the The $600,000 theolog¬
donated by Miss Caldwell.
ical department will he first to be the opened order
and that will be under charge of
of St. Sul picc,
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hunting silver mines.
Prospectors are roaming about the
mountain country of Tennessee, through
which railroads are to pass, seeking ore for
beds. Lands can now be bought and
merely nominal prices. Rich lead
silver have been found in several localities.
In an immense cave in Putnam county
five distinct veins of lead have been
found. Lead and silver are said to cx
ist in the upper edge of Smith and the
adjoining portion - of Jackson county’.
The lead ore is said to be the cause of
deadly sickness there, the poisonous salts
becoming dissolved in the water. There
is large cave on the premises of Hop
Lee in the same section, from which val¬
uable specimens of lead ore have been ob¬
tained. This ore is also said to give off
noxious gases that render the exploration
of the cave very dangerous. Three men
who went into the cave recently.were suf¬
focated.
TRAIN WRECKING.
Aii attempt was made to wreck a Chic¬
ago, Milwaukee and St. Paul train, con¬
veying Burr Robinson’s circus from Scot¬
land to Y&nkton, Dak. Old rails and
telegraph poles were placed across ihe
track fifteen miles north of Yankton, but
as the train was running slowly tbe engi¬
neer saw the obstruction in time to stop.
Three hours later, a southbound freight
came to a stop before wedged a large pile of tics, rails
which had been between the
at the same place.
DEATH OF AN EX-GO VKKNOIt.
Ex-Governor William Aikin died at
his country place at Flat Rock, N. C.,
aged eighty-one. He was governor of
South Carolina in 1844, and congressman
from 1851 to 1857. He was before the
War the largest slave-holder in the state,
and was a successful rice planter. He
consistently opposed nullification and se¬
cession, and took no part in politics after
leaving Congress, He was also one of
the first appointed trustees of the Pea
body fund.
UNEASY PEOPLE.
The revolutionary force under Bahona,
it is reported at Panama, surprised and
took possession of Port Ilaunion. ihe
garrison was betrayed by two officers.
The fight between the revolutionists and
government troops is r< ported rising to have
been very severe. A general is
feared in San Salvadore, Guatemala' and
Honduras.
pLEI R O-P.N UUMON I A.
Thirtv-three cows belonging to John
Clay, a milkman in BiiUhimro ojir.ty,
M<L. affia b d wit IT jjleisn' Tbe pm-unmum. mid
wen • killed and buried. state
$15 j k r head for them.