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VOL. I.
TERRIBLE STORIES FROM INUN¬
DATED SECTIONS.
MANY HOMELESS AND STARVING.
Rescue Vessels are Hard at Work—Levees
Break and Add Horror to tl\e
Situation.
A special from Memphis says: The
valley of the lower Mississippi is a vast
inland sea. Death, desolation and
distress is spreading from as far north
as Birds Point, Mo., to the country
below Helena, Ark. The heavy rain¬
fall of the past fortnight in the Ohio
valley and the consequent floods are
immediate causes of the frightful swel¬
ling in the Mississippi in the vicinity
of Cairo and south of there.
The break in the levee near Nodena,
Ark., has wrought havoc in Mississippi
county, which is virtually at the mercy
of the raging torrents. Many persons
are thought to have perished in the
vicinity. Twenty-five negroes are re¬
ported drowned in Bushby Bayou.
For miles and miles west of Memphis
every home has bean abandoned.
One planter, J. L. Butler, tells a
terrible story of the destruction of
farmhouses, property and cattle, but
he reports only one drowning. Butler,
however, fears that the loss of life will
be great.
The break in the levee is widening,
and no power on earth can stop the
crevasse. Six hundred people have
been transported to Memphis from
Crittenden county, most of them from
Marion, Ark.
Many were in a state of starvation
when they arrived. The steamer Min¬
nehaha has returned from a trip to
Island Forty, five miles north of
Mound City, where several families
were found. The women were in wa¬
ter up to their waists, and two of them
were holding babies in their arms.
Stories of rescue by the half dozen
or more steamers engaged in the work,
and vessels arriving from above and
below have, however, added highly
thrilling features to the situa
tion. From refugees arriving from
hack of Marion it was learned that
hundreds of people in that section
were in the water and without
means to escape. Accordingly, a light
draught steamer was pushed in that
direction as far as possible and skills
penetrated even further. The result
was the rescue of seorces of sufferers.
On President’s island, below Memphis,
a large number were found in tne
water and brought out.
The steamers Mary Orten and IV. H.
Nisbet, from above, brings tidings of
desolation and distress all along the
river for a hundred miles or more.
The latter’s officers declared that there
were certainly hundreds of people for
whom there was no relief. Every piece
of ground along the river above water
was crowded with people and live
stock.
The Yazoo river, at Greenwood,
Miss., is at flood tide with the Talla
batcliie and Yallabusha pouring great
volumes into it. All of this goes into
the Mississippi to increase its floods,
Helena,Ark.,reports the Mississippi
two feet four inches below the highest
mark, rising, and with rain all Monday
night and Tuesday. That correspond
ent also reports an expected levee
break at Modoc, near there. Rein
forced government crews are now en
gaged in “sacking” it.
INSURGENTS DYNAMITE A TRAIN,
-
Spanish Tronp Cars Blown to Atoms.
Road strewn with Blood.
Advices from Havana state that
news has just leaked out through
Spanish sources of a terrible explosion
of dynamite under a troop train by
the insurgents near San Christobal,
Pinar del Rio last Saturday. The
bridge over a high gorge had been
undermined and was exploded while
the train was in mid-air.
The engine and six cars were almost
demolished, and the engineer and fire
man were killed and over 150 soldiers
killed and wounded.
Bodies were flung hundreds of yards
away, trees at the side being covered
with the gory fragments of men’s
bodies.
It was the most horrible affair that
ever occurred in that section. Span
iards admit that the train was wrecked,
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS.
Mr. McKinley Gives Oat Some Fat Jobs.
Bayard’s Successor.
Tuesday President McKinley sent to
the senate the following nominations:
To the Ambassadors Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary of the United
States: John Hay, of the District of
Columbia, to Great Britain; Horace
Porter, of New York, to France; Hen
ry White, of Rhode Island, to be sec
retary of the ambassy of the United
States at Great Britain.
To be assistant surgeons in the ma
rine hospital service: Hill Hastings,
of Kentucky, Claude H. Lavender,
Virginia: Taliaferro Clark, the Dis-
Wayne County News
JESUP. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1897.
SOUTHERN TR JGRESS.
Vew Industries Kstabltshed in the South
During the l r ast Week.
Southern correspondents among
prominent manufacturers and dealers
report conditions more encouraging
than for several years past, and all in¬
dications point to a successful business
year.
The iren and steel market continues
firm. Some good sales are being
made, plants are increasing their out¬
put, and it is expected that the volume
of trade will be very large during tho
spring and summer. In the Alabama
iron districts pig iron shows a healthy
movement, and the foreigu trade is
especially active. Another furnace
has been put in blast at Anniston, and
Cole furnace No. 2, at Sheffield, starts up
today. In Tennessee the Bristol furnace
is being overhauled, the furnace at
Cowan will undergo repairs, ami tho
Citico furnace in this city and the one
owned by the same company at- Rock
wood are to be enlarged and improved
on an extemsive scale.
The southern lumber market shows
considerable activity, and the demand
for lumber all over the country is
steadily increasing. in
Among the most important new >
dustries for the past week are the fol¬
lowing: The Elk Land, Coal and
Lumber Co., capital $150,000, Charles¬
ton, W. V.; the Jacobs compress Co:,
capital $100,000, Shreveport, La.; a
60-barrel flouring mill at Buena Vista,
Va.; a $10,000 ice factory at Abbeville,
La.; the Milby & Dew Coal and Min¬
ing Co., capital $150,000, at Houston,
Texas.; the Hamilton Coal Co., capital
$100,000, at Piedmont, W. Va., and
the Winona Oil and Manufacturing Co.,
capital $40,000, at Winona, Miss. The
Chouty Place Central Sugar Factory
Co., limited, capital $100,000: has been
chartered at Abbeville, La., the Geor¬
gia Western Cotton Mills,capital $350,
000, Douglasville, Ga., the Dixie
Mills Co., capital $10,000, Lenoir City
Tenn., the Texarkana Cooperage and
Manufacturing Co., capital $30,000, at
Texarkana, Tex., and two lumber com¬
panies with capitals of $10,000 each at
Dallas, Tex.—Tradesman (Chattanoo¬
ga, Tenu.)
FOPlt LYNCHED IN FLORIDA.
Mol> Overpowers Sheriff* and Makes Way
With Prisonerii.
A triple lynching, in retaliation for
a double murder, took place at Juliette,
Marion county, Fla., Monday. The
victims were Will Oliver, George Ba¬
ker and George Bevins, all colored.
The crime for which they were lynch¬
ed was the murder of John Barefield,
postmaster at Blue Springs, and his
assistant, John E. Turner, March 3d.
The murder was committed for the
purpose of robbery and was not dis
covered until the next morning. Since
that time a posse had been on the
track of the negroes and Monday they
were captured in Orange county. The
negroes lnfd been fishing on Lake
Locke when the sheriff came across
them. They showed fight at first, but
were quickly overpowered and taken
to Orlando for safe keeping.
The negroes were identified by Sec¬
tion Master Reamer as being the par¬
ties he saw in the store only a few
minutes before the shots were heard,
which are supposed to have been the
cause of the death of the two men.
Later the men were taken to Juliette,
Upon ai rival near the scene of the
murder a mob of fifty men met the
sheriff and liis prisoners and demaud
ed that the negroes be turned over to
them. The sheriff refused, but was
quickly overpowered and the negroes
taken away from him.
The prisoners were then marched to
the scene of the murder and there
made to confess the deed. In a few
minutes their bodies were strung up
to trees and riddled with bullets. Be
f ore dying one of the negroes said that
James Richardson was also implicated
j n the murder,
A later dispatch says that Riehard
so n was arrested near Juliette Tuesday
night and placed in jail. At 9 o’clock
the sheriff went to the jail and found
the doors broken open and the sus
peeted man missing. It is generally
believed that he was carried off by the
friends of the murdered men and
either hanged or drowned in Blue
Springs run.
Anti-Trust Bills Ready.
A dispatch from Albany, N.Y., says:
The governor’s legal adviser, Charles
Z. Lincoln, has completed the prepara
tion of the two anti-trust bills which
are intended to carry out the recom
mendatious of the Lexow trust invest
igating committee.
SEQUEL TO AN ELOPEMENT.
»gro Was Kiled and White Girl Was
Severely Flogged.
From Pickens county, Ala., comes
the news of the killing of Andy
Beard, a negro, who eloped with
Dora Baines.
When the posse overtook the pair
the negro showed fight and then at
tempted to run when he was shot
down and literally filled with lead,
; The girl seeing the negro killed,
begged the posse to sboot ber also.
: The posse retired and allowed the
girl’s father and brother to take charge
j of her. She was carried home and a
\ severe flogging is said to have been
administered.
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS
SELECT THEIR LEADERS.
HONOR FALLS TO BRILEY,OF TEXAS.
Lone Star State Man Will Head the Dem¬
ocratic Contingent and The Man From
Maine Will Rule The Hofise.
Speaker Reed was unanimously
nominated for speaker of the house at
Saturday night’s republican caucus.
The attendance of members was un¬
usually large, 192 of the'203 republi¬
cans being present. The new mem¬
bers were conspicuously numerous.
Mr. Payne, of New York, was se¬
lected to place Mr. Reed in nomina¬
tion. He referred in flattering terms
to Mr. Reed’s popularity in nominated the house.
He said that Mr. Reed was
when this congress was elected; that
he was the choice of the republican
party and that it was the business of
the caucus to respond to this popular
demand.
When Mr. Payne had taken his seat
Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, who occupied
the chair, put the motion and it was
adopted without a dissenting vote.
Mr. Payne, of New York, and Mr.
Cannon, of Illinois, two of the veteran
members of the house, were designa¬
ted to escort the speaker, who was
quietly seated in his private office, to
the floor. As he entered all the mem¬
bers rose to their feot and greeted him
with a hearty burst of applause.
Mr. Reed bowed his acknowledge¬
ments and made a short talk.
A resolution was adopted which re¬
quires the chairman of the caucus to
call a caucus when requested by twen¬
ty-five members in writing.
All the present house officers were
then renominated.
They are us follows: Henry N. Cou
don, of Michigan, chaplain; Alexan¬
der McDowell, of Pennsylvania, Clerk;
Benjamin A. Russell, of Missouri, ser¬
geant-at-arms; W. J. Glenn, of New
York, doork eeper.
Bailey Honored.
Th i democratic members of the
the .louse selected Mr. Bailey, of
Texas, as their leader, nominating him
for the speakership at their caucus
Saturday night.
Major Richardson withdrew from
the contest and was chosen to preside
over the caucus. The Tennessee dele¬
gation met before the caucus was held,
and after a full conference and com¬
parison of strength, Richardson de¬
cided to get out of McMillin’s way.
It was the Arkansas delegation which
injected Bland’s name. This was done
over “Silver Dick’s” protest, and Bai¬
ley’s friends say it was done in the
hope of defeating him. The vote
showed 56 for Bailey, 30 for McMiliin,
22 for Bland.
Mr. Bailey was awaiting the result
in the appropriations committee room
where a committee met him, and after
extending their congratulations,escort¬
ed him to the house chamber, where
he was received with applause. The
young Texan ascended to the speaker’s
platform and express his gratification
at the honor conferred upon him and
advocated harmony in the party.
The following resolution offered by
Mr. Dockery, of Missouri, was adopted:
Resolved, I hat a committee of
five representatives he appointed to
confer with the democratic senators
for the purpose of having a joint cau
cus of senators and members during
the 55th congress, to the end that har¬
mony and uniformity of party action
may prevail in the course to be follow¬
ed by the democratic senators and rep¬
resentatives. ”
RAILROAD ORDERED SOLI).
Mortgage Forecloned Against the Middlo
Tennessee and Alabama.
At Alontgomery a deoree of foreclos¬
ure of mortgage has been ordered in
the ease of the State Trust company
vft. the Aliddle Tennessee and Alabama
Railroad company by the United States
circuit court and the road will be sold.
The bid must be at least $100,000,
of which $20,000 must be cash, while
the remainder can be paid in bonds.
The road runs from Fayetteville,
Tenn., to a point in Alabama near De¬
catur. If it should be built on to
Decatur it would be a most valuable
little line, and it is estimated that
$25,000 or $30,000 would complete it.
TV IDO W RUIZ’S PETITION.
The Document, In Spanish, Is Received
"££££ It covers eight pages of note paper,
the last of u hich is (1 ev otedtohe sig
nature and is wholly in Span sh.
The secretary has given no mtima
tion of what his action will be,and un
til the petition is duly translated he
will not determine what disposition to
make of it.
It is strongly intimated, however,
that Mrs. Ruiz cannot rely upon
speedy relief _ from Spanish source
through pressure exerted by news
papers.
WRECKED AND BURNED.
Train On the Southern Plunges Into
Etowah River—Miraculous Escape.
Early Saturday morning the mixed
freight and passenger train on the
Southern road was wrecked about a
mile from Rome, Ga.
As the mixed train from Chatta¬
nooga to Atlanta, carrying five freight
cars, one baggage, two passenger and
a Pullman coach, reached the Etowah
river trestle the latter gave way when
the train was about half way over
it and all the cars except the last pas¬
senger and the' Pullman plunged
through, one on top of the other.
The engine had reached the bridge
when the trestle collapsed and the en¬
gine was jerked slightly back off the
track and plunged wildly into the
water below. It now rests on the
bottom of the river, which is much
swollen by recent rains.
Fireman A1 Kennedy jumped, but
Engineer Jim Pittman went under the
water with his engine. Almost by a
miracle neither was killed. Pittman
swam out with a broken leg and a
badly injured back. No one was se¬
riously hurt except these two and a
negro preacher in the second class
passenger coach.
About half an hour after the wreck
a fire alarm was turned in, but before
the department could reach the wreck
it almost completely burned up.
It is thought that the very heavy
rains of the past few days washed the
foundation of the trestle and thus
caused the accident.
PRESIDENT AT CHURCH.
He Will Become a Member of tho Metro¬
politan Methodist.
President McKinley again attended
service Sunday morning at the Metro¬
politan Methodist church, where Pres¬
ident Grant was a communicant dur¬
ing his residence in the white house,
and a half block distant from the First
Presbyterian church, in which Presi¬
dent Cleveland had a pew. Last Sun¬
day McKinley went to the Metropoli¬
tan church.
While serving in the house of repre¬
sentatives he attended the Foundry
Methodist church, a block from the
hotel where he resided, and it was un¬
derstood that he would again become
a pew-holder there, his visit to the
Metropolitan church last Sunday being
merely intended as a compliment to an
old friend, Bishop John P. Newman,
of California, who occupied the pulpit
of his former charge on that day.
It is now understood, however, that
the president will become a member of
the Metropolitan church. The reasons
for his change of intention, if a change
has really been made, are not known.
BURGLAR CAUSES BLOODSHED.
Street Fight Boult. In Death of a Child
and the Wounding: of Two Men.
A terrible shooting affray and gen¬
eral fight took place Sunday afternoon
on one of the principal thoroughfares
of Birmingham, Ala.
The police was attempting to arrest
a negro burglar, chasing him through
the streets and firing at him promiscu¬
ously. A stray bullet killed a little
girl, Myrtis Boland, five years old.
One bullet struck the negro in the
back fatally wounding him. Ho
finally ran into a yard and jumped
down a well in which was ten feet of
water. He was taken out,, however,
jj P f 01 . e drowning and sent to tho police
8ta tion.
while Hunter was being placed in
the polioe wa gon a general fight be
tween negroes and whites took place
and 8everal were hurt,
officer Perdue - 8 j aw wa s broken by
a igtol shot fr om Hunter and he is
geriously hurt. Hunter will die.
ALL READY FOR FIGHT.
The Arena at Canton City Completed and
Beats Numbered.
A special from Carson, Nev , says:
The final work on the arena where
Corbett and Fitzsimmons will meet on
St. Patrick’s day was concluded Sat¬
urday afternoon, when the reserved
seats were numbered. The kineto
scope was put in place at the ring side
and the arrangements whereby the big
mill can be reviewed at leisure by
thousands are all completed and only
require fine weather to make the picture
a success.
The sun had almost the fierceness of
summer heat and its drying qualities
wei e quickly manifested by the ap¬
pearance of the roads, which, though
still muddy in spotF, were sufficiently
dried off to enable both men to do
some twelve miles of outdoor work.
GAGE NAMING ASSISTANTS.
t. ; s stated with positiveness that
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^ be detenninetl , lpon after a con
between Secretary Gage and
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Extra Session Will be Called.
Governor Jones, of Arkansas, has
decided to issue a call for an extra ses
doiJ t p e legislature. He said the
a pp ro p r jation bills have not been
_ aaged and h e has no funds with which
j. ull yj e gtate government.
UNLESS THE GOVERNOR COMES
TO HER RESCUE.
SUPREME COURT RENDERS DECISION
The Decision nlso Seals the Fate of Gus
Fambles, the Old Woman’s
Accomplice in Crime.
The supreme court of Georgia has
rendered a decision against Mrs.
Nobles, who murdered her husband,
and unless some other and successful
effort in her behalf is made she must
suffer the death penalty.
This one of the most remarkable
cases in the criminal history of the
state. The legal proceedings were the
most hotly contested and many new
points of law, both federal and state,
were introduced.
The decision seals the fate of Gus
Fambles, also, as his sentence was
only prolonged to await the decision of
the supreme court.
Gus Fambles was the direct cause
of Mrs. Nobles’ arrest, for as soon as
the officers began to question him be
told everything and implicated not
only himself, but Mrs. NobleB, Mary
Fambles, Debby Nobles, a daughter
of the murdered man, and Dalton
Joiner.
These five were bound over to the
grand jury. Excitement ran high,and
Judge Smith, of that circuit, called a
special term of Twiggs superior court,
which convened two weeks thereafter,
on the 7th day of July. Gus Fambles,
Elizabeth Nobles, Mary Fambles and
Dalton Joiner were indicted by the
grand jury and put upon trial. They
were all tried together, and on the
11th of Suly the trial ended, the jury
bringfng in a verdict of guilty as to
Mrs. Nobles, Gus Fambles and Mary
Fambles. Debby Nobles and Dalton
Joiner were released. No appeal was
made for a new trial or an appeal of
any nature taken.
As the day set for tlnj execution of
Mrs. Nobles approached an organized
movement among the women of tho
state was inaugurated to save Mrs. No¬
bles from the gallows.
Motions for new trials have been
made in both state and federal courts,
and the efforts to save her life have
been the most vigorous in the history
of the state. The case was carried to
the United States supreme court.
The last sentence was passed on
Mrs. Nobles June 23, 1896, and the
date set for her execution was August
11 .
All along, while those innumerable
proceedings have been taken in Mrs.
Nobles behalf, the governor has been
respiting Gus Fambles from time to
time and he declared publicly that
Gus should not hang until Mrs.
Nobles’ case was decided.
Mary Families is in the Dade coal
mines serving a life sentence. Dalton
Joiner has gone to parts unknown.
Debby Nobles has married.
The two jirincipal actors in this
drama, Mrs. Elizabeth Nobles and
Gus Fambles, are now in the Macon
jail, waiting for a re-sentence.
ALABAMA COURT SENSATION.
Conspiracy Unearthed in Which Prominent
People Are Concerned.
A special from Gadsden, Ala., says:
The suit of Danfortli & Armstrong vs.
the Tennessee and Coosa railway for
breach of contract to the amount of
$150,000 ha3 been in court for years.
Four times it has been tried, and
each time reversed. The verdict crept
up from $6,000 to $100,000. The at¬
torneys for defense have all along
insisted that the juries were tampered
with.
In the city court Friday tho rail¬
road’s attorneys moved to dismiss the
case for the reason that it was being
prosecuted between the plaintiffs and
Dr. D. H. Baker, the latter to receive
10 per cent of the recovery, in consid¬
eration of which he was to procure a
large verdict for the plaintiffs by bri¬
bery and corruption, deal fix
Letters concerning the to
the jury written by Baker and C. E.
Danforth and addressed to Jack King,
of Rome, Ga., were read and sworn
to. The letters were secured from
King by shrewd detective work. In
addition to the letters a contract be¬
tween Danforth & Armstrong and Dr.
Baker was produced.
BIG BLAZE IN QUITMAN.
An Improvised Dry Kiln Results in De¬
struction of 830,000 Worth of Property.
The most destructive fire ever seen
in Quitman, Ga., occurred shortly
after 3 o’clock Friday afte’-’-ocn. The
fire started in the large wooden build¬
ing occupied by the Blount Turpentine
Tool Company. improvised
The fire started from an
£ry kiln, owned by G. M. Badger. He
undertook to dry some lumber in the
building. Carried by the wind the
flames fed from building to building
w ;th unquenchable fury and spread
over a wide area before they fiually
burned themselves out. Total loss is
about $30,000, and ins”;*nce is less
tbsn one-balf.
NO. 36.
TOBACCO TRUST WINS.
The Judge Derides That Equity Court Has
No Jurisdiction.
A special from Trenton, N. J., says:
In the suit brought to annul the char¬
ter of the American Tobacco Company
and break up what is known as the to¬
bacco trust, Vice Chancellor Eeed Fri¬
day morning filed and opinion dismiss¬
ing the bill and ending the present liti¬
gation against the company.
In the language of the vice chancel¬
lor, the action was brought ‘ ‘to restrain
the defendants from transacting their
business and from conducting it in a
manner prejudicial to the complain¬
ants and injurious to the people of the
state of New Jersey.”
The bill was filed by Attorney Gen¬
eral Stockton, on the petition of J. R.
& Frank W. Miller, jobbers in paper
cigarettes, with whom the American
Tobacco Company refused to deal,
according to the allegation of the
Millers, because they persisted in also
handling a brand of cigarettes manu¬
factured by a rival corporation.
Vice Chancellor Reed holds that the
equity court has no jurisdiction; that
the proceedings should have been
brought in the nature of quo warranto,
and that corporations have a right,
when legally formed, to deal the same
as individuals. The point raised by
the complainants and Vice Chancellor
Reed’s full views may be inferred
from the following syllabus, which he
has attached to the decision.
“1. A court of equity does not possess the
power to restrain a corporatfon organized
under the forms of law from performing
acts within its corporate power, merely be¬
cause some of the steps taken in organizing
the company may have been irregular or
because the purpose of the incorporation
may have been to establish a monopoly.
“2. Under these conditions quo warranto
is the proceedings to challenge the right of.
the corporation to exercise its franchises.
“8. A trading or manufacturing corpora¬
tion, until its charter is annulled by such a
proceeding at law, has the same authority
tut an individual trader or manufacturer to
sell or consign its goods, to select its selling
agents and to impose conditions as to whom
they shall sell and the terms upon which
they shall sell.
“4. A deoree restraining the officers and
agents of a corporation from executing cor¬
porate acts is the same as the decree enjoin¬
ing tho corporation itself.”
NEW TRIAL FOR RYDER.
Supreme Court Grants Him Another
Chance For Ills Life.
The supreme court of Georgia, by a
decision rendered Friday reversed the
decision of the superior court of Tal¬
bot county and granted a new trial to
W. L. Ryder, the slayer of Miss Sallie
Emma Owen.
The Ryder case has attracted more
attention than any other of criminal
proceedings since the famous Woolfolk
trial.
The record is the largest one that
the court has had to deal with in
years. with double
W. L. Ryder shot a
barrel shotgun Miss Sallie Emma Owen
on the night of April 4, 1896, and in¬
stantly killed her. Jealousy was the
incentive for the deed.
Ryder was indicted, convicted and
sentenced to be hanged. His attor¬
neys moved for a new trial, which the
lower court overruled. Ryder was
defended by the very best legal talent
in the state, and, not at all discour¬
aged, they carried the case to the
supreme court, citing seventy-two
grounds why a new trial should be
granted.
A FIEND EXECUTED.
Sullivan Murdered Mrs. Dutcher and Her
Little Son and Dies On Gallows.
John E. Sullivan was hanged Friday
at Dorchester, N. B. His crime was
the murder of Mrs. Eliza Dutcher and
her son, 6 years old, at Meadowbrook,
on tho night of September 11, 1896.
Airs. Dutcher kept a small tavern, but
the only inmates of the place at the
time were herself, her little son and a
daughter 7 years old. Sullivan
entered the place for the purpose of
robbery. awakened by the
Airs. Dutcher was
noise and made an outcry. The rob¬
ber thereupon attacked and killed her
with an ax, after which he assaulted
the children, killing the boy and
badly injuring the girl. Sullivan
next fired the house and fled.
The flames arroused the neighbors
and they were able to enter the
house through the rear door and rescue
the little girl. The remains of the
mother and other child were found in
the ruins.
The injured child finally recovered.
P0ST0FFICE RECEIPTS.
A Considerable Decrease Shown From
Those of February, 1896.
Friday Postmaster General Gary gave
out a statement showing the gross postal
receipts of the thirty largest postoffices
for February, 1897, compared with tho
same month last year.
There was a net increase of $125,
019. The first seven offices— New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston,
St. Lonis, Cincinnati and Brooklyn—
showed marked decreases, Chicago
falling off $39,638 and Philadelphia
$22,826. Of the thirty offices, only
seven increased their receipts over
February, 1896, the increases being
light.