Evening journal., 1888-07-14
General NOW. OF The MORNING.

Memphis, made an assignment on Thurs
day. Their liabilities are Sl0s, 600: assets
nominally $l75.00O.
AS result of the great floods in Penn
sylvania and West Virginia fully 125 fami-
lies. aggregating over 500 people, ars in
need OF the necessaries OF life.
Emperor William departed last night on
bis journey 30 st. Petersburg. The royal
yacht Alexandra. bearing the Emperor
and his suite, sailed from Potsdam for
Spandsu at l0p. m.
H. G. Brightwell Of Prospect, Virginia,
wounded In Thursdays accident at Orange
Court House, Va, died at the hospital at
Charlottesville yesterday. Captain @. F.
Taylor's condition Is critical.
Corresponding to advances made in New
York, American and California sugar re.
1neries in San Francisco on Wednesday
advanced the different grades Of sugar
one.fourth cent and on Thursday one half
cent.
The weavers employed by the Glasgow
Manufacturing Company. manufacturers
Of dress goods at South Hadley Falls,
Mass, struck yesterday for an increase Of
pay. The company employs $50 hands,and
pays $4,000 monthly in wages.
The postofics at Concord. Mass, was
entered by burglars Thursday night. the
vault broken open and all the vRluables
therein taken. The loss in money and
stampa viii reach 81 900. There is no clue
30 the burglars.
Ebenezer StAnynrd, the Youngstown,
Ohio murderer, who killed hla sweetheart,
Alice Hancock, early in 1887, was hanged
ia the penitentiary annex at o'clock yes
terday morning. He played his accordion
before going on the scaffoId.
The Howe Scale Works, Rutland, Va.
were sold al auction ou Thursday for
S44l,2s6 This sum includes the amount Of
the liabilities (s201. .lsS, which were as
sumed by the purchasers The works we're
bought by syndicate of seven Rutland
men.
/ The business failures occurring through.
out the country during the last seven days
: number for tbs United States 2l6 and fol
/ Canada "a, or q total OF $40 failures, al
compared with total OF 214 lass week and
1 s01 the week previous 20 the last. For th,
G corresponding week OF last year the flgHrei
we're 179.
Z Latin g. Rand's large powder works
8 nesr Cressona. Pa, blew up yesterday af
. tsrnoon. killing three men, George Gilman
= Charles Reed and Henry Birnich, VIII,
j we're the only persons about the place
q Their bodies were thrown 200 yards from
the scene OF the explosion.
Debeers Mine, in Kimberly, Soutl
Africa, the scene OF the fire Wednesda,
= night, has been explored by a party 0
searchers. Twenty-fou whites and 20
natives we're found to have been burned
! death. The cause OF the fire is unknown
= Forty-three whites and 400 natives weE
= rescaed from the mine.
Fred Remington, young man reprl
aenting himself as an artist on Harper
Weekly, arrived IN Trinidad, COL, SON
days ago. and employed himself sketch in
mountain scenery for bis paper.
:. Thursday be took morphine with suicide
intent, and died at 5 40 that evening, Soc
after his arrival in Trinidad he made Il
~ acquaintance and fell in love with Mi
re White, handsome milliner, aud it
d. thought she Tilted him,causinR him to con
&. NIT the act Remington left a will b.
y. queathiug to Miss White $4,000 and Il
Journalistic Home $2e0 His father Is sal
posed to be in New York.
Id ChateauRay, New York. was visit
10 Wednesday evening by terrific cyclon
IS For miles the country through northe
4 Coasaaugay has been devastated. Ines
d mabls damage has been done to propert
IL such as buildings blown down, trees u
IL rooted. fences carried away and farm lai
q laid waste. A man aud boy at Westvi
n; and a man at Fort Covington are report
a to have been killed at Chateaugay A
ali chlbald Mccoy, a farmer, was serioua
injured. Que OF the severest rain. hail al
Ia wlnd-storms of the season Waited Melo
I'D and vicinity Wednesday about 20 o'clo
X. p. m. Hail as large as doves eggs fell
rt- great quantities.
Twenty thrse years ago the wife OF WI
re Hall, a farmer, living in Cherokee Co., A
ey was murdered. Hall was arrested fer {
90 crime. He was twice tried, convicted 81
ty sentenced to the penitentinry for life,
each time succeeded in getting 3 new Fri
III Thirtsen years after the murder tle
les dictment against Hall was nolle pross
rn- but soon after another was returned. Tt
OF for nearly 10 years vain eff ut was made
~ have a third trial. Hall has attended
me terms Of court to answer the charge. a
'ie- the case has cost the county over S2c o
II Last week tho case was taken up for I
~ third Tins, and the jury, after being {
ng three days and nights, returned a verd
~ Of mot guilty.