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, 1890-09-18
THE WRECK OFF THE ONEIDA.
Additional Particulars Concerning
the Inflated Bnrk.

SAN FRANcIsco, Sept. l3. Some further
details OF the wreck of the bark Oneida
were received to-day from Captain
White, of the four mastod schooner
Louis, which has arrived from Thin
Point, Alaska. Captain White stated
that he considered that many of the ia
talities attending the wreck were due to
the criminal neglect of the officers. The
seyenty-eight Chinese who were
drowned were not offered the slightest
assistance, and were left to their own
resources. Tney drowned like so many
rats. Several dories were in tho hold of
the vessel aud had the officers taken
oil the hatch they could have been
pressed into service. Many lives would
thus have been saved. The sailors
pulled away from the bark and left the
Chinese to perish or save themselves as
best they could.
, 1890-09-18

DuAUoUE, Iowa, Sept. l1.-Last even
Ing Matt Wagner. Vic Steinmitz and
Peter NJ ass left this city for tue purpose
OF seeking work at Menomonee. This
morning their dead bodies were found
four miles down the track. The sup
position is that they were struck by the
train which left here last evening. They
were under the influence OF liquor when
they started on their fatal journey.
, 1890-09-18
BURNED TO DEATH.
A Young Woman's Fate In an Oregon
Hop Picking Camp.

PORTLAND, Or, Sept. l3-Mrs. Elliot,
of Lebanon, who was picking hops near
Scio, was fatally burned Thursday.
While passing camp fire her clothes
were ignited, and her efforts to ex-
tinguish them were futile. Before help
could reach her her clothes were all
burned from her body and her injuries
are such that she can not possibly re-
cover She was living in tent in the
hop2yard with her 2 year-old babe.
The tent took fire from her clothes and
was destroyed with all its contents. She
was but 20 years of age. and her young
husband is heurt-broken
, 1890-09-18
THE GENERAL ELECTION.
Governor Ferry Issues His ProcIH-
nation Calling 1t.

OLYMPIA, WASH. Sept l2.-Governor
Ferry to-day issued his proclamation
for general election, to be held No
vember 4. AT this election a member
of the Fifty second congress is to be
elected, one judge OF the superior court
of Spokane county, and two judges of
the counties of Pierce and King, seven
teen members of the senate, seventy
eight members Of the house. and nll
other district, county and precinct off,
GERS who are required by the constitu-
ton or laws of the state to be elected.
The electors of the state will also vote
for permanent location of the state
capital at Olympia, North Yakima or
EllensDurgh.
, 1890-09-18
FROM sPRAGUE.
The Republican Primaries Held Yes
terday.

SPRAGUE, WASH, Sept. 13. 3.--Republi-
can primaries to elect delegates to the
county convention to meet at Wilbur
September 20 were held here to-day.
The fight in the election of delegates was
principally between tho two candidates
for sheriff on the republican ticket, X.
Irish and l.. A. Conlee. The following
were elected; Il. NJ. Kinnoar, Wallace
Mount, J. Is. Irvine, G. Ii. Holland, q.
NJ. Iamson, W. y. Montgomery, f. w.
#. Bassett, ) B. Carey, II. w. Nc
GinnIse, Il. V. Porak and NJ. $. Meeks.
A full republican vote was polied at
both precincts
, 1890-09-18
FROM BOIsE CITY.
A Recount to Bs Made by the Local
Heard OF Trade.

Bors, Idaho, Sept. 1.-THE board of
trade have ordered recount of Boise 5
population, the citizens being indignant
at the census returns. They claim fully
4,500. The count will DO completed in
two weeks.
The Ridenbaugh ditch was sold yester-
day to the Boise & Nampa Irrigation,
Land x Lumber Company, in consicler ra-
tion ofSlOO,oO0. A loan OF $500, 600 was ne.
gotiated through the Farmers, Loan &
Trust Company, of New York, to be
used at once in extending the ditch. 1t
will be extended through Nanpa and
Deer Fiat country.
, 1890-09-18
A NV Cabinet Hormea.

TORONTO, Sept. l3,-The cabinet has
been reorganized as follow: Oliver
Mowat, premier and attorney general; I;
q. A. Ross, minister of education; c. A..
Felser, commissioner of public works !;
A. ). Hendy, commissioner of crown
lands; Richard Harcourt, provincial
treasurer; John Dryden, minister OF
agriculture; J. NJ. Gibson, provincial
secretary; O. II. Bronson, no portfolio.
, 1890-09-18
THE sTRIKE AT SOUTHAMPTON.


SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. lt.-Quict once
more prevails. At a conference of the
strikers this afternoon it was decided to
return to work ON the concession offered
II fortnight ago. One of the leaders said {:
"Ihe fact that the strike has been pre-
cipitated without the authority of the
London executive precludes the posi-
biity of success The decision TO re.
sumo work was tiercely opposed by the
minority, and may be upset tomorrow.
the concession, IL accepted, means an
are still in attendance, but no trouble is
anticipated.
, 1890-09-18
CRUSHED TO DEATH.
The Fate of Miner on u Claim Near
ISutts.

BUTTE, Mont, sept 13.-A in oc-
CURED in leased shaft upon one of the
Gray Rock claims near this city this
morning, by which John RIth, the owner
of the lease, was instantly killed, and
William Simons, one of his men, badly
injured. They had neglected to brace
the hanging wall, and while working on
the bottom of the shaft fragment
weighing several tons fell in upon them
Simons escaped with a broken collar
bone and some injury TO one lung. but
Rith was literally crushed to death.
Rith leaves a wife and one child.
, 1890-09-18
FIVE MEN KILLED.
Another Terrible Mine Explosion at
w.lkesbarre.

WtLKEsBARRE, Penn, Sept. l2.-The
shaft of the Lchigh " Wilkesbarre Coal
Company was the scene of a violent ex.
plosion OF gas at o clock this afternoon.
The men at work in the mine were clear
ing up the wreck of the fire OF last March,
and searching for the bodies OF the eight
men killed in the ex ploslon at that time
Five men are reported killed and several
injured. 1t is reported also that the
mine is on fire
, 1890-09-18
Tho southnmptnn striEa.

SOUTHAMPTON, Sept i2.-At tho dock
mems meeting this afternoon it was de-
cided to wait upon individual employers
and try and arrange II settlement. A
portion OF the military has been with
drawn. Socialist Burns, in an interview
this evening, declared that he was in
favor of continuing the strike in spite of
Yesterdays decision,
, 1890-09-18
DEATH OF JOHN ID. BILEs.
He Was n Pioneer and Indian Fighter
or Washington.

PORTLAND, Or, Sept. 13.-Justice oi
the Peace John ID. Biles died this morn
ing of rheumatism of the heart. He
was member of the first territorial leg
islature of Washington, representing g
Clarke county in the lower house. He
was one of the band of brave pioneers
who defended the block house at the
Middle Cascades from the Indians until
General Sheridan arrived with troops.
This was in 1886, Biles was u pioneer.
He came 10 the Northwest in 1916. lie
was 63 years old, and leaves a vile and
five children.
, 1890-09-18

largo and well manipulated in Whit
man county. A brand book IL pub =
lished giving all the marks and brands
of stock ON tho range. The book is
easily obtained by the thieves, who Sc
lcct such stock as they deem safe to
drive to Ford's Crossing, or some other
point where the Snake river Is very shall
low across into the Grande Rondo coun-
try, where their stolen property is lost
in the inaccessible valleys and noun
tains of that region
, 1890-09-18

la LABERTAD, sept. 12.-The provis-
ional government convened the congress
in extraordinary session the 10th inst.
In that body to-day, DEGREES recognizing
the revolutionary movement and for
mally declaring General Ezeta proyis-
ional president, had the first reading aud
were accepted.
, 1890-09-18

ToRoNTo, sept. I2.--At u secret meet
ing OF the directors OF the industrial ex-
hibition to-day the American flag was
ordered taken down. 10 make things
even il was decided that nothing but
British flags should be displayed. This
action causes great Indignation.
, 1890-09-18
THE CENTRAL STRIKE.
II IL Practically Endod-The Men Re
turning TO Work.

ALBANY, n. Y, Sept. l2.-The strike
on the New York Central seems to be
over as far as Albany is concerned. A
dozen or more of the strikers were taken
back to work this morning. Tonight
the strikers still out had meeting,
at which there wus much warm argu-
ment and the master work man lost h is
temper several times. As near rs can he
learned before the close OF tire meeting
he advised the men to Set back to work
ii they could.
, 1890-09-18
The Romains of Ericsson.

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 1.-THE United
States man-of-w war Baltimore, with the
body of Ericsson, arrived here this
evening. She made the run from New
York TO GottenOurg within venteen
days, which Ia the fastest time on record
for a man-of.war.
, 1890-09-18

HALLocK, Mimi, Sept. 12.--The rain
which has been falling since Wednesday
night turned to snow this morning.
The farmers are afraid that the wheat
will sprout in shock. An inch of snow
is reported ut Vincent. The thrashing
Is not through with, and much wheat
will be lost in the He'd river valley.
, 1890-09-18

New YoRK, Sept. li.-At meeting oi
the Grant Memorial Association to-day
the result of the labors of the live we'll
known architects who were asked to
submit design for the contemplated
structure ut Riverside, was unanimously
adopted.
, 1890-09-18

ST. PAUL, Sept. li.-Signal Service
Observer Lyons says: Snow was re-
ported this morning from Fort Assina-
boine, Mont. Cold weather prevails in
British North America. Snow to a
depth of four to six inches fell in the
Northwest Territory above Montana,
and about half an inch fell over North
ern Montana
, 1890-09-18
The Engineers' Convention.

SAN Francisco, Sept. l3.-At yester-
days meeting OF the brotherhood Of En-
gineers, the action taken OH June o last,
in Chicago. for the federation of the
brotherhood of Trainmen, brotherhood
of Conductors, Switchers' Mutual Aid
Association and the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotive Firemen was Endorsed.
, 1890-09-18
THE WORLDS FAIR.
a Commissioner Explains tho Ad-
yantages of q LIuubIo Sits.

Gu cAeo, Sept. 12.-Colonel s.. T..
Goodeil. the worlds fair commissioner
from Colorado, said to an Associated
Press reporter in an interview tonight:
THE people need have no fears about
ample room for exhibits. as there will be
ut least 600 acres in Jack
son park, and Lake Front will simply
add seventy-five acres mort. On Lake
Front are to be placed the buildings for
, 1890-09-18
SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS
State Ticket Nomi mated and PIstform m
Adopted at Columbia.

COLUMBIA, s. C., Sept. 1.-THE fol-
lowing ticket was nominated by the
democratic convention early this morn
ing; Governor, b. r. Tillman; lieuten-
ant governor, Il. Is. Cory; secretary of
state, +. 4. Tindall treasurer, w. T. c.
Bates; attorney general. Y. j. Pope.
, 1890-09-18
The Swiss Revolution.

BERSE, Sept. l3.-The latest advices
from Ticino are that the federal officials
who were arrested have been released
and that the provisional government
will be dissolved Tomorrow.
, 1890-09-18
FOULLY DEALT WITH.
Mysterious Disappearance Of an En-
tire Family In California.

YREKA, Cal, Sept 10. About a month
ago Dave Kilgore, OF Lake county, Or,
bought q wagon Of Lohners Bros, OF
Montague, stating that he was going to
sell out in Lake county. The wagon
was found few days ngo among brush
and rocks in Butte creek valley. 1t con.
tanned new set of harness, trunk. and
other articles. The horses were gone.
1t was stated that kllgore was accom-
panied by his wife ana Two children.
No ira ce of them has been found. Ii is
generally believed they have been foully
dealt with
, 1890-09-18
Extensive forest fires are raging along
the Payette river.

Old man Peterson, OF Centreville, was
found dead lying in the road yesterday.
He was an old miner, and had been
drinking heavily, which NJ doubt caused
his death.
, 1890-09-18
A YOUNG MAN DROWNED.
Tho Body Not Recovsred-A Mys-
tertOus Case.

SEATTLE. WASH, Sept. IA young
man, supposed To be Grant Doolittle, OF
Tacoinn mysteriously disappeared ut
Baker wharf yesterday morning about
8 o'clock. He had been drinking and
went to the end Of the wharf, out OF
sight, for five minutes and was never
seen again, and 1t Is thought that he fell
into the water aud was drowned. Two
other younE men. A. l.. Doolittle and
, 1890-09-18
Thrrn Mlnist.rs R,.lan

BUESos AYRFs, Sept. l3.-Three of the
La Plata ministers have resigned.
General Bacedo failed to arrange matters
at Entire Rios, and has returned to this
civ
, 1890-09-18

BERLIN, Sept. i2-An explosion oc-
Cured in the Stassurth coal pit ut
Loederburg to-day. Twenty persons
were entOmbed.
, 1890-09-18

Charles Kimball, were companions OF
the missing man at the imo and both
have searched the wharf and the town
for some trace, but none has been found.
Doolittle is very reticent, and tonight
says the man drowned Is l.. ludlow, q
Tacoma Globe printer.
, 1890-09-18

ST. PAUL, Sept. l3.-Special Super.
visor Wardle, OF the census department,
tom ght gave out the figures ot the re-
count in St. Paul as 1913, ,3Ol. st. Paul 8
increase since 1880 is 81, 4S3, or 223. SO per
, 1890-09-18
Not as naa ns Raport.,l.

SAULr SrE. MARIE, Ont, Sept. H.
Last nights tire was confined TO Butter
fields mill, where IL originated. Tho
loss was small
, 1890-09-18
Blown Over a Pr,cipice.

BERSE Sent. ia German tourist
and two guides were recently blown over
q precipice on the Matterhorn.
, 1890-09-18

PrTTsBuRG, Sept. 13.-Advices from all
sources in the Allegheny and in north
srn districts show that the high water
is subsiding, although not without con-
siderable damage having been inflicted.
A waterspout in Akron, Ohio, last night
quilted Hill street, while the streets on
the flat have been badly washed. The
loss on property here will be so large
that u special meeting of the city coun-
Gil has been called to devise some means
of repairing the extraordinary damage.
IN THE MOHAWK VALLEY.
AMSTERDAM, n. Y, Sept. 13.-For five
consecutive days IT has been raining in
the Mohawk valley. Both Schoharie
creek and the Mohawk river have over
flowed their banks, and the water Is still
rising. Early fruit Is rotting ON the
trees. The farmers have been unable to
pick il in consequence of the rain. The
weather is very bad for the hop harvest.
, 1890-09-18
MUCH DAMAGE DONE.
Tho Waters Are Now subsiding In
Pennsyi ivsnia.


WATERFOWL, n. Y, Sept. 13.--The
rain which has fallen in torrent almost
continually for tive days past has swol-
len every stream IN this section 10 spring
freshet heights, and to-day the effects
were seriously felt hereabouts by an al
most complete tying up of the Rome,
Watertown & ogdensburg railroad and
its branches.
The destruction to mills and other
damage to manufacturing and farm
property is very great.
In Lewis county many acres of good
farm land are under water, The water
rose to such u height that the cattle took
refuge on knolls and highlands, and
were made to swim through the flood at
milking time. Black river is raging,
being within four inches Of the unusu-
ally high point which II reached last
spring, and, with the frequent showers
still coming and the water still flowing
INTO the valley from yesterdays rains,
there is a probability that 1t will pass
that higher watermark and become dan
gerOus-
, 1890-09-18

MINISTER PHELPS COMING HOME.
United States Minister Phelps and
wife sailed to-day on tho steamer Elbe,
for home ON n vacation.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-11-21
THE LABOR WORLD.

In New York city there are $4,000 tailors
IT is calculated that there are 800 900 tail
ors in the United States
MORE than 5000 stone masons in Berlin,
Germany, are without work or money.
FIRST grade cooks at ST. Paul, Mimi, get
800 month; second, $751; and third, $50.
WORKINGMEN are strangely apathetic to
the great questions of finance in this country.
NEW YORK CITY fresco painters are fined
IS for disappearing their hours or wages.
THE long strike of bootmakers at Leicester,
England, has ended in victory for the men.
THOUSANDS of japanese will soon be
colonized in Mexico. They are wanted as
laborers.
IT has been decided to hold an international
labor congress in Brussels, Belgium, in Au-
gust, 1891.
THE Ohio law compelling payment OF
wages every two weeks has been declared
constitutional.
ITALIAN stone masons at New York city
will form a $50. 600 cooperative company.
Shares S25 each.
Two New York city walking delegates
were discharged for taking money from con-
tractors for ordering strikes.
The marble cutters from sixteen cities met
in convention in New York city recently,
and formed national organization.
TIE Grand Division OF Railroad Conduct
ors has paid off an Indebtedness of 81 900 in
a year and has large balance in its treas
ury.
THE United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joners has now 729 local unions 55,S07
members in benefit, and 70, 900 enrolled men,
bers.
NEWPORT and Monmouth tEngIand) boiler.
makers struck to settle the point whether
they or the engineerS shall do the angle iron
work
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-11-21
South and West.

THE excitement created in the Chickasaw
Nation few days ago on account of the
discovery Of rich fields Of gold and silver in
the Arbuckle Mountains has reached Texas,
and is growing in intensity.
DAVID GRUBB, a farmer, living near Gray
Vile, ILL.,, was shot and killed by his stepson,
Arch Wick, aged nineteen, while trying to
kill his wife in a drunken frerzy.
THE Sheriff of Coffee County, Ga, called
on Governor Gordon for troops to suppress
a riot of cOlored men against whites. Four
men were said to have been killed.
HARRY WILLIAMS was hanged at Rolling
Fork, Miss, for the murder of Rufus Dixon.
DIVIDE GoDEAU, a notorious mulatto des-
perado, was taken out of Jail at West Mel
vile, La, by mob and hanged.
SENATOR BLACKBURN, of Kentucky, was
thrown from his carriage at Versailles and
sustained very serious injuries
DOMESTIC infelicity caused William Galow,
a German laborer, to kill his wife and COM
NIT suicide at Oshkosh, Wis.
THE First National Bank of Durham. n
C., caught fire and was entirely consumed.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL's bill making the
Cincinnati boards non-partisan was passed
by the Ohio Legislature, after which that
body adjourned.
Two Mexican sheep herders have been
murdered and their bodies horribly mangled
by Indians about twenty miles from Silver
City, New Mexico. A posse of deputy
sherIffs went in pursuit of the renegade muir
derers. The Indians beat off their pursuers
after two of them had been killed.
The stallion Superior, valued at SIS 900.
owned by Dubois Brothers, horsebreedsrs,
of Pueblo, Cal, was accidently killed by a
train.
THE Maine stallion, Nelson, trotted the
fastest half-mile record Il :03) at Cam
bridge City, Ind. Belle Hamlin and Justina
lowered the team record at Independence,
Iowa, by trotting a mile in 2:13I.
THOMAS j. MINIS and Miss Gertrude Pill
man, of Brewton Ala, were married at the
Alabama State Fair, Birmingham. Rev s.
M. Adams, President of the State Alliance
performed the ceremony. The young couple
then stepped into the car of a monster gas
balloon, and with Aeronaut Baldwin sailed
off on bridal tour.
THE bursting of steel standpipe flooded
the town of Temple, Texas.
THE machine shop, blacksmith shop and a
portion of the large mill of the Youngstown
(Ohio Rolling Mill Company, were burned
Loss about 500, 900.
FIFTEEN armed men burned down the build
ings of L. B. Varnes, in Coffee County, Ala,
because of his supposed participation in the
late riot. Governor Gordon called out the
militia to represS the mob
A A DESPERATE duel to the death was fought
near Danielsville, Ga, III which William
Sanders, prominent planter, was killed,
and William Martin, his neighbor, was IA
tally wounded
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-11-21
ELEVEN VESSELS BURNED.
The Cotton Shipping District Of Mo.
bile, Ala, Swept by Flames

A fire in the cotton gin and shipping dis
trict of Mobile, Ala destroyed eleven steam
ers and over a million dollars worth of cot
ton gins, wharves and shipping depots.
The local fire department was Incapable of
doing any effective work to check the spread
of the flames. For time all the sailing
vessels in the harbOr were threatened. The
wind carried sparks great distance and
many small fires were started where cotton
was exposed.
The fire started in a single mill near the
river front just outside the northern bound
airy of the city limits.
In Goodman's mill, near the single fac
tory, there were stored about nine
hundreds bales of cotton. They were
soon ablaze, and the sparks from the
cotton carried by the wind next conf
municated the flames to Browns ware
house, and running back to Magnolia street
to the southwest Of the Mobile mills and to
the wharf front.
The flames swept on down the wharf front
of the city and before the fire was finally
checked eleven vessels had been burned.
The loss viii amount to over a million dol
lars
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-11-21
DYING OF CHOLERA.
Japan, Abyssinia, Turkey and Other
Countries Ravaged.

countries haVa9fu-
Advices received by the United States
Marine Hospital Bureau at Washington from
the United States Consul at Nagasaki, ia
PAN report 1895 new cases of cholera and
742 deaths from this disease during the Pc
riOd from August IS to September IL From
the outbreak of the epidemic until Septem-
Der Il there have been 31SS cases and 2021
deaths.
AdyiceS received at the Bureau from the
United States Consul at St Helena report
the appearance of cholera at MeSkene and
Aleppo.
Advices from Spain are that the cholera
epidemic continues but its presence in Bar
celona is not officially confirmed.
Reports from Abyssinia say that the cpl
demic is intense in the localities occupied by
Italian troops and at MaSsowah about sixty
deaths occur daily from the disease.
Reports from Russia state that the actual
presence OF cholera is not reported, but some
cities in the South are suspected, but nothing
definite is shown. Reports from France state
that the sanitary condition is very satisfac-
tory and no cases of cholera have been re-
ported.
The report from Italy states that accord
ing to Information received from private
sources many fatal cases of cholera have Oc-
Cured in Venice. The Italian Government
has ordered the return of troops from the
Red Sea colony.
Advices from COnstantinOple say that the
late cholera reports are very unfavorable
and show that the epidemic is Increasing In
extent and intensity.
The appearance of the disease at Aleppo, to
which place it was imported from MeSkene
is very serious. On September IL and 12
nine deaths were reported out Of fifteen cases.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-11-21
WashinGtOn.

The Chief of the Ordnance Bureau of the
Navy Department is giving his attention at
present to the procurement of the nickel ore
or matte for which Congress appropriated
million dollars.
THE annual convention of the American
Institute of Architects began in Washington
City. The attendance was encouraging, rep
resenting all parts of the Union. Richard
M. Hunt, the President of the Institute. was
unable to be present on account of illness,
and his report was read by one Of the Board
of Directors.
The Department of State has been official.
~ Informed that an Industrial exhibition
VIII be held at Lyons France in 1892 in
winch the departments of silk and electricity
VIII be open to all nations A cordial invi
<atlon is extended to American exhibitors.
HI The Census Office announced tie total
y population of the State of Florida TO be $780,
40; increase, 100, 942, or 4.eS per cent.
HE Treasury Department monthly state
Aent Oh foreign commerce places the value OF
Rerchandise imported during September