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South md West,

TIE Columbia Oil Company, dealers in
cotton seed and cotton seed oil, with offices
in Chicago, ILL.,. London and Memphis
Tenn, was placed in the hands Of receiver.
The company was capitalized for 81, 900, 600,
and the liabilities are in the neiShborhoodo OF
$500, 900.
THE first rivet was driven into the United
States cruiser No. q at the Union Iron
Works, San Francisco, by Henry 5. Scott,
leading member Of the compa ny.
CHARLES N. OzBURN. commission mer-
chant, was hanged at Atlanta, Ga, for the
murder of John NJ Bradley on May ), 1890
The murder was the result OF dispute
about an overcharge Of ffty-four cents on
barrel OF potatoes.
MAJOR AND HENRY GRAVES, brothers,
left Lexington, Tenn, together somewhat
intoxicated. On their return they got into
uuarrel, which resulted In Henry, the
youngest. being shot dead by his brother.
MRS. J. H. JOHNSON, aged seventy, and
Ter four-year-old grandson were killed oy
the cars at La Moilla, Iowa.
The Anderson Common Brick Company
Of Chicago, ILL.,, one of the most extensive
concerns of its kind in the West, failed. Lii
abilities, 100000
WHILE Hayes g. Lindsey's steam thresher
was threshing wheat on James Durbin's
farm in Edmonson County, KY. the engine
blew up, killing John Durbin, Will Basham
and John Massey, and fatally woundinS
Peter Pierce, Kit Votes, j. McCabe, Oliver
Pelps and Tom Lindsey.
A coLoRED muriere: escaped from jail at
Lexington, KY, killed man and murder
ously assaulted several other persons with
scythe. He was shot dead after saying he
had killed seven persons
TIE business part of Los Gatos, CAL, was
destroyed by fife. Loss 100000.
CUSTOMS INSPECTORS J. c. BAIRD AND
JAMES BUCHANAN shot and killed Deputy
Sheriff and e1-Custom Inspector G. W. Poor
and badly wounded J. E. Terry, an ex-
County. Washington. 1t is said that the
shooting was caused over band Of Chinese
who were being smuggled into the United
States from British Columbia.
A BATTLE was fought between colorei
and Italian workmen Oh the Norfolk ana
Western road, in Logan County, w. Va
Two Italians and one colorei man were
killed and several wounded.
FIVE men got into a fight over the di-
vision of a watermelon, at Alton, ILL.,, and
two were stabbed fatally.
Two Shoshone Indians, Spruce Aleck and
Laughing Charley, fought bloody duel at
an indian camp near Wells, New: The
trouble was about a squaw. The Indians
were hobbled together and fought with
knives They were horribly mangled.
SAMUEL SANDS, the oldest printer in the
United States, and who when boy, In 1914,
first '.set up" the 'Star-Spangled Banner"
from Francis Scott Keys manuscript died in
his ninety year, at his sons home, at
Lake Roland, Maryland.
UNKNOWN men burned Thomas Hill and
his family out Of bed, near Amity, ARK.
The father was shot dead when coming out
of the house with a child in his arms
THE Berkeley Land Syndicate Of Denver,
Col, made $400, 900 assignment.
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Washington.

Tgr White House is completely in the
hands Of the decorators, and scaffolding so
encumbers the great vestibule that it even
prevents the great front door from oelng
opened. The basement is in the hands OF
bricSlayers and plasterers, for the ene're
ground q or is being renodeled.
A CENSUS OFFICE bulletin shows that the
United States in 1899 produced more copper
than the rest of the world combined.
ACTING COMMISSIONER WILSON made
preliminary report to tine Secretary OF the
Eraasurv of the operations IF the Internal
Revenue Bureau during the Il cal year ended
lime 30 last. The total collections were
SAG, ,O35, ,3T6, an increase OF SS, +4o,6oo.
SECRETARY TRACY decided to award the
contract for the construction Of cruiser No.
i3 20 the William Cramp & Sons snip a19
Engine Building Company. The price agreed
upon is s., ,G9OOC
THE appropriation mt the disposal OF tne
Sprpeor-!ieperals OFF, for artificial limos,
and for Communication where the pen Sloner
does not take the artificial limb supplied ny
the Government, Is already exhausted, and
about 1000 pensioners will have to wait for
their Communication money until after Con-
gress meets.
CLARENCE THREE STARS, Sioux Indian.
has been appointed trader at the Pine Ridge
Agency, North Dakota.
THE Secretary Of the Treasury formally
approved reductions in the force and reduc-
tions in salaries Of employees in the Collec-
tors office in New York CITY, which will re-
duce the pay roll Of the Office fully sS7, 900
per annum.
The Office of the Chief of the Appoint
ment Division of the Treasury Department.
vice Mr.. Moore. resigned, has been rendered
to General Daniel McCauley, OF Indiana
THE Census Office issued bulletin on the
SUI 1nct OF prisoners in county jails 1t
shows that the total number Of such prison
ers on June /. 1890. was 19. 5S6; the number
repc rted in 1880 was 1851, an increase in
ten years of 7,S47, or at the rate Of 53.95 per
cent. The increase in the total population
was 24.SG per cent.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

CAMPBELL & ELLIoTr's immense cotton
and woolen mill at Philadelphia, Penn, was
completely destroyed by fire. The loss was
estimated at between $500, 900 and $3.50, co.,
The first twelve-inch breech loading rifle
ever built in America was tested at Sandy
Hook, n. j., with satisfactory results.
A RECENT investigation at the Boston
(Mass.) Postofflce has developed the fact that
out Of seventy-nine scales in use in the CEN
tral Office thirty-tive were incorrect.
Mrs. WALL, the wife Of a we'll known citi-
zen, was found murdered in her husbands
house at Tunkhannock, Penn, and the hus.
band, Charles Wall, gave himself up and
confessed that be killed her.
THE White Squadron. accompanied by the
naval reserve battalion, lett New York Har-
bor for Fishers Island, where the reserves
were to bs taught naval tactics.
MRS. MARK HoPK1Ns-SEARLEs, the wife
of Edward F. Searles, the architect, and
formerly wife Of Milliona re Mark Hopkins
of the Pacific slope, died at her mansion In
Methuen, Mass, after long and tedious IL
ness of la grippe. She was worth about $50
100000.
CALVIN P. HAZARD, one Of the largest
lumber dealers in Buffalo. n. Y. has made
a general assignment. Liabilities, $3.50
to $50, 900.
THE Naval ReseaAe was instructed In ord
uance practice on b6ard the cruisers at Fish
er's Island, off New York.
PAUL DILLINGHAM;, Ex-Governor Of Ver-
mont, died of old age at Waterbury. At the
time Of his death he was the oldest ex-Gov-
ernor Of Vermont. He was born in Shutes-
bury, Mass, on August 10, 1T99.
In the Berwin Mines at Portage, Penn,
John Church and William Myers were in.
,tantly killed by a fall Of coal. A third
man, Hungarian, was fatally injured.
GEORGE BRoPHY, aged six years, and
William Peacock, aged eight years were
drowned in the Lehigh Canal at Cataraqua,
Penn.
BY order of Secretary Foster eighty-si1
employees of the New York Custom House
were removed from Office and ten were placed
under reduced salaries.
FREDERICK c. HAvEMEYEa died OF the
grip at his home near Westchester, n. Y.
He was in his eighty-sixth year. He was
the founder of the well known Havemeyer
sugar firm.
WHILE sitting under tree watching a
ball game at Warren. Penn, two young men
were instantly killed by lightning, which
tore the coat and bu. led the shoulder or
one.
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SEVEN CHILDREN DROWNED
A Small Boys Heroism Saves One
Little Life.

Seven children were drowned at Maisic,
Canada, on a recent afternoon. The chill
dren Of two families named Montigny and
Pauras and the little daughter Of visitor
were playing in an old boat on the shore. The
oldest was girl Of fifteen, the youngest an
infant Of three. No one seemed to notice the
rising tide until shout Of terror from ths
children showed the old boat aaoat couple
of hundred yards from the shore and rapidly
sinking.
The children's screams brought all the
women to the shore and the ensuing scene
was smaddening. There was no other boat at
hand and no men near. In less than ten
minutes the crazy boat filled and capsized,
leaving the children struggling in the water.
For the majority the struggle was brief, as
one by one the little heads were seen to dis
appear.
fancred Pauras, aged seven, clung to the
boat, and some twenty yards from him was
seen, still struggling, the only other remain
ing child The boy left his refuge and swan
to the child, brought her back to the boat
and held on for an hour until the boat
drifted in so that the women could wade out
and bring in the children.
Tho names Of the drowned are Alfred,
Joseph, Marie, Louise and Cecile Montigny
and Marmed and Marguerite Pauras.
When the men returned IN the afternoon
they recovered the bodies by graphing.
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PERU AT THE FAIR.

Collection of Remarkable Exhibits
From the Amazon Region.
Lieutenant Stafford, United States Navy,
tn, Commissioner for the Worlds Fair, has
lust purchased valuable collection Of BIRDS
dresses, war Implements skulls and other
eurios from the Amazon regions which will
ha exhibited in the Peruvian department at
Chicago. These have been exhibited at Lima
and have attracted great attention, as they
come from region Of the Amazon territory
IA eastern Peru scarcely never visited by
white men, as the inhabitants are hostile
ayagas, Poisoned arrows, dried heads OF
victims captured In war, robes made Of bril-
tantly colored feathers and bloody spears
are some Of the features.
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MINIATURE JOHNSTOWN.
Torrents Rush Down Mountain and
Destroy Part Of Town.

Torrents Rush Down a Mountain and
Destroy Part Of Town.
A scene almost similar to that Of the Johns
town flood, although on a smaller scale,
occurred at Austin, New, on recent after.
noon, when the town was struck by torrents
of water which descsn. ed from the noun
tains at tremendous speed. The cause was
q cloud burst.
Clouds had overhung themountain tops for
several days, and shortly after two o'clock
the steam whistles gave the people warning.
In tnree minutes the waters came rushing
down from the summit Of the mountain and
soon reached Main street, coming wave over
wave and carrying everything before 1t, in
cluding powders weighing over ton.
The city railway was torn from its bed,
awnings were torn down and water mains
were uproeted from three feet Underground.
The majority OF the business houses were
filled with mud to a depth Of three or four
feet. The streets presented The appearance
of volcanic eruption. The damage was
very great. The waters receied in three
hours.
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Foreign.

AN important Liberal victory was won at
Wisbech, in Cambridgeshire England. Ar
thur Brand, Liberal, was elected by ESQ ma.
iority. Mr.. Brands wife was Of great as.
sistance to him, frequently singing during
intermissious at the public meetings.
In the Tyrolese Alps large tracts of land
have been devastated by avalanches which
have fallen into the valleys and which have
caused an immense amount Of damage.
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A 7rnpzRArE MAN LIVES THE LONGEST

A TEMPERATE MAN LIVES THE LONGEST
An English investigation just completed
puts In tangible shape the effect Of the use;
of alcohol from observation covering 4234
cases in all walks Of llfe.' This report which.
has just appeared, shows that with men over,
twenty-five, the Incorporate use Of alcohol;
cuts of ten years from life, those who never
drink to excess, or use no liquor, living on
the average, ten years longer than those who
do. Occasional indulgence, il carried to-
excess, doubles diseases of the liver, quadru.
Piles those Of the kidneys and greatly In
creases death from pneumonia, pleurisy and
epilepsy. - ~ ff5ssS y
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RAILWAY TRAGEDIES.
Fatal Accidents to Crowded Ex.
cursiOn Trains.
Over a Score Killed and Wounded
in an Ohio Wreck.

An excursion train, crowded with em.
ployes Of the Dayton Cash Register Com
pany. was run into by fast freight train at
Mlddletown, Ohio, just after 10o'clock on a
recent night. The three rear cars Of the ex-
cursion train were overturned and wrecked.
Seven persons were killed, and moro than
twenty were seriously injured, many OF
them mortally.
Those on the excursion train hal been
treated to a picnic by their employers on
Woodsdale Island, popular resort on the
Great Miami River, about four miles north
Of Hamilton. The train was long one, and
it was after 9 o'clock when 1t started on the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad
on the return rip to Dayton. The train was
stopped at Middletown to let of some excur-
sionists who lived there.
All the passengers on the heavily laden
train, many Of them young people, were
happy. Suddenly, while the excursion train
was still waiting at the station, freight
train, running at high rate Of speed,
crashed into the rear car, blowing its way
along three cars full Of people before it
stopped.
The excursion train broke drawbar while
pulling on the siding, and in the delay Of re-
pairing freight train came along and ran
into the next to the rear coach. The rear car
was packed full Of people, and the freight
plowed into q mass Of broken cars and dead
and crippled human beings.
Reports of the wreck spread like wildfre,
and the depot soon filed with anxious fami-
lies awaiting friends from the fated train.
Ambulances and patrol wagons we're ordered
to the depot to transport the injured to the
hospitals or to their homes. Two coaches
filed with people were wrecked.
Nearly all the people in two cars were
injured, some Of them being frightfully
manglei. Many of those fatally hurt were
cared for at Carlisle, which is nearer the
railway station than Middletown.
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NOT TO BE REPEALED.

General Neal Dow, OF Maine, the great
traffic most vigorously for many years, has
the courage and also che positiveness OF his
convictions Very lately some one suggested
to him that the Maine law might be repealed
eyen in the State that gave it its name.
'They can no more repeal the prohibitory
law II. Maine" said the old General, with e.
tone e,sily appreciated, than they can haul
the White Mountains to the searshore- -
Presbyterian Observer. 8
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TEMPERANCE.
GOOD ADVICE.

GOOD ADVICE.
Take the open air h
The more you take the better.
Follow Natures laws
To the very letter.
Let the doctors 60 K
To the Bay Of Biscay; -
Let alone the gin,
The brandy and the whisky.
Freely exercise, -
Keep your spirits cheerful;
Let no dread Of sickness =
Make you ever fearful.
Eat the simplest food,
Drink the pure, cold water;
Then you will be well; -
Or, at least, you ought to.
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DESPERATE BATTLE.
Fatal Fight on the Platform of a
Moving Car


Moving Car
There was fight on the platform at the
rear end of the second coach of the first sec.
ton of train one mile from lockwood,
Penn, on recent night James Kelly,
policeman. of Johnstown, Penn, drew re-
volver to quell the row. The crowd
sprapg upon him and forced him
between the cars. Conductor Hard
signaled the engineer to stop the train. The
coupling broke and Kelly dropped under ths
wheels and was killed. Lucas Myers of La
trobe was thrown from the platform and
killed. Milton Pyle OF Somerset was hurled
through the air and struck Oh the rocSs on
the side Of the track. His skull was crushed
and leg broken.
The bodies Of the two men killed were left
at Somerset for an inquest. The train ar
rived at Johnstown at II 20 A. n. 1t was an
excursion from Johnstown to Cumberland
and return. There were fourteen cars and
1900 people on board.
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FIVEKILLED ANDTWO HURT

a EOrnler MlsSIOnlrJS C1rFIdTe
STRUCK bi ali Erie Train.
The Rev. William White, his wife and in.
fant son, Nellie Hastings and Susan McCar-
thy, nurse, were struck By Erie passenger
train No. "a while driving two miles north
of Eim;ra, y. Y. at i O'CLOCK on
a recent afternoon. and were INSTANTLY
killed. Two other Chill len OF Mr.. White
were seriously injured, an only one was e.
pected to recover Mr.. White was lately
fnissiI nary to China, and was visiting for
few mouths ut his hone in EiInira.
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KILLED IN THE ALPS.

A Party Refused the Services of the
Guides and Perished OF Cold.
Albert Fessler, an opera singer, and Anton
Mohr, lace MT reliant. wno ascended the
lofty Solsteinhutre, in the Tyrolese Alps, re-
fusing the services Of guides, perished OF
cold and starvation, having lost their way.
An Italian banker named Mario Andres
was killed by falling over precipice while
ascending the Sangre San Michele portion
Of the Alps.
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Wrecked by q Cow.

A suburban excursion train On the Chat
tenooga, Rome and Columbus Railroad met
with a terrible accident beyond Mission
Ridg,, Tenn. The engine was ahead OF the
cow, which turned the engine completely
over on its side.
The fireman, Lewis Potts was buried be-
meath the engine, and killed. Engineer
Thomas Burchell was injured about the head
and shoulders
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Mr.. W. n. VANDERBILT has built q
$4,000 palace for his hens, but there
isn't one of 'em that wouldn't rather 90
out and take pot-luck in the flower
garden.
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Excursion Trains Wrecked.

A cablegram from Paris France, says:
A collision between excursion trains occurred
atSt. Maude, in which fifty persons were re-
ported killed and three carriages wrecked.
Both trains were returning from music
festival at Fontenoy.
The second train crushed into the proceed
ing train before tho latter had left the st.
Maude station. The guards van and the
three rear carriages Of the fast train were
wrecked and caught fire from the gas.
The injured occupants were shriek-
ing iu dispair and the other passengers
hurriedly left the train and assisted in e3tri.
eating the victims. Soldiers also aided the
fire brigade to quench the flames and rescue
the sufferers. The work OF helping the in.
jured was carried on by torchlight.
A dipatch from st. Mande about midnight
says that sixty persons were injured. and
that fifteen dead bodies had been recovered,
including those OF two children who were
mangled beyond recognition. Most Of the
dead victims are legless, their limbs having
been crushed Off through the jamming to-
gether OF the seats.
Fully 10000 onlookers were at the scene
Many relatives of the victims assembled at
the railway station, and heartrending scenes
were witnessed as the victims were extricated
from the wreck. The driver and fireman OF
the second train were burned alive.
The daily state chronicle., 1891-03-27
OAK CITY STEAM LAUNDRY
AND DEALER IN
All Kinds Grass and Glover
Seed.
MIXTURES A SPECIALITY.

Having secured the services of Mr.. G. II.
Belts, of Messrs. Williamson & Upchurch, of
eleven years experience in mixing grass and
clover seeds, both for field and lawn, as we'll
as handling both Farm Implements and Ma
chlnery.
Corn, Meal, Seed and Feed Oats, Bran,
Ship Stuff, Cow Feed Mixture, Bulk Meats and
Pure Hog Lard at Lowest Prices.
PLOWS.-The Dixie, the One and Two
Horse Watt, Crown Crescent, Dunn No. 3,
Farmers Alliance, Reversible Hillside Cot
ton, Tobacco and Corn Cultivators. Also the
Iron Age Cultvator and Attachments, Points,
Bars and olher attachments always on hand
of the Richmond manufacture. HarrOWs..
Tha celebrated one and two horse Clark's
Cutaway, the most perfec pulveriZer in the
world. Also Clark's Revolving Cutaway
Plow, which plows and pulver'zes at the same
Thomas Smoothing Harrows. Mowers Reap
ers, Binders, Horse Rakes, and Repairs OF
the celebrated Walter A. Wood manufacture
being the most simple, light draft and dura
BILE machines on the market at satisfactory
| prices. Corn Shelters, Cutting Knives, Horse
and Power Feed Mills. Best and simples
Engines and Boilers. Have one running my
Laundry machinery in the rear part OF N,
! store.) Those contemplating buying are in
vited to call and see it operating Norti
Carolina Wagons and Carts, Iron Pipe
| Singleand Double Trees for plows and wag
ons. Corn and Cotton Planters of latest pat
ents. Repairs are kept on hand for ever,
plow and mac line sold Fertilizers The cele
brated Stonewall and Farmers Friend Guam
for cotton, tobacco and corn. Oil-Cylinder
Machine and Illuminating Oils. Specia
Prices to Clubs. Call to see or write me.
The daily state chronicle., 1891-03-27
THE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL
SCHOOL FOR WHITE GIRLS.
BIDS INVITED.

Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.1
RALEIGH, N. c., March 18.-The pur-
poses of this school are
l. To give to young women such in
struction as will fit them for teaching.
2. To give them instruction in stenog-
raphy, type-writing, telegraphy and such
other industrial arts as will be conducive
to their support and usefulness.
It is to be eminently practical school.
1t has an annual State appropriation of
$1,000 and we are assured that it will
get liberal help from the Peabody Funa
probably permanently. Any commu-
nifty will be fortunate to secure it. In
the act provision is made for any city or
town to appropriate money out of its
public funds Or to hold an election for
the purpose OF voting sufficient amount
of money 10 furnish the buildings No
place can secure it without furnishing to
the State the necessary buildings.
After consultation with the members
of the Board of Directors, state that
about one dozen class rooms, a large
assembly room, library rooms, and rooms
tor literary societies Will be necessary.
The amount Of money necessary to fur
nish these rooms cannot be definitely
stated. 1t will vary in different com
munities according to the cost of mate
rial, labor etc.
A Matron's Hall will also be neces
sary which may be connected with th'
above rooms, or may be separate build
ing, as may be most convenient. FO
this Hall the board is authorized to eX
pend as much as three thousand dollars
No description Of it can now be given
because its size and appointments will
depend upon the amount Of money tha
can be secured additional to the thre
thousand dollars.
AS will be seen by the act, it will ais
be necessary for any community biddin
for this school to make it appear tha
board can be had at low rates in goo
families, that large number Of girl
can be accommodated, and that the plac
is suitable.
, This is specially to invite bids to b
> sent to the undersigned by the first {
June, next. Upon application, a cop
of the act will be sent.
S. N. FINGER.
President of Board of Directors.