The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-07-14
AROUND THE WORLD!
THE NEWS FROM ALL SECTIONS OF
THE STATE AND COUNTRY.

Yesterday was the hottest day in the
year at New York. The Thermometer
stood 9S in the shade.
Gladstone was elected yesterday by a
majority Of 600. This is reduced from
over 1000 last election.
ON the resolution to consider the silver
bill Yesterday and to-day the North Caro-
lima delegation voted with the yeas.
Twenty thousand iron workers will
probably 90 on a strike today. This
step will be taken out Of sympathy for
the Homestead workmen.
Sicily is threatened with a great disas-
ter. Mt. Etna is still belching forth fire
and birthstone and the inhabitants of the
~neighboring villages are escaping in
large numbers.
At Peoria, Ills yesterday nine bodies
were recovered which were lost by the
wtccking Of the ship "Frankie Folsom
Eighteen are drowned. Eighteen ships
were wrecked during the tornado.
An attempt was made Tuesday at Gin
cinnati to form a leaf tobacco trust with
a capital Of two millions but proved a
failure. The stumbling block was the
adjustment Of the values Of the various
plants concerned.
At Springfield, O, John Redfern, the
white man who shot and killed Mr. =. Il.
Dunn and dangerously injured John
Hobby, a negro, Wednesday morning,
was taken from the jail by a mob at mid
night last night and hanged.
The investigation of the labor troubles
at Homestead by the congressional COM
mittec continues, and will probably be
finished tonight. Leaders in the ANAL
gamated association were examined yes
tcrday. The queries are rigid.
Mr.. sam Brewer, carpenter employed
at the Atlantic Coast Line shops in Viii
mingtOn, met with a bad accident Thurs
day while handling a jack screw in the
yard, one Of his eyes being knocked out
by one Of the parts of tie screw which
SdNt way NHlIC IC was "OIkIII II anu |
struck him in the face.
At Middletown, n. Y, yesterday a pic
mic wagon of jolly boys and girls set out
for the cool green woods, little suspect
ing that many would never return alive.
The wagon, when crossing a railroad
track, was crashed into by a train at full
speed. In an instant four of the pic
nicers were killed and six injured.
The Charlotte News says: y little
child Of Mr.. ID. b. Poston, of Pioneer
Mills, Cabarrus county, was kicked in
the head this morning by a horse. The
messenger who was sent for DR.. Sam
Grier stated that the child was evidently
dead when he left, but he went for the
doctor only for the satisfaction of the
child's parents.
An Iowa town comes to the front with
something original in the rain freaks
which gets away with the showers CT
frogs, fish, etc, which nave been so
numerous this year. That town has now
a stock Of young ~alligators which tum-
blcd down in a big rain. Perhaps this
will account for the short crop of alliga,
tors in some of our sTamps.
While Mrs. Carr, aged 80, and her two
little girls, aged respectively 6 and 4
years, were walking on the track of the t
West Shore railroad near West Iaver-
straw, n. Y, yesterday, they were struck
by an express train, which instantly &
killed the woman and one of the chill t
drcn AMI fatally injured the other. The
tragedy was witnessed by many Mortified {
people. t
Missouri bulls don't like book agents, .
a fact which a book agent discovered the
Other day when he attempted to cross a =,
field which was inhabited by abull. The
b. was too fleet footed for the b. a. and
was about to gore him into pulp, when a
shot from Il rifle brought the beast down. :
1t was shot by the lady of the house on
the farm, but whether she aimed at theI ::
b. or the b. a. is a matter of local speCu. .
latlon. h book agent had been to see ,
her and had nearly talked her to death.
Last night at Livingston, Ga, J. l.. t
stephens, a merchant, was shot and 0
killed by l.. G.. Wilkerson, who was t
criminally intimate with Mrs Stephens
they had been at variance with each
other for some time. Stephens drew his O
pistol and fired upon Wilkerson five
times. Wilkerson fired one shot at
stephens, the ball taking effect between =
his eyes and killing him instantly. Will
kerson was shot once in the left arm and I
twice in the breast and is not expected
to live.
Last night, at Spokane, Washington, :
Luke BowleS, sheriff of Whitman county |
stopped with Sim Harris and his wife Y
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