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Mr.. Derward O. Blake, 20, years of age,
died in Raleigh last night.
Professor Theodore w. Dwight, of
Columbia college, Utica, N. Y, died yes
day after a short illness, from heart
trouble.
The president has signed the joint
resolution Of congress making October
p, 1892, the four hundredth anniversary
of the discovery of America, a general
holiday.
Chicago is threatened by another cpl
demic. One man died of the disease
Tuesday in the pest house where he had
been received after exposing him for
several hours.
a special to The State Chronicle from
Morehead Yesterday says: S. J. Durham,
Trinity, received the oratorical medal,
and Miss Stevens, of Henderson, received
the musical medal.
Russell Wells, aged 20 years, son of
Professor S. G. Wells, of Roanoke col
lege, Va, and Armisted G.. Watson, aged
IS years, son of a prominent lawyer of
Martin, Texas, were instantly killed by
lightning in Salem, Va, Monday after
noon while standing under a tree.
At LYnchburg yesterday while work
men were engaged in building an addi-
ton to a large building on Main street
the wal gave way and buried a number
Of people under the debris. J. H. c..
Winston, the owner of the building, and
two colored men were killed and seven
colored men were badly hurt.
A physician of Brazil thought he had
discovered how tie ancients cured ele-
phantiasis-by the bite of a rattlesnake.
A victim Of this disease concluded he
would try the cure. He coaxed a rattle
snake TO bite him. What the result on
tie elephantiasis was, is not known, but
the man died within t~wenty-four hours.
The president sent to the Senate yes
tcrday the nomination of John w. Eos
ter, of Indiana, to be secretary of state.
The nomination was Immediately con-
tirmed. The new secretary of state was
born in Indiana and is about 50 years of
age. He is a lawyer by profession and
has a diplomatic career probably une.
qualled in American history, having
served as a minister to Mexico, Russia
and Spain with great credit.
Two of the identical cannon which
were at one time mounted on board
Christopher Columbus flagship were re-
ceived at the Fort Wayne depot yester-
day. Nothing but the body of the guns
remain, the wood work having rotted
away centuries ago. The guns are almost
worn to pieces and are not much more
than huge chunks of rust. The relics
were found by a naval officer on one of
the West India islands.
Captain Eli F. Ritter, of indianapolis,
a prominent member of the prohibition
party, has brought suit against Leonard
Hinkle, formerly chairman of the Marion
county prohibition committee, demand
ing $4,000 for libel. Hinkle, it is alleged,
caused to be printed and distributed cir
culars that stated that Ritter was the
most ~unprincipled of men and one of the
greatest s%coundrels that he had ever had
any business dealings with.
The Wilmington Messenger says: On
Friday night a man entered the residence
of Mrs. German, a widow lady with five
children, living on Seventh and Wooster
streets, and before she was aware of it,
canght her and nearly choked the life out
of her. She could not hollow but kicked
her assailant and caused his hold to relax.
She then cried murder and Mr.. Jim King,
residing next door, went to her assis-
lance. When the alarm was given the
burglar escaped. 1t is believed he was a
white man.
AT Mohawksville, N. Y, June %, Mary,
the sixteen-year-old daughter of Mr.. Will.
liam Defreest, married secretly on Sun
day Charles Van Wormer, Of about the
same age. Mr.. Defreest hunted them up
and dragged his daughter to his wagon
and started home with her. She screamed
for help so loudly that the horse got
scared and bolted. Father and daughter
were thrown out and the horse took the
occasion to kick his master, and the
daughter in the confusion ran back to her
husband. The baked father visited a
lawyer who informed him that as the girl
was sixteen the marriage consent was
legal.
Bankreputcy has at last reached the
Worlds Columbian commission. Every
cent of the appropriation has been ex-