The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-07-15
AROUND THE WORLD!
THE NEWS FROM ALL SECTIONS OF
THE STATE AND COUNTRY.

on the condition Of national banks on
July y, 1892.
James /. Hamilton was sentenced yes
terday to die by electricity at Sing Sing
in the week beginning August % for the
murder Of his wife.
The borough of Homestead was yester-
day morning put under martial law, the
outcome Of the unwarranted arrest OF
strangers the day before.
-Four thousand Of Carnegie's iron
workers struck yesterday afternoon.
This was done mainly to express their
sympathy for the Homestead wOrkmen.
The advisory committee at Homestead
is daily in receipt Of kilograms and letters
from all parts Of the union expressing
sympathy with the cause Of the locked
out men.
The family Of the lynched negro in
New York are suing the state for $lO,-
900. This opens up a new industry for
razor-back lawyers and bum bailiffs in
this section.
Captain William p. Graves, mayor of
Danvillc, died this morning at 1915
o'clock. The deceased was Il years old
and served with distinction in the Con-
federatc army.
r. a. Green, Of New Berne, was elect.
ted president Of the State Firemen's
Association, and DR.. J. w. Griffith, Of
Greensboro, was elected SECRETARY. Its
meeting next year will be in Wilmington.
In New jersey there is a boy of 1G
years under sentence Of death for MUIR
der, caused by reading dime novels. In
Georgia a boy of II was convicted of
murder. Possibly they may be impris-
oncd for life. If they be hanged it will
be getting pretty near the cradle.
Advices received yesterday from the
Tombigbee bottoms, in SHUTTER county,
Ala, show that 200 people are home
less and starving from the floods in tibet
county. Governor Jones proclamation
for aid is being literally responded to
on all sides. The damage done to crops
is n~carley half q million dollars.
Charles Blackman, the negro wife
murderer, was hanged at Greensboro at
1870 o'clock yesterday. The execution
was private. He declined to make any
remarks, but said he was ready to go.
His neck was not broken, but he was
pronounced dead in fourteen minutes
The body was turned over to his relatives.
Some men enjoy a joke very much.
Jesse Murscr, of an Iowa town, was sup
posed to be the person hanged by a mob
as a bank rObbcr. He was Identified and
buried as Jesse. His parents were under
this impression, and Jesse enjoyed the
joke until the other day, when he in
formed them that they were mistaken
and that Jesse was alive and kickin'.
Their was a marked change in the
bearing Of the soldiers on duty in the
town of Homestead yesterday. They
talked very little with the strikers.
There was N of the playfulness of the
past two days. Everything was in earn
est, and that the men mean business is
plain. With one regiment inside of Car
negie's mills and another on duty in the
town, the military are ready for any
emergency that may arise there.
The Greensboro Record says Two car
loads Of hogs, COWS and sheep, all hud-
died together promisCuously, passed here
yesterday from Tennessee, bound north.
There were enough cattle to fill three
ordinary cars, but they were crowded
into two, and as a consequence, when
they arrived at this place several hogs
to death under the feet of the cows.
Where's the society for the prevention of
cruelty TO animals:
Fifteen special deputy sheriffs were
sent to IIiCksville, Long Island, yester-
day TO guard the works of the Hicksville
Pearl Button company where a strike
has been in progress for the past week.
About twenty five non union men are
employed at the factory now. The sight
OF the new men enraged the strikers and
they assaulted them with stones and clubs.
During the fight -four mem were badly
injured. The strikers threw stones at
the factory building, smashing numerous
paneS OF glass.
Yesterday Dwight +. Carroll, an in
structor in the Lehigh University, at
Bethlehem, Pa, made "A desperate at
tempt at suicide al his home at Yalesville
by swallowing a large dose of paris
green. Prof. Carroll was one Of a num-
Der of speakers at a gathering of collie
gians a few months ago, and while de-
l~ivering his address he was, as a Joke.
guyed numerically by those in the
audience. Being of a sensitive nature,
the occurrence preyed upon his mind,