The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-06-14
OF THE DAY!
THE NEWS FROM ALL SECTIONS OF
THE STATE AND COUNTRY.

The melon crop in South Carolina i
about % per cent short.
Parliament will dissolve between tht
18th and 25'h of this month.
Chicago experienced a tornado Mon
day. Several persons were seriously in
jurcd.
The Cornegie iron works, Of Pittsburg
will put in 0 union men, and a biz
strike is expected as a result.
A convention Of the peoples parry OF
the fourth congressional district viii be
held Thursday, the 10Th. in Raleigh.
II. l.. Loucks, Of South Dakota, who is
first y.ce-president of the national far.
mcr's alliance, will succeed Col. l.. l..
Polk as president.
Winston is no longer a member Of the
South Atlantic Baseball League. This
decision was reached Monday when the
committee failed to raise enough money
TO put thc team on a good footing.
An Albany dispatch says that it is
learned from reliable sources that senator
David b. Hill has decided not to 90 to
Chicago, but will remain in Washington
or New York city during the convention.
Dispatches from Calcutta say that the
cholera is raging with increased mortality
in Afghanistan. There is no hope of
stopping its progress as the sanitary
condition Of the country is the worst
possible.
At Bcnty Bay, Southwest Ireland, f.
Waller, a magistrate, was Watching with
his daughter Sunday. A squall came up,
the boat CapsiZed, and his daughter, Jena,
sank. Waller tried to rescue her. Both
drowned.
Rather than live afflicted with a disease
which he knew was incurable and en-
tailed long suffering, DR.. Isaac Terry, a
well known physician of Philadelphia,
blew Lis brains out yesterday morning.
DIR. Terry was SO years old.
At Chattanooga, "Jim" Weems, the
rapist, was brought into court yesterday
guarded by forty armed deputies.
WeCms was sentenced to twenty one
years in the penitentiary. The trial
lasted just ten minutes. He should have
got forty years.
George Y. Massey, Of Wilmington,
Delaware, who so strongly supported
Harrison at the Minneapolis convention,
it is rumorcd, has been officially notified
that he viii receive the judgeship of the
supreme court, made vacant by Justice
Bradlcy's death.
The pension appropriations bill was
yesterday reported to The senate from
the committee on appropriations. 1t
carries a total of SAG, 731 $50; an increase
OF $l1 ,913,2S4 over the house bill and
T321,OOO less than the estimates. The
bill, as reported, exceeds that Of last
year by $l1,522,5G5.
The notification committee appointed
by the Minneapolis convention will ar
rive in Washington mex Monday and
officially notify the president of his re-
nomination. The president will make a
speech accepting the nomination. The
will occur probably at noon
and in the east room of the executive
mansion.
North Cardinals grand educator,
James II. Iorner, died at his home il
Oxford last evening at : o'clock. This
intelligence will carry sorrow to his
friends and pupils all over the
States. He died Of paralysis of
the heart after a protracted illness Of two
yeaes. His funeral will take place We'd |
nesday morning at Oxford.
VINE the peasants are starving with =
hunger IN Russia, bears are driven bv f
munger to feed on the peasants. A bear
attacked a peasant named Peterof and g.,
ievoured him, Monday, all except the
The animal, not satisfied with the O
neal, the peasant himself not having hadl .
sNUar" meal for sometime previously, p
orowled around for other victims. Bears :
nave been seen nearer to St. Petersburg i
han for several years past. +
At a meeting Of a number OF friends d
If the late Col. l.. l.. Polk, held in Raj 5
'igE, June -, it was determined to call n ;
pubic meeting to be held in Metropolitan l
lall, Raleigh, June %, at - o'clock fer Is
he purpose of organizing a Polk Memo n
ial association, looking to the erection Il
# a suitable monument TO his memory a
'otniS end, the undersigned a committee s.
ppoi2ted by said meeting, cordially in P
lite Tie cooperation Of those interested
n this state and throughout the country:
larion Butler, Z. Nick. Goodwin. NJ
Sr~oughton, A.. J.. Daily, s. O. Wilson,,
V. J. Peele, J. j. Thomas, committee.