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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21
FATAL FURNACE EXPLOSION.
Six WOrkmen Were KilIea and Five
Others Mortally Injured.

PTTsBURG, Pa, Aug 2O.-An explo-
sion at Furnace H., of the Carnegie
Steel Company, at Braddock, at o'clock
this morning, killed six men, fatally in
jured Ave more, and destroyed $50, 600
worth of property The names of she
killed were:
Steve Havrela, Joseph Luckey, Joseph
Copp, John Meka, John Pookopovec,
John Grucha.
All were Poles and Huns. except
Grucha, who was a German. The
fatally injured are:
John Warha, John Skonda, Mike Jura,
Nike Kapenos, Andrew Drobne.
The explosion was due to chang" In
the furnance, which suddenly was
loosened and dropped into the molten
metal below, generating an immense
quantity of gas so suddenly that it could
not escape by ordinary means, and the
explosion followed.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21
CONDITION or THE CROPS.
The Tobacco Crop in North Carolina
is Excellent.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.-The Weather
Bureau in its report on crop conditions
for the week ending August 10, says:
In the central valleys and Middle At
lantic States the week has been too dry
and crops generally have suffered, while
in the Southern States east of the Missis-
sippi, excessive rains have proved in
furious.
Tobacco has suffered much from
drought in Maryland and continues in
poor cond ton in Ohio In Kentucky,
while doing well, it needs rain. The
rains of the latter part of the week
greatly benefited tobacco in Virginia,
and it is reported as improving in Ten
nessee. In North Carolina the general
condition of the crop is excellent.
Over the eastern portion Of the cotton
belt too much rain has caused rust and
shedding, while in Central Texas and
Northern Louisiana there has been a
slight improvement. In Southwest
Texas cotton is suffering from drought.
Picking has continued to a limited ex-
tent in Texas, and has been begun in
Georgia and Alabama. In Southern
Mississippi picking Will begin next week,
Alabama reports the first bale marketed
on the 14th.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21
RATES WILL BE MAINTAINED
Meeting of the Southern States Tariff
Association In New York.

NEW YORK, Aug. 20-The members of
the Southern States Tariff Association
assembled to day in one of the parlors of
the Waldorf Hotel. There were about
forty present. The meeting at once went
into executive session.
During the forenoon an agreement
was reached as to terms for the estab-
lishment and maintenance of rates.
There are about forty sections of this
agreement, which includes all Of the
roads south of Virginia and the Ohio
river, and east of the Mississippi. The
Secretary was instructed to draw up the
agreement after which it will be pre-
sented to the ASSOCIATION for adoption.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21
THE LARGEST GB@WlATDON OF GARDl0NA DAILY
is MINNIE WILLIAMS ALIvEa
Holmes Attorney Receives a Telegram
PuTpOrting to Come From Her.

EuFpOrtlng 10 come From Her.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. gov. A
Shoemaker, the attorney for H. H.
Holmes, accused of a score of murders
received telegram to-day purporting to
come from Minnie Williams, one of the
Holmes alleged victims. 1t read as fol
lows:
PROVIDENCE, r. l., Aug. 10.
"W. a. Shoemaker, Attorney, Philadel-
phia, Pa.
Report that was murdered absurd.
Am alive and well.
Minnie r. Williams"
When the message was shown to
Holmes he said excitedly.
81 knew my story that | did not kill
the girl would be confirmed" He
brushed tears from his eyes. 81 am
sorry, however, that she has made her
self so public by telegraphing. She
might as well have written"
Then Holmes reiterated the statement
that he has made 80 often that the last
time he saw Minnie Williams was when he
left her at Toronto with the Pietzel child
rem. The prisoner has every confidence
that Minnie Williams is the best friend he
has, and feels assured that the telegram
that was received here to-day was sent
by her for the purpose of showing loyalty
to him. Attorney W. A. Capps, the
Fort Worth attorney, who has been here
in the interest of Texas people, who are
trying to prosecute Holmes, was on his
way to take train for New York when
told that Minnie Williams had been re-
ported alive. He said:
Il never thought she was dead. The
Fort Worth people think she is alive,
but it seems mighty hard to locate her.
She may be somewhere near Boston.
She has many friends there, and / would
cot be surprised if the telegram you say
has been received from her is correct"
There the conversation was abruptly
terminated by Mr.. Capps having to
rush off to catch the New York ex-
press.
Assistant District Attorney Barlow
would not say whether he thought the
telegram was genuine or false. He ad-
mitted, however, that he would not be
astonished if Minnie Williams appeared
on the scene at any time.
Lawyer Shoemaker is investigating
the telegram which came over the wires
of the Western Union Company. Asked
as to his belief in its genuineness, he
replied:
sit may or may not be. My opinion,
however, is that it was sent by Minnie
Williams. Holmes told me this after
noon that he supposed the girl has just
arrived from London, and perhaps was
induced 10 send the message by some OF
his friends.
at is more than likely that Minnie
Williams sent the message from Provi-
dence and then hurriedly left the town.
She has always, you know, had a par
ticular fondness for Boston, and besides,
she has many friends in that city. She
may have been on her way there when
she telegraphed me-"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21
CHINA D0DGES INQUIRY
CONSULAR EXPEDITION TO M
VESTIGATE THE MASSACRE
ABOUT TO FAIL.
ENGLAND WILL MAKE DEMANDS

But the State Officials at Washington
Think that the Chinese Government
viii, After the Usual Delay, Accord
TO Our Representatives the Most
| Thorough Facilities for Obtaining all
Information Desired--The Chinese
Officials Fear they may Lose Prestige.
WASHINGTON, D. O., Aug. 90 The
| State Department was informed to day
| that there was some disposition on the
part of Chinese officials not to allow the
American and British officers to be pres
ent at the investigation of the Ku- -Oheng
riots. 1t is stated at the department
that the usual hitch has occurred in
which Chinese officials have refused to
allow any interference with their forms
of procedure. In every case where there
has been an investigation of the kind
proposed, the same objections have been
made, the Chinese officials feeling that
they will lose prestige with their people
if they allow foreigners to participate in
their courts These objections have
always ended in the submission of the
Chinese after some delay.
1t can be stated authoritatiyely that
the instructions to Minister DENLY cover
all questions now in controversy, and
that the investigation will be conducted
in such manner as to allow the Ameri-
can representative to secure complete
and full information as to the cause of
the riots and the persons participating
in them, whether high or low The as
surance is also given that this will be
done in such manner as to leave moth
ing for complaint by the American people
on the score of failure to obtain the facts
relating to the disturbances.
1t is not at all probable that Minister
DENLY has been directed to make any
such demand as that to be made by the
British minister at Pekin, as il is known
here that such demand will not be
necessary. 1t is understood that the
Chinese minister has informed his gov
ernment that the best interests OF China
will be served by according to the Amer
lean and British officers, the most thor
ongh facilities for obtaining all informa>
ton desired.
The attention of China has been called
to the fact that when the United States
government was investigating the Chi
nese riots in this country officials Of the
Chinese government were asked TO be
present TO obtain all the particulars 1t
is not believed at the State Department
that the refusal of the Chinese authori-
ties will do more than to delay the in
yestigation for time until the Chinese
government can direct the officers at
Ku Cheng to acoOrI the Americans and
British officials the right to be present
and to direct the invest ip3tirl1 into chan
nsls which will bring out the facts.
England Will Demand II.
LONDON. Aug. 20.-Sir r n. O'Jon-
nor, British Minister at Pekin, has been
armed with full authority to demand the
issue Of necessary instructions to the 10
cal Chinese officials there to insure the
presence of the American and British
Consuls at the inquiry which is being
made at Ku Oheng into the recent mas
sacres
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21
womAN's PARSONAGE SOCIETY.
Attendance at the Liquor Dealers AS.
sOcIatiOn Not so Large as Expected.
% the NeWs md Observer.

Special to the News and Observer.
AsHEynLE, N. c., Aug. 20.
The third annual convention of the
Woman's Parsonage and Home Mission
Society of the entire field of the South
ern Methodist church will be held here,
beginning tomorrow evening with a
sermon by Rev. John q. Kigo, of Trim
ity College. Eighty delegates are ex-
pected, and Bishops Galloway, Hargrove
and Duncan will be among the visitors
The convention will continue one week.
Oae question for consideration will be
the establishment of an industriel school
for girls at Waynesyille.
Gill Smith, a celored boy, FIVE years
old, while attempting to get a bucket of
water from the spring along side the
Asheville Street Railroad Oompany's
reservoir, near Eagle street, fell into the
reservoir and was drowned before help
reached him
j. G. AcRlroy, steward of the county
convict camp, charged with brutally
beating a convict named league, had a
hearing to day and was discharges, and
costs were taxed against the prosecutor.
The first Meeting of the State Liquor
Dealers, Distillers and Grape Growers
Association was held to night. The at
tendance is not so large as was expected.
The association will 60 to Vanderbilt's
to morrow.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21
PLAYED CARDS ON SUNDAY.
And Some one Inflicted such Injuries
on MurPhY That he Died.
cial to the News and Observer.

WINSTON, N. c., Aug 2O.-In Yadkin
county, Sunday, Pink Murphy and Dave
Hobeon, Jr., accompanied by John and
Dave Logan, went off to play cards.
When Murphy returned be asked for
some one to sew up cash cut IN his
head. a physician was c. led in, who
removed three pieces Of the young mans
skull. Murphy died before he could tell
who had cut him Dave Hobson has
been arrested on suspicion.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21
A Passenger steamer Sunk.

LONDON, A1g. 2O.-The carge steamer
Lyon collded IN the fog twenty five
miles off New Haven with the passenger
steamer Seaford from Dieppe for New
Haven to day. The Seaford sank within
fortyfve minutes. The 255 passengers
and crew of forty-two were transferred
to the Lyon safely except three of them
who had their legs broken.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21
SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTIONS.
The Reform Democrats viii Have
Majority in The Convention.

COLUMBIA, s. O., Aug. 9O.-Very full
returns to the Register from the thirty
five counties of South Carolina show that
the Democratic nominees in every county
have been elected, with few possible
exceptions Two Independent Demo
cratic candidates may be elected in Union
and two negro Republicans in Darling
ton and Two in Beaufort.
The reform Democrats will have a
large maiority in the Constitutional Con
vention, which insures the making of a
constitution which will largely eliminate
the negro vote. There was no trouble to-
day at any precinct in the State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21
Large Tobacco Shipment to Scotland.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 2O.-At Locust Point
today two hundred and fifty hogsheads
of Maryland and Virginia tobacco were
put aboard the big Donaldson Line
steamship Indrani, consigned to parties
in Glasgow. Formerly large shipments
have been sent to German and Eng
lish ports from Baltimore, but the de-
mand from Scotland has not hereto
fore been enough to warrant shipments
to any large extent.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21
Fell Dend in AshevIlle.

AsHEvILbE, N. O., Aug. 2O.-Rtchard
Alvey, of Richmond, Va, and membar
of the firm of Alvey Brothers, grain
dealers, fell dead in This city this after
noon. He had come here for his health,
having recently been sick with fever.
His wife and child were with him. He
was brother -in-law of J. Il. Dickerson,
of this city.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21
Cigarette Girls on a Strike.

BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. 2O.-Seventy
cigarette girls employed in the local fas-
tories have struck for an increase of Is
cents per thousand on cigarettes. They
held a meeting to night to make plans
to call out all the cigarette girls in the
city. The factories say the cigarette
union is trying to run the business and
that none of the union hands will be en-
ployed hereafter.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21
THE RACE DECLARED OFF.
Owing to an Accident to Defender in
Middle of Second Round.

NEW 1ORk, aug. ~. line IPSC lorna
trial race between the Defender and the
Vigilant to give the Americas Cup Com
mittee an opportunity to decide which
boat should be named to defend the cup,
was held today outside of Sandy Hook
in the same waters that the cup races
will take place in, but ended very unsat-
isfactorily. The boats raced not only to
give the committee line on them, but
also for a cup that John Jacob Astor of
fered to the winner Of the majority of
the races that the committee should or
der.
The winner of the cup, however, will
not necessarily be the defender of the
Americas Cup. One boat might beat
| the other three times straight and yet
the Americas Cup Committee will have
absolute power and discretion in picking
| the defender. The committee might de-
eide from their observations during the
cruise of the New York Yacht Club to
the Eastward and ignore these trial RACES
altogether if they SO choose to do.
1t is believed among yachtmen that the
committee ordered these trials more in
the hope that they would see Defender
IN good stiff breeze, if not hard wind,
condition of things in which she has
not yet had the opportunity of display
ing her power. They came very near
having the desired view to day. But
they were forestalled by an accident that
prevented Defender from really showing
what she could do in a breeze of wind
that went over the water probably at the
rate of twenty knots an hour. In fact it
was the very stiffness of the breeze that
brought dire injury to the fin keeled
boat. The breeze stirred up her rigging
so much and played sach havoc among it
that it loosened it to material extent up
toward the masthead and caused such
damage that Defender had to withdraw,
away her topmast.
1t was afterwards found that the
Stacking up of the rigging was SO extern
sive that the yacht would not be able to
compete in the second trial race for a
week. The committee having learned
this fact, decided at the New York Yacht
Club House to night that the next two
trial races would take place on Thursday
and Wednesday of next week. 1t is
W JoSALchiULy NcPSSiNAlg bhOSC
who have given the closest attention 10
the rigging of boats, why Defenders
stays weakened under breeze which
enabled her to still carry her club top
sail, which she did when she stopped,
and continued to do all the way up the
bay to the anchorage off Bay Ridge.
The Vigilant, too, was prevented from
going over the whole course, but from a
different cause After she had made
her first round Of the ten miles to wind
ward and return, she hauled down her
club topsaIl and then run up against
wind that burst her jjb into shreds
Nothing daunted, she ran up another
jFb and was proceeding on the course
the second time when the committee
boat Luckenbach ran up alongside of her
while she was tacking and notified her
that she need go no further; that the
Defender had withdrawn, and that she,
VigiIant, had been decided the winner
of the days race
The times of the yachts in the one
round were:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21
HE WILL BE REAPPOINTED.
And Senator Ransom will Retsrn co
Mexico without Delay.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. s0.-Ex-
Senator Ransom's new commission as
Minister to Mexico has not yet reached
the White House. His personal friends
here have good reasons for believing
that he will be re-appointed within the
next twenty four hours. His health is
entirely restored, and he will return to
Mexico without delay.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21
RAILROAD EXTENSION
SOUTHERN ASKED TO BUILD
LINK BETWEEN MOORES-
WILLIE AND MOCKSVILLE.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETAT WINSTON

The Distance is Only 30 Miles and
About HaIfof the Proposed Line Has
Already Been Graded--Its Compile
tiOn Will Give the Southern a Double
Track From Charlotte to Greensboro
--Will Develop a Fertile Section Ofthe
State--TriaI of the Rioters.
Special to the News and Observer.
WINSTON, N. O., Aug. 30.
The stockholders of the North Caro-
lima Railroad Company held an ad-
Journed meeting here to day. A com
munication was read from the Winston
Salem Chamber of Commerce, request
ing the stockholders to urge upon the
Southern Railway Company to speedily
build the link between Mocksville and
Mooresville.
The communication was endorsed and
the stockholders adopted a strong reso-
luton to this effect:
''That in view of the fact that the lease
of the North Carolina Railroad has been
renewed, and that said renewal will in
sure increased traffic over the single
tAoNh VI bhC ANOAtu OdIOltld IGdliIOdu
from Charlotte to Greensboro, we
urge the completion of the line
from Mocksville to Nooresyille.
We would recall the fact that the dis
tance from Mocksville to Mooresville is
but thirty miles, and that about half of
said line has been graded. The compile
ton Of this line will practically give the
Southern road a double track from
Charlotte to Greensboro, and greatly re-
lieve the crowded condition of the single
track now in use. This line will de-
yelop fertile section of the country
and add greatly, in our judgment, to the
of traffic, both freight and
passenger, also greatly enhance the value
Of that portion of the North Carolina
now in use"
The stockholders adjourned to meet in
Winston again October first.
The taking of evidence in the trial of
the rioters was concluded to-day. The
case is now in the hands of the lawyers
aud win certainly 60 tO the jury UoGaor-
row. Several negroes plead guilty to-day.
The fight between the Bell and Inter
State Telephone Companies is on here.
O. E. Mcclure, superintendent of the
southern division for the Bell Company,
was here to day and asked for permission
to go in the Office and see the In5er-State's
new switch board. The request was
kindly but emphaticallY denied.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21

Thus it will be seen that the Defender
beat Vigilant on the elapsed time by five
minutes fat.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-21

LONDON, Aug. 90. William Kenny
has been appointed Solicitor General for
Ireland. He Is a Liberal Unienist and
sat in the last Parliameu for Dablin.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1895-04-25

Hon. Dorman B. Eaton, of Ohio,
who claims to have drafted the
civil service law, and who was the
first Civil Service Commissioner,
paid the President high compli-
ment when he said:
"For the courage President
Cleveland has shown in executing
this reform, for his faithful adher-
ence to the law, he is deserving of
the highest praise. 1 am republi-
can, but on this question, as in his
brave stand for a sound system of
currency, Mr.. Cleveland has shown
himself such true patriot that all
questions of partisan ship are lost
sight of, and he deserves just as
much credit from republicans as he
does from his own followers"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1895-04-25

upon the platform adopted by the
National Democratic Convention
of 1892, opposing recommendation
in any form.--Scott County Regis.
ter.
4 Every patriotic Missis.
sippian who honOrs character and
admires courage, will weigh his so-
her and earnest words, coming as
they do, from a man who IN pub
lie career of over a quarter of a
century, has never been known to
desert a principle or lay c0nvic-
ton on the altar of compromise. -
North Mississippi Democrat.
The next President of the United
States will be elected upon finan-
cial platform substantially like Gov.
Stones fredericksburg Post.
All honor to Grover Cleveland
and brave John M. Stone, two of
Americas greatest patriots. They
are broad enough to comprehend
the relations of this GOvrnment to
the other nations of the earth and
patriotic enough to want to pree
serve the financial honor of the
United States. More power to
these grand men NORTH Mlssis-
sippi Democrat.
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