The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-19
LAST EDITION
THE NEWS THIS MORNING
4 O'CLOCK, A. M-

F7E NENO lt1iS -
FOREIGN-Another awful massacre
feared in Eastern Turkey. Miss Clara
Barton has arrived at Constantinople
and is organizing a system for the dis
tribution of relief.-French newspa-
pers declare that an agreement on the
Venezuelan dispute has been reached
by Great Britain and the United States
and congratulate the two countles.-
Inhabitants of Cuba terror-str1cken Dy
an earthquake shock.-The Irish par
liamentary party elect Dillon chalf-
man to succeed Justin McCarthy.--l ne
political situation in Paris growing
very serious. An uprising OF the poPu-
lace is a possibility. ty.-Empress OF ger
many receives Mrs. Runyon, WlIe OF
the late Ambassador, in an audlence OF
condolence.-0fi official dispatches report
insurgents under Gen. Maceo defeated
Another serious rebellion IN Cofea'
Tt is caused by a royal proclamation
that Coreans must cut of their queues
and wear their hair in Western fash
ion.
DOAiESTIC-Am Rives marIles
a Russian nobleman.-Between % ana
60 persons killed by an explosion OF gas
in the Vulcan mine at New Castle'
Col-lhe tobacco factory OF lomp-
kins & Co. at Rocllport, Ind, destroy
cd by fire: loss $50, 0,000.-Ihree masked
robbers enter Market Street bahk,
San Francisco. seize the cashier ana
boolx-keeper and putting them in the
vauIt. steal a lot of gold.--A true bill
found against four white men anu a
negro for the Broxton bridge lynch-
ino in South Carolina. n negro ana
his mother were beaten to death Tor
stealing a Bible.-A mail train runs
into a sleigh containing four people at
Cleveland, Ohio, killing one OF them
and fatally injuring another.-Another
old feud wiped out in Kentucky by
the killing of one man and fatally
wounding another.-The requlsltlon
of the Governor of Kentucky for Jack
son and Walling, Pearl Bryan's muir
derers, granted by the Governor OF
Ohio.-Boycott declared July 20. 1895,
bv the Southern Wholesale Grocers
Association, embracing jobbers IN every
Southern city, against the Ioulsyllle
and Nashville railroad has been WITH
drawn.-A broken rail on Central Ncr-
mont railroad at Bellows Falls causes
serious wreck. About a dozen persons
injured four of them seriously.--ken
lucky Senatorial ballot resulted:
Blackburn, 60; Hunter. 60; scattering,
1O.-A womane burned to death and
her husband badly injured IN their
burning home at Stamford, Gonna
bill introduced in Virginia Legislature
to increase efficiency of Virginia Vol
unteers- Nearly all the sports" have
left EI paso in despair of the big fight
ever coming off. FitzsiInmons las
cooled down and acquiesces III the
present arrangements.-Sec Car
isle has not yet decided what he viii
do with the bonds upon which default
of first payment has been made.--Sec-
retary and Miss Morton entertain the
President and Cabinet at dinner.-An
effort being made to dissolve the Untted
States Wallpaper trust.-Ihe Mardl
Gras in New Orleans attended by q
great crowd.-A German laborer in
Baltimore, crazed with jealousy, shoots
his wife, son and grand-child. The
two latter viii probably die.-Rev. o.
@. Brown now on trial as a result of the
charges made against him and Miss
OYerInan by Mrs. Davidson Muni-
cipal elections in Pennsylvania. The
Republicans win in Philadelphia and
Pittsburg; contest close in Reading
Arkansas Populists to hold State con
yention July 15.-The Cleveland Cham
Der of Commerce black-balls the name
Of Andrew Carnegie. fifth am
nual Continental congress Of the
Daughters of the American. Revolution
began yesterday at Washington.
CONGRESS The Agricultural ap-
preparation bill, carrying S3,15s,192
passed by the House.-The Senate
does little actual work, but furnishes
a number Of breezy Incidents Sharp
personal exchanges between Hill and
Tillman.-A bill reported by Senator
Lodge for the restriction of immigra
tion. All persons to be excluded who
are so ignorant as to be unable To
read and write any language.
STATE-Dr. Tyre York, of Wilkes
county, will probably be an indepen-
dent candidate for Congress against
Linney.- Students at the University
pass resolutions approving President
Winston's action in signing student
Thomas name to a telegram
the issue before the people of the State
in the coming campaign.-The Cum
mock Relief committee makes a final re-
ply to Superintendent Cant's state
ments.