The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899, July 09, 1896, Image 3

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The apple crop ia somew hat in ad
vance of iu usual time and it seems that
choiaa morbus is beginning to de ouei-
A mining expert examined the coal
mines at i onca rei-ently and announces
as his belief tliat there ia a paying lower
vein o' coal there.
Grasshoppers are lieeoming quite
oumeious in some portions of the state
nd it it feared they will do much dam
age to the growing crops.
There is a smnll black bug with a
yellow head that in doing a great deal
jf damage to the chicory and beet fields
In the vicinity of Clarkson.
The Stanton Picket suggtts in a mild
way to the Fourth of July management
the possibility of a shooting match with
cur dogs and yowling cats ad targets
being a winning feature.
Jack Graham of Grand Island is work
ing on a contrivance with which to con
oect two bicycles together, doing away
1th one front wheel bo as to ride tan
dem. If successful it will be quite a hit.
A German taking breakfast at a hotel
in Humboldt, was asked by the waiter
tf he would have cakes. "Nine," he
replied. "Nine I Holy smoke, man,
you must have a tape worm," said
waiter. "'Yaw, I try dot."
the
The O'Neill Frontier says that Harry
Weeks brought nuke a curiosity Into
the Frontier office Friday. If was a
lour days' old chicken, which had four
well developed legs. Two of them grew
'.n the Droiier dace, while the other
two were on the back a little behind
the others. The chick was as pert as
1 snrina lamb and will probably live
ind be worth aa much as two roosters
:n any man's garden.
Ashland is too much of a pleasure
resort for the fruit tree business. Sir
igents struck town one day and pre-
Dared to do business the next morn
mg. After supper someone came along
with a good string of fish. The sight
lent every tree man on a run for the
nearest fish pole store. All that even
ng any the next two days they fished.
"Fruit tree be darned," one of them
emarked as they beaded for the creek.
The Madison Chronicle says: "As
Sheriff Clements wag about to seire
tome stock on an execution, at the farm
jf Joseph Brozek recently, the letter's
wife appeared with a double-barrel shot
run, and proposed to shoot the liver out
3f the best sheriff Madison countv ever
had. Sheriff Clements wasn't ready to
climb the golden stairs just yet, so he
relieved the irate female of her danger
ous weapon and brought it to town with
him."
A man named Patrick Casey came to
Norfolk and got drunk Even when
he was sober, he said he was a bad
man, and now he was so tough that
he was almost afraid to associate with
himself. He was bunting a fight, and
uould not be appeased until be had de
voured a few men and brothers. He
wanted to fitiht and he must have
found one, for he left town in a badly
battered condition and with a desire for
pea..
A girl appeared at the court house at
Nebraska City recently and wanted to
know how much a poetical license cost.
She said the wag thinking of writing
ome poetry (or publication, and so
many people were being arrested for
lot paying a license, the though per
haps it was necessary to have a poetical
license. She was Informed that she
was safe without a poetical license, to
long as her poetry did not get her Into
trouble.
Riley Abboit of Grand Island has
unexpectedly found himtelf in the bee
busineet. Monday morning a huge
swarm of beet came buzzing along and
domiciled themselves in one of the
chimneys of hit residence, Riley in
tends running a pipe into the chimney
and connecting the same with hit lar
der. He ssy there it nothing like hav
ing thingt handy. Mr. Abbott it likely
to have a bee (not a political one) In
hit bonnet before the summer It over.
The eighth annual reunion of old ret
llert will be held at Union August 13
tod 14. A man who misses an old fet
tler's reunion thit year it neglecting an
Important part of hit education. There
will be eloquent orators and bandt of
music. And there will be more. There
trill be chance to mingle with the men
Ind women who have done moet to
Snake Nebraska. A man who could not
at in couple of dayt at an old tettlert'
Reunion limply llttening and comeawab
with material for two months thinking
(rould be narrow and barren in mind.
; The Talmage Tribune givet it out
cold that it will tuspend publication in
n month unlest it receivet more patron
lige. Yet Talmage tupportt three sa
loons In gocd shape.
' Marshall Skaggs of Dethler hat had
o move Irampt and holioei on two Of
Uiree timet recently, and two he had to
odge in the calaboose. One gang til
quite ingenious, making wooden eaeeli
tor photographs, card feceiven.blll filet,
tc, hut they had poor i uccera telling
them.' -,
fchot al In Loan.
Pa KBAwi'iaco, July 8. E. J. (Lucky!
Baldwin, the millionaire horseman, bed
wonderful escape from assaseinatioo
yee'erday at the hands of Miss Emma
A. Ashlev, the titter of Miss Lillian
Alhley, 'whose suit for $75,000 for al
leged betrayal, has been in progreti be
fore Jude Slack for iteveral weekt and
is now drawing to a close. Mist Ash
ley, the plaintiff, m on ttie witnesi
stand shortly after the court opened
yesterday morning, and it was while
she was being examined that her sister
irew a revolver trom a handbag which
she carried, and fired a shot at Baldwin,
the bullet grazing his bead. "
The shooting following the proceed
ings on the stand seemed so like a pre
arranged sequence that it is charged
by the defense that it was the result
j( a conspiracy ; that the Ashleys had
'earned of what the defense bad in
tore for yesterday morning and that it
had been agreed that on the introduc
tion of the evidence the shooting o(
Baldwin was to immediately follow,
rhis opinion is shared by others than,
those connected with the defense.
The incident which prec pitated the
attempted assassination was the intro
Juetion of a photo of Mid Lilliat Ash
;ey. When she saw it Baldwin 8 at
torneys sav she knew her case was
I ine; that its introduction led her to
ifivs a lignal liefore agreed upon to her
inter to fire the shot. At any rate
what seemed to le a signal from Lillian
was given and immediately hrr sister,
who occupied a feat behind Baldwin,
1red point blank at his head. The
oullet plowed through his hair and
Juried itself in the wall of the court
'oom near the bench.
OKAI'PLKD WITH THE WOMAN.
Mr. Unruh, Baldwin's business man
iger, was the iirst to take in the situ
itinn. He jumped at the woman,
(truck her a violent blow f n the wrist)
ind wrested the pistol from her grasp;
Then a most eicitirig scene ensued.
Attorney Crittenden rushed to the a
list nee of the sister of his client, puU
ting his hand in his pistol pocket aa
he moved He reached Unruh just at)
the latter brought the pistol down after
having torn it frm the woman's grasp.
Whether purpooely or not he covered,
Crittenden with it. The attorney wad
1oi at all slow in showing his gun, and
lor a few seconds it looked at if further
ihnoting would follow. Attorney
Llovd and High ton and the court offi-
;ials jumped between the excited gun-
holders and separated them. t,lerkj
KcElroy took the pistols and the danger
aas over.
In the meantime the would-be mur-,
leress ha 1 become alarmed. At soon
11 she could she broke from the clutch
jf Mr. Unruh and darted toward the
ather side of the room, fol'owed by
Baldwin, who feared she had another
pistol in tier bag. He caught bis as
tailant and held ler until the bailitf
t ok her in charge and escorted her to
he city prison, where sue wa booked
j:i a charge of asssult to murder.
"I tried to do a Christian act," she
aid : "I tried to kiil a vile seducer, t
tried to kill the man who bad seduced
uid degraded my sister and dragged
her good name in the dust. I thought
the vile wretch had cumtiered the earth
too long and I tried lj kiil him, but itj
was notGol's will, so I suppose it is all
right."
Soon afier noon a complaint by Un
ruh, charging Miss Ashley with assaultl
to commit murder, was sworn to in
the police eourt and bail was fixed at
I 1 0,000.
Reuben H. Lloyd, of Baldwin's coun
sel, taiil yeatetday morning that Bald
win had warning three days ao that
an attempt was to I) made upon his
life, but that the story was not believed.
WHAT OAlKI IT AM,.
At the time of the shooting Miss Lil
lian Athlev was undergoing a severe
crow-examination upon the subject of a
photo, tupposed to 1 of hereelf, winch
the ttrongly repudiated, but eventually
udmilted it might possibly be a "snap
Bbot," photo. The picture looked very
like iier, the hair being curled. It wan
introduced by the defense for the pur
pose of contradicting her statement that
she at no time in her life had curled her,
hair. In conclusion she said : 1 know
it can't be me, for I never wore a dreat
like that," and tthe lat an twer quoted
left her lipt, Emma A. Ashley fired at
Baldwin.
Nevada llaah Swindle
8a Frahcisco, July 3. The ex
supination of Frank L. Seaver, aliat
A. H. Dean, in the Creegan-Becker,
Nevada bank forgery cate, occupied the
court yesterday. The wltnesa went
over the frequent meeting! between
himself and Creegan in New York while
they were ltying plant for the raid
upon the Nevada bank. Dean iden
tified samples of bank tafety paper at
exactly like thote purchased by him in
New York at the request of Creegan,
who gave them to Becker.
The statement made by Seaver to
Captain Leet wat read in evidence.
He denied that any promite of immu
nity from punishment had been made
to him in oontideration for hit con'
fession. Server admitted that he wat
"criminal" and that he had twice
been convicted of forgery in the eatt.
"I originally ttarted In the lumbti
busWiest in New York, and since I left
that I have not done anything on the
q-are" wat the frank way in which the
witness tummariied hit life.
Hooakx-p.- Mlaaliif.
Nw York, July 3. The World ye
terday publishes the following:
William Krute, for thirty-one yean
bead bookkeeper and confidential man
with thw big dry goods importing houe
of a A. Aufmordt 4 Co., is mlssinj
nd is Mid to have gone to Europe.
When hit private safe wat opened se
curities amounting to many thousands
of dollars, many of which belong U
friendt, were mleting. Experts havt
been going over the firm's bookt.
HARRIET B.ECHER STOWE
Pasiei Peacefully Away at Her Oi
Horns-
THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY PRESENT.
Short Sketch of llff Life "
World-wide llepntatloi
Work of
Habtvobo, Conn., July Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Siowe, the gifted au
thorestof "Uncle Tom'e Cabin" and
snd "Dred" and other works of world
wide reputation, died at ber home, No.
73 Forest street, at noon yesterday w ith
out regaining consciousness. She parsed
peacefully awaylas though into a deep
leep. By her bedside at the time were
her son. her two (laughters, her mar
ried Bister and her husband and Dr. Ed
ward Hooker, her nephew, who was
also her medical attendant, and other
relatives. Mrs. Stowe't malady of
many years' continuance, a mental
trouble, to jk an acute form on Friday,
when congestion of the brain with pir
tial paralysis appeared. During Fri
day, Saturday and Sunday Mrs. Stowe
was about the house, but suffering very
much. Since Mom! y morning she has
been confined to ber bed and yesterday
afternoon lie-ame unconscious Mrs.
Stowe until seven years ao was in itood
health, although she was frail bodily.
Mrs. Stowe was born at Litchfield
Conn., June 14, 1812, and was therefore
eijhty-four when she passed away.
She was the third daughter and sixth
child of Dr. Lyman Beecber. She grew
up in an atmosphere surcharged with
mental and moral enthusiasm and it
was under the strong influence of her
gitUid father that she imbibed those
trails of mental character, so strongly
brought out in her contributions to the
anti-slavery propaganda. Her literary
labors began w hen she was but twelve
years old, and her first article was a
composition under the somewhat im
posing title, "Can the Immortality of
the Soul Be Proved From Its Light of
Nature?" Her father, gratified and
pleased, encouraged her literaTy aspira
tions. She was given every advantage
of education and became well known n
literary circles at an early age.
In January. 1896. she married Rev
Calvin Ellis Stowe, and took up he?
residence at Cincinnati. From that
city she made frequent visits to the
slave states of the south and thus ac
ouired that minute knowledge of touth'
ern life and characteristic displayed in
her later writings. She joined the anti
slavery crusade with all the enthusiasm
uf a strong woman e nature.
The Whole Story.
Sam Francisco. Cal.. July 2 A vast
amount of evidence was introduced yet-
terday in the trial of Bedker and Cre
Ktn. pharged with defrauding the Ne
vada bank of f . 2,000 by means of a
forged draft. After the testimony of
the offlc'ale of the various banks con
cerned had leen beard, Frank I. Seav
er, alias A. H. Dean, also an accom
plice of Becker and Cregan, was placed
on the stand and made a full confession
of the transaction. He told of his meet
in it Creiian in Baltimore county, Ohio,
when the latter wat held on a charge of
forgery. A few yeart later be met
Cregan in New York and the latter In
troduced him to Becker. In November,
1 S95, the three met at the Hotel Savoy,
New York, and planned the Nevada
bank swindle. Becker forged the draft,
Dean passed it and Cregan acted at
middleman. The examination of Dean
will be continued tomorrow.
Hlfh Wator.
Euoemont, S. D , July 2. At 1 o'clock
yesterday the Edgemont irrigating canal
embankment broke touth of Uwn and
an enormous amount of water was let
loose. The water poured down the hill
into the old bed of the cteek where the
1 B. A M. railroad company had built
their track. The water rote until with-
in ten feet of the top of the fill, when
the ground broke through and the
water quickly melted the fill. Before
the flood could be controlled it had
washed a hole two rails long and thirty
feet deep and in two other placet it
washed the track out for some distance;
Wrecking crewt from both ends of the
line were called to the spot and will
take all night before the break it re
paired. The embankment had beenjin
s pec ted Tuesday and found in good
shape and on the ttrength of this an
extra amount of water had been turned
in from the surplus reservoir.
A small pipe had been pushed through
the embankment tome months ago and
the immsnte prettu re of water caused
it to cut around the pipe and in three
minutes the water from all the lakes
and reservoirs wat foaming through
the break. The damage to the canal
will amount to almost three thousand
dollars, while the Burlington loss is
very great.
The city escaped the flood by almost
a miracle, as owing to the pressure of
water the embankment above town
proved to be weak In one place and but
for the providential breaking of the
embankment at the place It occurred
the rown would have been flooded and
an enormous amount of damage done.
Two cloud buntt occurred yetterday
near the city and the rivers are all
flooded high.
Cats Salaries.
Washinotoh, July 2. The pottofnee
department yetterday male public the
change In the classification and salaries
of the presidential postofflces for the
fiscal year beginning tomorrow. In the
great majority of rates the yearly in
crease in salary consequent upon en
larged receipts is $100, although In.
ttancet are not wanting where these in-
creases amount to ,200 and 1300 more
than has prevloutly been paid tka post-
tUil Bweaiug.
WaiEsiAtaa. Pa., July l.Another
twenty-fi or bourt hat rolled sway rod
ttill the men at the twin shaft, Pittnon
Junction, are making heroic efforlt to
reach the men entombed and more
progress was made yetterday afternoon
than bat been made since work waa
begun. There wat no further gqm-eiing
in the gangway or slope and toe men
were not interfered with in placing the
timbera and feeling their way cautious
ly along. On acrount of the favorable
conditions yesterday the men have gone
about 500 feet further into the slope
than they were the night previous and
reached the edge of the cave. It is pre
sumed that the men entombed are ,
about 700 feet from the edge of the cave, !
nd in order to reacli the bodies dipging (
a at bepun with ail vigor, jne iimoers
behind the rescuers Monday showed no
sigiit of bending and all of the official!
agreed that the roof was in good con
diti n. To dig away the fall 700 feet
and reach the bodies will take twelve or
filteen hours longer, if everything con
tinues favorable, but the officials and
rescuers think there are open spaces
beyond the edge of the fall, which, of
course, would not have to lie dug, and
in these placet the men would only
have to secure the roof. If the slope it
soli lly choked up, the digging would
take a couple of weeks, but if the fall is
not heavy, and if there are open spaces,
the men may be reached any time with
in the next twelve or fifteen hour.
Thit refers to the main body of men en
tombed. It wag known that Mayor
Langan and some of the other men
were not as far in the slope aa the
others, and yesterday it was thought
probable by the officers that their bodiee
might be readied at any time during
that time. The air is good and it still
freely circulates amoiig the rescuers.
The company ha completed a careful
and systematic canvass of the namet
and the number of men who have per
ished in the ill-fated mine. This list
shows that there are but fifty-eight men
all told.
1:30 a. m. The midnight shift res
cuers who have come to the surface
report that they are now at work on
the cave and may reach the bodies at
any minute. Some of the rescuers
cling to a faint hope that some of the
men may be alive. They Bay that the
pillars where the men are imprisoned
are very large and strong and that
perhaps the cave came about them and
left them imprisoned in an open space,
but the question whether or not the
men could have sustained life for so
long without food or water iB open to
grave doubts.
Klllrd itj Mil Kxliftlnn.
Berlin, July 1. An arsenal near Ft.
Mosel, one of the fortB in the vicinity of
Metz, the capital of Lorrain, was dis
covered to lie on fire last night. The
diacovery caui-ed consternation among
the people in the neighborhood, for the
reason that there is an immeriHe amount
of explosives in the arsenal. The gar
rison troons were hurriedly turned out
to fight the flames and pre :ent if possi
ble an explosion, which, should it occur,
would be disastrous. While the soldiert
were at work there was an explosion of
a comparatively small quantity of am
munition, which kiih'J seven men and
injured a number of others. This caused
much excitement, but the troops brave
ly resumed their work. Large quanti
fies of gunpowder and ghelle were hasti
ly removed to places of safety, but there
yet remains enough to blow the arsenal
to atoms should the tire reach it.
Bhortly before midnight the Are wat
ttill burning, but was thought to bt
under control.
Confederate Veteran.
Richmond, Va., July 1. The sixth
annual convention of the confederate
veterans met yesterday morning in the
vast and gaily decorated auditorium
erected for the purpose at the exposition
grounds in this city. General John F
Gordon, commander-in-chief of the off
federate veterans, was greeted by ch .t
and the band played "Dixie." He was
then presented with a gavel which Gen
eral Gordon announced was made front
a tree cut on the battlefield of Ohicka
mauga. Governor O'Farral welcomed
the veterans to Virginia and Mayor
Taylor performed a similar office for the
City of Richmond. The appearance of
General Wade Hampton during Gov
ernor O'Farral's address wat the lignal
for round after round of cheert and rebel
1 yells. last evening the rebel literary
1 society tendered a reception to Mrt.
' JeSerton Davis at the "white house ol
j the confederacy," now the confederate
'museum. The city is crowded at never
before tince the close of the war.
lor lire; ialle.
Greenwich, Conn., July 1. E. 0.
Benedict's Oneida arrived here yetter
jdsy evening with Pretident Cleveland
aboard. The party stayed at Mr. Ben
edict'! hew house over night. The trip
to Gray Gablet will be resumed today.
Mis Check.
Butte, Mont., July 1. -Charles W.
Clark, ton of W. A. Clark, the million
air mine owner and politician, wat mar
rled yesterday afternoon to MitsCather
Ine Q. Roberts of Helena, a younj
Stenographer. The groom'i father pre
sented her with a check for $100,000
( barged With Harder.
Momi., Ala., July 1. Collier Hall,
.wealthy and well known citizen of this
county, was arretted at hit home about
,ten miles north of Mobile for the alleged
murder of hit itepfather, a man named
O'Ferrall, In Etcambia county,-Florida,
on Jnne 10. 1871. Mr. Hall has been a
cltiisn oi this county for the past quar
ter of a century and is a well to do stock
Talter. Ha ad mitt that he wai present
J when n(( itepfather was killed.
P1TTST0N MINING UORkOK
Tht Situation
Growing
Today.
More Awful
MANY BODIES CANNOT BE RESCUED
full C iiif la oil te.f Hand Water
lh Mine.
WiMtasBrRii, Pa , Jur.e SO. The
situation at the scene of the Pitteton
disaster remains practically un
claimed. The company is making
every possible eff jrt to reach the vic
tims, out there U very little hope that
any of them will be recovered alive.
It is not yet possible to give the ex
act number of persons in the pi1, but it
is certain that there are not lesi than
seventy men entomeil. Having aooui
forty-eight widows 125 orphans.
The board of trade at Pittston yester
day appropriated $1,000 for the immedi
ate wants of ihe bereit families and de
sires through the United prewa to ap
peal to the charitably disposed at home
and abroad for such aid as they may
be ph-aced to contribute to this worthy
object. Contributions may be for
warded io Thomas Mangan, treasurer
of the board of trade of Pittilon, Pa.
T frieiids and relatives of the en
tombed men haunted yesteniay and to
day tiie opening of the shaft, hoping
against hope that Borne of the rescuing
party m:-y bring up words of cheer.
But as one gang after another readied
the surface and answered the anxious
questions w it" only a eud shake of the
head, u;spair was ayain shown upon
the countenances of the unhappy ones.
The rescuing party that went into
the shaft yesterday morning returned
at 6 o'clock last evening and as they
jumped from the carriage the foreman
was h ard to say : "No hope of rescue
as yet." Later on it was learned that
the situation inside it changing almost
hourly owing to the continuous cavina
or squeezing anil on vrns account Hom
ing whatever can be told as to when the
men can be rerched.
LITTI.K rROOrS3 MADE.
The rescuing party last night were
working their way to the point where
they wished to start digging this
mottling but at midnight the p-o
and pillars in the shaft are leiiig
forced out oi place and no piogrets can
be made until after this difficulty can
be averted. Moneter pumps were low
ered and will be Bet as near b possi
ble to the scene of disaster but there
ia no telling what the pumps ill be
able to do Men are at work drilling a
hole through the Clear Spring coiliety
into the twin ehaft workings. The men
here t-tarled on Sunday to cut a hole
throiigh large enough to admit a man's
body, but the officials feared the water
and uas in the twin shaft would ruth
into the Clear Spring and cause die-
a.-ter to thote workingi also, and it was
decided to abandon the work of making
so large a hole and to merely drill a
prnall bore hole through the eighty feet
of coal for the double purpose of finding
out the condition of the twin shaft
workings as to water and gas and witl
the idea of communicating with the
men if thev or anv of them should
chance to be on the opposite side of the
cave next to the Clear Spring partition.
Prominent mine officials from all
parts of tin country were on ti.e ecene
yesterday discussing the sad disaster
from every standpoint. A conference
was held during the day, at which re
ports were made to the effect that the
fall is the largest ever known to any
miner in this valley and that the cave
in is still going on. Among the officials
who were present were Mine Inspecter
Blowitt of Scranton, Anthony Horn, su
perintendent of the Pensylvania coal
company, Pittson; Superintendent Da
vie of the Dobson coal company, Ply
mouth; H. H. Ashley, general manager
of the Pariah coal company, rVilkes
barre ; J. L Cake, manager of the Clear
Spring coal company. West Pittson,
and J. Bennett Smith, practical en
gineer of the Hazard works, Wilkee
barre. The most of thetn have come to
the conclusion that the bodies will
never be reached. Water hat been run
ning into the ehaft tince Sunday and
yeatei day it bad increased in volume.
Till RIVKBB CLOSE BY,
Both the Lackawanna and Susque
hanna riven run in close proximity to
the Twin shaft. From the surface to
the point where the rock bepins there
is at least 145 feet of what is known as
river wash. From this point down to
the bottom or level where the men are
there were, previous to the fall 280
feet of rock. At long at thit remained
intact theie wat perhaps more leakage
through the crevice into the mine than
in mines which are not in tuch close
nroximitv to large bodies of water
When the fall occurred the 280 feet of
rock referred to must have been shat
tered, allowing the water to pour into
the mine in large quantities, until the
open space oeiow was an nuea. ine
very natural result of this is that if
the victims did not lose their lives un
der the fall they came to their death by
drowning.
If thit be true, and there is
no reason to doubt that it is, it will be
impossible to remove the bodies of the
victims from the mine.
Drowned.
Boston, June 30. One of the saddest
accidents in the history of the Boston
water front occurred at Castle Island,
off City Point, yesterday afternoon.
At about 2:30 seventy-five children
were on a rickety umafe gang plank
and float at the landing south of the
bridge when the boat overturned the
flimsy guard rails of the gang plank
iplit and thirty or more of the children
were tumbled into the water. Four
boyi were (?ro"rned,
rtreaua killed.
AooieTA, Ga., Juue 29. One
dead and two dying at the city hos
pital, with several others injured, it the
result of a fire which destroyed Millet
A Co. 's big mill in Twigg ttreet yaater
day morning. The lost by the fire it)
probablv 140,000 and the insurance)
$12 000
When d'scovered at 1:45 a. m.. the
mill was on fira in ttie third story oi ibe
main building, an iron-covered struc
ture with wooden frame work. The
flames spread from the big iron-covered
till to the smaller warehouses with
great rapidity. Being covered almost
ent rely with heavy corrugated iron, the
flames for a long time were confined to
tue building itself. The casualties are
A.tron Morton, colored driver for
sup rintendent of fire alarms, dead.
T ,e injured :
M.ke Ki ley, hook and ladder truck,
cannot recover.
Gube Walters, colored, badly man
gled. Fredericks, leggs broken, internal in
juries, cannot recover.
B ib Weakley, engineer No. 2, left
arm broken, head cut.
Henry J. Kale, ladderman on book
and Ltd ler. cut about trie head.
Ben Pueltler, chemical engineer, cut
ab ut head.
It was an hour and a quarter after the
first alarm before the tragedy occurred.
The brick warehouse had a gable end
to it and while attempting to put a
stream through a hole made in the
vrabl -. the bri';k wall fell. A fireman
had Ween on a short ladder and knocked
out some of the brick. A long ladder
was needed to put a stream up and
Aaron Morton and several firemen went
to the truck and got a thirty-foot ladder.
As tiiey placed it to the wall, Ladder
man K i ley and Morton had hold of it.
As soon as it touched the side of the
wail, the wail was seen to sway and
came tumbling down. The two men at
the ladder could not get out of the way
and were buried beneath the red hot
brick. Others were overtaken by the
falling tiiivsilee. Besides the firemen
there were few people at this locality.
Lieutenant Cartilete ol the police)
force'and Wallace Wheeler of the ladder
and only bad time to jump hack as the
wall came craaning down. The fi'e is
of unknown origin.
An Angr? Cttili.
Charleston, 8 C, June 29. The
Commodore steamed uo the harbor yes
terday afternoon at 2 :20. Captain Mor
ton says :
"When the Commodore arrived at
Tampa her papers were examined and
found to be all right. Then she was ,
searched for arms and of course none
were found. For two days we laid in
the harbor and on Thursday we set
sail with no cargo and with the proper
clearance papers for Charleston. Be
fore we left the harbor we were lying
very near to thf revenue cutter Mc
Lean and if the officers of that esse!
wished to examine the Commodore and
its pipers every opport nity was afford
ed them. We steamed from the harlor
very slowly, for the emrines-'were not in
the best of working order. When we
were two miles out I heard the report
of a gun aiid saw the McLean behind
us. liann went anotner gun ana , 1
ordered the engines stopped and we
waited the arrival of pursuer. Bang
went the third and this time a solid
shot whistled by us, falling not forty .
feet from the vessel. The wind from
the shot as it passed was felt on the
face of every man on di ck. If it had
struck us the Commodore would have
been sunk. ';
"The captain of the ' vessel came
aboard and I asked what this : but rage
meant. Hia reply was that he wanted
the vessel to stop and wanted to ex
amine its papers. He asked if we car
ried a passenger list and, I told him no.
He examined my papers went through
the vessel and found everything cor
rect. He then left us ,a we con
tinued on to Charleston on peaceful
voyage."
Captain morton said he would prob
ably leave for New York in a few days
and that the Commodore would remain
in harbor.
Mew Governor.
Constantinople, June . 29. Georgia
Pasha Berovitch, Prince of Samot, first
functionary of the ottoman empire, hat
been appointed governor of the island
of Crete. Abdullah Pasha, whom be
replaces in the governorship, will retain
command of the Turkish forces in the
island.
Since 1832 the island of Samos, which
liet off the wett coast of Asia Minor,
seventy-two miles southwest of Smyrna,
has been an antonomoui principality
of Beylic, paying a yearly tribute ol
of 300.000 piastres! of Turkey. The
island ii under the rule of Greek
nationality named by the porta, itf.
autonomy being guaranteed by Great
Britain, France and Rutsia under the
protocol of 2832. The prince regent,
Oeorgia Pasha, was born at Scutari,
Albania, in 1845 and wat named prlnc
of 8amoi id January, 1895.
It it hoped the appointment of a
governor of the Greek faith will put
an end to the trouble! between tht
Chrittiani and Turkt In ' Crete. The.
people of Pamoi are Greek in languafg
and religion.
Murder.
Dinver, Colo., June 29. Joseph O.
Aih worth, a salesman of the Denrus
Packing company in this city, whth)
returning to his home iu the east end
about 10 :30 last night, was confronted
suddenly at the corner of Twenty-fifth
and Oartli ttreeti by a man with t
drawn revolver, who, without a word,
shotAshworth In the temple, killing
him almost Inttantly. Ash worth It
married and leaves a family. The
lice have no cl?w. .
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