Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1894 — Page 1

FIRST PART. t rHur.0 I IU Ö. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY 3IORNINCt JANUARY 17, 1891-TWELYE TAGES. ESTABLISHED 1822. ONE DOLLAlt A YEAH.

COLLISION fH A FOG

Hear End Wreck at the Hackensack Bridge, In Which Ten Are Killed and Many Injured. Accommodation Runs Into the Dover Express. UNABLE TO SEE SIGNALS. The Slow Train at Fault for Not Decreasing Speed, Otherwise the Disaster Would Have Bsen Avoided. The Two Coaches Almost Entirely Demolished. Q'he Work of Itcllef Prompt ami Ef-fe-lie, l.ililf iinif Ilf-intc Loit in rliln Out tli- llt'iiit .and Injured The 'i'otul um Im-r of the iujnred Vnt at Thirt-een I-'rlahtful A"r-ck on the Northern Pacific Coust It. u.l in hieh im Kuitine . Ilirouli a Hridse, Drowning I'le I ri . . H r.fjKK.V. N. J.. Jan. On the l-'etnks of tli; I!.i k' iis.n k river, whi.h winds its narrow way through meadows cf that nain there w-mt up today the f-uls of a lia'.f seoie of human beings as a lU'imnivnt to the inse urity, the um t rtuinty of man's device. Another horror is added to th" already crowded Stmals; something to talk of ani shudder at and then t pass into almost forgotten history . Put voices will struggle through sols ii years to come, repeating the unwritten history of today and Telling again f th- loss of sonic loved tn A Vfil of f. was drawn across the faco of the sua and it hung in clouds pvr the ni'idos, en eloping all ob-j'-vts in a sliroud of pray. Thick, almost impcn'tral'!' it soaked into the limbers tf the narrow drawbridge that epurn the river at a point a mile east Of Burgen tun:: !. The iron danger sigr.a!s at either --ido of the bridge dripped and ran with moisture, their painted Ek'es glistening over in the mist surrounding them. But. ten feet distant, their glistening colors were swallowed Up ia the for. All was gray, no warning could be se?:i. Jt is tie rule, if ti e load that all trains sh ill slow up for bridges, and as th Doer express approached this l'iidg in the early morning the engineer j'ushvd back the throttle and strained his eyes through the mist to catch a glimpse, of that familiar mark which Vould tell him to proceed or stop. It vas in vain. The fog was as a wall between him end the object of his search. 31 continued to decrease the train's t-peed, still straining his eyes for the signal. And then a crash, that sickening crash once heard never to b- forgotten. A ruh of pas-i.gei s from the uninsured coaches to the rear of the express brought the horror tu view. The South Orange local, coming at an overspeed, Jiad crashed into the rear of the express t-tid a tangled mass of iron and wood, in itila'.t- J corpses and dying shriek ar.d piteous moans were Wt to mark the fonjfn atisni of one man and the recklessness of another. Two Car Telescoped. ' The combination baggage car and fsmoker of the express was telescoped by 'the engine of the train behind. The ngine and baggage car had swung about ,on the track, twisted the two cars in ront of the baggage car to one side, "ground one of them into kindling wood und smashed the rear end of the car .ahead. The engine of the South Orange train Jwas evidently trying to make up for lost Winie and was running at a speed said t be unwarranted. The engine had ploughed its way through the crowded jptats of the smoking compartment, containing at least forty persons. Not one if these eseajed uninjured. After the accident big bunches of flowers were seen strew n along the track and fthTs gave ri.se at first to the impression Qthat there were women among the dead nd injure.!, but they were all men, who tjnav have been carrying these flowers to Jdec-c happy homes now turned into the fübodes of sorrow. A ickenin Sight. When the wrecking car lifted the mokr from the track it parted and divided into three pieces and then there was cause for wonder that any of its occupants had escaped alive. The dead had a most agonizing expression, and as the car was lifted from off the bodies it was a sickening sight. One man had been almost beheaded; another man was doubled up and his face pictured the horror of the moment when death struck him. Others had their heads crushed nd bespattered with blood. Flesh hung upon the splinters of the wreck and iron and piteous cries completed this heartrending spectacle. An hour after the accident a thousand curious, or seekers after loved ones, were on the ground. "Willing hands lifted the dead and tenderly cared for the Injured and as the gloom of night was added to the enveloping fog all that waa visible was the splintered cars, the tangled iron and the crimson spots fast rnolting away in the heavy mist. The Dead ncl Injured. The most authentic account shows nine killed, while the injured number thirtytcven. The dead are as follows: WILLIAM FHRfiESON. fifty-five years of age, Summit. N. J. Ai'JM.IA.U A. ADA &3 UliklUWA.

married, leaves a widow and five children. Summit, N. J. WILLIAM TUILNEi:, Basking Bidge, 2C. J. EDWARD K1XSEY, Barnardsvilie, X. J. JOHN FISH, fifty-five, married, Summit, N. J. WALTER K. rrHINTOX. thirty-five, married. Short Hill. X. J. JOHX H. RIMMElt, thirty-live, married. Summit, X. J. IV J. KYAX, Milburn. X. J. EDWIN MORELL. Summit, X. J. Ir. James I.ty of Jja-skerville. X. J, was found dead and removed to Newark. Ixmald Cameron of Xew York. Th injured are as follows: David Hoffman, thirty-live. South Orange, x. J.; Arthur tlardner, thirty-nine, married. Short Hills. X. J., seriously; Th od..re F. White, thirty-two, married. Summit, X. J., will probably die; Christopher Arnold, twenty-five, married, Newark. X. J.; Harry S. Cown, twenty-tight, single, Hacking Ridge. X. J.; Kdward X. Clarke, thirty-three, married. Husking Ridge. X. J.; George Spencer, thirty-four, married, Murray Hill, X. J.; Frederick Furgeson, twMity-five, single. Summit. X. .1.; W. J. Rusting, jr., nineteen, sing!1, Newark. X. J.; Charles H. Mincher, twentyseven, single. Summit, X. J.; Kniest Thaffe. twenty, single, Hasklng Ridge, X. J.; Carl H. Schultz, jr., twenty-four, single, Murray Hill, X. J., will die; William (lastonhaws, twenty-seven, single. Summit, X. J.; Washington lring. Short Hills, X. J.: William Reliefs, Newark, X. J.: F. V. Cray. West Summit, X. J., seriously; Catherine Oreenan. Xew York City; A. T. Tuppcr, NewYork City; Miss Jessie Archer, NfW York: Albert Morr.-ll, Siiniinit. X. J.; H. S. Mott. Summit. X. J.: V. Q. Stearns, Sprinheld, X. J.; H. H. Xichols, Newark, X. J.; L. U. Young, Summit, X. J.; A. L. Rollings. Newark, X. J.; A. Rowers, Lyons, X'. J.; If. A. Wintei mute, Newark, X. J.; Carl Linder. Xewark. X. J.; A. "W. Ri-Tson, XewarK. X. J.: W. O. Rennett. l'ast Orange. X. J.: William Reliman, Newark. N. J.; W. J. Hauck, Xewark, X. .1.; Albert Carpenter, Rsevillo. X. J.; R. Rubesam. Summit. X. J.; Charles Arnold. Xewark. X. J.; D. Cameron, Xewark, X. J. William Ryan of Milburn. X. J., and J. Itcnwick are also reiM'itcd among tie; killed, but no one has been able to lo, ate them in Jersey City and the railroad officials deny that cither of them were taken to Xewark. n Kxiilaiialioii la t.lvcn. Mr. A. Reasoin-r, general superintendent of the road, was seen this afternoon, but would not or coul 1 not give any explanation of the cause of the disaster. He said that the engineer of the Orange accommodation was so badly injured that it was lmpo.ssil.le for him to give any account of the accident. There were many mirac ulous and hairbreadths escapes from death. Mr. Summer of Summit, X. J., who was on the wrecked train, said: "I do in t know how I ever got out of It alive. 1 was in the coach next the smoker and when the crash came could sc the roof of the car caving in on top of me. I was wedged in among the failing timbers, but managed to crawl through the small space and uut of the debris without a scratch." Mr. Summer then told his harrowing tal.-s of the wreck and of the .se.ene of death and destruction.

COLLISION ON A BRIDGE, Our lvälle. 1 ami five Injured Xcar Clinton, la. CLIXTOX. Ia., Jan. One man was killed and live others were injured as the result of a collission today cf two trains en the bridge here. The victims are: KDWARD KKNTLKY of Clinton, killed. Martin Murray, dangerously injured. A. Robertson, C.arrison, I.i., t-houlder dislocated. Klmer Shaffer, darrison, Ia., cut and bruised. Chester Xelson, CJordouviMe, slightly injured. The men were in tha telegraph cfiiee at the end of the bridge. When the trains struck several cars were dashd over against he telegraph office, wrecking it and imprisoning the occupants in the ruins. WIFE MURDER AND SUICIDE. Doubl, TrHiceily the Itroult of Too Much Xroiiu DriuU. SISTKRY1LLK, W. Ya.. Jan. 1 i. A horrible wife murder and suicide occurred on Water-st.. in this place, late laist night. The murdered woman was Mrs. Kdward Hoffman and her husband, after firing several shots at her. took his own life by shooting himself through, the head. The firing was heard by neighbors, who ran into the house. There they found husband and wife lying upon the floor, the wife dead find the husband dying. There was no explanation for the tragedy, and it is attributed to drink on the part of Hoffman. CHARGED WITH CRUELTY. Matron of mi Anylnni Aecuil of Sen I ding: nil Imitate. FIX D LAY. O., Jan. 11. Sensational charges liae been preferred against Mrs. Louisa Lightfoot, matron of the county infirmary, by the society for the prevention, of cruelty. She is charged with having scalded John Fletcher, an inmate, with boiling water and afterward applying a mustard plaster to his battered had. Fletcher is represented as having narrowly escaped insanity from his subsequent sufferings. The case will te tried tomorrow. KILLED WITH AN AX. One Jealona I. over Itruln Another on the Way to Church. UXIOX SPRINGS.. Ala., Jan. 12. Last evening while "Wash Robert, a young farmer, was escorting Prislcllla Dawkins to church, Israel Johnson, another farmer, and a Jealous rival, emerging from a hiding place, dealt Roberts a blow on the head with an ax. killing him. Johnson then pursued the girl with the intention of killing her also, but wa.s prevented by friends coming up opportunely. Johnson was captured and taken to the Bullock county jail. WILL NOT PLAY THE "RUBBER." Ire and Sehnefer to Divide the Hrelpla i;iunlly. CHICAGO. Jan. 14. The tie game between Sehaefer and Ivos to determine first and second place In the billiard tournament which closed Saturday night will nt be played owing to difficulty In securing a suitable hall. Sweepstakes. $l.Riv, and SO per cent, net door receipt? will b equally divided between Scharfer nd Ives, each of whom under Ulla agreement Kill rcceLva nearly 2PG0.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Belgian cabinet has threatened to resign. Bismarck's health is not quite satisfactory. Russia will spend 55,000,000 on her navy the coming year. Molorman Axtcll was killed in a St. Louis street car collision. In a fire at Memphis 1.500 bales of cotton were destroyed. Loss, $40,000. Two more fatalities, the result of the storm, are reported from Mantitoba. John L. Sullivan denies that his wife knocked him out with an Indian club. Tho explanation for the St. Louis double tragedy is murder and suicide. M. Pupuy was elected president of the chamber of deputies by a vote of 290 to )7. Yaiilant still refuses to petition President Camot for a commutation of his sentence. Kighty deputies have appealed for a commutation of the death sentence of Yaiilant. Two anarchists of the nanm of Kioring and Hildebrandt have been arrested in Berlin. James Mallory. a stock man of Batesville. Ark., was run over by an electric car at St. LouLs. Governor AUgeld has granted George Painter, sentenced to be hung, a respite until Jan. 2G. The sentence of Charles Raferts, the Arkansas wife murderer, was commuted to life imprisonment. In the McKane and other election cases Judge Bartlett denied the motion to quash indictments. Kdward Lewis, a young carpenter, wajlaid his wife at Cincinnati and shot her dead. Jealousy. Kdward Xichols, colored, was hanged at Austin, Tex., for the murder of Anna Strak March 0, The widow of William Makepiece Thackeray, the distinguished author, died at Leigh, Essex. C. S. Chepplin & I. Schultz, clothiers at T'lainiield. X. J.. assigned. .Assets. J-'S.TSU; liabilities, $173,084. The appointment of Kentucky's pension agent is now settled and Maj. G. M 't Adams gets the offica. The trial of John B. Körting, the cashier of the wrecked South Side savings bank, began at Milwaukee. George Painter, who was to have been hanged at hicago, has been reprieved by Governor Altgeld for two weeks. At Jersey City the Erie repair shops, with a numlter of cars and locomotives, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000. Augustus Thomas, the playright, author of "Alabama," "In Mizzouri" and other drama-s, is ill at Rochelle, X. Y. A manifesto issued by ex-Minister Zoriile, the republiean leader of Spain, announces the early advent of the republic. ' At San Francisco YV. F. Beck & Co., commission merchants, assigned. Liabilities $750,000. Creditors will be paid in full. Edwin M. Field, son of the late Cyrus W. Field, was released from the insane asylum and was taken to Xew York to stand trial. Postmaster Hesing of Chicago writes the Washington authorities that unless his quarters are fixed at once he will move out. The American steam yacht Yaliant has arrived at Calcutta. The Vanderbilt party will go overland as the guests of the viceroy. At ettysburg. Pa., fire in the Eagle hotel stables communicated to the hotel and completely destroyed it. Loss, $30,Ooo; $lC,0u0 insurance. A heavy wind storm occurred in Portland, Ore., and Yicintiy, the wind reaching a velocity of fifty miles an hour. Xo serious damage. At Louisville eight suits for damages aggergating $170,000 were filed against the Phoenix bridge company on account of the recent disaster. The residence of M. I). Shetlerby, an old soldier, near West LCodi, O., burned and in the excitement Shetterby dropped dead of heart disease. An explosion at the Mommoth mine, I'tah, killed Charles Williams, his body being horribly mangled. The cause of the explosion is unknown. The second annual convention of the National league of commission merchants, of which J. J. Phillips of New York is president, began at Cincinnati. The Missiouri furnace company, whose jlant closed since the Belleville rail mills shut down, will soon begin operations. It will give employment to men. Thomas Lidgerwood, dealer in groceries and liquors ut New York, assigned to Charles A. Duviver. The assets and liabilities each amount to $75,000. The Frank I. Frayn theatrical company stranded at New Castle, Pa. Two bears were sold in order to get enough cash to take the iadies of the company to Pittsburg. At Springfield, 111., an appeal to the supreme court of the United States was perfected in the celebrated Benton-X'ew-by case. Judge Allen fixed Benton's bond at $2, COO. At Chattanooga Charles Oscar Keller, the noted adventurer, was convicted and sentenced to seven years penal servitude for defrauding the Chattanooga brewing company. The suit of W. R. Lapham for twenty-five thousand dollars' damages for libel against ex-Secretary John W. Xoble of the interior department is now on trial at Xew York. Representative Quigly has introduced a bill in the Kentucky house prohibiting the organization or continuance of societies whose object is to discriminate between Christians. The Penokee and Gogebic consolidated mines in Wisconsin and Michigan, owned by the Colbys. Rockefellers and others, and capitalized for $0,000,000, passed Into the hands of receivers. Hermann Guttman, a surgeon from Xuremburg, committed suicide at Berlin by opening twelve main arteries in his head, arms and feet. He was addicted to the morphia habit. The suits of Mrs. Mary E. Smith Hayward against AY. F. Hayward at Chadron. Neb., have ended in an award of absolute divorce to the husband and of the greater share of property to the wife. At St. Louis W. T. Gempp, stuidlng before a. mirror, blew his brain out with a revolver. He was head of the Gempp & Miller soap manufacturing company. A complication of diseases unhinged his mind. Another fuit for $25,000 damages waa filed against the Phoenix bridge company. The plaintiff is W. It. Owen, who sues as administrator of John F. Owens, who lost his life in the bridge accident. Nine laborers working on the new railroad bridge near Savannah, III., re-turning home on a hand car were run down by a stock yards switch engine. E. G. Anderson was instantly killed and others hurt. At Rodficld, S. !., two prominet ladies were poisoned by drinking washing fluid for wine by mistake. Mrs. Hatch was but slightly injured, but Mr?. T TV Ttlainft Was with HifTicnttw catrt ' from death. The city authorities of Cleveland pold $300,000 in 1 per cent, municipal bonds at a premium of $11,700 to the Citizens savlnirs and Joan association. The funds derived will be used in improving the parks, and thus furnish employment for a l&cge cumber cX Ula m&o.

THREE STRUNG DP,

Triple Lynchihg by a Mob at Russell, Kas. J. G. Burton, William Gay and Son the Victims, Their Crime,, Being the Murder of Fred Dinning. LAWLESS, MIDNIGHT DEED By a Pnrty $r Twenty or Thirty Armed Horsemen Who Took the Town Entirely by Surprise. The Jail a Smalj, Weak, Wooden Structure, Affording Mut Utile thtriict Ion to the Work of the Mnli-The Crime for Which the Men pled RUSSELL, Kas.,;'jan. 14. A mob of about twenty men intered the jail last night, took out J. G- Burton, William Gay and his son, John Gay, and hun.? the trio to a small railroad bridge a short distance east of the depot in this city. About midnight the residents of the north part of town heard a party of fifteen or twenty horsemen come in from the north, who left their horses at the stock yards, where plans were arranged and the mob proceeded to the jail. A few citizens who happened to be out late noticed the auspicious actions of the mob, but were powerless to thwart the purpose of sirfih a determined band of armed men and watched the proceeding from a süfe distance. No officers were aroused or even were aware of what was going on until early morning, so quiet were the actions of the mob. Order-j were given by signs and obeyed without a word being spoken. The jail is a small wooden building, surrounded by a eight-foot board fence. In the jail were two steel cells, in which the prisoners wer, confined. Guards were placed abo- t the Jail and it was but the work of a moment for the balance of the mob to gain entrance to the Jail building. The masked mob began to break off the lock? of the jail with sledge hammers. Burton was the first one taken out and proceeded with to the spot selected for the lynching and left under th guard, the balance of the party returning and Joining the guards, who were watching the jail. The two Gays were then marched to the bridge, where Burton had been left. Ropes were placed around their necks and each given a chance to speak. Burton said he could tell l .ts about his connections with stealing cattle, selling whisky and other things, but when asked to tell about the Dinning murder, replied: "Xo. sir." Y'oung Gay made a prayer and faid Burton had killed Dinning with an ax. Old man Gay stated: "We were led into this." The leader then tlaped his hand") together three times and, quick as a Hash, all three were pushed off the bridge. The Gays evidently died from strangulation, but the nooje on Burton's neck slipped around up over his chin and he was heard to breathe heavily for the moment, when several shots were fired into his body. Each of the others also had a bullet Pent Into hln. The mob tnen left as quietly as it came, going north. The presumption is that it was persons from the north part of the county, the home of the criminals and the scene of the murder of Dinning. The crime for which the men were lynched was the killing of Fred Dinning in July last, on the Burton place, about twenty miles northwest of this city. Inquiries regarding a draft payable to Dinning and his mysterious disappearance led to an Investigation and the arrest of Burton, who implicated the other men. Each made a confession, which led to the finding of Dinnlng's body burled in a field near the scene of the murder. WHITECHAPEL MURDER OUTDONE !ory of a Ghaatly Crime from RaneTille, Ivy. ST. LOUI8. Jan. 15. An evening paper prints the following special from Cincinnati: "Capt. Grannan, chief of the Grannan detective bureau of this city, has received from a representative at Ganevllle, Ky., a letter giving meager details of a regular Whitechaid murder at that place. A woman of suspicious character named Mortler had in her home a beautiful girl "f seventeen. It was admitted that the girl waa pure. A number of her mother's male friends attempted her ruin, but the girl resisted them thought it was understood that her mother did nothing to protect her. Jan. 2 the girl died. Her burial followed in a hasty and secret manner. A few dava anro tho better class of nconle had the remains exhumed, when it was I found that the girl's neck was broken, ' her ribs smashed in and her intestines J exposed. Other indignities, too disgusting to de scribe, had been offered the body. Abe Higgle and the girl's mother are under arrest any may have been lynched by this time. The location of the place account! for the delay in reporting the

MURDER IN OKLAHOMA.

1!. Pons, a AYealtlty Citlsen of Gothrle, Shot by Vonng Deer. GUTHRIE. O. T., Jan. 12. S. II. Foss.a wealthy citizen of this territory, was killed this noon on the corner of Davi-son-st. and Harricon-ave. by one of the Derr brothers. Fcwjs was being tried for the murder of Dorr, senior, at the time of the killing. Testimony was then being introduced to prove that Foss either committed the murder or hired some one else to do it. Young Ierr tired three shots from a breech-loading gun. After emptying the gun he coolly reloaded and fired the third shell straight Into the faee of his victim. It seems that Foss. the dead man, was intimate with the girl of the Derr family and that the boys of the family felt humiliated and that a row occurred in which, a year or so ago, Foss received the contents of a ehotgun in the face. Old man Derr was murdered about twenty days ago. Foss was being tried for complicity. All the evidence was in and it indicated that he would prove an alibi. Rohhed the l'e-trche. CARROLLTOX, O., Jan. 12. The Rourke brothers, John, Patrick and Larry, have been positively identified, as the panics who a few nighU ago so cruelly tortured, and robbed the Pearch sisters of $,",00. The Rourkes waived a preliminary examination and were bound over by Justice West. SUPERSTITION OF NEGROES. Colored Denizen Qnlt Their Homos After Seeing Slrange A ppa rit Ions. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Jan. 10 Twelve vacant houses in a certain neighborhood on X". Second-st. as a result of negro superstition and a sequel to a sensational story published extensively in the newspapers last summer. Seay Miller, a colored man. with his wife had come hf.re from Cairo and later in the year was hanged and burned at Bardvllle, Ky., for having assaulted and murdered two girls. The affair created much excitement among the colored people of the Xorth, strong protests being made that the wrong man had been put to death. A few nights ago Mrs. Morris, a colored woman, who lived next door to where Miller lived, heard a noise, and going to the door, saw Miller's body in a burning, seething, writhing condition which almost frightened h-r to death. Two nights later Mrs. Benson, another neighbor, saw the form of Miller flaming and tumbling through the air and dart into the late Miller residence. On each occasion the electric light on the corner went out. The exodus has been complete and every house In the vicinity is offered at a low rent with no takers. FATHER CORRIGAN DEAD. Career of the "Well Known Catholic Priest Ended. JERSEY CITY, X. J.. Jan. 3. The Rev. Patrick A. Corrigan, 1. D., of Hobokcn died fit S:47 this evening. Father Corrigan was born in Ireland fifty-eight years ago. After taking holy orders he came to the United States and was assigned to Jersey City. Fifteen years ago he was transferred to Hoboken. Father Corrigan was a zealous worker and an advanced thinker. In events which have kept the catholics in the United States in a turmoil tor the past few years, Father Corrigan took a prominent pirt. He was a vigorous supporter of Archbishop Ireland and the lileni,l and progressive element and at the time of ?Js death was as widely known as any catholic In the country. PLOT AT SAN FRANCISCO. Prominent Ofticlul Mlied I t In SniUHulinv Ojirrntion. SAX FRAXCISCO, Jan. 0 A recent expove of smuggling at Portland, which dragged into the mire some of the United States treasury's most prominent ofliclals on the corst, bids fair to be equaled by an exposure of smuggling operations at this jort. Three- men were arrested last night. One is Frederick Miller, a young law student; another is George X. J. Wickman, a wholesale candy manufacturer here, and the third is named Lewis Greenwall. Warrants are out for the arrest of ten or a dozen others. Prominent customs officers here are said to in; implicated in a confession made by the prisoners. GIVEN ROUGH ON RATS. A Pretty Yonnic "Wife Aeened of PoNoning- Her lliinhimd. LIXDEX, Ala., Jan. 9. James Rembert, a farmer, died here under suspicious circumstances yesterday. A coroner's jury investigating the case today caused the arrest of Hannah Remlrt, the dead man's pretty young wife, and William Kellar, her alleged paramour. The dead man's stomach was found to contain a large quantity of rough on rats, which it was ascertained was given him in a dish of soup Sunday. The woman had previously been unsuccessful In an effort to secure a divorce and the evidence shows, too, the joisoning method at Kellar's suggestion. BANK CASHIER'S SUICIDE C'aiied by Brooding- Over a Reorganization Aeconnt Straight. XORWALK, O., Jan. 10. D. A. Baker, cashier of the First national bank of this place, committed suicide this morning. Baker shot himself through the right temple and hearL He has been connected with the bank for twenty-five years. The cause of his act is supposed to be the result of brooding over the supposition that he would sever his connection with the bank under the recent reorganization. His accounts are said to be perfectly straight. CHARGES OF MISMANAGEMENT. Against the Ilritinh World's Fair Comntlftftion. LONDON, Jan. 5. Mr. llenniker Heaton, conservative member for Canterbury, it is said, will move for the appointment of a select committee to inquire Into the management and expenditures of the British section at the world's fair. It is charged there has been gross mismanagement, inadequate representation and wasteful expenditures. Chief Henry Wood, chief of the com-

MURDERED BY A LANDLORD

AY A(iEI WOMAN CHOKED TO HEATH IX A HOTEL. The tinilly Man's C'onfennion of the Crime et Fire to the Houne After MranKllns; Ills Victim o Money Found by I'eekmanii in His Search. MILWAUKEE. Jan. 15. Rudolph J. reckmann, proprietor of tho Cream City hotel, in which Mrs. Sehrums waa found dead after the buliding was partly destroyed by fire last Friday morning, confessed this afternoon that he strangled his aged guest for the purpose- cf robbery and afterward fired the room. He failed to eecure the woman's money. Beckmann is now in jail. reckmann said business had been poor with him for two years. He knew Mrs. Schimms had money and it occurred to him that he might manage to secure it. For a week before the fatal night he watched every movement of his victim. Just before he was going to bed last Thursday night he heard Mrs. Schrums get up and go to another room. He v"jn-cludc-i that his chance had come, and he went into her room. When the old lady returned ha threw a blanket over her head and choked her to ck-ath. He then made a search, but found nothing of value. Then he went down stairs and yld hi wife the old lady wa$ dead and that they might help themselves to whatever they might find. She refused to accompany him up stairs and he returned alone to make search. Upon bis return to the room he found that Mrs. Schrums showed bigns of recovery and he choked her again. Then he set lire to the place and threw a lamp on th-j floor. While the fire was spreading Peckmann made a final search for money, but was unsuccessful. When there was a prospect that the fire would leave him worse off financially than when he committed the terrible deed, the murderer called the fire department. Mrs. Peckmann will not be arrested, as she said she had no knowledge that her husband intended to secure the money by committing murder. The whereabouts of the murdered woman's money is still a mystery. SUIT OF THE H0STETTERS. Executor of the Hilter Man Want Ansigniuents Set Aside. riTTSBURG, Jan. 9. J. II. Hostetter and Christian Stoner, surviving executors of Jacob Hostetter, have filed in equity against D. Herbert Hostetter. The bill alleges that David Hostetter, George W. Smith and Charles Boughter, in 1S.":?, entered into a partnership to manufacture Hostetter bitters. The recipe for the mixture was the exclusive proerty of Jacob Hostetter, who later purchased the interest of David Hostetter. It is charged that at that time Jacob Hostetter was in a state of Imbecility and could not" "understand pny business. The complainants ask tuat said assignments be set aside, and that an account since 1S."S be . rendered so that they may receive their share. The suit involves several million dollars. TO SEARCH FOR GOLD. Expedition Ready nt St. I.onit to Look for Hidden Treasure. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 12. A peculiar story developed here today from the fitting out of an expedition for the purpose of searching for gold alleged to have been hidden near this city during the war. Xearly two years ago a similar expedition was fitted out here by Dr. A. G. Finney, and on the previous trip he secured $3.00 In gold bullion. This tim he hopes to rind the main treasure, estimated at $2,000,000 in value. His information, he says, comes form a confession of a dying man. His aids in the exjeditIon are a Dr. Goggan of Chicago and another man whose name could net be learned. The treasure is supposed U be buried near Funks Landing, 111. THE SOCIAL EVIL Crtiade Agnlnot Disreputable Houea in Cleveland. CLEVELAND, Jan. 11 A iiov.l crusade against the social evil was b:gun here today, when four keepers of disreputable houses were arrested on indictments returned by the grand jury. It is proposed to test the statute which designates such places as nuisances. The crusade was started by citizens who have become tired of the police policy of granting immunity to all immoral women who register and submit to medical examination. The county prosecutor will try to secure from the committee on rleas an order suppressing all disorderly houses. CREMATED HER BABE And Eloped vith. n Shovm:i n llorrohle Story. LAGRAXGE, Ky., Jan. 12. Benjamin Bryson, who lives near Weslport, came here today and related a horrible story to Detective HitL He claims that after a short absence he returned home yesterday and found his wife, who had been confined only six days, mL-slng. He instituted a search and found the baby in the stove cooked to a crisp. Bryson claims the woman eloped with James Evans, a showman, and says the last seen of them was at Twelve Mile island making their way for Louisville. A LONG FAST. Death of a Woman Who Ilefimed to Take Nourishment. DANVILLE. Ky., Jan. 10. Miss Catherine Blackerby, aged seventy years, died at her home, eight miles from Danville, this morning after existing twentyeight days without nourishment of any kind, the only thing passing her lips during that time being a few sups of water. All efforts to Induce her to take food were fruitless and she literally died of starvation.

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Bold Train Robbery in tho Suburbs of St. Joe. Fivo Men Holding Up tho Burlington 'Eli" ENTER THE EXPRESS CAR And Loot the Safe, of an Unknown Sum of Money. The Officials Say the Amount Is About $30, Bnt the Statement is Not Given Credence lletvard tf ?loO for the Arrest of Kneli of the Itobbrn-Th llrnkeman Fines u St. I.ooli Train and Gets Left No Clew to tho Desperadoes. ST. JOSEPH. Mo.. Jan. 13 For th second time within a few months this city ha.s t-n the been cf an attempted, train rolbery. t.a th-i 2'Ah of la&t September f.Ti iitfmpt to i.uld up a train on t?.3 Council Eluf.s road v.-aa frustrated by the cflc-rs being kiformtd of tha proposed plan.. Two cf tbe robbers wer a killed uv.d ar.ciher was recently sentenced t ten cis i:i the pen. This was thou.t saHki- ut to i ut a stop to tho ervra.1.ru cf U.i.-j c'.as of ieopld la this city, Lv.t tonight cnothtr train was held up ar. 1 thl tl:n ; it was almost within the. city l;;.:;:s. The Burlington 'Eli," leaving this city at j.2', v.-as held up about thres. miles east cf St. Jcseph by five masked men. 'i h train wa-s st.pj.-d by t'r-I-'ljeg Leing placed on the track and a red luntetn svur: a'TWi the road in regulation custom. Robbed the K&nres Car. At Soon o.s tl.3 train stepped, threa men boarJel the cr.gir.e with drawn revolvers aril ordered th-3 engineer anl fireman to accompany them to the express car and order Hie express messenger to open the door. This the;.- did and. i:pon being ordered to open the door the express messenger did so, when he was covered with a ri:le in the hands of one of the men. Three others with, revolvers in. each hand entered tha car ar.d the rntss-;nj: r was ordered topen the saf?. He di l S'. The robbers then to'k ail there was in the safe, which amount is claimed by the railroad, oir.ctuls r.ot to excec-d iZO. This statement H not credits! Ivr, however, as stuperlntenJcr.t Hohl of trie Burlington road and W. H. Mos ly of the Adanu cxprtso ccmpany l.ave been in consultation with the sheriff and chief of police and a loj-.-e U low U:rg organized. Ona of th roller.- was a s'im man and wore a light brown suit. The ouh?r wad a Srhr'rt man and wore a black suit. The i ngineer und ether trainmen were unaMe to give a description of the other three. All the trainmen think the robbers were amateurs, as they w-r nervous and appeared much excited. HeiTard Ottered. P. 31. Hc'ulahon, superintendent of th Hannibal & SU Joe railway, with headQuarters et Erookf.eld, has offered a reward of I1')0 for the arrest of each of the robbers if captured before tomorrow evening. When the train slopped a brnkemai went back to Hag the rL Louis train following, and when he was several hundred yards down the track, h assvrti, he "heard shots h red and suddenly the train pulled out. He secured a holies and came to thi3 city and gave the alarm. He says the roLbers entered the mail and express cars and took a'l the registered mail in the former end all the packages in the fc-ofe out of the latter. The shts f.red. if there were any, were probably fired by the robbers as tho train w as reaiy to pull out to frighten tha trainmen. ThU brakeman followed the "UM" on the St. LoTuS train which leaves thiJ eity about half an hour afterward In the heje of cauhing his regular train On this account no cue waa permitted to F'e him and secure a complete report cf the Lold-up. nobbed iu Uruud Pajliftht. LOS ANGELES, Cal. Jan. 10. Charles H. Baker of Chicago was robbed and nearly murdered in broad daylight this morning. He was walking along the river bank when he was se!rd by two ruen, who beat M:n en the head witb a btone. The robbers got IK'O in ready money, a gold watch and chain. BaKer is badly bruised, Lut will recover. The robbers escaped. Train Kobber Confese. TOPEKA, Jan. 10 A special to the capital from Parsons says: "Hydrtck and hepjaad, the two men confined In the county jail of this county charged with robbinjr the 'Frisco passemrer train at Mound Yalk-y ou .Sept. C, 1S1C, have ma l- a confession. Sheppard admits he Is the man that killed Express Messenger Chapman." , it.A-tai i Attorney Hobbed. DETKOIT, Jan. 10. Peter B. Gallagher, an attorney, related today that he was; gagged and robbed cf $1,174 In his room in the Yictoria hotel early this morning. There appears to be no clew to tha robber. . CHURCH WAR ON Ou Account of a Festival vtllh M.lrt Dances, Ele. GKEEXSBURG. Pa., Jan. 14. A church war which promises to assume serious proportions lias bfen Inaugurated here. The cause Is a klrmfs festival, which is to be hell next week in the episcopal church of which Dr. Fldler the rector. The affair was denounced from the pulpits of several other chunheH today, particularly the methodises and united brethren. The ministers declare that the scandalous skirt dance and ether quest ior able capers of the ancients should rot be tolerated in civilized sotioty. Past of all In church societies. Members of either of these two churches who patronize the entertainment were publicly warned today that their names would be promptly stricken from the membership rolls.