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SAVED PROM EARTH S BOWELS. Two Girls and Five Miners Saved from Death. Frisco, Utah, Nov. 15.?Two girls and five men were rescued from the Horn Silver mine this afternoon, after fourteen hours' entombment three hundred feet below the surface of the ground. The party of seven was imprisoned in the mine by an pvnlosion at 10 o'clock last night. From that hour until the rescue this afternoon, miners from the surface worked in fifteen minute shifts to clear away the mass of earth and timbers that barred the entrance shaft. Two daughters of Mine Foreman Roy Alexander, Daisey and Hazel, 16 and 19 years old, respectively, David Banks and Arnold Robinson, James Riley, John White and a Greek miner, whose name is not Known, were on the three hundred foot level when there was a tremor, then a blast that snuffed out every candle, followed by roar and quake. An earth slide had closed the entrance to the mine. Riley, a shaft boss, relighted his candle, hurried the party back into the drift and picked his way toward a shaft. Finding the air pipes still in position, he tapped a signal to the men on top and a little later was able to make his voice heard through the pipe line. News of the accident spread throughout the region and the miners hurried from every direction to offer aid. In a few minutes the work of , rescue was underway. inouetA Pastor Fisrhts Reporter. ? Augusta, Ga., Nov. 13.?J. Marvin ^ Haynie, city editor of the Augusta Chronicle, and Rev. Osa P. Gilbert, pastor of the Second Baptist church, had a physical encounter at noon yesterday in the heart of the business district, while hundreds looked on. Both participants were arrested and must face Recorder Irvin. The disagreement arose over the publication of a church notice. The two met at noon and Haynie repeated what he had said over the telephone. The minister made a pass at the newspaper man and the.two clinched and fell to the sidewalk. When the police arrived the honors were about even. Poisoned Fiancee to Stop Wedding. Ashburn, Ga., Nov. 15.?Officers to-day found no trace of Tan Cleghorn, the youth wanted on the charge of killing Miss Minnie March" t_ " ? ~ rt'i 4-rv/\ir?Ar? man, ms nanuee, >vxtu yviovix, eral days ago. Cleghorn disappeared four days before her death. The girl was popular. The countryside is wrought up and trouble is feared if the youth is captured and brought here. Information from Atlanta, where the girl's stomach is being analyzed, indicated important developments, not made public to-day. The body of Miss Minnie Marchman, a beautiful young girl, lies unburied while Atlanta experts are examining the contents of her stomach. A warrant has been issued against Tan Cleghorn. a young farmer, charging him with having caused the death of Minnie Marchman, and officers are searching for him. Cleghorn has been missing for four days. Preparations had been made for the burial of the young woman, who lived with her widowed mother six miles from Ashburn, when the family physician and friends of the familv became susDicious and ordered the funeral stopped. It is reported here that Cieghorn and Miss Marchman were sweethearts, and visited Ashburn together some days ago. While there, it is said, Cieghorn purchased fruit and candies which he gave to Miss Marchman, and after eating these she was attacked with convulsions and died in agony. At the coroner's inquest the mother of the dead girl testified that she died after eight convulsions, foaming at the mouth. She Was Willing to Work. The charming wife of a French diplomat had never thoroughly mastered the English language. She was urging an American naval officer to attend a dinner, the invitation to which he had already declined. The lady insisted that he must go, but the young officer said he could not possibly do so, as he nad burned his bridges behind him. "That will be all right," she ex claimed; "i win lend you a pair or my husband's."?Ladies' Home Journal. ILich Woman Starves to Death. Los Angeles, Xov. 1L?After fasting for J7 days in an effort to cure chronic trouble of the stomach, Mrs. Elsie Crewe, a wealthy woman, is dead here to-day of starvation. She came to Long Branch with her two daughters from St. Louis some months ago. She decided to try the fast cure. Monday she became very weak and ate a light lunch. She was taken ill shortly afterward. KILLED THE BABY. A Woman's Raving Reveals an Infanticide. Richmond, Nov. 13.?Through the ravings of a woman desperately ill, in a hospital in this city, a gruesome murder was revealed to-day?that of her own child. She so persistentlv told in her delirium how her husband had killed their baby by asphyxiation though she never reported the matter to the authorities, detectives went to the home, and after search dug up the body of an infant, horribly decomposed from the lime in which it was interred in a wood house. The husband, Charles C. Merriam, a white carpenter, .was arrested. He later made a signed confession, telling how he had deceived tv.^v nt + fln^,'nor r\ Vl VC1 r>1 f> n hi* SftVinfiT that the child had been sent away. He asserts that the baby "was killed during the night in bed with mysolf and wife, in some way I am unable to explain." RUN OVER BY FREIGHT CARS. Magistrate L. V. Brown Meets Horrible Death at Lynchburg. Sumter, Nov. 15.?News reached Sumter this morning of the horrible death, at Lynchburg this morning, of L. V. Brown, a citizen of that town, who was run over by some shifting Coast Line freight cars and and killed. Several other persons narrow ly escaped injury. It seems that Air. Brown and others were standing on a side track when a shifting engine backed a string of freight cars down on the party, the cars passing completely over Mr. Brown's body and almost running down others standing nearby. The crowd was watching the approach of the passenger train for Sumter, it is stated, and therefore paid no attention to the oncoming freight cars. Mr. Brown was magistrate at Lynchburg and was also connected with various other businesses in his town. He is survived by a wife and thr?e children. Five Men Lodged in Jail. Newberry, Nov. 16.?Pick Odell, constable for Magistrate Aughtry at Whitmire, brought two white men, named R. S. Peigler and John Norman, to jail yesterday, charged with assault and battery upon Conductor Deadwiler of freight train No. 21 on the Seaboard Thursday night about midnight, and to-day he brought three others?John Lindsay. Kinard Williams and Jim Gregory?who are said to be also implicated in the affair, which occurred at the coal - - - -1 - - i e TV10 cnuie in LUC IU?U UJ. vvmwimc. five men, except Gregory, who lives in Whitmire, were beating their way on the freight train, it is alleged, and when the conductor attempted to put them off they attacked him and beat him up, giving him one very serious wound in the forehead with a rock or lump of coal. In spite of the row, the four hoboes, if such they were, insisted on riding on; but a wire 10 Clinton had an officer ready for them when the train got there and they were arrested. John Lindsay is said to be from Louisiana and Kinard Williams from Seneca. Iney are ail young men apparently between 20 and 30. The conductor was badly hurt, but ^ a LI. :i managed to get as iar as Auuevme before he left his train. The sheriff of Abbeville wired Sheriff Buford to be sure to hold the men. intimating that the wound of the conductor might prove serious. Colleton Negro Killed. Walterboro, Nov. 16.?W. F. Cone, constable for Magistrate R. R. Miley of Lodge, shot and killed L. R. McDonald, who resisted arrest Wednesday night in the upper part of this county. The warrant had been issued by Magistrate Miley against McDonald for breach of trust. Mr. Cone was accompanied by Magistrate Miley and Stephen Bunton and went to this negro's house early Wednesday night. When Mr. Cone called on the negro to surrender the negro struck him with a baseball bat and sprang back, ready to deliver another blow Mr. Cone then shot the negro in the head. The coroner's jury, which was empanelled next day, not having any information before them, rendered the verdict that the negro came to his death from a gunshot wound at the hand of parties unknown. Later the development showed who did it and a warrant was taken out by a young nephew of the dead man for the arrest of not only Mr. Cone but Magistrate Miley, young Stephen Bunion and two others as accomplices. Hearing that a warrant was issued for them, they immediately came to Walterboro to surrender to the sheriff. The testimony of the eye-witnesses is to the effect that if Mr. Cone had not shot the negro just when he did he would have been brained with the baseball bat. Some women hug their husbands only when they think there is a burglar in the house. GIRL KILLS MOTHER. ff Mistakes Parent for Robbers Seeking Her Jewels. Philadelphia, Nov. 13.?Mrs/ 7. Rappe Meyers, wife of the proprietor of the Rappe Hotel, Greensburg. Pa., was shot by her daughter, Gladys Elizabeth Meyers, in mistake S for a robber, in a sleeping, car on a Pennsylvania Railroad train, bound for New York about 5:30 this morn- j ing. She died a short time later in j a Trenton, N. J., hospital. The shooting occurred when the train was passing Croyden, Pa., just this side of Bristol, Pa., near Trenton. , Miss Meyers and W. R. Cuthbert 60 years old, of Lynchburg, Va., were detained all day by the Trenton police, but released to-night. It was thought at first that Cuthbert was | concerned in some way with the I g shooting, as he was found with Miss BJ Meyers at the side of the wounded woman a few seconds after the sound of the shot aroused the?other passengers in the car and brought the porter and conductor. Later he explained that he had been standing on the front platform of the car next in the rear, and had ? run in when he heard the shot. Then gg the police informed him that they | would detain him merely as a material witness. The Trenton police say they are convinced that the shooting was an accident and that Mr. Cuth- H bert went to the aid of a person B whom he had reason to believe was JL in distress. Going; to Buy Trousseau. Miss Meyers, who is about 20 years ] of age, was- on the way to New York m to purchase a trousseau for her com- W ing wedding to J. Blair Dillard, of. Salem, Va., a drugget. She has a casket of jewels which she was taking to New York to have repaired and matched, and when she heard her mother entering their section, after .Mrs. Meyers had gone for a few minutes to the dressing room, she took her revolver from under her pillow and fired, thinking a burglar was after the gems. She was- half awake at the time. Miss Meyers's brother and her fiance are on the way from Salem and will arrive in Trenton early to-morrow morning. Her father is ?lso en route from Greensburg to meet his daughter. He is accompanied by an attorney. Miss Meyers made the following statement: Young Woman's Statement. "My mother and I left our home in Greensburg, Pa., to visit my fiance. J. Blair Dillard, for a short time, then went to see my brother, J. Rappe Meyers-, Jr., at Salem, Va.. where he is in the lumber business. Last night at 5:48 o'clock my mother , and I took a train from Salem, Va., engaging a lower berth. "I was awakened by my mother, who informed me she was going to the wash room and while she was I flh/5Pnt T dozpd off asleep. I was sud- I denlv awakened from my sleep seeing'the curtains parted, and someone crawling into.the berth. I always sleep with a revolver under my pillow and knowing that the porter had seen my jewelry, I pulled the revolver from under the pillow and fired, and was horrified to hear my mother scream and see her stagger into the smoker, where I found her. Called for Help. "Then I shouted for some one to get a doctor and some whiskey, a gentleman came forward whom I afterward learned was William Cuthbert, of Lynchburg, Va., and offered his services. j "My mother and I were always on good terms-, and I considered her my best friend. We were on our way to New York to do some shopping in an- j ticipation of my brother's wedding ^ axta orr ^ AU"n m UJL1 Vylii Jolillao t; > c emu. uij \j r> ju ixi June to Mr. Dillard. "After the shooting the porter came to me and wanted to take the revolver from me forcibly, I told him that I would give the revolver to aim, but not for him to shoot. This revolver I purchased from H. S. Brown, Pittsburg, Pa., for $14. My brother and my mother were with me at the ' time of the purchase." Jack Johnson at Liberty. Chicago, Nov. 15.?Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist, accused of viola- ? tion of the .Mann white slave act, was released from custody to-day in _ bonds of $30,000. The securities accepted were the E? pugilist's mother, Tiny Johnson, and ij Matthew S. Baldwin, real estate deal- p Johnson was taken to the county | jail last Friday and since then had B made many efforts to regain his lib- |j eny. Albert C. Jones, sentenced to one | year in the Will county jail at Joliet p tor contempt of court in the Jack K Johnson bond case before Judge Lan- ? dis, was granted an appeal by the | United States circuit court of appeals ? to-day. 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