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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"
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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
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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
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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 ?
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