The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 18, 1897, Image 2
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LOUIS J. BRISTOYV, Ed. & Prop'r,
A Peruvian permanent exhibition of
all classes of manufactured goods is
to bo established by the Government
of that country at Lima, Peru, and the
exposition will be opened on December
9 next. The Government of Pern
proposes in this manner to foster
trade, and offers advantageous terms
to American manufacturers. All exwall
Ko nromr?f oncfrkm QTtfl
JLiiCAiO " in vw v avuiyv iivui vuoiva*wu->?
consular fees, and exhibitors have the
option of showing their goods for six
months or longer if special arrange- J
meats aro made. It is noted that
preference will bo given to manufac- i
tares most used in Pern, such as agricultural
implements, mining machin- i
ery, electrical appliances of all de- !
scriptions and labor-saving machinery, j
After havng been submerged in 183 !
feet of water for seven years,the treas- j
ure on board the steamer Skyro, sunk .
off Capo Finisterre in April, 1891, has
been recovered by divers. The Skyro
sailed from Cartagena, bound for Lon- '
don, with a valuable cargo, including
bar silver, valued at $45,000. All went
well-until approaching Cape Finisterre
in foggy weather, when the vessel j
struck on the Mexiddo reef, but passed ;
over, and went down in deep water
within twenty minutes, and abont two !
miles off the coast. An expedition
went out in the same year, bat was
unable to secure the treasure. Last
year another effort was made, with
more powerful diving apparatus, and j
resulted in fifty-nine bars being re- j
, covered. The working depth for the
direr was never less than 28* fathoms
?1H feet?and it frequently exceeded
this. To obtain these bars it was
found necessary to blow away the deck j
with dynamite, which the diver did, i
only after great difficulty, owing to ,
the boisterous state of the weather.
Work was compulsorily suspended in
October, but again resumed this summer
with satisfactory results.
American newspaper readers, avers
Harper's Weekly, are excusable if :
they hare received of late an impression
that next to the wheat crop the j
moot notable product of this country
this year has been homicide. The
oountry is big, and it accords with
reasonable expectation that in one part
at another of it killing should be in
progress all the time. Bat this year,
and especially this summer, there oertainly
seems to hare been much more i
than the usual amount of it, and it
will be interesting, when the returns
are all in and some one has tabulated
them, to learn whether this impression j
is well founded or not. For ten years
f*St the Chicago Tribune has kept the !
run of murders and homicides so far j
as it oould, and has made an annual i
report of them. According to a table !
based on fbese reports, there were j
< . 1419 homicides in the country in 1886,
and 7900- in 1895. The tables show a
great but irregular annual increase.
The Tribune's estimate of the number
oflynchisgs is interesting. It gives
133 in 1886, 236 in 1892, and 160 in
1895. It shows 2 20-100 executions to
every 10Q homicidfes. The statistics
bf murders in Europe, as given in the
World Almanac, show that Italians kill
most readily, the average annual number
of murders in Italy being 2170, or
29.4 to every 10,000 deaths. Spain
follows with a ratio of 23.8. Austria's
) ratio is 8.8; Francis's, 8.0; and England's
7.1. These European figures,
however, apply to murders alone, and
do not include, like the tables fox the
^"United States, all sorts of manslaughtan,
justifiable or otherwise.
To CurS Balking Horses.
. , Electricity is used in the latest
method of curing balky horses. It -is
applied by wires connected with theb.t
and crupper of the stubborn animal
and a dry storage battery. Pressing
the button completes the circuit.
Thomas Rcdgers, a hc-sem: a of Av-.
alon. Pa., was arrested a t w days ago
at the instance cf the Western Pe tn*
sylvania Society for the Pretention cf
Cruelty to Animals. It was said that
his use of electricity in curing a bclky
horse was cruel. He explained that the
animal on which the electric current
had been used was a blooded horse,
worth if he could be induced to
pull. Rodgers had consulted a veterinary
and the electric arrangement
was the result.
When the horse was hitched up he
spread his four legs and refused to
budge. The current was turned on and
the horse started off at a good gait.
Every day for a week the horse received
a lesson, and it apparently
made a permanent cure, as the horse
soon pulled without the use of the
current.
Justice William Griscom decided that
the electricity used, which was a threevolt
current, was not cruel, and he
discharged Mr. Radgers.- New York
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There are, in round numbers, 1G.000,000
horses in the country, nominally j
valued at $1,000,000,000, Hut now not;
worth over $770,000,000.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
W??liin<r(on Ttom?.
The Bering Sea Confercnee held another
meeting. at which statistics showing the
rapid destruction of the seal herd this year
were presented.
The President appointed Sardis Summerfield
United states Attorney for the District
of Nevada.
The American Government in its last reply
to Spain declares that the United States
has made the greatest efforts to ston filibustering.
and has employed many officials
and expended a large sum of money to that
end.
The Inter-State Commerce Commission
decided to issue an order in compliance
with the petition of the American Warehousemen's
Association, requiring railroads
to publish on their tarifT sheets a
uniform time for the delivery of freight of
all classes.
Exnprts o' the United Slat0*, England
and Canada met nt the State department
to consider measures for the better protection
of seal life in Burins Sea.
Negotiations for a treaty with Great Britain
for the protection of the seals were
opened In Washington.
The Government has decided to send
the Bear and the Thrasher to Bering Sea
with supplies for the ice-bcund wbaliDg
fleet.
Domestic.
The fiftieth anniversary of the first sermon
bv Henry Ward Beecher in IMvmonth
Church, Brooklyn, was celebrated November
11.
Professor Shields, of Princeton, resigned
from the New Jersey Preshvterv because of
criticism of his indorsing Princeton Inn's
application for a license.
Mrs. Anna Jackson committed suicide in
New York City because her children, for
whom she tolled, disappointed her hopes.
Edward llankins. flftv-two years old,
was hanged in Chatham, Vn., for the murder
of Dr. John llev Cabeii, a prominent
citizen of Danville. llankins killed Caboll
August 26.
Affidavits wore filed at Eau Claire, Wis.,
which tend to show that John O'Donnell,
now serving a life term for poisoning bis
wife, is innocent, and that he is the victim
of a woman's testimony, who confesses
perjury. The-main witness against O'Donnell
was Vina Le Claire.
President J. T. Darragh, on trial at In
dependence, Mo., charged with wrecking
the Kansas City Safe Deposit nnd Ravings
Bank, was found guilty and sentenced to
two years in the State Penitentiary.
At Brownsville. Texas. Bernardo Snlizar,
aged sixteen, shot and probably fatally
wounded two old women and two girls
aged two and four yeare. His motive is
not known.
At Hayden. Ky., in a quarrel over politics
John Rebro shot and killed Henry Davis,
and Sobre was shot nnd jnortally wounded
by Mollie Davis, a sister of Henry.
Cl aries Roberts, President of the South
Chester Manufacturing Comueny, and
Charles A. Weed. President of the Tidewater
Rteel Works, were killed by a train
on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
ltailroad near Lamokin, Penn. Mr.
Roberts was sixty years old; Mr. Weed
sixty-five. Mr. Robert's death was instantaneous.
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Indignant citizens of Philadelphia have
askod the courts to prevent the lease of the
city's gas plant by restraining the Mayor
from signing the ordinance authorizing
the lease.
The feud between the Eppersons and
Williamses in Hancock County. Tennessee,
growing out of the killing of William Epperson,
has broken out again. In a light n
cousin of Williams shot Charley Epperson
and seriously wounded him. Both factions
are arming for a desperate encounter, and
serious trouble is feared.
Three thousand sheep belonging to John
Donaldson and twenty head of cattle have
been burned to death in Crosby County,
Texas, by a prairie Are. which is "sweeping
over the ranges of the Panhandle country.
The damage done to ranches is enormous.
Futher Henry J. McPake was foun%
dead in the basement of St. Paul's Roman
Catholic Academy, in Philadelphia.
Wounds on his head and face lead to the
belief that he was murdered.
The Appellate Division of the Now York
State Supreme Court, while sustaining
Judge Chester in vacatiug the order to the
Coal Trust Presidents, failed to pass upon
the constitutionality of the Anti-Trust law.
At Cynthiana, Ky.,Leon Taylor, n farmer
aged thirty years, committed suicide by
hangiug. Taylor was engaged to be married
to Miss Mary Burns on October 23. but
fled. Miss Burns, finding that she had
been deserted, got a rope and hanged herself
from a window, and was dead when
found.
8potted Hawk who has been on trial at
Miles City, Montana, for the killing of
John Hoover, the Banlnger sheep herder
was convicted of murder in the first degree.
It was the death of Hoover that
caused the recent Indian outbreak iii
Montana.
The National sound Money league issnoa
an address from New York City declaring
against international bimetallism.
William Caul dwell, former State Senator,
was arrested and placed under ?10.000 bail
in New York City, charged with misappropriating
funds belonging to the estate of
Jason Sogers.
Inspection of tally sheets shows that
Perez M. Stewart. Citizens' Union candidate
for Assemblyman, and Howard P.
Okie, candidate of the same party for
Alderman in the Nineteenth AssemblyDistriet.
New York City, have been elected,
instead of the Tammany candidates, shown
as victors in the police returns.
Charles Schlogel. a grocer in New York
City, sixty years old.it is alleged, murdered
his wife and then tried to end bis own life
by cutting his wrists. His son tells of the
tragedy.
A desperate battle was fought between a
United States Deputy Marshal's^iosse and
Hilton Hiekmnu's band of desperadoes at
Mudd Lety, W. Va. The band was surprised
while in a church. Milton Hickman
was killed and the Deputy Marshal badly
wounded.
The Philadelphia Common Council voted
to lease the city's gas works.
The tug T. H. Wise towed the schooner
Silver Heels to the Bahamas, and narrowly
escaped foundering near Datteras. The
filibuster Dauntless transferred part of the
munitions to Cuba. Three-fourths of the
war materials were captured by British
officials.
Foreign.
The President of Nicaragua is sending a
commission I o the Unite<TStates empowered
to sell toe .National iiauroau ana steamboats
of that country; another revolution
is imminent.
A German warship is preparing to go to
Haytito enforce the demand for indemnity
for the imprisonment of the German Lueders.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is increasing
in violence.
King Oscar and others of Sweden are
raisiDg a fund to equip a Swedish Polar expedition
in 18%.
The Spanish Government, finding it impossible
to raise the proposed loan of 80000,000
pesetas, intends to convoke the
Cortes at the earliest possible moment with
the view to obtaining more credits for
building warships and rearming the vessels
Spain now has.
Axthur .Tweedy, British Vice-Consul a*
Santo Domingo* has been arrested, accused
of obtaining money by fraudulent
pretences.
The joiners' union in Glasgow,"Scotland,
has forbidden its members to hang doors
made in the United States or to use joinery
which has been imported from America.
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PENNSYLVANIA'S NEW CAPITOL I
An Importing Croup of BulUin; to I'c
Erected in Ilarrisbarg.
The new Pennsylvania State Capitol, as j
i designed by Henry Ives Cobb, of Chicago, j
j will be an imposing group of buildings, so j
arranged that from every point of view the i
I same impression of simple and dignified
j massiveness will be given. The central
j dome will be plaeod at the intersection of
I State nml Lanitol streets so that four dffI
fer?nt vistas wiil open toward It. The ]egi
islative halls will be In the central building
and on either aide, connected by wings.
will be two departmental buildings. The
j appropriation of ?3o0,001 is not large
enough to permit the erection of the whole
structure at once, but it is thought that the
legislative halls and enough committeerooms
for pressing needs can be put up
with that sura, and in all probability completed
within a year from the 1st of January.
The dome and departmental building
can then be erected later. It is proposed
by the architect that the exteriorof the
building shall bo constructed of Pennsylvania
granite or marble, the framework of
steel and the Interior wall3 and partitions
of brick and holiow tile. The legislative
building is to be 100 feet high to the baso
of the dome and the dome ninety-six feet
higher. The entrance to the capitol will
be from West State street, A wide corridor
lends to the rotunda, where elevators
run to the floor above, on which are the
legislative chambers. The Senate will have
the western end of the building and the
House the eastern end. Each hall will receive
light from three sides. Each is to
have a gallery, above which is a large space
for caucus and other rooms.
KELLEY PLEADS GUILTY OF MURDER.
4sks Not to Be Hanged Until His Contract
With the Devil Expires.
At Dover, N. H., Joseph E. Keiley retracted
his plen of not guiitv to the charge
of murdering Cashier Stickney, of the Great
Falls National Bank, and pleaded guilty #
In addressing the dourt Keiley said:
"This question of retracting my plea all
remains with your Honor. If you will fix
the date of my execution on January 1C,
1899, then, your Honor, I retract my plea
and plead guilty to the charge or murder."
Keiley will be twenty-five years old on
January 15, 1899, and it has* been his repeated
desire for months that he should not
be hanged until after his twenty-fifth birthday,
for then his contract with the devil
will expire, he says, and he will go to
heaven.
Kelley's plea was accepted and the jury
was discharged.
Keiley was pronounced guilty of murder
in the second degree by Chief-Justice Mason,
and sentenced to serve a term of thirty
years In State prison at Concord.
DROPPED DEAD THROUCH GRIEF.
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Father of Swindler L?#celic* ? unue
Dice Becanie of Shame. i
Alexander Felky, the father of the wife j
of Sidney Lascelles, the bogus Lord Eeres- j
. ford, dropped dead at Fitzgerald, Ga., his I
death being hastened by a keen sense of
the disgrace of his daughter.
Beresford was released from the . pent- j
tentiary a few months ngo and cut a wide j
j swath in Fitzgerald. In spite of the fact that
he had been divorced, he captured the j
heart of Miss Clara Pelky, whose father de- ,
nounced him as an adventurer and refused j
his sanction to the marriage. ,
They defied him, had the ceremony per- ,
formed and took a wedding trip. They re- t
turned for a few days and disappeared |
again. An investigation of Lascelles's affairs
showed that he had swindled many
business houses.* *
The father of his wife never recovered
from the shock, and has gradually declined
in health until his death, which the physicians
6ay was induced by. excessive grief.
u? at iSO 000. As i
Mrs. Lasee'iles'ts his only child, she will
doubtless inherit it.
Charles Pago Bryan Minister to China, j
Tho President has appointed Charles (
Page Bryan, of Illinois, to be Envoy Extra, j
ordinary and Minister plenipotentiary to j
China. "Mr. Bryan Is a young man. Ho has
been prominent in Washington and Chicago,
and his experience In public nffairs 1
has been conOned to a term in the Illinois 1
Legislature, where ho was noted for his
efforts in behalf of civil service reform.
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Ihe Princeton Inn Affair. j
The Presbytery of New Brunswick. N.
J., accepted the withdrawal of Profesor
Shields, of Princeton University, who
signed the application for a liquor license
for Princeton Inn. A resolution was '
adopted calling the attention of Presbyte- J
rlnns to the rulo of the church respecting
the liquor traffic. J
Yellow Fever Subsiding.
C/M.f 1. ia he<r!nninc to fren itself from
yellow fever. Many cities are inviting
refugees to return. Tho quarantine restrictions
in North Alabama have been re- !
moVed. New Orleans has raisod the quar- i
antlne agatast all points, but will exact i
health certificates of passengers from In- :
fected cities.
Politician Commits Suicide.
A.Gilliam, manager of tin Jones-Nixon
Publishing Company, of St. Louis, Mo.,and
Democratic candidate for State Senator nt
the last election, shot and killed himself, i
No reason is known for tho deed, e^ept
that an injury received recently by Mr.
Gilliam in a bicycle accident may have affected
his mind.
Philadelphia Interested in Klondike.
A Philadelphia syndicato with a capital
of 67,000,000, of which C. H. Cramp is the
head, has bought five steamers and will establish
a line from San Francisco to the
Klondike. A great mining syndicnte, with
65,000,000 capital, has been formed in Philadelphia.
Durrani's Despite.
The California State Supremo Court
granted a stay of execution in the case of
Durrant, who murdered two girls in a San
Francisco church, because of the error of
Superior Judge Durrant before the papers
in the United States Supreme Court decision
had arrived.
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REV. DR. HEFWORTH'S MISSION.
IIn? Gone to Asia Minor to Investigate
the Armenian Troubles.
On the invitntion of the Sultan of Turkey
the Xew York Herald has sent "an independent,
fearless and intelligent commissioner
to investigate tho condition of the
Christian subjects of the Ottoman Empire,
and tho truth or falsity of the reports of
Armenian massacres, with which the world
has been flooded."
BET. GE020E H. HEPW0ET1I.
The Herald's selection for this work Is
the Rev. George H. Hepwortb, "whose
character as a Christian clergyman, and
whose sermons, as published every Sunday
in the Herald for years, gives assuranco of
full sympathy with his co-religionists In all
demands for religious freedom, while bis
experience as an observer, writer aud
trained journalist, will assure a rigid execution
of his mission. Dr. Hepworth has an
assistant thoroughly familiar with the
country and the Sultan's people, and is accompanied
by tho Sultan's secretaries. He
is also escorted by cavalry to protect him
f>>n rAvlnet h.nnHanf hfi>nnfl? thftt ill
feat the country."
M03 SURROUNDED A COURT HOUSE.
Only the Glittering: Bayonet* n? the Soldier*
Charged Dispersed It.
The timely arrival of troops at Carrollton,
Prekens County, Ala., at daylight
thwarted the efforts of a mob to lynch Bud
Beard, colored, on trial thero for assaulting
a seven-year-old white child.
The lynchers were just preparing to close
in on the Court House, where the Sheriff
and a dozen deputies had stood guard over
the prisoner all night, fearing that if an
attempt was made to take him hack to jail
the mob wonldget him, when the Warrior
Quards, of Tuscaloosa, drove up in.four
wagons and dispersed the throng.
Excitement was intense und the mob refused
to move until they saw the glittering
>ayonets about to be turned upon tbera.
rhe soldiers then surrounded ttfo court
!iouse, allowing none but officers of the
;ourt and others interested to pass the
ines. Court was reconvened at a o'clock
i. m. and the trial was proceeded with. By
loon it was over and Beard had been senenced
b> Judge Pratt to hang on Decern>er
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LOCOMOTIVE KILLS THIRTY.
Vn Entire Wedding Party Ground to
Flecex by an Express Train.
A terrible accident has occurred near
IMelostok, Russian Tolnnd, resulting in the
leath of thirty persons.
A wedding party of that number was rooming
from the church to the home of the;
>ride. All were in one wagon, a huge vehi- (
lie, drawn by eight horses. The roadi
long which they drove crosses the railway I
.rack on the level, and tho driver, either! |
through carelessness or ignorance of the j
:rain schedule, pushed his swiftly moving
.torses upon tho'crossing just as tho ex-:
press was coming up.
The locomotive struck the vehicle.
squarely, killing many members of the:
party outright and mangling others so!
:hat they soon expired In frightful agony. '
Hot a member of the party escaped.
Greek Invaders Badly Beaten.
Some Greek bands which crossed the
Thessalian frontier, between Diskat and,
Domenik, have been repulsed by the
Turks, who killed msny of the invaders
md captured a large number of prisoners.
The Turks also seized 150 rifle9 and 170,000
;artridges belonging to the Greeks.
Klondike Corner In Food.
A minor from Klondike says that tho
food supply at Dawson city is cornered by
a few men who bought jp everything In
sight last summer and are holding It for
fancy prices. Tho food supply is insufficient
at best and this corner only adds to
the inevitable suffering.
?rr Scaling Conference.
Conferences with a view to settling tho
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States and Canada wero beguu between
Premier Laurier and Secretary Sherman at
the State Department; President McKinley
gave a dinner in honor of the Canadian
visitors.
Russia's Xevr Minister.
Russia has recalled Jlr. Kotzebue from
Washington and has appointed 03 her new
Minister to the United States the famous
Count Cassini, who has long and shrewdly
represented her at the court ?r Peking.
Mysterious Assassination.
Captain George Farley, a wealthy millwright
of Wood Glen, N. J., wa3 murdered
in a lonely road by un unknown robber.
Spain's Monetary Supplies.
The r.othschilds and other great financiers
of Europe wholly cut off the monetary
supplies on which Spain depended,
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Woman Accomplice Tells in Court How
Thorn Murdered Gueldensuppe.
A SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Crowds Besiege the Queens Connty Court
IIouso to near the Story of the Ilorrihle
Deed?To Save Her Own Life
Sirs. Stack Defrays Her Partner
In Crime?Turns State's Evidence.
New Yoke City (Special).?Goaded by
terror and remorse, Mrs. Augusta Hack
went upon the witness stand in the Queens
Connty Connty Court Houso at Long Isl'
and City and confessed that she and Martin I
I TlioYn together had plotted the death of
j William Gueldensuppe, the Turkish bath
| attendant, who disappeared on Juno 21
1 last; that she lured him to the place fixed
| upon for his assassination and there watted
J until the deed was done; that, with her
: accomplice, who had dismembered the
j body, she helped to dispose of the dreadful
j evidence of the crime.
It was an intensely dramatic recital?bcI
gun in calmness, and ending in frenzy.
Step by step tho wretched woman told of
j the proposition made by Thorn that Gueldensuppe
should be slnin, of her horror1
stticken rejection, of the constant persuasion
and her final yielding, and the preparations
for accomplishment and concealment.
As she weut on, Mrs. Nack raised
her voice, until at last her phlegmatic, Imperturbable
nature could stand It no longer,
and she almost shrieked, "I am glad this
day has come. I am here before the people
and before my God. I free my conscience."
Her face became contorted, and down
her cheeks rolled scalding tears. Sobs
convulsed her. and for a moment she could
not speak. Then, looking up, she continued:
"No matter what comes of this:
no matter what hangs over my head. I
don't care what happens to me; they c:.n
hantr. thov can kill. I tell all."
Martin Thorn, tho prisoner at the bar,
was sitting sphynx-like when Mrs. Nack
entered the conrt room. His usually pale
face became paler still as she advanced to
tho witness stand, but the only other sign
of emotion he showed was a convulsive
movement of the throat and a moistening
of the thin lips. He seemed to be making
a desperate effort to attract Mrs. Nack'sattention,
but hereyes never once looked Into
his. Showily dressed in silk, and with a
fichu of lace about her throat, she took her
place in the witness chair, and began the
story of her life from the time of her marriage
in Germany up to her meeting with
Gueldensuppe, and later with Thorn inthfs
country and the awful events that followed.
The woman was on the stand about four
hours. The other witnesses of the day
were mostlv men who knew Gueldensuppe
| and who had idcntilled the parts of the
' body. The owner of the house at Woodside
testified to renting the house to Thorn
under the name of F. Braun, and said that
Thorn introduced Mrs. Nack as Mrs.
Braun. Ho identified Thorn and Mrs. Nack
in court. .
Mrs. Nack's confession necessitated a rad- I
ical chancre in the lines of Thorn's defense.,
William F. Howe, his counsel, began by
denying that Gueldensuppe had been killed
or that there was any conclusive evidence
on the subject. Upon bearing Mrs. Nack's
stnrv hn nhAndnnf.rl thl? tlii-orv. He had a
long, earnest consultation with Thorn, who
gave an entirely new version of the affair,
insisting that the woman hod killed Gueldensuppc
with her own hand and began to
hack him to pieces before life was extinct.
Thorn's trial wa3 adjourned late in the'
afternoon on account of the sudden illness
of Magnus Larsen, one of tho jurors. , j |
BISHOP FlTZCERALD CHOSEN. i|
Ocean Grove Association Elects II !m
President to Succeed Or. Stokes.
The annual meeting of the Ocean Grove
(N.J.J Camp Meeting Association has just
been held in Ocean Grove. Almost tho j
first business was to choose a
new President to succeed tho lato
Dr. Elwood H. Stokes, Bishop James
N. FitzGerald being unauimously elected.
msnor james x. ritzaesalp.
(Distinguished Dignitary of the Methodist
Church Elected President of the Ocean
Grove Camp Meeting Association.)
Bishop FitzGerald was spending thesummer
in Ocean Grove when Dr. Stokes died,
and preached an eloquent funeral sermon,
referring in glowing terms to the record of
the deceased. The Bishop was then requested
to temporarily assumo the duties
of tho President, and, until tho close of the
bummer season, presided ai an puDiic services
in the. Ocean Grove Auditorium.
! Bishop FitzGerald Is sixty years old.
iHo was a lawyer in early lifo. In 1861,
'when a great revival occurred in the Central
Methodist Church, in Newark, he
was converted. The law was abandoned,
and he became an itinerant preacher. In
1881 he was elected Recording Secretary
of the Methodist Missionary Society,
and his duties assigned him to work
in New York. For seven years he held
this position, and in 1888 was chosen general
superintendent. His career as a Bishop
has been marked by much ability. In
February, 18?0 Bishop FitzGerald was appointed
by his colleagues to be Presidont
of the Epworth League, in which capacity
he served for more than six years.
Richard 1 oltoui Cleveland.
1 Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland, of Princeton,
N. J., have named their boy Elehard
Folsom. Tho boy Is named after his ma
tcrnal grand fat her.
Fatally Injured at Tootball.
William J. Keating, twenty-one years of
age, living with bis parents in North Homestead,
Penn., died from t?ia result of au injury
received in a football game at Swissvale
ten days before. He was injured while
playing halfback, and had been ill ever
since. His death came rather unexpectedly,
and the case is being investigated by the
Coroner.
Freedom For Competitor Men.
The Spanish Government has cabled
iMarshal Blaaco. specially authorizing him
to include tho Competitor prisoners in the
amnesty granted to Cubans now imprisoned
or waiting trial, u
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BERTHA THOMPSON, CITY PHYSICIAN
A Noycl Departure in Official Appointments
at Oshkosh, Wis.
Oshkosh, Wis., has a woman as city physician.
Bertha V. Thompson, a bright young v
woman who graduated in 1892 at a Chicago
medical college, was appointed to that offiee
recently by Mayor Ideson to succeed
Dr. B. N. Nintzel, the regular city physician,
who has been suspended from duty
BEBTIIA V. THOMPSON.
pending an investigation.
Dr. Thompson is the first woman to hold
the office of city physician in the Slate of
Wisconsin. 8ho was born In Neenah, Wis.,
and was a teacher for a few years, and then
served as nurse in hospitals before studying
medicine. She is the only woifian
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PRACTICAL RAILROAD EDUCATION. .
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The Novel Proposition ot An Pastern
College Profeiaor.
A novel proposition was made not long
ago to the receivers oftho Baltimore and >'/3g
Ohio Railroad. The B. and 0. has a branch
running from what Is known as Alexandria
Junction, near Washington, to Shepherd's
on the Potomac River, where a car ferry
Is operated la connection with the lines
leading south from the CUpitol. A professor
of an Eastern college desired to j
lease this short stretch of track for the
purpose of educating young men in practl"
cal railroad work. In his letter he explained
that he thought there was a wide field for
bright and energetic boys who could b?
thnrnnfrhlv well grounded fn the nractical
side of railroading provided they conld b?
educated on a regular line of road. Ho believed
that by the employment of veteran
railroad men as teachers, that the boys
could profitably spend two or three years
working as trainmen, firemen, engineers, .
switchmen, station agents, and in other
capacities required in the railroad service, ' ^
As this branch of the B. and 0. is of con- )
slderablo value, the receivers were com- is
polled to decline the offer.
MRS. NACK CONFESSES.
Kereals the Shocking Story of the Killing
of William Gueldensuppe.
Mrs. Augusta Nack, jointly indicted with 'J'
Martin Thorn, on trial in Long Island City
for the murder of William Gueldensnppe, **
in a cottage nt Woodside, L. I., has made a *
confession. Emanuel M. friend, the woman's
counsel, was asked about the report.
"It is true," he said. "Mrs. Nack has
made a confession."
Her confession agrees in every important V.
point with the story told by John Gotha,
the barber, who said that Thorn confessed
to him, and on whose information the po- 't
lice wore put on Thorn's track. Gotha's
testimony is a bighlv important part of the
prosecution's case, and Mrs. Nack's story '. 5
corroborates it.
The statement made by John Gotha to
the police was that Thorn had told him
that Mrs. Nack had lured Gueldensuppe to ' *
a cottage iu Woodside, Long Island, where
he shot the bath-rubber while Mrs. Nack
waited in the garden until the deed was
done; that he afterward cut up the body
into sections, and that he and Mrs. Nack together
disposed of the pieces.
"DYNAMITE DICK" KILLED. 1
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He Said lie Preferred to Die With His
Boots On and He Did.
Charles Clifton, alias Dynamite Diek, , ^
the notorious outlaw, was killed at the
house of Sid Williams, fifteen miles west of ^
Checotab, Indian Territory, by Deputy '
JIarshnls. Thoy had been on his trail for
three weeks and chased him all over the y
Cherokee Nation, bat his knowledge of the . . vj
country enabled him to elude them. Clifton
refused to surrender and said ho pre- J
fcrred to die with his boots on.
Clifton had been the terror of the Indian .^j
country for several years, being the head
of one of the boldest outlaw gangs that op- ^
crated in that wild country. He got the
name of Dynamite Dick bocause he used ci
to bore boles in his cartridges and All them ... ?.
with dynamite, which would explode with . $
ileadly effect after striking n solid sub- '
'stance. He was implicated in numerous Vg
bank and express robberies.
MASSACRE OF SIKHS.
Ililrty-F'.ve Soldier* and an Officer Killed ;<*
by Insurgent Indians. i
The report that a native officer and thirtyfive
Sikhs belonging to the British Kurram
cofumn had been intercepted by tribesmen
iu a ravine in India and slaughtered is offi- *;
cinlly confirmed.
It appears that they were assisting la a {
reconnoissance up the Kurmnna River.
Taking a short cut down hill, they came to
a ravine where the grass of the jungle waa
burning. The flames spread so rapidly as to
completely cut off their retreat, and the
tribesmen, seeing their predicament,
swarmed on the higher cround. hurled
flown rooks upon them and closed round
the men until the whole thirty-six were shot M
or cut down. " t .
The bikhs fought heroically until i.he '
very last, their oftlcer killing two of the .*&
rebel chiefs w ith his own hands before be
fell.
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Oklnlioma Stage Robbed. '
The mail stage running between *2
Cheyenne, Oklahoma, and Canadian was $3
held up bv highwayman, who rifled the ->
mail pouches and secured about $400 in .<<5
money and valuables. James Wilson, the '?
stage driver, has been arrested for supposed
complicity in the robbery.
Physician Arrested For Counterfeiting*
Dr. Thomas Edgar Rogers, a well-known f'
physician of Haralson County, Georgia,
Was taken to Atlanta charged with counter- '.1
Ieiting. In his house .was found the com- 5
j.lete paraphernalia of a counterfeiter. He
manufactured gold pieces of the denomination
of $10.
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r A Boton contemporary says that "no
gentleman will swear before a lady.'* |j
The safest 0001*86 undoubtedly la to
giveihe lady the first chance, y ' '
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