The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 15, 1888, Page 2

AN OPERATOR'S RIDE. A Respite Which Reuched a Condemn- ed Murderer Just in Time. Eufaula, Ala, February 6.—The modesty of Mauager Muore, of the Western Union office in this city, who received the message from Guv. ‘Gordon respiting the condemned { murderer, Lewis Moore, twenty days | from last Thursday, hus kept a , thrilling incident out of print. The étory of the respite and the difficu: ties under which it reached its bene- ficiary is quite senf&tional, aud is Given in full for the first time, as follows. On the morning of the execution, Thursday last, in Georgetown, Ga, two miles across the river from Eu | faula, a number of prominent citi i fens wired Governor Gordon aski:.g for arespite of twenty days. Themes | éage was received iu Atlanta at 10:50 | and Lewis was to be hanged between | 11 and 12 ovlock. At 11 o'clock, | precisely Gov. Gordou reud the mer- ' Gage and immediately sent to the telegraph office in Atlanta the ful- lowing: } Sheriff J. M. Harrell, Georgetown, | Ga.: Suspend execution o. Lewis Moore for twenty days from this Gate. (Signed) J B. Gorpox, Governor. i Wire to Eufaula and rush messen { Ger to Georgetown. faula was down. Tue message was sent back to Atlanta and at once flashed to Montgo ney, where it was received at 11:16. The wire between Montgomery and Eufaula was luckily all right. and the message was received by Mr. Moore ut 11:19. It hid to be copied and undergo the usual rou- tine of office manipulation, and -o messenger was to be had. Manager Moore took the message, aud, ieav- i ing Miss Richter, an accomplished eB Operator, in charge, hurried to the livery stables, where one solituy horse remained, everything having been engaged by parties going over ‘to witness the hanging. Ordering the animal saddled ut ouce, Mans ‘ger Moore, realizing the importance of the message and the value of time iu consuming the distance, vaulted q| into the saddle, and, urging the ani- i mal to his speed, wer.t.away o. the wind for a two-.nile ride to Geo: ge- } town. | It was 11:35 when he mount-d he horse, and Moore was to hang | at 12. The execution could not be ; | Gelayed beyoud that time. Away ! i j fled the manager-wessenger with the document thut extended the life of a human being. If he could but arrive in time. Through the bridge he tore like wild, und up the long, winding lane, his hair streaming in the wind, while the horse at every bound seemed as if he would belch forth fire. What a ride it was, and what the result if the girth should break, if:the horse should stumble! On they flow horse and rider, and just as the condemned. man’ emerg- ed from-his long confinement to find, es he thought, freedom in eternity, just as he started to the gallows, the brave horse and rider rose up over the hill and the cry rang out, “Don’t hang him! Don’t hang him!’ and at 11:45, ten minutes after leaving Eufaula, the message of liberation was placed in the hands of the Georgia Sheriff, and a life was saved for twenty days at least. It was a @ grand ride, and there seemed to be ® Providence in it. PEI ks TT 2 Washington Letter. Washington, D. C., Feb. 6, '88. Virginia's retiring Senator—Rid- dleberger—still persists in tho sev- ate having open executive sessious. He his declared his iutention of bringing up the question every day that he can get the recognition of the | The message was sent from the i Atlanta office at 11:10 to Augusta i ‘(vis which point messages from At- Janta are usually sent to Eufaula.) i The wire between Augusta and Eu senators who have as private secreta ries newspaper correspendents are | MURDER AND SUICIDE. | | RICHARD FOX ARRESTED. invariably published in the leadi.g| A Missouri Farmer Kills His Sweet- He is Charged With Vivlating the Laws New York dailies, aud ridiculed the idea of the sessions being culled se- cret. He declares his intention of calling up his resolution again on Monday. Dennis Kearney, the Sand lot ora tor, has been airing himeelf before the house committe on Foreign Af- fairs. He is stumping in favor of Representative Cumming’s bill to to- tally restrict Chinese immigration. His manner before the committee was exceedingly offensive aud when some of his statements were ques- tioned by Representative Hitt of the committee, he made a personal at- tack on him and threatened to go into the Representative's district uext fall aud get his constituents to pelt him with dead cats and baked snails, which his friends, the Chinese, eat. The committee bore with the demagogue who injured the good cause rather than benefitted it. The large publishers of the couu- try have succeeded in getting a fa- vorable report from the committee on postoffices, forbidding the send- ug through the mails, at newspaper rates, or as second class mitter, tri- weekly publicatious, such as the Seaside Library. These chesp pub- lications have reached an euormous circulation by reason of the eager- ness uf the mass of people to get popular and standard literature in a cheap form. The sale of this low- priced literature has made such iv- roads on the business of high-priced publishers that the latter co.np!ai ied of the disadva itages wt waich they were placed iu postal rates a sd hence to the postal laws. The House committee on rivers and harbors is being besieged by delegations from all parts of the country to assign some of the treis ury surplus to them for use on seme One or more streains in their state So far the committee has not been able to formulate any bill, but is making notes froin what is submitted by the various delegations and will endeavor to do # mething for all of them. Itis thought that the bill will provide for expending something like at least $10,000,000. This sum is expected to apply on account and contemplates further appropriations in the next session for canying on the same improvements. To appro- priate at this time for the comple- tion of these many projects would call for nearly $40,000,000, and that wou'ld reduce the prospects of any tariff reductiou at this session. There has already been introduced about 300 bills relating to the tariff reduction-and while no one is prac ticable still many of them coutain some good provisions which “are be- ing culled by the committe on ways and means and will be used in pre paring the bill to be submitted by that committee as the measure of the party. Itis probable that the bill may be ready for report by the committee within the next three weeks. iH Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world tor Cnts Bruises, Cuts, Ulcers Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, (ancer-, Piles, Chilblains, Corns, Teter, Chapped Hands, and all skin erup- tions,and postively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give pertect satistaction, or money refnnded. = Prive per box. zs cts For saleby all Drug- gists. The National Grange once more declares its true position regarding railroads, the position it has alwaya held, but which has in the past been so greatly misunderstood and mis- represented: “This body again affirma that it has no desire to antagonize in any- way the railroad interests of the country. Itonlyseeks justice, which is the right of every citizen. Neith has the Grange any controversy with legitimate corporations of any kind so long as they justly carry out the purposes for which they were creat ed. It is only when they exceed the bounds of law and justice that the Mrs. Everett if she had any obj -c- to his talking to Miss Neva for chair until the senate by some de- | Grange asserts its mghts and power @aratory action sets its stamp of j to compel obadiencs to the same.” disapproval on the innovation. In | —— a the last executive session tho s>ns- | tcr occupied thewho'etimein speak-/ A neglected cough is a source ot | ing upon his resolution and > 19 | MMNNent danger to all. Bullaro’s a x i Horehound Syrup is guaranteed @xecutive business was trars et d.j - chou tal ple oa Th pcure tne worst cough, whoopirg e senator openly charged th:t/ cough, sore throat and ail other i Gpeeches made in secret session by | coughs. Great Danzer I: Coughs. i heart and Then Himself. Plattsburg, Mo., February 8.— One of the most shocking tragedies ever enacted in this county occurred to-day at the residence of David Everett, a farmer living two miles northwest of this city, where his daughter, Neva Everett, was shot and instantly killed, while sitting by the side of her mother, by William Ball, @ young man whose offer of marriage she had rejected. A moment later Ball placed the revolver to his head aud fired, falling dead on the floor. To a reporter Mr. Everett said that young Bull had worked for him at differeut times, and came to his house late yesterday to stay all night. This morning he proposed to help Everett kill hogs. While at work he made frequent trips to the house. Finally Miss Everett called her fath- er and asked him to send Ball away, as she was afraid of him. Everett notified Bull that he would not need him longer and that he could go. This was about 9 o'clock. Ball started us if to leave, going across toward the road, but when he had passed Everett's stuble he turved and went into tne kitchen. Mrs. Everett, two little children aud M ss Everett were iu thervom. Heasked aminute. She told him uo, not if Neva wished him to. He then ask- ed the youug lady to step into the other room with him for two muin- utes as he wished to talk to her. She told him if he had anything to say to her she preferred he wou.d say it in the presence of her mother. He instantly tired at her, striking her in the back of the head at the base of the skull, the ball passing c.ear through her head. Miss Neva fell into her mothe.’s arms, who was sitting within two feet of her. and expired without a word or struggle. After firing the shot, Ball walked into the next room, placed the muzzle of the re- volver to his temple and pulled the trigger, falling dead within 20 feet of the dead girl. Ball dropped four letters near him that stated that he had made up hs miud to commit the crime. Oue «f the letters was dated on the 1st aud addressed to his mother, who is in Kentucky. On the 5th he wrotejan other addressed to the father and mother of the murdered girl asking them to bury him by the side of his victim, aud saying that Neva was the ouly one he had ever loved, but that she had spurned his love and he was determined they should die t g-ther. He purchased the revolver yester- d:y, which wasa Smith & Wesson No. 32. Bull was but little over 21 years old and had been here about two years. Miss Everett was in her 16th year and was quite a belle in the neighborhotbh. She was quite handsome and noted for her amiable disposition. Perverted Meaning. “The divinity student’s broke out again,” said the young man that boards on South division streets. “We were sitting at dinner to-day and Miss Staggs she up and says one of her pupils will never set the river on fire. The divinity atudent looked up and said, ‘I see that you, like other good people, are in error occasionally.’ ‘What do you meant’ szid Miss Staggs, getting red in the face. ‘I mean,’ said the divinity student, that when you talk about setting the river on fire you are us- ing an old saying that,s got off the track. It used to be ‘he'll never set the Thames on fire,’ and people when they said it had in mind the river Thames; on the contrary, it means a miller’s sieve, calleda temse, which was used in the old wind and water mill days. This temse hada | wooden rim which slid back and forth in a wooden frame. If theman that worked it was energetic in his work he sometimes set the tems2 on fire from friction. Hence it wus said of a dull, slow person that he would never set the temse on fire, and the saying his ben corrupted to ita present form.” in Encouraging Prize Fights. New York, Feb. 7.—Richard K. Fox, proprietor of the Police Gazette was arrested this morning by I:- spector Williams charged with vio- lating the penal code by encourag- ing prize fighting. He went to head- | quarters with the inspector and then immediately started for the Tombs police court. The technieal charge against Fox is that of aiding and abetting prize fighting in definance of law, of holding stakes, publishing the details and preliminaries of fights and making his office the rendezvous for men bent on violating the law. When Fox was arraigned in court he asked for an adjournment of the examination until Tuesday. His re- quest was granted and he was re- leased on his own recognizance. It seems to be now fully determin- ed that there will be no Lubor par- ty in the field in the next presider- tial canvass and all hopes which the Republicans cherished of a defeet- ion from the Democratic ranks in support of such issue have proved to be groundless. President Cleve- land’s message on the tariff has ap parently won to his support the el ement which his enemies predicted would antagonize him, and has thus narrowed down and simplified the issues of the approaching campaign. Henry George, in an interview on this subject on Monday, at Wash ington said: “Mr. Cleveland has set his face clearly in the direction of free trade. The length or number of steps is not of so much imwpor- tance as that a step has been taken. President Cleveland is even now in advance of his party, and has made the issue. It cannot be dodged or evaded. Iam with the Administra- tion and opposed t> a third party Presidential caudidate as long as the Democratic party and the Aduminis- tration tend toward freedom. I have a strong belief that President Cieveland is far more radical than his party, or even his message, and that he will at the opportune mo- ment, take a stride that will make his last advance look insiguifieant.”’ With more milch cows and feed- ing steers, more breeding sows and growing pigs, more brood mares and growing colts, more sheep of the right kind and an annual crop of fat wethers, we will get out of the groove we are many of us now in, make less of a specialty of grow- ing wheat, corn and hay for stap!e crops, produce only what we can feed, and send to market in the pro- duce of our fl cke and herds, carry rving these things ina manufaetur- ed state at a less cost for freightage and marketing, and giving us the| }] We | f manufacturer's profit as well. will then have a good stock of ma- nure by the judicivus use of which we can make larger crops on the same quantity of land and at less proportionate cost.—Rural World. 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