The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 27, 1895, Page 1

3 VOLUME LX.\;\'iII.—XO. 57. SAN FRANCISCO, BANNOCKS TAKE LIFE Relentless Reds Murder the Jackson Hole Settlers. SIXTEEN FAMILIES SLAIN The Massacre Hastened by the | Approach of the Regu- lar Trcops: BRAVES LIGHT SIGNAL FIRES, Great the Slaughter, for There Were Only Sixty-Five Men to Fight Hundreds of Indians. POCATELLO, t toM sixty-five ere, to-night that sixteen Hole had been mas- ames Peterson, a t the news after a hard 1 St. An- tch Line told Peterson that he got ing information direct from Mr. banking firm of Gray, Ross & Anthony, who started on a st Wednesday with Thomas Hammer, County Atiorney of St. An- th General Hammer, State Senator of d L. M. Earl of Salt Lake. e party intended to go to Jacksons sarred out by the hostile heard the report that a te settlers had been killed. rd, a ranchman of Wilford, ) arrived at Market Lake to-day, d the report at both Rexburg, that sixteen entire families in le had been killed. Brigadier- zer sent a messenger to the be- early sterday morning. he should be back here irday morning to give more de- direct information. Sargent arrived in Market Lake rom the vicinity of Jacksons Hole. He left a companion in the coun- try who remained to get into the hole if possible and return with all the news. He s ket Lake to- all the passe iis companion will not be He believes the settlers and is afraid 1 able to get in. who went to hunt Indians in the Hoback Basin have been nbushed and mas- itant - General Stitzer of ois at Market Lake to-day, us for two of his messengers dispaiched to Jaeksens Hole several days ago who bave not returned, although over- Grave fears are now entertained that have been ambushed by the Indians. The two special trains bearing the four troops of colored cavalry from Fort Robin- son, Nebr., have not been able to keep up with the time scheduled for them yester- day, and instead of arriving here this even- ing it will be aaylight to-morrow morning before they get 1t will be well along toward noon to-morrow before the troops reach Market Lake. Considerable time will necessarily be consumed in getting started on the jour- ney overland, and then there are before them 120 miles of travel, the last of the being over the Teton Mountains. neans that it will, at least, be Mon- day night béfore the settlers, if any remain in the Jacksons Hole Valley, receive any ng to the official report made by Adjutant-General Stitzer, this week there were in Jacksons Hole 65 men who are able to bear arms, 35 women and 40 chil- dren. Opposed to them were the 250 to 300 Bannocks and Shoshones from this reser- vation, who were the first to become hos- tile; the 400 Lemhis, who joined the bel- ligerents this week; the 50 Bannocks un- der Jim Ballard, and possibly 200 or 300 Shoshones from the Wind River Reserva- tion, and 150. Utes from Utah and C rado. At the very least estimate the fight- ing force of whites must have been out- numbered six or eight to one. For three days all the highest mountain peaks in the Jacksons Hole country have been blazing with Indian signal fires It was a sight that struck terror to the hearts of the handful of settlers surrounded by the relentless red men, for it meant that more were to come. Swift riding Indian couriers with relays of ponies, scoured the surrounding territory, and couriers and fires resulted in probably several hundred braves being added to the force massed at the southern entrance to Jacksons Hole. Yesterday the Indians learned that the troops were surely coming and realized that they must strike at onceif their re- venge was to be secured. MURDEROUS WORK COMPLETED. After Killing Men, Women and Children Reds Burn the Houses. MARKET LAKE, Ipsano, July 26.—M. rt and Senator Hammer, thony left St. Anthony Wednesday morn- ing on a fishing trip to Jacksons Hole, tak- ing no stock in the Indian war. To-day they are back and report every man, woman and child in Jacksons Hole murdered. A courier, just returned, got far into the Te- ton Basin, which is the present point in danger of massacre now that the Jacksons Hole citizens are all butchered. He ke of a large fire can be seen several miles south of Grand 1, in the direction of Jacksons Hole. no doubt but that the redskins have fired every home and cabin, and by morning they will be repeating their work this side of the Teton Range in the Teton Basin, and perhaps after that all down the Teton Valley in Idaho. Two hundred Utes were reported to have gone north to join the Indians in Hoback Basin early this week. Small parties of Lemhis have been slipping in daily across the Conant trail, something they have not ventured to do since the Yellowstone Na- tional Park was enlarged in 1891. SLAUGHTER OF THE ELKS. Cause of the Trouble Between the Settlers and Bannocks. CHEYENNE, Wro., July 26.—Governor Rl_chards to-day received the following cf- Gcial report of Adjutant-General Stitzer of il to Jacksons Park, and | the State militia, who is at Market Lake as the Governor’s representative : MARKET LAKE, Idaho, July 26. W. A. Richards, Governor: In obedience to vour verbal orders given July 17, 1895, direct- ing me to proceed to Jacksons Hole and report the cause of the disturbance between the set- tlers and Indians in Uinta County, Wyo., I proceeded to Marysvale, arriving there on Sat- urday evening, July 20. On Sunday forenoon, July 21, at the Xarysvale postoffice, & confer- ence was held between T.B. Teter, agent for the Hall Indian reservation,and about fifty- five settlers of Jacksons Hole. Captain William House of the Indian police, a Shoshone Indian, was also present at the meeting. The conference between Agent Teter and the settlers was of a very unsatisfactory character and created some bitter feeling. In 1894, ow- ing to the repeated petitions of the settlers and complaints of the county authorities of Uinta and Fremont counties, the Department of the Interior, by circular letter of instructions, un- der date of February, 1894, instructed the Indian agent at Fort Hall and Shoshone agen- cies to issue no passes to Indians for the pur- pose of leaving their reservations under any circumstances, and especially not for the pur- pose of hunting. During the spring of 1895 the settlers of Jacksons Hole determined to see to the en- forcement of the game laws. On the 24th day of June a process was issued for the apprehen- sion of nine Bannock Indians and placed in the hands of Constable William Manning for service. On June 26 a constable and two deputies came upon seven of the Indians in the Fall River basin in the act of taking the hides off nineteen head of cow elk which had just been killed. The Indians resented any interference with their unlawful acts and threatened the con- stable and deputies with personal violence if they did not immediately leave the vicinity, and threatened the deputies that if they or the people of Jacksons Hole in any manner inter- fered with their hunting they would kill every man, woman and child in Jacksons Hole. At this time the constable being unable to make any arrests returned to Jacksons Hole and reported the tact. On June 18 Captain John Smith, a prospector and miner in charge of some of the Gros Ventre properties, was return- ing to his camp when he was fired on from embush by five Indians and shot in the right breast. The wound, however, was not aserious one and Captain Smith returned the fire, kill- ing one of the Indians, and the others made their escape. It is estimated that 3000 head of elk have | already been killed by the Indians this season. Bodies of elk are lying on the hillsides and timbered ravines, shorn of their hides o Motherless calves follow the horses of the set- tlers as they pass through the country, their mothers having been killed by the Indians. This is the cause of the trouble between the Indians and white men of thiscounzry. I have the honor to submit herewith for your consideration the foregoing report. FRANK A. STITZER, Adjutant-General. KILLED EVEEY SETTLER. Union Pacific Officials Receive News of the Massacre. OMAHA, NEBR, July 26.—The news of the massacre of settlers in Jacksons Hole is confirmed by the Union Pacific Railroad officials. A telegram received to-night from the superintendent at Market Lake states that the Indians have killed every | settler and that their stock was slaugh- S ATHONY T 06 Started the Sensational Report. However, the Noted Woman Suf- frage Advocate Recovered In Time to Lecture. TOLEDO, Oxro, July 26.—A report was circulated here to-night that Miss Susan B. Anthony, the renowned advocate of woman suffrage, had died suddenly at Lakeside, Ohio, this afternoon where she was in attendance on the summer as- sembly. It was learned later that the only founda- tion for the rumor was the fact that Miss Anthony had been taken ill during the morning with fainting svells. Her indis- position proved to be nothing serious, and a private message received here at 8:30 P. M. from Mrs. E. S. Frey, a prominent Toledo woman suffragist, conveyed the information that Miss Anthony had en- tirely recovered and was to lecture at the evening session of the assembly. Miss Anthony took the place of Rev. Anna H. Shaw of Boston, who was unable | to appear because of illness. SO g FIRE IN A PUOORHOUSE. Unfortunates Thought to Have Been Cremated. MADISON, Wis., July 27, 12:55 A. M.—A telephone message from Verona says the poorhouse and insane asylum is on fire, and that there is loss of life. Help has been sent from here. The tire started between the poorhouse and the asylum and got beyond control in a few minutes, spreading in all directions. Superintendent Edwards, who went on the roof to fight the fire, fell to the ground and was seriously and perhaps fatally hurt. The buildings will be a complete loss, and it is reported that some of the inmates were burned. There are over 100 inmates in the two buildings. When the fire first broke out every ef- fort was made to keep the fact from the insane patients, but such precautions were dealt a death blow inside of ten minutes, for the first smell of smoke flung the un- fortunates into a terrible panic. They threw themselves against the windows and shrieked to be let out. They fought with each other to get to the windows, where they tugged at the iron gratings with the strength of despair. When the authorities saw that the struc- ture was doomed they decided to let the lunatics out. The doors were flung wide open. Out dashed the demented creatures in their night-clothing. The moment they reached the doors the rush from behind was so great that the patients in the first row were flung upon the floor. The others rushed over them pell-mell. Gaining the outside, there was a wild scattering. The lunatics seemed to disappear like snow- flakes in a spring rain. Owing to the hurried exit and great con- fusion it is not known whether any lives were lost or not. It is feared, Lhowever, that at least a few of the unfortunates did not get out in time. The exact situation will not be known for some hours at least. The only communication with the city was gv telephone, and that was cut off by the ames. Several B Rilled an Indian. SALT LAKE, Utan, July 26.—An In- dian named Quint Panquetch was shot ana killed vesterday by a man named Haegel- stedt, at Panquetch Lake. The verdict ac- quitted Haegelstedt, but the Indians, who are quite numerous around the lake, are dissatisfied and may make serious trouble for the settlers. CAUGHT AT RICHLAND Bandit Brady Surprised While Hiding Under a Bridge. TAKEN THROUGH A RUSE. Covered by Two Revolvers Before He Could Draw His Weapons. STORY OF HIS ADVENTURES. The Outlaw Denles That He Was the Slayer of Sheriff Bogard. SACRAMENTO, CAL., July 26.—Bandit Brady, who for months has led the peace officers of Northern California a long and weary chase through the brush-covered foothills of the Sierras, and whose will- o’-the-wisp appearances in a dozen different SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1895. PRICE FIVE CENTS It began to rain and poured down hard, and we took refuge in Siddon’s grove, where there is an empty house. We were wet and tired and hungry and it was cold. Browning, who was rapidly getting des- perate, turned to me and said: ¢ ‘Brady, let’s rob the Oregon overland.’ “I says: ‘It's raining; the roads are muddy; we'd get caught sure, and any way I don’t want anything to do with any more jobs. You got me in trouble once and once 1s enough.’ “Then he said I had no sand and was a coward, and he had half a mind to kill me. He had given me a pistol that morning, and when he said that I sprang outside and got behind a tree and said, ‘You just try iton.’” When he found that I had the advantage he said he'd quit, and I gaid I would too—quit him. Finally, when he found I was determined to leave him, he asked me to give him the pistol, and then I took his word not to shoot me, handed it over and left. I came directly to Sacra- mento, and was in this city on the night before the robbery and slept at the Empire House on K street. “The next morning I left the city and was gone four or five days. I don’t care to state where I went. Then I came back and stayed a few days and then left. I don’t care to state where I was during that time, but I bought a horse and cart at Fresno—that is, near Fresno—and went to Redding, where I got into that shooting scrape. “I had stopped to feed my horse near Clear Creek when two men drove up. I heard them on the gravel before they came in sight, but not in time to escape obser- s HARRY WILLIAMS, ALIAS BRADY, THE SLAYER OF SHERIFF BOGARD, CAPTUBE_D AFIER A PURSUIT OF MONTHS. [Reproduced from a photograph.) places at one and the same time had almost persuaded the officers and the reading public that he was possessed of a dozen beings, is now in jail, and the blood- thirsty, determined bandit, the fire-eater, who would shoot ‘‘at the drop of the hat,” has degenerated into a slim-built, mild- looking, laughing, countritied youth, who relates the story of his wanderings and hardships with evident gusto, and tells of narrow escapes from capture and violent death with a smile that broadens to a laugh when Le reaches the portion of his narration reiating to the fiasco near Red- ding. “They ran like the dickens,” he said, speaking of the officers who were said to have fought a bloody battle with him; then he laughed long and loud. Sheriff Johnson, who in company with Deputy Sheriff McDonaid had been en- gaged in the pursuit of Brady last evening, returned to Sacramento this morning, after having forwarded notice that Brady was in the immediate vicinity to all Jus- tices of the Peace and peace officers in the surrounding country. He left McDonald stationed on the roadside near Richmond. About an hour later Justice of the Peace Johnson of Highland drove up the road in his buggy, and in passing over a bridge saw the fugitive crouched beneath it, evi- dently endeavoring to escape observation. ‘Without giving any visible signs of his discovery he drove to a near-by farmhouse and entered into conversation with the inmates to allay any possible suspicion on the part of Brady. A few minutes later he turned his buggy and drove back across the bridge to where he knew McDonald was in waiting. Telling him of his discovery, he tied his horse, and. accompanied by MeDonald, hurried back to the bridge. Drawing their weapons, both men cautiously approached to within a short distance of the structure and then made a simultaneous rush upon Brady, McDonald ordering him to sur- render. Brady, seeing the utter impossi- bility of resistance, threw up his hands and was handcuffed and led back to the buggy, BraJy declared that it was cunning dis- played by Johnson that effected his capture. “Had he hesitated one second,” said the fugitive, “he would never have got me. I'd have made a clean bolt for it if 1 thought he had seen me.” * Brady, when placed in jail here, talked loquaciously of his adyentures, but denied having taken part in the crimes charged against him. “I never had anything to do with the train robbery,” he said to a CALL corre- spondent, as his face assumed for once a serious expression. “You see, Sam Brown- ing and I got in arow and quit the day before the robbery took place. We had been chums for a long time, ate together, slept together, and the papers had every thing correct about our travels around the streets of San Francisco on wheels, but we never had anything to do with the Stagg affair nor the robbing of the stableman. At least I know nothing of either. “Well, we left San Francisco together on our bikes and went to Marysville and then to Oroville, where Browning, who.had a little money, tried to rent a portion of ‘the hotel to sell bicyeles in. ot “You see, we knew 2 man who had lots of second-hand bikes and he fully trusted Browning and would let him have all the wheels he wanted, but Sam got disheart- ened and we started back for Marysville. vation. One of the men said: ‘We don’t want anything of yon," and I said, ‘Don’t you’ and raised my gun. Then one of them fired at me and I jumped to the left and got it in the right side. “It was small shot and it’s there yet. I never had anything done to it. WhenI felt the sting of the shot it scared me and I started to run, but tripped over a grape- vine, fell and both barrels of my shotgun went off. I did not shoot at any one. Then I jumped behind my horse and the ‘bold’ officer stood on the other side and fired six shots at me from his revolver. He fired under the horse and never hit me. One shot did knock the clasp of my garter off, but it didn’t scratch me. Then he ran.” “Where was the other officer all this time ?”” was asked. “Oh, he wasn't in it,”’ laughed Brady. “One did the shooting and the other did the running. When he got done shooting Ilooked for my shells, for I had got pro- voked by this time, but I could notload my gun in time to get a shot at either of them. One was out of sight and the other was chasing his horse, which had run away. After they were gone I ran away through the brushb.” Brady gave a detailed account of his wanderings and encounters with various people ap to the time of his capture. “I saw a buggy coming,” he said, “and got under 2 bridge to escape observation. The buggy went over the bridge and went to a house. The next thing I knew I was covered by two guns and had to surren- der.” BRADY'S CRIME. Sheriff Bogara Killed While Resist- ing the Train-Robbers. SACRAMENTO, CaAr., July 26.—The Oregon Express train, known on the railroad time-table as No. 15, was held up by two masked men just after leaving ‘Wheatland early in the morning of March 30. That the plans of the robbers did not meet with success throughout was due to the pluck and nerve of John Bogard, the Sheriff of Tehama County, who gave his life in a manly effort to thwart them. Added to the boldness of the hold-up, the fact that the two highwaymen rode to the scene of the robbery on bicycles gave the affair widespread notoriety. The story of the hold-up, the killing of one of the robbers and the death of Sheriff Bogard is best told in the account given by Engineer Bowser of No. 15 immediately after the tragedy. *‘It was when we were about a half mile this side of Wheatland,” said Mr, Bowser, “that some one punched me quite forcibly in the ribs and I turned around to see that it was a masked man, a tall fellow armed with two pistols, which he held uncom- fortably close to nre. ' Behind my fireman I noticed another man, a shorter one, also masked and armed similarly. Isaid to the tall man, ‘Hello, what do you want?’ He replied, ‘We want you to stop at the next crossing.” I asked which crossing he meant and he said, ‘the next main high- way.’” I said nothing more until we were within 100 hundred yards of the cross road, when I asked, ‘Here is a crossing now; do you want me to stop?’. He said, ‘Yes; stop right now.’. I obeyed, and the thil man, who seemed to be an old band at the business, ordered :myseli and the fireman to leave the engine. “When we were out on the ground the tall robber told me to go tothe door of the — e Continued on Second Pages LOW'S TALE OF WOE Plaint of the Father of Lillie, the Girl Suicide. ROBBED BY RELATIVES. Sorrowful Story of a “Crime Committed by the Four Hundred.” SHUT OUT OF VAST RICHES. With His Brother John He Is In a Falr Way to Die & Pauper. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 26.—John Low, the father of Lillie Low, the Wash- ington Heights suicide, to-day told several newspaper men of his family troubles and bitterly assailed his relatives for the man- j ner 1 which they have treated him since Lillie’s death, and also for their actions in connection with the distribution of his father’s resources, which he alleges were intended to injure both his brother John, who lives in France, and himself. He said: “I see that my family has made state- ments accusing me of having written in- solent letters. They pretend that they have given me the cold shoulder year after year and this is true, for they have been doing it for twenty-five years past. They wanted to turn my father against me so as to get his business and his money.” These relatives, Mr. Low said, were his brother Joseph T. Low, his sister Mrs. Harriman, and also her husband Oliver Harriman. “While living in France,” he continued, “my brother John and myself received word that my father had lost all his money. We were previously allowed $3000 per year each to live upon. I re- turned to this country and saw my brother and sster. They agreed to give me $100 per month if I kept quiet about my father’s affairs. They said he had lost several niillions and had only $32,000 left. They agreed to give me $15,000 and the same amount to John, in addition to an annual allowance of $1200 each. The allowances have been paid regularly, with threats to cut them off if I said anything. “My father had given them houses, country places and hundreds of thousands of dollais, and made settlements upon them, though he never had given me more th'gq"a;p a year while I wasin Europe. Qtiver Heviman married my sister. He ‘was & poor man. To-day he is worth from four to five millions. He made this money because e was my father’s partner and had immense sums settled upon him, while never more than $15,000 was settled upon me. My relatives pretended that after dividing the $32,000, the remainder of my father’s fortune, only $2000 was left. I returned to Europe and afterward heard that my father was speculating heavily in Wall street, and I have the strongest reasons to believe my relatives humbuggied him out of his fortune. They got hold of a great deal of his money. His Wall-strcet speculation were made through Loomis & White, who are now doing busi- ness at Wall street and Broadway, but who were then opposite the United States Trust Company. I therefore claim I was meanly treated. I wrote letters to my brother Joseph and urged him to consider the brotherly relations existing between us. ‘I don’t care for brotherly friendship,’ he answered. ‘Brotherly friendship is all a myth.’ . “Even when my daughter went to the New York hospital I met Oliver Harriman one day in the streetcars. He treated me disgracefully, saying: ‘I don’t care a cent for your daughter, and I've nothing to do with the case. I don’tcare if she is in the hospital.’ I told him an operation had been performed to cure an abscess, and I had not enough money to keep her prop- erly. In! fact, I was almost penniless. Harriman went to his lawyer soon after this interview, and threatened to have my allowance cut off and pct me in prison if I ever spoke to him again about money matters. “The rasult was I wrote several letters to the fumily asking help, They advised me to keep away from them. They are all immensely rich, while John and myself are paupers. We are afraid to open our mouths for fear of being starved to death. This thing is a crime of the upper 400. They car¢ nothing for right or wrong; they only want to let us die and let ‘!iemselves live. *‘My daunghter was a passionate girl, and wanted o marry before she was lured away. She did not believe in a Bible nor in a Chrigt; she believed in a Creator and in doing good, but she had no faith in the superstitions of men. She was really a free thinker, and so I did not have any funeral services held because I do not think she believed in the ceremony.” HOC OF A HURRICANE, Many Vessels Wrecked and the Crews Drowned Off the Japan Coast. Several Ships Reported to Have Been Blown Ashore and To- tally Wrecked. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 26.—A vio- lent hurricane was reported to-day by cable to the Maritime Exchange to have swept the coast of Japan, during which many vessels were wrecked and their crews drowned. The information of the loss of life was meager. The cablegram was sent from Ruchinotzu. The German steamship Helen Rickmers and the Norwegian steamships Liderhorn and Herman Wedel, Jaristrug, the British steamship Rentala and the ship Manuel Suchet from Philadelphia, were all blown ashore and all are believed to have been totally wrecked except the Rentala. The loss of life on shore is reported to-be large. The ship Manuel Suchet sailed from this port four months ago for Hiogo, Japan, with a cargo of case o1l, taken on board at Point Breeze. She was a first- class iron vessel, worked by a crew of twenty-seven men. She had discharged her cargo and was getting under way for San Francisco when the hurricane struck her. s A TWELVE PE. NS KILLED. Frightful Railroad Iisaster Near St. Brieus, Fronce. PARIS, Fraxce, July 26.—A railroad ac- cident by which twelve persons lost their lives and twenty-five were more or less seriously Injured occurred to-day near St. Brieue, department of Cotes du Nord. A train heavily laden with pilgrims who were returning from the shrineé of Ste. d’Auray was in some manner not yet known thrown off the track and wrecked. Assistance was speedily sent and every- thing possible was done to relieve the sufferings of the injured. The dead were taken to St. Brieue. CHARGED WITH FORGERY. The Arrest of Lady Frances Rose Gun- ning at London. LONDON, ExG., July 26.—Lady Frances Rose Gunning, widow of the late Rev. Sir Henry Gunning, Bart., and daughter of the Rev. the Hon. William Henry Spen- cer, was arrested here upon an extradition warrant charging her with forgery. LOST O AYLMER LAKE Drowning Accident Caused by the Capsizing of a Skiff. Only One of a Party Escaped After Clinging to the Boat for Hours. OTTAWA, Ox~r., July 26.—A terrible drowning accident occurred on Aylmer Lake' this afternoon by which four lives were lost. Alexander, Walter and Ed- ward Brophy, sons of George F. Brophy, superintendent of the Ottawa River Works; president of the Kootenay Mining Com- pany, and one of the directors of the Ot- tawa Railway Company; Percy Winfield, the 10-year-old son of Rev. Mr. Winfield, chaplain to Count and Countess Aberdeen; and Ray Miall, son of Edward Miall, Com- missioner of Inland Revenue; all started from Alymerin a skiff belonging to Mr. Miall for a sail. They had been out but & short time when a stiff breeze capsized the boat. The three Brophy boys, 22, 19 and 16 years old respectively, and young Winfield were drowned. Young Miall, when rescued three hours after the accident, was still clinging to the boatin an almost unconscious condition. A party with grappling-irons left here at 7 o’clock for the scene of the accident and are searching for the bodies. ¥ e gt e T “ ABANDONS TRINIDAD. Rejoicing in Rio Over the Action of Great Britain. NEW YORK, N.Y,, July 26.—The Her- ald’s special cable from Buenos Ayres says: Rio de Janeiro advices state that a tele- gram was received last night by a promi- nent English bank saying that England had abandoned the occupation of Trini- ad. The populace in Rio are rejoicing. A great mass-meeting was held Thurs- day night, lasting until 2 o’clock yesterday morning, in protest against the action of England in taking possession of the island. Twenty thousand people were together in and around the hall where the meating was held, and the speeches were received with the greatest enthusiasm. Several editors were among those who made addresses. Throughout the night the streets were patrolled with cavalry ordered out by the Government to pre- vent attacks upon the pusiness houses of the English residents. It has also been reported to the authorities that the British consulate was in danger and at that point a strong guard was stationed. g Congress vesterday approved _the action of the Cabinet of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. Both State and general troops refuse to fight. An Explosion of Firedamp. BERLIN, GERMANY, July 26.—During a violent storm at Bochum, Westphalia, last night an explosion of firedamp and coal dust aceurred in the Prinz von Preus- sen mine. Up to this morning twenty-five dead and eleven injured men had been taken from the pit, but the total number of dead is not yet known, as the pit has not been fully explored. Hundreds of wives, children and other relatives of the dead, injured and missing are congregated about the mouth of the pit and their cries and lamentations are heartrending. S e Frustrated Irish Hopes. DUBLIN, IreLaxnp, July 26.—The Irish Catholi¢, in an article on the political sitnation, says: The Rosebery fiasco has frustrated the hopes ofi the Irish for the next six vears. The decision of the Liberal Cabinet fo resign from office was an unex- ampled piece of folly, their electoral pro- gramme beinf wholly unacceptable to the English people. Helene of Urleans Ill. LONDON, Exc., July 26.—A dispatch from Rome to the Central News says that Princess Helene of Orleans, who recently married the Duke Aosta, a nephew of King Humbert, is seriously ill, the result of drinking iced milk. pine A G This From Spanish Sources. MADRID, Seary, July 26.—An official dispatch received here from Havana con- firms the report of a victory of the Govern- ment over the insurgents led by Quentin Bandera. The dispatch places the num- ber of rebels wounded at 100. Otherwise it agrees with press dispatches. Stoned the British Soldiers. LONDON, Exc., July 27—4 A. m.—A dis- patch from Alexandria reports that at the funeral of a British soldier in Cairo a mob of natives hooted and stoned the military detachment for half a mile and mobbed the chaplain. Great Britain will demand satisfaction. e b e L The English Elections. LONDON, Exa., July 26.—Thus far 333 Conservatives, 69 Liberal-Unionists, 164 Liberals, 65 McCarthyites and 12 Par- unellites have been returned to the House of Commons. The net Conservative- Unionist gain thus far is 8 - Mrs. Vanderbilt-at a Hop. NEWPORT, R. I, July .26.—Mrs. Alva 8. Vanderbilt was & guest at the Casino hop to-night. This was her first appear- ance in.l?urpou society since her divorce. She arrived eariy with Miss Consuelo and was cordially receiyed. She went on the floor but twice, once with Mr. Grafton g and once with Mr, Blight. GORMAN HAS THE BEE, The Maryland Bourbon Boss After Presi~ dential Honors. SILVER ISSUE DODGED. Moderation and Diplomacy the Features of His Cam- paign. REGARD FOR ALL FACTIONS: Willing to Run on a Plank Full of Flattery for the Cleveland Regime. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 26.—Gor- man’s success in Maryland primaries against great odds not only continues him as boss of Maryland Democracy, but gives him a boom for the Presidency. There is no doubt that Gorman has the bee in his bonnet. He is not as aggressive as for- merly, and is trying to conciliate President Cleveland and the leading administration men. Gorman’s programme in Maryland, as outlined from Baltimore, is arranged with due regard to next year’s Presidential race. Moderation and diplomacy are its leading features. The Senator will not use his giant strength in his party like a giant, but will move with due regard to the feelings of all factions, and, if possible, poll the party’s full vote next November. Then, pointing to this latest triumph achieved under his leadership, his friends will put him forward as the candidate of the Maryland Democracy for the party’s nomination for President. The first point noted relates to the silver question. The State convention next week, it is stated, will dispose of that question by reatfirming the financial plank of the Chi- cago platform of 1892. A much more ex- plicit deliverance could be secured. There is no likeness between the Democratic situation in Maryland and that in Ken- tucky. 3 Mr. Gorman has no aggressive silver fac- tion to deal with. As leader of the Senata Democracy he does not this year need an aggressive deliverance on finances, As possible leader of National Democracy next year such a deliverance might injure him. Gorman will ask his friends in Maryland to postpone silver until next year. This will afford him time to give the matter further thought, and also enable him to profit by any changes in public sentiment on the subject that may occur between now and then. The decision, viewed with regard to his Presidential aspirations, is regarded as shrewd and characteristic. Another point noted is the intention of Gorman to ask nothing in the way of in- dorsement for himself from the conven- tion, but to give to the Presideni and his administration a very cordial indorsement. The friends of the administzation are not in the best of temper. Mr. Gorman’s tri- umph is their discomfiture. They need cajoling. And so, although recently so warmly in conflict with the President, Mr. Gorman decides to bury the past and con- jure with the President’s name. He evi- dently argues that a ticket put upona platform full of praise of the President and his works must receive the support of all of the President’s adherents. SUPPORTED BY SILVERITES. Blackburn Receives Support From the Mine-Owners. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 26.—A special to the Press from Frankfort, Ky., says: If Grover Cleveland persisis in his deter- mination to postpone the payment of the sugar bounty to the Louisiana sugar- planters Senator Joe Blackburn will re- ceive financial backing, and plenty of it at that, from another source. The writer to- day established the fact beyond question that the silver-mine owners of Nevada have already contributed to Blackburn’s campaign fand, and that the Nevada peo- ple have expressed the intention of fur- nishing the free-silver Senator all the aid he requires, if Cleveland cuts off his muni- tions of war by postponing the bounty payment. A trustworthy man, one of the candi- dates on the Republican ticket, was told to-day by a friend who had just returned from Nevada that a prominent silver-mine owner had informed him that he had sent Blackburn $3000 early in the campaign, and that all the mine-owners had con- tributed largely to the fund. The silver- mine operators can kill two birds with one stone in helping Senator Blackburn. ;They will advance the cause of free silver, and then too have a chance to epite Cleveland by supEIying Blackburn with the monev which Cleveland attempted to deprive him off by jusgling with the bounty payment. Cleveland has thrown down the gauntlet, and the mine-owner friends of white metal and Blackburn propose tb take it up. Blackburn will actively open his campaign all over the State on Monday, and will talk right out. CHOSETHE BULLET ROUTE, Tom Johnson, the Murderer of Members of the Hartfield Family, Confessed. Then He Was Given the Choice of Being Shot to Death or Hanged. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 26.—A special to the Chronicle from Hattiesburg, Miss., says: Tom Johnson, arrested on the charge of assaulting and murdering members of the Hartfield family in Perry County last Saturday night, and who has been in the hands of a mob since yesterday, made a confession at 3 o’clock this afternoon. He was notified what would follow, and was given the choice between being shot and hanged. He chose the former, and at once a volley of deadly rifle shots was poured into his body. He was literally shot to gieces. tisbelieved that SJohnson, whose home was in Neshoba County, thirty-five miles northwest of Meridian, was also implicated in the murder and robbery of W. H. Farmer and his wife of this city about three weeks ago.