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i VOLUME LXXVIIL.—NO. 73. ¥ SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 12, 1895. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BOTH HAD REMARRIED Romance in the Lives of Joseph Green and Wife. HE LEFT TWO0 WIDOWS. Mrs. Green, Too, Had Wedded Again Before Her First Husband’s Death. HEARD THAT HE WAS KILLED Strange Story Brought Out by a Search for the Deaa Man’s Heirs. ATI, Omro, Aug. 11.—Early med Joseph Green died at ramento, Cal. Since ves and heirs, aided by lawyers, busy unraveling the secret of e, and their work has about been ac- shed. It is a story that covers ears and has ramifications in many Joseph Green came west from New York in 1850 with his wife and settled in Cin- ti. It wasat the time of the gold d he made up his mind to go to fornia. A short time after his de- parture a daughter was born,and with this child Mrs. Green lived in this city, ex- pecting to bear from ber husband and to receive money to take herself and child to Ca nia. But no word came to her and she did not hear of him again, except a rumor that he was dead. Years went by and Mrs. Green, who thought herself a widow, was wooed and won by Matthew Wolmersmidt,a con- tracting carpenter. By him she had five children, two of which are living. The second husband was abusive, and after he was reported killed by the collapse of a baidge which he was constructing for the Government across a southern river in 1862, she, fearing the rumor might prove jalse and fearing his return, resumed the name of her-former husband, and the children by the second husband were so known. Thirty years passed and he never re- turned. One of his sons moved to North- ern Ohio, and isnow living at Yoder under the name of F. H. Green, and his mother lives with him and is known as Mrs. Joseph Green. -The other Wolmersmidt boy went West, and is known in Kansas City, Mo.. as John Green. The daughter, who was born soon after Joseph Green left Cincinnati for California, married W. H. Kinnedy, and is, or was, up to a few months ago, living in Falls City, Nebr., though in 1894 her husband was engaged in some business in Seattle, Wash. Whether Joseph Green after leaving Cin- cinnati kept himself advised of the where- abouts of his wife and heard of her second marriage is not known, bit about that time he entered into marital relations with a woman in California and by her had two children. She died, but the children were living at the time of his death from apo- plexy at the age of 70. He left an estate of $250,000 and a will in which he be- queathed $8000 to his daughter, Mrs. Ken- nedy, of whose marriage he had learned, though- he supposed her to be living in this city.: It was the attempt to locate her here and the necessary inquiry that led to the discovery of the first lawful wife, Mrs. Joseph Green, now of Yoder, Ohio. Lawyers went to work on the case, the daughter was located at the places named, relatives of the estate were communicated with and San Francisco lawyers took a hand and communicated with a Cincinnati firm, and a few weeks ago a compromise was effected which was satisfactory to the widow, the terms of which are kept a family secret, and which, so far as known here, are not on record in the California courts. CAUSED THE ELBE'S LOSS The Disaster Due tc the Neg- ligence of the Crathie’s Mate. Finding of the Admiralty Court in the Case Against the Owners. BREMERHAVEN, GERMANY, Aug. 11. The adniiralty court, after a sitting last- ing ten hours; rendered yesterday a deci- sion in the case of the North German Lloyd’s teamship Company agzainst the owners of the British steamer Crathie, by which the Lloyd's steamer Elbe was sunk off Lowestoft, England, in January last. The cgurt found for the steamship com- pany, #ad heid that Mate Craig of the Crathie was guilty df quitting the bridge of his ship ‘before the collision without adequate reason. The chief officer of the watch on the Elbe was censured also for neglecting to shift his helm and to use his steam shift. The verdict exonerates the captain of the Crathie from all blame for not rescuing the passengers of tne Elbe, inasmuch as his own vessel was dangeroasly damaga.d by the collision. A warm tribute was paid by the court to the crew of the fishing smack Wildflower, which rescued the sur- vivors of the disaster and landed them at Lowesteft. 4 PO s, HANGED TO A TRANSOM. Indications Point to the Murder of J. L. Henry. ELWOOD, Ixp., Aug. 11.—J. L. Henry, aged 20,8 Metropolitan insurance agent, coming here from Boston, Ind.,a year ago, and living with his mother and sister, was found dead to-night hanging by a rope to a transom, having been dead several hours. Some evidence indicates foul play, and the Coroner’s inquest to-morrow may uncover a sensation, as Henry was hesvily insured in the company of which he was an agent. The rope was slack when he was found and he was on his knees. A stout hanpdker- chief had béen tied around the dead man’s neck under the noose, —_—— $ Quiet at Spring Valley. PRINCETON, ILL., Aug. 11.—The situa- | day and the shafts will be operated to-mor- row. The colored policemen are yet on duty and little or no_fear of another out- break is felt. Many Italians are currently reported to have left the city, fearing that arrgsv.s on a large scale are about to be made. — s ROBBED THE PASSENGERS. Pickpockets Go Through an Omnibus at Niagara Falls. NTAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Aug. 11— A daring and partially successful attempt at highway robbery occurred on the upper suspension bridge last night, in which five skillful sneakthieves went through an omnibus load of passengers bound for the hotels over the river. After the Lehigh Valley and New York Central trains arrived at 10 o’clock the passengers for the hotels over the river were loaded into an omnibus. Five men distributed themselves among them. One of the men took his station at the front end, near the lamp. After the conveyance went upon the suspension bridge the light suddenly went out, and the man in the end of the omnibus volunteered the state- ment that the wind blew it out. The pas- sengers evidently did not suspect that they were being robbed. The omnibus left the bridge and drew up to one of the hotels. When some of the passengers alighted they discovered that they had lost valuables and pocketbooks. A cry was raised, and from the rapid movements of the five men through the corridors and verandas of the hotel it was easily seen that the gang consisted of five. Two of them were caught, but the others escaped. ATTACKED BY FANATICS Experience of a Girl Medical Missionary in the Riots at Hankow. Pelted With Mud and Stones While Returning From a Visit to a Patient. MINNEAPOLIS, Misy, Aug. 11.—A letter has been received here from Miss Segrid Helgeson, a Norwegian girl who went as a medical missionary to Chinaa year ago. The letter is dated June 14,at Hankow, on the Yang-tse-Kiang. She writes: “Riots and unlawful acts occur daily. Six provinces rot far from here of late have been devastated; that is, property be- longing to foreigners destroyed by fire and other means. Many lives have been lost and innumerable arrests have followed. We are apprehensive just now, even here. Telegraph wires are down, and we have not had any communication with other settlements for some time. . ““Possibly this is my last as well as my first letter home. But you must not think that I am weakening or fear death. God is with me, if I live or die. Yesterday I visited one of my patients, and when on my way home was attacked by a mob throwing stones and mud. I was struck on the head. It made me feel pretty bad for the time, but to-day I am all right. One of my former patients happened to come along and by telling them that I was a harmless doctor, saved my life, which I would surely otherwise have lost.” NEED A SALUTARY LESSON. More Outrages Will Follow Unless Quick Action Is Taken. LONDON, Ene., Aug. 11.—The Times will to-morrow print a despatch from its Tientsin correspondent, saying the re- cent massacre of foreign missionaries is re- garded there as a symptom of incipient anarchy, and that the belief is expressed thatit will be followed by worse scenes uuless the foreign powers deal strongly with China. It will also say that at a meeting of for- eign citizens of Tientsin the declaration was made that the massacre was the nat- ural outcome of leniency shown toward the Chinese upon the occasion of outrages committed by them in the past thirty years. The meeting also expressed distrust in platonic remedies. The British Govern- ment was urged to make local reprisals in every case of outrages, and it was de- manded that the provisional authorities should be made responsible for all these outrages and be dismissed. This, it is as- serted, would certainly be effectnal and 1s in accordance with the Chinese principles of government. ANOTHER KUCHENG VICTIM. The Infant Child of Rev. R. W. Stewart Dies From Its Injuries. LONDON, Exe., Aug. 11.—A dispatch from Foo Chow says that the infant child of Rev. R. W. and Mrs. Stewart, both of whom were among the victims who lost their lives in the massacre near Kucheng, has died from the effects of the injuries in- flicted by the murderers of its parents, and has been buried at Foo Chow. The British warship Rainbow has been ordered to pro- ceed to Foo Chow. Newell Sails for Foo Chow. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 11.—The Navy Department this afternoon received a cable announcing that Commodore Newell has sailed from Shanghai with the Detroit for Foo Chow. Foo Chow is about 400 miles south of Shanghai, and is the nearest seaport to the scene of the rioting at Hwasang and Ingbok. Hwasang i about 175 miles from Foo Chow and Ingbok about tifty miles. —_——— STOLE A SACK OF GOLD ORE. Robbers Knock Down and Rob the Man- ager of a Mine. s LEADVILLE, Coro., Aug. 11.—A sensa- tm_nnl robbery occurred at the Gordon mine, twenty miles from here, last even- iml’;l The Gordon is the second richest old mine in the State and it appears that i_{nnflger 8. P. Brown had mkerl’-np:ut some rich ore preparatory to bringing it to Leadville. He took it in a sack to his house, but had not been at home an hour before two masked men entered and knocking him down with a gun took the ore. Mrs. Brown and two women visitors were relieved of diamonds to the amount of $500. The % 1d ore stolen was almost pure and it is said to amount to many thousands of dollars. After the robbery the two men started toward Leadville. e Murder at @ Pionio. SCOTTSDALE, PA., Aug. 11.—The iron- workers’ picnic at Ellsworth Park was broken up by a murder at 11 o’clock last night. John Gallagher, a laborer, stabbed Thomas Welsh in the neck, severing the jugular, causing death in a few minutes. 'he kilfing was the result of an old grudge. Gallagher, who had been ‘‘blacklegged’ during the big strike here last year, was chased out of the grounds by a crowd, and after mnninwbout 150 yards he turned and stabbed Welsh, who “was nearest him. He then started for Everson and has not tion has been quiet at Spring Valley to- | been heard of since. FRANK M. PIXLEY DEAD The Veteran Editor Suc- cumbs After a False Rally. HIS END WAS PEACEFUL, May Have Been Accelerated by the Death of a Favor= ite Niece. A CAREER OF BUSY INTEREST. Brief Sketch of a Life That Helped to Make California History. Frank M. Pixley died at his residence, on the corner of Union and Steiner streets, | last night at 11:10 o’clock, sinking calmly away, apparently without suffering. He began to fail yesterday afternoon at 2:15 o’clock, and in a short time the anx- lawyer friends who were friendly to Judge Morrison became involved in difficulty with the managers of the San Francisco Herald, which was making daily attacks on Judge Morrison. Among those of the Herald were Hon. Edmund Randolph, John Nugent and William Walker, the “gray-eyed man of destiny,” who became the Central American filibuster. The af- fair culminated in a duel between Graham and Walker. Mr. Pixley acted as Gra- ham’s second, and the affair culminated with the wounding of Walker. Soon after this Mr. Pixley was elected City Attorney of San Francisco, and he filled the office with credit to himself and advantage to the City. The late United States Judge Sawyer was an assistantin the office, and for some years he and Mr. Pix- ley practiced law in partnership. In 1858 Mr. Pixley began to move in poli- tics, and he became & Republican. As such he was elected to the State Assembly, and distinguished himself by the zeal and activity with which he opposed the Parsons bulkhead bill, which was defeated that year mainly through his influence and exertions. He formed one of a trio of Republican orators, the other two being E. D. Baker, afterward Senator for Oregon, and Mr. Tracy. The Republican party prospered in the State, and with it the po- litical fortunes of Mr. Pixley. In 1861 he was nominated for Attorney-General on the ticket which had Leland Stanford as the gubernatorial standard-bearer. Mr. Pixley made a brilliant canvass, and the | entire ticket was elected by an average plurality of 10,000. At the end of his term the fusion of the so-called Douglas Democ- FBANK M. [From a photograph.] PIXLEY. ious watchers at his bedside knew that the veteran jurist, statesman and editor was passing. Dr. Rosenstirn, the family phy- uiciag, from time to time held the pulse of the dying man and felt the circulation grow weaker. There were present Mrs. William Pix- ley, wife of a deceased brother, and Mrs. H. E. Topping, his sister, and her family. Mr. Pixley had been suffering for a long time from a complication of ailments and it was well known that the end was not far off. He had long since given up his edi- torial and literary work and confined him- self to his residence and to the care of the physicians. Toward the last he was given to long spells of silence and would sit on the veranda and look thoughtfully away over the distant hills. It is believed that the recent death of his favorite niece, Mrs. Weller, from an overdose of morphine, had much to do with hastening the end of life. Mrs. Pixley, who has herself been seri- ously ill, sustained the shock of her be- reavement with fortitude, and according to the physician’s accounts, was resting easily at a late hour. WITE TONGUE AND PEN. Prominent Features in the Career of the Dead Journalist, |/Frank Morrison Pixley was born at ‘Westmoreland, a small village in Oneida County, N. Y., January 81, 1825. He came of an old English tamily which settled in Bridgeport, Conn., in the seventeenth cen- tury. His grandfather settled in Oneida County, N.Y., in the early part of the present century. It was here that his father married one of the daughters of Judge Roderick Morrison. Mr. Pixley’s mother died in giving him birth, and ¥rank was brought up by neighbors’ wives. He received his early education at the village academy and then spent two years at a Quaker school at Skaneateles. Afterward he prepared for entering a law office under the instrue- tion of a private tutor, a graduate of Ham- ilton school. This was in 1847, and a year afterward he was admitted to the bar of Michigan in the law office of Hon. William Hale. He had gone on to Michigan by the advice of his father, who presented him with a law library and 160 acres of land. He was naturally a bright man of quick perceptions, and was quite successful at his practice. In 1848, though, Mr. Pixley hearing of the finding of gold in California, sold his books and land and started westward. He stopped with an uncle in Missouri for some months, and then in 1849 started on mule- back across the plains. He arrived in El Dorado County in September, 1849, and wintered at Weaver Creek. In the spring he went to the North Fork of the Yuba and worked threc years in the mines. He tired of a miner’s life and 1851 found him in San Francisco. It was here that he met a maternal uncle, Roderick N. Morrison, on the bench. The latter took an interest in the {:nng man, and msether witn other young lawyers whom the .udgsfiatmmud soon a lucrative practice t up. It was in 1856 that Mr. Pixley and his racy and the election of John Conness to the United States Senate resulted in de- feating Mr. Pixley for renomination. He made a brilliant showing in the nominat- ing convention, and succeeded in breaking the Conness slate, but it was after the nom- ination for Attorney-General had been made. During the Rebellion Mr. Pixley went East and spent three months at the front with General Grant in Virginia. He was present at several engagements as a civilian. In 1868, when General Grant was nomi- nated for the Presidency, Mr. Pixley was the Republican nominee for Congress from the Eighteenth District, comprising the City of San Francisco and all the southern counties of the State. The district was strongly Democratic though, and Mr. Pix- ley was defeated with the rest of the ticket in the district. ‘When President Grant took office he ap- pointed Mr. Pixley United States District Attorney for California, and he held office until 1869, when seeing that his political enemies, George C. Gorham and A. A. Sar- gent, were determined to defeat his con- firmation he resigned. That was the last political office which he held. In 1870 Mr. Pixley and his family spent a year 1n Europe, and he saw considerable of the Franco-German war. He was among the first foreigners to enter Paris after the seige with the family of the American Minister, Hon. E. B. Washburne. He re- mained there long enougn to witness the reign and destruction of the commune. Soon after he returned to America, and, in 1872, became a candidate for Presiden tial Elector on the Greeley ticket. The bitter- ness engendered by the continued success of his enemies, Sargent, Gorham and others, in controlling the Republican party machinery, seemed to give him no alternative but to follow his old party leader, Horace Greeley, but there was no real affinity between him and the Democratic party. Directly after that campaign was over he once more resumed his place in the Republican ranks, and he remained staunch to the party to the last. In his political career Mr. Pixley, through his unyielding clinging to certain principles, made many bitter enemies, and in several campaigns the rival leaders dealt each other resounding whacks with all the powers of eloquence which they could command. George C. Gorham, the leader of one wing of the Republican party, him- self a brilliant orator, was particularly bit- ter in his denunciation of Mr. Pixley and his political methods, while Mr. Pixley held his ground ably against the attacks. It was in 1877 that Mr. Pixley tired of the turmoil of politics. Factional feeling ran high and he concluded to withdraw from actual vparticipation in the cam- paigns. He decided to follow out a plan which he had had in contemplation for some time. Thac was the establishment of a newspaper in which he could give vent to his personal convicticns in that strong and fearless style for which he was noted. Continued on Second Page. DESERT THEIR PARTY, Confusion in the Ranks of the Democracy in Iowa. SILVERITES IN REVOLT. Incensed at the Action of the Recent State Conven- tion. RULED BY CLEVELAND MEN. Interests of the Party Sacrificed by a Horde of Federal Ap- pointees. OMAHA, NEBR.,, Aug. 11.—Specials to the World-Herald from various pointsin Iowa indicate a formidable revolt against the anti-silver platform adopted by the Towa Democratic State Convention at Marshalltown last week. It is believed by some observers that many Democrats will vote the Populist ticket and that others will not vote at all. At Council Bluffs two members of the county com- mittee, among them W. H. Ware, repre- sentative of that county in the Legisla- ture, have resigned, refusing to act with the party, though declaring they will not act with any other party, and it is said that the entire committee will resign. Among the most outspoken of the dis- affected ones is Judge W. C. James, who points with pride to a voting record of over fifty years, in which there is nota single instance when he failed to votea Democratic ticket. Interviewed last night he said: “1f the declarations of the Marshalltown convention are true then we have been mis- representing, abusing and lying about the Republican party ever since 1889. Their financial declaration is identical with the principles of the Republican party as laid down in every State convention since the crime of 1873. There is no difference to- day between the two parties, and as the Republicans have always been consistent on this subject, the acknowledzment of the Iowa Democrats that their antagonists are right gives them a tremendous advantage and I will watch them win another victory in Iowa this fall without any sorrow. I do not say I will vote the Republican ticket, but only that I will not vote with the Dem- ocrats, and as I am not a Populist and have no patience with their vagaries, I will do what tbe great majority of the Demo- crats around here will do—not vote at all. There were 129 Federal office-holders in that State convention and nearly all of them were there by proxy. They repre- sented Cleveland and his gold bugs and not the Democratic party in Iowa.” J. J. Shea, chairman of the Democratic free silver committee, and last year a can- didate for clerk of the Supreme Court on the Democratic State ticket, is out inan open letter, in which he charges the Fed- eral office-holders in the convention with all sorts of threats, bulldozing, cajolery and bribery in defeating the free silver amendment. He advises Democrats not to bolt, but to keep up the fight. In con- clusion he says: N “Next year we must meet the same foe, the same men and the same organization. It will be a fight to death—either the ser- pent or the party must die. I have abid- ing faith in the death of the snake; that the people will again assume control and that the self-appointed bosses will be rel- egated to deserved obscturity. Until then the duty of a good Democrat is to wait, watch and work to organize to overthrow and rebuke the gang now in control.” VICTORY FOR QUAY. Result of the Republican Primaries in Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 11.—The result of yesterday’s primary Republican elections in Montgomery, York, Adams, Perry and Juanita counties and the con- vention in Schuylkill County was gen- erally favorable to Senator Quay and the. administration. The Schuylkill conven- tion elected its seven delegates to the State convention with instructions for Quay. Full returns from Montgomery County as- sure the seven delegates from that county to Quay. No report could be secured to- night from Adams and Juanita counties of the result, but the indications are that Quay will get the delegates from the two | 4 counties. The administration secured Perry County’s one delegate and the result in York County is still doubtful. York has five delegates and the administration claims they have them all. None of the administration leaders were in the city and no expression of opinion from their side could be obtained of the result of yesterday’s election. Senator Quay was much pleased over the result and said it only confirmed his statements that he would win the fight. The injury to his heel that Mr. Quay suffered at Brigantine some weeks ago broke out afresh to-day and to-night the Senator returned to his home at Beaver. He will probably not return here until the Philadelphia primaries are held on the 20th of the month. SIBLEY WILL SPEAK. To Discuss Silver Before the North Caro- lina Farmers’ Alliance. RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 11.—The North Carolina State Farmers’ Alliance will meet at Correy Tuesday. Eight thousand peo- ple are expected to hear Congressman Sibley speak there on that day. Great preparations are being made. Sibley has canceled an engagement in New York State in order to accept the invitation to speak to the North Carolina Alliance. His speech will be almost enm‘el{ on silver. The alliance in this State is holding pic- nics each week and isdrawing great crowds to hear the silver auestion discussed, and the leaders assert that it is now the only political question. FIRE IN A FACTORY. A Half-Million Dollar Blaze at New- ark, N. J. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 11.—One of the most destructive fires that has visited Newark in many years occurred this after- noon in the extensive works of the Central Stamping Company. The total loss is es- timated at $500,000. The Central Stamping Company is the Newark branch of the tin [ trust, which has offices in this city and manufacturing plants in St. Louis and other cities. The fire originated in the center of the main building, gained great headway and soon the whole main building was a mass of flames. Cinders fell thickly on neigh- boring roofs, and men with buckets of water and hose were kept busy putting out incipient fires. Finally the walls of the main building fell in, several firemen hav- ing narrow escapes. The fire swept through the brick extensions and adjoining build- ings belonging to the plant, and com- pletely ruined them. Several frame build- ings near the works were crushed in by !ufiing walls. Fireman John Van Houten was badly burned by burning tar. James Packer, who was oh the roof of his house, putting out the sg)arks, was also badly burned. The firm had a large stock on hand, the works having been running on full time and the buildings were full of valuable patented machinery. The insurance amounts to $250,000. “The cause of the fire is unknown. About 480 hands are em- ployed in the buildings. HAVOC OF LIGHTNING. Another Storm Visited Upon the People of Quakertown. FLEMINGTON, N. J.,, Aug. 11.—The terror-stricken people of Quakertown, the scene of last Sunday’s awful work by light- ning, were again visited by a terrific thunderstorm this afternoon. It was more severe to-day than last Sunday, but the damage was much less. Tremendous balls of fire were seen in midair, bursting sev- eral at a time. < Lightning struck the large country resi- dence of Captain Samuel Everitt, com- letely demolishing the two top floors and gestmyin all his furniture, while the family, who occupied the first floor, were uninjured, as was also the furniture on that floor. Floors were torn up and huge rafters torn from their places and stood upright, penetrating the roof. As in last Sunday’s awful work, there was no evi- dence of fire. INDIAN. QUTLAWS TAKEN, Rufus Buck’s Gang of Mur- derers Captured by Officers. Citizens Wil Attempt to Secure the Prisoners and Take Sum-~- mary Revenge. WAGONER, Ind. T., Aug. 11.—With the exception of ten, the gang of Indians who have committed a series of diabolical crimes since July 30 in the Territory, were captured near Okmulgee last Thursday afternoon, after a desperate fight, and started for the Fort Smith (Ark.)jail to avoid being lynched. News has been received here thata mob of Muskogee citizens has gone across the country to Fort Gibson to intercept the Missouri Pacific train carrying the mis- creants and their captors, for the purpose of dealing out summary justice. The gang, which began its heinons opera- tions by murdering Deputy United States Marshal John Garratt at Okmulgee and escaping over the hills to the Creek Nation, was led by Rufus Buck, a Uche Indian. His followers were Samuel Sampson, Meorna July, Bub Lucky, alias Lucky Davis; Albert Stake and Levy Davis. The day after murdering Garratt, the gang met a white man and his daughter in a wagon. Covering the man with their guns, the In- dians took the girl from the wagon. Their next yictims were Ben Callahan and a negro boy, whom the gang met on the road. They murdered the boy and beat Callahan =0 that they believed him to be dead when they left the scene after robbing the man of money, boots and saddle. At the country stores of West and J. Norrburg at Orket, the murderers and rob- bers held up the owners and took away everything they could carry, Next in their path of crime they met two white women and a girl 14 years old, and murder was again added to their list. g s, FOUGHT WITH ROBBERS. A Battle Between Laborers and a Gang of Thieves. ERIE, Pa., Aug. 11.—Three Erie me- chanics started last night for Ashtabula on a freight train, to spend Sunday with their parents. When near Girard, they were held up by the notorious gang which has been terrorizing that section for sev- eral weeks. Although covered by revol- vers, Barney Smith, one of the trio, drew his revolver and shot at the nearest rob- ber. The fight became general. ‘When their reyolvers had been emptied Smith waa found to have been shot through the face and head. Hiscompanion, Harry Eastlake, was shot through the groin. John Meinhel, another Erie man, escaped with slight_injuries. One of the robbers, John Cuddy of Waterbury, Conn., was shot through the face and neck, and is ying. The other members of the gang escaped. Smith and Eastlake are believed to be mortally wounded. A DEATH RATHER THAN DISGRACE. Sergeant Haas Commniits Suicide After Losing Money Not His Own. JUNCTION CITY, Kass. Aug. 1l.— ‘When the Fort Riley excursion to Fort Leavenworth was ready to start yesterday morning the conductor informed the com- pany that Sexiennt Haas, who had charge of the affairs, had notturned over the cash. Haas was not to be found, and the officers of the post finally guaranteed the amount. Later in the afternoon the body of Haas was found behind the cavalry stable. A bullet-hole was in_his forehead and his pistol lay by his side. He was in a_com- pany of the Second Cavalry and had been in the service eighteen years. It is be- ljaygg Haas lost the money and committed suicide. —_—— OUTLAW BEN CRAVENS KILLED. Shot by a Pursuing Posse After Break- ing From Jail. PERRY, O. T., Avg. 11.—Ben Cravens and Bill Crittenden, the latter a half-breed Cherokee, two of the most desperate men in the Territory, who were arrested by Marshal Nix a few days ago and placed in jail here, escaped from the prison atan eb:rly hour this morning by sawing the ATS. A posse of twenty men was orgauized and started after the fugitives. They were overtaken at noon and a battle ensued, in which Cravens was killed.. Crittenden ‘made his escape. SR Drilled Through Silver Ore. NEW PHILADELPHIA, Onro, Aug. 11 While drilling on the farm of Jerry Reeves, northeast of Dover, Thomas Click, assisted by A. Buerkel, had reached a | depth of 1{5 feet, when they withdrew the and used the sand-pump. When the pump was_pulled out they noticed small cles of silver ore which is claimed to genuine. The ore will be tested. THROUGH A BRIDGE Frightful Disaster to a Train on an Ohio Railroad. PLUNGES INTO A RIVER. Three of the Crew Are Buried Beneath Tons of Coal and Debris. FELL WITHOUT A WARNING: Flre Had Destroyved Part of the Structure Before the Traln Arrived. SPRINGFIELD, Omro, Aug. 11.—A bad wreck occurred on the Ohio Southern road at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon. At this point there is a two-span bridge across the river. The structure gave way and an en- gine and twenty-five freight cars dropped twenty-five feet to the water below, which is thirty teet deep. The coal cars were piled up in the river. Engineer Radcliffe, Fireman Houser and Brakeman Hincox, who were all in the cab at the time the bridge collapsed, went down without a moment’s warning and were drowned. They were buried in the river under about 400 tonsof coal. They all lived here. The rest of the train crew escaped. It is thought that four tramps who were stealing a ride were killed. A wrecking-train was sent out and the debris is being removed. The bridge had caught fire some time before and had partiy burned away when the train struck it. The three drowned men who were in the cab saw the smoke, but thought nothing of it, and consequently no effort was made to stop the train. The body of the engineer was found pinned .in the cab. Efforts to find the bodies of the other men have been unsuc- cessful. HOLMES LIVED IN PITTSBURG. Tried to Have a Hotel Clerk Get His Life Insured. PITTSBURG, Pa., Aug. 11.—Tt iz be- lieved that H. H. Holmes, the arch fiend whose awful murders in Chicago and To- ronto have startled newspaper readers, re- sided in this city for a time. About two years ago a stranger who gave his residence as 0’Hara street, called on J. M. Aiken, a merchant on Fifth avenue, for the X:lrpoae of renting a house owned by Mr. Aiken. The house in question was & large one with many halls and a deep cel- Jar. Mr. Aiken did not like the appear- ance and actions of the stranger, and re- fused to enter into negotiations. A few days ago two gentlemen called on Mr. Aiken and produced a picture and rasked him if he could recognize the man. He at once remembered it to be the mys- terious stranger who wanted to rent or buy his property. After telling the two men that the photograph was that of a stranger who gave his address as O’Hara street the two men departed. Since their departure Mr. Aiken saw a photogra%h of Holmes in one of the daily papers, which tallied with the photograph the two men had in their ossession. Holmes was in Pittsburg again ast March and stopped at the Mogonga- hela House, where he attempted to get Night Clerk Ward to have his life insured, but the latter refused. e JUMPED FROM A WINDOW. Suicide of Broker Jewett’s Daughter While Insane. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 11.—Miss Alice Jewett, the daughter of Broker Charles H. Jewett, committed suicide this morning by jumping from a third-story window into the inner court yard atthe ‘Windsor Hotel, Fifth avenue and Forty- seventh street, where her family has been stopping temporarily. lgxsa Jewett was insane at the time, and was in the room with her mother. The latter saw her as she was aout to jump and tried to stop her, but was unable to do so. Death was instantaneous. Miss Jewett has been for some time under treatment for insanity. For Pacific' Coast Telegrams see ‘Pages 3 and 4. Half the fun of life is lost by many people through their neglect of one of Nature’s most rigid laws. Na- turi“insms' on regularity, Peo- ple who allow the continuance of any i ity in mMW organs soon have to pay the pen- alty. Free and regular move- ment of the bow- els is the surest sign of good health. ‘The first ques- tion the doctor asksis: ‘‘Are your bowels regular?”’ If not, he gives something to make them so and quite often that is all he needs to do. 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