The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 30, 1899, Page 3

RACED BEHIND — A FAST TRAIN The Daring Performance of Bicyclist Charles P. Murphy. A MILE IN SIXTY-FIVE SECONDS Rode Close to the Rear Coach Upon a Ten- Inch Strip of Board Laid Between the Two Rails. NEW YORK, June 90.—Paced by| could ride as tast and faster than the! & locomotive Charles M. Murphy, the/ train could pilot him. ‘The engine! Brooklyn cyclist, rode a mile in was warmed up as it flew into the last quarter, and it was finished tn 154-5 seconds, or a minute and five! seconds for the entire mile. | Then came the most dangerous |part of the ride, and an unex- pected difficulty, Murphy was un- able to hear the long whistle, which was to notify him of the finleh—in fact, he heard nothing. Fullerton reached down and waved bie cap in| front of Murphy's eyes. For a mo-| }ment Murphy misunderstood this for | a signal to come on, but disc red [hia mistake almost immediately and | prepared to slow down. But his im petus Was #0 great that he could not stop. He did not dare to back pe for that would throw him art ¥ hineete ke quiétiy eteadied his wheel and let it run. A® quick as thought the train got! away from him, but he still came! tearing on through the dead air that followed the train. A second tater) he had reached the end of the vacu-| um and found himself in a whirl. wind of dust. ‘The train had given the alr a ro- tary motion in the vacuum, and it attacked Murphy from beth sides furtousty, rocking hia wheel. He was in serious danger, and nothing but his marvelous control of the wheel and his wrist of steel saved him from going down. For an eighth of a mile he staggered from side to wide on the narrow track, making no at- tempt to back pedal, but deweting all lof his energy in the superhuman ef- fort to keep on the board eur and _ | Seve bis life. Finally he got his wheel steadied and began to cautiously back pedal, but his Impetus was so great that to his he was unable to stop within the lim- Nothing but a its of the board track, although he ing motion, by which had slackened considerably. When every motion of the) he reached the end of the boards he took his only chance and jumped in- an accident could mar to the cinders, landing on his fret) for Murphy showed that he | unhurt. J man using his own power only, has ever propelled any vehicle for, @ mile. Tt was the first time he had ever ridden behind & locomotive and be faced unknown dangers, for death ‘wouk! certaialy follow any accident train of himself. Murphy seemed to have no trouble tn following the pace. Although his up to 112, his feet ty ‘ Z ! li aq? ef i 1 General OFFICES~— Sez Prompt, reliable THH STATE NEWS, Walla Walla is to have a public park see ‘There are 250 Chinamen in Fair haven eee Aberdeen will also celebrate the Pourt! *es8 A new saw mill is to be bullt at Fairfield ee Yakima wool growers held @ con vention last pleht, eee A bleyele path is to be bulit from Arlington to Bdg There North ¥ wer akima arrests at lay. aeventeon hoe Centralia council has refused © pass an ordinance taxing bloyeles eee Whitman county farm lands and Improvements are assessed at $6,329,. EST) see There are 900, ron of land wtilt unsurveyed in the Seattle land dis trict. eee of tide lands at Port An week ght the state s+. The Bellingham Bay Rattroad com pany has 15 men at work t ting the roadbed e+e The Union carpenters Spokane have refused te Join in proposed strike of the bullding trades New Whatcom's school report shows 1576 scholars tn that distr a gain @ last year of 127 The canning season at Blaine has opened t It in expected to put uf 200,000 cases there. the city for the purcha NE HEALER AT CINCINNATI CINCINNATI, O.. June MP ter wre A DIVIN the spell of a “divitte } Mandford and t wedjutor f Engiand. land with Twenty-one days af a cyee on 2 years he hyp ne us tiger into a latab-tik ’ Thre ' noen and x ‘ taken thelr stand on a raised platform on Fountain square, while hundreds patients—deaf, blind and pa have passed under their ren have Pp square on erut aided home. tenes Gnenncieentpiettionin Kore Drag Oo, Fiftts and Pike, Preseripiion eyecu vhone Pike @ hes and departed un- E. Cc. ALLEN, General THE NUGGET EXPRESS SEATTLE STAR. PUNISHED BY — WHITECAPS DANVITA Til, June 20.—Warly this morning 12 citisens of Rossville @ thriving church and school village went to t house where James Brilly was au tered, called him out of doors and when he came out caught him and forvlbly took him to the outskirts of the village, ted hin vat of a barbed wire fenc hin j back with @ bugey whip, one stroke from each member of the crowd, la- jeerating Ris fesh on the back and srma, and making large cashes from which bleed flowed profusely, They then poured tar on his k, turned him loose and told him to leave the town, 20 miles north of here, from the night operator at the rail where his strength was taken to the His con | oad station and on a gravel train j came to this elty | fatied him and h Vermiltion county hospital lition i# considered eritical ‘This ts the first whitecapping ever coeurring Within a hundred miles of he James Trilly is a stout man. married, and has thr or four living ohilde He iw a be r F arn Ings, It was charged, he spent in «a loons or at the gambling table, and the complaint of the regulators was that he would not support his wife and family, Last winter he got his provisions from the county and lived the howse of a widow whom he did Mit household goods were 1 inte the streets last March. Hrtily then left the city after being warned to go fi anonymous co pondents, He stayed until 1 and we in not pay wife was living. The Priest Is a Ca ate CHICAGO, TH, June ™. Kev ' ¢ George D, Heidman, of & Romen sa" huren, has ini ood his candidacy for con «sn on the Democratic ticket In & priest w ected from De- ‘The district t# now represent- led by William R. Lorimer, who will AMOS SNELL CHICAGO, June %.—Tnformation » to the whe bouts of a man eup by the rmant to be W. Hi, Tascott, who in February of 1888 murdered Miliienaire Amos J. Snell, of Unie etty, Was furnished Clerk W. Murphy at Detective headquarters ay. The man who thinks be has discovered the murderer for whom the Chicago polloe have been sea ing Ut years is Loute Miller, of Bt Rook, Ark. Miller came to Chicago for the sole purpose of notifying the police of the whereabouts of the supposed murderer. He told Clerk Murphy he jection, was positive of the identification of | jthe man. Miller's information based on statements made by the man in bin sleep When questioned as to whether he Manager. PERNT RELL ELE TE MM LPT EP cain ie in Mian ih iinet i Lila He managed to get a little clothing! saw any ecare on the supposed Tas- cott, Miller said he had not, but explained that he had not looked for a He said, however, that he would return and en¢ r te ure mere evidence and would .then com- municate with the Chicago police Miller is the owner of many boats plying on the Mississippi, Black and Francia rivers. The man whom ne the notorious name he refus- er, Bt POLITICS CAUSE A DUEL IN KANSAS GALENA, Kan., June Last night, as the streets of the Kansas mineral metropolis were crowded | with people, Bam Evans, one of the prime rain the Herroll faction in the perance polities of the | town, pulled his gun and directed @ | fusiliade at ft. P. Bland, sup; |a member of the Robertson Roth men emptied th guns and | were reloading for another exchange lof courtesies, when the officers ar- rived. The men were about 15 feet japart, the streets were jammed with pie, yet only One shot took effect nd was shot through the right Evans, who is said to have been | the aggressor, was placed under a 2000 bond and t# now at liberty, It |is said that vans was #hooting bul- jlets of steel, as one of them plowed | 4 great furrow in the front of a wand | stone building The pl ala ront of one of the buildings behind the firing was shattered. THE RESULT OF PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June %6.— After reading tn a half-d ot hanging of a | wild Western desperado, George Van ere 7 | Rohr, who was only 15 years old | yexterday, in a most novel manner, | strung himself up in the cellar of a grocery at whi j at the southwest corner of Cumber- land and Alder streets, Groceryman George Lenta missed the boy after he had been absent from the store half an hour, and upon going into the cellar found the body, still warm, fuapend by a strip of clothesline from a board that had been nailed acrows two Solats, ‘The boy had wrapped a soft mus- NOVEL READING, he was employed, | THE ARMOUR FRUIT COMBINE NEW YORK, Tune 20,—Tt in re~ ported that P. D. Armour ts at the head of a movement to attempt to control the fruit and vegetable trade of this locality, J, W, Coupland, the manager of the California Fruit Transportation company, is author. ity for the statement. Mr, Coupland has just returned from a meeting of the fruit growers of the South, held at Wilmington, N. C., at which he said an organization was effected to fight Armour’s plan, It wae said that Mr. Armour, as- sisted by others, had secured control of the fruit trade of the Pacific coast, and that he is now endeavor- ing to get control of the fruit and vegetable trade of Plorida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Vir- ginia, Maryland, Delawa: » Arkansas, Minsissippt and Tex- as, Mr. Coupland said that the com- | bination included the Porter Bro | Fruit company, the Continental Fruit Exchange and the Karl Fruit | company. THEY CONDEMNED THE WRONG MAN CINCINNATI, ©, June ~The police have been annoyed for a year by a petty swindler, who went from house to house engaging women to make artificial flowers. He agreed to pay © cents a hundred for the flowe but as @ preliminary re- quired @ deposit of from #1 to $3. He then disappeared. Edward Pittman was arrested on Miaplclon 2f @ Onset poeitively iaen- fied him as the swindler, and | was sent to the workhouse despite | protests of innocence. A detective who believed Pitt- | man innocent yesterday arrested P. | Wilbert, he was brought before th same women. Every one of them quickly admitted that they had made a mistake about Pittman, and swore that Pittman was the swind- jer and wanted to tear his hair. Gitbert confessed and Pittman will be released. A Rose Romance. | RICHMOND, Va., June 1.—G. J. | tonserial artist, “But why do you an y to wow If you hadn'§ made 4 mistake tn calling it 4 razor, replied the other. “I thought per- haps it might be @ piece of an olé barre) hoop.”—Chicago News, . se: Some Stray Facts... Spain has had 31 wars in the last 100 years, 7 ene One's memory is etronger in sume mer than in winter, 4 ore Two thousand saloons have been opened in Cuba since the war, eee * Jonas Brooks, of McPherson, Kan, walked 27 miles to wee @ circus, oe A giant reaping machine et Tede Janda, Cal, cute a swath 69 feet in width, 1 eee The Chinese emperor is obliged by, his religion to fast 64 days in a years eee Bince 1483 military operations tn the Soudan have cost the Britisy government about $40,000,000, ee The British government used 124,« 000 gallons of corn whisky last yeas in the manufacture of smokeles® powder. eee In 1888 the Erie canal carried to tide water 1,489,000 tons of vegetable | food; it 2897 it carried only 744,000 tons. eae ee The value of bicycles owned In Maine is $324,420. ‘This is only $7,000 jens than the value of the entire street railways in the state. eee Of the 1.600,000.000 people whe care... .- |stitute the population of the entire orld, about 1,400,000,000 are repre- sented in the peace conference at Hague. oo. eee Hawaii will import 7000 Japanese laborers this year, This will in- crease the Chinese and Japanese population to about 65,000, as com- pared with 31,000 Hawaiian natives and 3000 Americans. eee About $65,000,000 of insolvent In- solvent indebtedness has been wiped out or discharged since the new bankruptcy law went into effect. It was moat long standing indebtedness ~| had tied himecif in the usual way | without a thorn,” he told her, “Wil lin bag around his neck, evidently to! Freedly, the wealthy vice president |*24 Practically uncoliectibie. keep the rope from cutting the flesh, of the Cardwell Machine company, and. ame Fin of three soap bex-/ bought flowers every morning from Wot So Slow. on he had piled up, he placed the| Maude Reynolds, a pretty and poor villag ther noone over his head, then threw over! flower girl. He fell in love with her. Pica agora: pre * = the nailed board the other end,| “What 1 want te @ rose that witi| “*lberate lot of people. > which he tied around hie leg# at the last through life—one that will be-| “I pose we be. There wuz ankles, Then he Jumped off the|come dearer to my heart the older | feller drowned down In the creek @ box, and with hie legs drawn up, it grows; whose perfume will eweet-| spell ago. He yelled ‘Help, help!’ slowly #trangied to death. The lad en and enoble lfe—a perfect wer | afore he went down th’ last time, aa” ' in | because the cellar, being low. there | Was not room for him to stretch out at full length. Everything was done so quietly that MMe employer, who was cating breakfast, had no suspi- clon that the lad had left the store. penceeteonednnateey ~onteennanis Voll, the Assayer, 34-95 Roxwell bik ———_—. 4th July Decoration Flags, Bunting, | Festooning. Denny -Coryell Co, tstay, D. W. SEMPLE, ‘They were married yesterday by Bishop Van De Vyver. Proof Wanted. “Razor all right, sic?” queried the barber. “Would you mind letting me look at 1?" said the vietim tn reply. “Certainly not, sir,” answered the jveu be my rose?” | Superintendent’ é The Only Express Company Operating on the Yukon River. Offices Victoria, B. C,; 12 Yesler Way pres epee meg > Ean 7 - Seattle, Tee 2 tae NSA op + Re Washington Vancouver, B. C.; Skagway, Alaska; Bennet City, B. C.; Whit« Rapids, Dawson City, Forks of El Dorado and Bonanza Creeks, Forty Mile. attle, Wash,; urtment. n Puget sound ports, Dawson and all claims direct on the creeks, Reference: Scandinavian-American Bank, Seattie, and speedy. Unequated fa An unequaled mot order dep the editor of th’ village paper heard him an’ went back to th’ office an’ put in his paper two ‘help want: ads an’ charged ‘em up to th’ estat by gum!” ‘ “A Brooklyn woman locked hes husband in the woodshed because hé talked politics too much.” “Bay, they'd have to build woodsheds and more ef ‘em in Tas.