HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-9-10, Page 2—11111rY
111111,TEEN NIIIIIDERED BABES.
bid Confession of a Colombian Ilus-
band and Wife,
A LONG LIFE OF CRIME.
Helpless Infants cruelly Crushed to Death
Their Grandchildren anardereal—The
Disc overv—Pleads leoverty as an Excuse.
A New York despatch says : The village
of Lomas de Zamora, near Ba,ufield Station,
in Colombia, is the scene of a startling
series of crimes. It consists in the dis-
covery of a series of murders, beginning in
1859 or 1860 and continuing to 1890, entire -
suiting in the death of ten sons and daugh-
ters and three grandchildren. The author
of these crimes is Mercian° Medina, and his
-wife, Pauline, Benavides, and his daughter,
Beraigia, have been the accessories, if net
the accomplices, in several of the murders.
Since 1871 IvIarciano Medina has lived on
a ranch near Lomas de Zamora. He has a
family consistingof a wife, six sous and one
daughter, Remigia. He is 55 and his wife
43 years old. Medina is employed among
the corrals of Lomas, and is considered a
good worker among the men of his class at
election times.
THE DISCOVERY.
The discovery of the crimes of this man
was clue indirectly to the action of Remigia
in leaving her father's honae to elope with
her lover. On July 1Sth IVIedina called upon
the police commissary of de 'Zamora, or
• Valdo Guerl, and requested that his run-
away daughter be apprehended. At the
-very moment of this conference a police
agent, Pedro Mirandi, called the commis-
sary aside, and said that he had just come
from a ranch near Lomas de Zamora, where
in the course ot comments which had been
made upon the elopementof Remigia,, it had
been charged thatRernigiahad killedseveral
of her children and buried them on their
ranch. After hearing this the commissary
returned to Medina, and, without arous-
ing his suspicion dismissed him with the
promise that everything possible would be
done to secure the arrest of his daughter.
The commissioner next visited the ranch,
where the story of the 1VIedina crimes were
told. to him. On the following day Remigia
was found hiding on a ranch near the
village, and was brought before the police
authorities of Lomas de Zamora. She
declared that she had left her home on
account of fearful treatment at the hands
of her parents. -Under close questioning,
Remigia admitted that her father had mur-
dered. several of her children. She said that
some of the bodies of those who had been
killed shortly after birth were burted in the
house, while some were buried ba an old
barn in an outlaying part of the ranch. On
the evidence Medina and his wife were
wrested. They at first denied the charges,
and then made a partial confession, entang-
ling themselves in a maze of falsehoods, and
at last were induced to fully confess their
crime.
DOWN WITH BALMACEDA 1 1 TWENTY-SIX LIVES
A Bloodthirsty Mob Soots to Slay tho
Defeated President,
HE EFFECTS HIS ESCAPE.
LOST.
Steamers CoriMe OA' litelbourne and one
Goes to the Bottom.
A London cable says : A despatch from
Melbourne states that a collision oecurred
at 1 o'clock this morning inside Port Phil-
lips Head between the steamers Gambier
and Easby. The Gambier was bound
from Sydney for Melbourne, and
was just clearing the heads, when she net
the Easby bound out. It Was impossible
for the vessels to dear each other and the
Easby struck the Gambier amidships, crush-
ing in her sideito such an extent that when
she backed away the water radinto the
hold of the Gambier in torrents. A
scene of terrible eonfusion and ex-
citement followed the shock of the
11'sion Most of the passengers
Burning the Buildings of His supporters
—A Night of Terror—The End of the war
—Order Bestored—The Junta Bales.
The New Yos•k Ilerald's Valparaiso de-
spatch fully confirme theuews of the capture
of the city of Valparaiso by the insurgents
and gives the following details : Early this
morning the boom of cannon announced to
the people of Valparaiso that a movement
beyond the ordinary skirmishes had begun.
The occasional loud reports of the heavy
guns soon swelled into one continuous roar
and then it was known that the final and
decisive etruggle, which at the cost of
thousands of lives perhaps, was to decide
whether 13almaceda or the junta was to be
the ruling power in Chili, had begun.
Excitement was intense at Valparaiso. The
streets were crowdedwithpeoPle, womenpre-
dominating, anxiously waiting for news and
talking of the momentous contest which
waa in full progress only a few miles away.
Gen. Canto's position was on the hills
above the race track at Vine Del Mar, out-
side of the city. His raiders have been
getting bolder and bolder and have been
making excursions further in the country.
He had absolute control of the railroad to
Santiago and comma,nded the ordinary
roads. Hence Santiago was practically in a
state of siege.
Affairs had come to such a pass that it
was necessary for President Balmaceda to
make some move, and a little after daylight
Friday morning the word was given to
attack the position held by the revolution-
ists, and led by Generals Barbosa and Aker-
reca,, the Government troops left their
breastworks and advanced on the enemy.
They were met with a terrible charge of
grape and canister, and rifle bullets tore
through their ranks until it became too hot,
and despite the efforts of the officers they
broke and retired almost in a panic. A
second charge was made, however, but it
resulted as disastrously as the first. Gen-
erals Barbosa and Alcerreca were both
killed early in the fight. The retreat of
the Government forces developed into a
panic and demoralization.
The cavalry attempted to make a stand
but they were literally out to pieces. It is
estimated that during the short but bloody
fight 5,000 men were killed and wounded.
The defeat of the Government seems com-
plete and decisive, a,nd a reorgization of
their forces does not seem possible. Shortly
after noon the victorious army began to
enter the captured city. Shortly after
their entry Captain Albert Fuentes, of the
torpedo boat Alrnirante Lynch, which was
lying in the harbor, was summoned to
surrender. He attempted to steam out,
and opened fire with his machine guns on
the insurgents. There was a sharp engage-
ment lasting fifteen minutes, andthen Capt.
Fuentes hauled down his flag, and there was
not an enemy to the revolution from Fort
Valdivia to Vina Del Mar. The city is as
quiet as could be expected under the circum-
stances and no trouble expected. Nobody
has any knowledge of the whereabouts of
Balmaceda. The insurgent leaders are ex-
ceedingly anxious to find out where he is,
and if they find him the chances are it
would go hard with him.
A TIMM'S wens.
According to the confession, Medina and
nis wife lived formerly in Les Flores, where
they were married in 1358. They lived in
an inn of the village the husband being a
man -of -all -work and his wife attended to
the charge of the establishment. The first
murder occurred after they had. been
married a year and a half. A son had
been born to them who was afflicted
with fever. One night Medina took the
child away on horseback, on the pretext
of consulting a, doctor. While riding along
he placed the child's breast against the
pommel of his saddle and crushed the
breath out of the little boy. Then he
carried it to the shore of a lake and buried
it on land belonging to Dr. Mines Oco. He
then returned home and told his wife what
he had done. She was heart -broken and
accused him of his crime, but took no steps
to punish him or expose him. Medina jus-
tified his act on the ground that they were
too poor to support children.
A year later a second son, Guidelpha,
two weeks old, was taken from home by
the father. The baby was murdered
and its body was taken home and buried
in the presence of the mother, who again
became accessory to the crime by her
silence. The next victim, a, baby boy,
was killed by strangulation when three
months old, and the body was buried in
a neighboring raamh. The next unfor
tunate infants were Felipe, who was mur-
dered in her cradle when four months old,
and Felija, whose brains were blown out by
Medina when she was four months old
The parents then moved to Lomas de
Zamora, where, in 1874, Medina murdered
his sixth child, a boy eight days old, who
had not been eristened. This crime was
especially atrocious. According to the con-
fession of the mother the husband crushed
the babe's breast and buried it, while yet
hnif alive, in a trench. Throughout the
following eight years Medina seems to have
abandoned his murderous actions, and five
sons and a claugdter were born to him,
all of whom are still living.
GRANDCRILDREN MURDERED.
Two others born after these, however,
were killed by Medina. Twins born to the
couple died under suspicious circumstances,
although Medina stoutly insists that they.
died natuaal deaths. He says he carried
their bodies three days after death to the
public cemetery in a cart, not being able to
go to the expense of a public funeral, and
that the sexton buried the children. Tile
commissary, however, has been unable to
find any mention of such an interment in the
records of the cemetery, and it is suspected
that the twins were also foully dealt with.
The list of Medina's crimes was not re-
stricted to his offspring, but included the
murder of three sons of his unmarried
daughter, Remigia. The first, born
in 1839, and the second, born in
the year 1800, were beaten to
death by their grandfather. They were
buried on a ranch. In December, 1890,
Reinigia gave birth to a second son. When
it was two clays old Medina one evening
ordered Remigia down to the kitchen.
While she was ahaent he killed the baby.
Rernigia and her mother helped Medina to
bury the child under the kitchen.
The diseovery of these crimes has caused
intense excitement in Lomas de Zamora and
the adjacent towns. Excavations made on
Medina's ranch have resulted in the findin
of the skeletons of some of the murdere
children. Medina seems little moved,
either 4 the contemplation of his crimes or
the peril that their discovery has plaided
him in. He says he murdered his own ehil-
shell because he had not the Means to sup-
port them, and killed his grandsons to hide
his daughter's shame. '
AMOOPRIPIH,
A STBANC33 WEE.
Teamsters basis Each other Terribly with
Tung Bull Whips.
,A Chillicothe, 0., despatch says A
teamster for a saw mill eompany, which
operates in the bottom lands neer here,
brings a report of a peer duel. For some
time there has been bad blood between
James Stevens and William Graham. The
trouble Originally arose over the relative
merits of the two men as oxen drivers or
" punchers," each claiming to be the
best ha the section. The matter was kept
within the bounds of a wordy war until last
Sundays when it was &pitied to settle the
matter by a fight with bull whips. These
are dangerous weapons in the hands of an
expert. They have a total length of about
15 feet, and when well handled the wielder
can take a strip of hide from the flank of a
b 11 I at every pop. The preliminaries
were in their berths asleep when the.acci- were all arranged; and the men were
dent happened. The Easbyremaiaed along- given plenty of room in which to circa -
side the Gambier and resciiedmany of the late. There were no seconds, and the
latter's passengers and crew. Notwith-
standing their efforts the Ga.mlner filled so
rapidly that it was beyond human power to
save everybody. Seven minutes after the
collision she sank, carrying with her five
saloon passengers, fifteen steerage passengers
and six of the crew. The Easby sustained
considerable damage.
lirlIAED BY 4DOG.
A Child Fatally Mingled by a vicious
Brute.times, when Stevens sent his iasn uLteuLy
A. Montreal despatch says : The little at the handle of Graham's whip, and by a,
on of Omer Frechette of No. 108 Si. quick twist tore it from his grasp. Graham
Hubert street, this city, was bitten to death quickly recovered his weapon, but not
by a ferocious dog last night. Mr, before Stevens gave him two fearful lashes,
Freohette, who is an amateur fancier, re- one drawing the blood trom his back ancl
the other tearing a strip out of his trousers
I The pain
so enraged Graham that he
understanding was that the men shou
fight until one cried "enough." The
employees of the mill ranged themselves in
O circle abont 100 feet in diameter, and the
men were told to go in and fight. They
approached to within fifteen feet of ea,ch
other and then halted. Then both began
circling the long whips over their heads,
waiting for an epportunity to give a cut.
Graham was first to try, but his blow was
dodged by Stevens, who also sent his lash
wide of its mark. This was repeated several
. .
costly purchased three dogs, one of w ic I
was a cross between a hound and a bulldog. ,...
The latter was considered peaceable and macle a savage onslaught on Stevens,
give no sign of being dangerous. Shortly cutting him twice, once across the face.
after 7 o'clock last evening while Mrs. Stevens kept his temper, and again caught
Frechette was entertaining a visitor she Graham's whip, but before the latter could
heard her 4 -year-old son, who was playing recover it ho was whipped about the head
in the yard, scream. Rushing to a window and face until he was completely blinded
she was horrified to see the dog attacking and at the mercy of his antagonist, who
the child and tearing great pees of flesh lashed him ahnost into insensibility before
from its body: With all the heroism. of he cried for mercy.
a mother's daring the woman flew to the
rescue. The sight she inet was a horrible COUNTING THEIR CHICKENS,
one. The yard was covered with blood,
while pieces of flesh were scattered around. But the iTort of Middling ay 'Prove
Though fainting she attacked the infuriated Too Mot.
brute and a terrific struggle ensued. A . A London cable says: The report that
Masse, who resided near by, came to her ' France and Russia have virtually. agreed
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assistance. At this moment the woman that in the event of a victory over Germany
fainted and the brute turned his attention . they svould have Schleswig re -annexed to
toward the new intruder. Another deeper- Denmark has caused considerable comment
where the war feeling has he
with a knife, which he wielded to good in mounting Berlin, ms
'high for some days past This
ate battle followed, but Masse was armed
purpose, but the dog having secured a grip rumor, however, has called to public
on the man never let go until its head was attention other rumors of a similar nature
nearly severed from its body and almost regarding the Triple Alliance. It was stated
cut to pieces. Medical assistance was sum- recently on high authority at Vienna that
moiled, but the child was beyond all human one of the unwritten agreements of the
aid and soon expired. The face was alumst alliance was, in the event of success in a
=recognizable while over a dozen pieces of continental war, to disable Russia forever,
flesh had been torn from the body. The in- by taking from the empire Poland, Finland,
juries sustained by Mrs. Frechette and and the Baltic provinces, and compelling the
Masse, while serious, are not dangerous. Czar to abandon St. Petersburg for Moscow;
France at the same time to be compelled to
MUST FACE TIIE COURT. give up Nice and Corsica to Italy. These
Mrs. Carruthers Sent to Stand Her Trial arrangements are understood to be ,merely
provisional, but the fact that they are talked
for Murder. of shows the deliberate way in which .
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A TEitlitlittle CLOUDBuitsT.
Central Ohio 'Visited by 0 SU(111100 0101
astrous Flood.
A Berlin, 0., despatch says: A terrible
cloudburst occurred here to -day. The wife
of Thomas Taylor Was dr0Wried in her home
M sight of her husband, who was outside
and could not get through the window to
save her. His two children were saved.
James Smith was found dead standing in
the mud up to his neck, horribly mangled,
about half a mile from a barn in which he
was last seen alive. The Lebanon Springs
Railroad between here ancl Petersburg, a
distance of about five miles, is washed away
into the meadows for many rods half a dozen
plaoes. A large railway bridge is also gone
besides a score or more highway bridges.
The residences and outbuildings of F. M.
Coe, near here, narrowly escaped total de-
struction. The mountain stream running
into the Little Hoosick River became a cat-
aract and changing its eourse plowed deep
gorges on both sides of the dwellings.
Stones weighing a ton are frequently seen
washed rods from their former resting
places.
Meadows are ruined and crops on the line
of the flood are destroyed, Part of the vil-
lage of Petersburg lying near the Little
Hoosick is completely wrecked. A score of
residences and workshops are washed from
their foundations and much personal pro-
perty has been destroyed. The loss to pro-
perty in that village will reach not less than
$25,000. No lives were lost in Petersburg.
PAID THE COSTS.
l'risoners Collect an Entrance Fee at Their
oval Flogging.
The New York Herald's cable from Val-
paraiso, Chili, says: The Chanaral regi-
ment of the Congressional army took formal
possession of Santiago to -night, and prac-
tically the last act in the drama of revolu-
tion which has torn Chili to pieces for the
past seven month, is closed. The capitol
city was in the hands of a bloodthirsty
mob last night, and while it was unable to
satisfy its murderous instincts it did destroy
a vast amount of property. As soon as the
news reached Santiago yesterday of the
overwhelming defeat of the Government
troops on the heights of Placilla and the fall
of Valparaiso and the people knew that
Balmaceda's power was gone and they had
nothing to fear from his wrath, their enmity
to his Government broke forth. The cry
was raised that the President should
be killed and a mob started for his
house. It grew in numbers and
fury as it went through the streets, and by
the time it reached the Executive mansion
was ripe for anybloody deeds. Short shrift
would have been allowed to the President
had he been caught. He knew that he
would have little chance for his life if he
remained in. Santiago, and at the first re-
ceipt of the news of his overwhelming defeat
he hid himself, and the bloodthirsty fury of
the mob was balked. Then the mob's
desire for revenge found vent in the
application of the torch, soon Bal-
maceda's house was a mass of flames.
Before it had beets destroyed the mob
marched off to the house of Senor Goday,
the ex -Minister of the interior and an
ardent Balmacedist, ane set his house on
fire. Then the residences of Balmaceda's
mother ; General Barbosa who was killed at
the battle of Emilia ; Senors McKenna and
Eastman; the Government newspaper
offices and the houses of several prominent
officials were burned to the ground. The
city was panic-stricken, business was sus-
pended and people outside of tbe mob kept
close to their houses. The sky was lurid
with the light from the burning buildings.
The police, the fire department and the
army were demoralized and made not the
semblance of an attempt to maintain order.
Balmaceda, when he heard of the
fall of Valpariso, seat for General
Bacuedano, commander of the Government
troops in Santiago, to meet bins at 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon at Moneda. . This
Bacuedano declined to do, but suggested
that the meeting be held in the house of
Gen. Valasquez. A council of war was held
at Valasquez's house, at which President
Balmaceda, the generals and other leading
Balmacedists were present. The tituation
was thoroughly canvassed, and it was de-
cided that a further continuation of the
struggle was hopeless, and that the surren-
der of the capitol -vas the only proper
course.
There are all sorts of rumors about the
movements of President Balmaceda. I have it
on good authority that he went by a epecial
train yesterday to Talcahrianeson Concepcion
Bay, and that there he will make connec-
tion with the Condell and Imperial, and in
one of these vessels, probably the former,
make far Buenos Ayres or Montevido. If
this is so, he will in all probability escape.
Comparative order has at last been re -
attired in Valparaiso. It, took drastic
measures to do it. Rioters who were caught
in the work were summarily .dealt with, and
many., of them were shot at sight.
It is hardly probable. however, that an
election for Presideat will be held' fot 30M6
time, and hi the meantime the Jerrie will be
in control.
It has beet decided by a Brooklyn church
that playing cards isn't wicked, anti two-
thirds of the eongregation have quit tieing
them,
--Lizzie Arhold, of Fenton, Mich, is 27
years bia and weighs only 18 pounds. She
hag received overtures from circus man-
agers, but her parents prefer to keep her
At a stormy meetinp of navvies on the
to continue the strike indefinitely.
BOUrSC de Travail, in aris, WaS deeided
A Rat Portage despatch says: Al e
evidence in the Carruthers case has been struggle. The Russian rifle factories are
taken. Some interesting evidence was running night and day on the new breech -
given near the close of the case. Mrs- loading repeating rifle with which it is pro -
Flora Jordan testified to receiving an order posed to arm all the infantry, both of the
for corrosive sublimate, which was got at active army and the reserve. But although
Rat Portage by her husband for Mrs. Car- . the greatest diligence is shown in the manu-
ruthers, who told her it was for A°11e ' facture, it is believed that at least two
medicine. She knew no reason *Hy t; ar- ,
years will elapse before the whole military
ruthers should commit suicide. Mrs. force of the empire win, provided with
Charlotte Watts, who was cook at Fother- • the weapon. This would t prevent Russia
isigham's mill, where Carruthers worked, from going to war in the meantime, as not
stated that she saw Mrs. Carruthers on less than 400,000 men will have the rifle
Fotheringham's knee once. She went within this year.
to Carruthers' house, and Mr. Car- ;
ruthers asked her had she seen Foth- I A PATENT RIGHT CASE.
eringham'i black eye. Witness said C —
no, and Carruthers said he didn't A Toronto Man Jailed. at Wingbant Charged
want Fotheringham round his house ; With Fraud.
again, and that if he came he would put a • A Wingham despatch says: A mangiving
bullet in him. She had seen revolvers on his name as V. Taylor, of Toronto, was
the sideboard before Carruthers' death. before Mayor Clegg charged by Mr. S.
She never saw him in drink. Geo. Watt Jackson, of Brussels, with fraud. From
stated he saw Carruthers alive on the Friday , the evidence it appeared that Taylor had
evening before hisdeath. Carruthers asked been selling a patent harrow clip and the
Watt to call at his house about 5 o'clock. night to make and sell them to different
When near deceased's house he heard Mr. ! parties and agreeing to furnish them five
and Mrs. Carruthers having high words. dozen of the clips within ten days after sale.
They teemed to be angry. loule could hear He sold the right to Mr. Jackson for Grey
both voices, but not what was said. He and Morris and also sold the right of 1Vlorris
turned to go away when Mrs. Carruthers to Mr. V. Vannorman of Belgra.ve. The
opened the door and he heard her say, "you purchasers of the patent right becoming
are a d—d liar." He did not see Car- suspicious that things were not right, had
rubbers again alive. • inquiries made in Toronto where Taylor
A despatch just received says Mrs. Car- said his establishment was located, but no
ruthers has been committed for trial. ; such manufacturing concern could be found,
and the purchasers became convinced that
DESPERATE RUSSIAN rEAsANTs. i they had been bitten, and had Taylor ar-
' rested at Teeswater. The notes procured
Starving Mot Rise in Rebellion Against the , by Taylor in payment of the right sold in
Czar's Ukase. 1 this section were disposed of in Brussels
A St. Petersburg despatch says: Details and Wingha.m. Under a late act passed all
of the rioting at Vitekesk, capital of the notes given for a patent right must have
Government of that name, occasioned by the printed or written across the face of them,
people's protest against the exportation of before they are offered for sale, the words :
rye, show that the disturbance was serious. "For patent right." Those disposed of
The Governor reports that there was evi- by Taylor had not this on the face of them,
dence that a general revolt of the peasantry . hence he was committed to Goderich jail by
had been planned. The peasants attacked Mayor Clegg. Failing to secure bail, he
the railroad officials demanding no more wes taken down.
,
rye should leave Viteiresls and severely
beat the Jewish grain dealers, who are
blamed for the whole trouble. The peas -
entry also plundered the residences of these
grain dealers, and finally attacked the rail-
road station. The nsilitary was then sum-
moned. The rioters resisted stubbornly,
and their supporters outside the railroad
station made a fierce attack upon the sol-
diery, severely injuring many of them.
Finally the officer in command, after re-
pean nations are preparing for the gigarttic
A
MOW woufts ouricc,
A Few Examples °Mow They Have Takellli
on NOW Meanings.
Many words once written svith dignified
motive now cause us to read passages of '
standard literature with a guilaw. The
word " imp " was once a toxin of high
honor. But how now sounds the line from
Spenser, " Ye sacred imps that on Parnasso •
dwell Over many a grave of the old
Freneh nobles may be read the line,
" Here lies that noble imp.' " A sacred
poen, written Gascoigne three centuries
age, begins a stately address to the posterity
ot Abraham, with the words, " 0, Abra-
ham's brats," brat being then a word of
stately meaning.
Opening an old dictionary at random one
day my eye happened to fall on the word
" tragedy ;" a note explained that it comes
froin a Creek word which means " a goat
song," because the oldest tragedies were ex-
hibited when a goat was sacrificed, or given
as a prize th the best actor. The word
infant" means literally " not speaking."'
Have you a pug dog? Dia you ever think
his face looks like that of a monkey' ? The
monkey he most resembles is the pug
monkey, which gets its name from Pug or
Puck, as Shakespeare writes—the sprite of
mischief.
" Canter " an abbreviated form of
"Canterbury gallop," to called because pil-
grims to Canterbury rode at the pane cif a
moderate gallop. A grocer, so says the
dictionary, was originally' one who sold by
the gross. A " grenade " derives its name
from its shape, which resembles a pome-
granate. A "biscuit" means "twice
baked," because, according to military
practice, the bread (or biscuits) of the
Romans was twice prepared in the ovens.
Did you ever notice the leaves of the dan-
delion ? They are said to resemble, in form
and size, the tooth of the lion, and so the
French call it the dent de lion, and we "the
dandelion."
The Pope was formerly called " the
Pape," which means the same as "papa," or
father. Vinegar oomes from two Latin
words, via and accr, meaning "vine" and?
"sour." These axe only a few of the many
curious and interesting things I found in my
afternoon's search in the old dictionary.
When you are at a loss for something to do,
follow my example, and you will be sur—
prised at the many bits of information you,
can pick up in a short time.—Irish Times.
A Raleigh N. C., despatch says : Two
negro men who had been bound over to
appear at court here failed to give bonds
and were put in jail for safe -keeping. They
attempted to overpower the jailer and
escape, but failed. They were brought into
court, convicted, and sentenced by .Judge
Winston to receive 30 lashes, administered
by a colored man. No colored man could
be got to clo the work, so the services of a
white man were procured. The men were
taken inside the jail inclosure which screned
them from public view. It was suggested
that all who desired to see the new mode of
justice executed should be admitted at a
charge of 95 cent a head. The prisoners
agreed to this arrangement, and received
gate money enough to pay their costs. This
is a startling innovation upon the adminis-
tration of justice in North Carolina, ancl
Judge Winston though thefoungest judge
on the bench, has made himself famous.
RUSSIA'S RYE IlliAS'E
Causing Great Suffering to Enrich a Few
Dealers.
A Moscow cable says: The Moscow Town
Council is debating a proposal to compel
all employers to supply their workmen with
rye bread at the normal price or about one-
half of the present price. Men experienced
in the grain trade beleive the rye ukase will
only serve to enrich a few dealers who are
holding grain in order to sell it at famine
prices.
A St. Petersburg cable says: Indications
of distress among the peasants are becoming
numerous. The German colonists along the
Volga, who have hitherto been prosperous
farmers, are now in great distress. Riots
among the people to prevent the exportation
of rye are reported at Vitebesk, Dunaborg
and other places.
MANY MINERS RIFLED
By an Explosion in a Somersetskire Coal
Mine This Morning.
A London cable says: An explosion of
fire damp took place this morning in the
Malage Colliery near Bedrninister, Somer-
setshire. A large number of miners
were at svork at the time of the disaster.
An exploring party was sent down and
signalled that it had found four dead
millers the bodies of those unfortunate men
were hauled to the surface. A moment or
two later four other miners, all seriously
injured, were brought out of the mine and
it was announced that many others were
known to be either dead or seriously in-
jured. Additional exploring parties were
sent down the shaft. The greatest excite-
ment prevails.
FAMILY WIPED OUT.
A New Tork I.unatic Rills His Wife, Two
Children and lffinyielf.
A New York dOSpatCh says': Tenants in
the four-story tenement house, No. 321 East
106th street, last night heard pistol shots in
the apartments occupied. by a family named
Baxter, on the third floor. No one, how-
ever sought to learn what the shooting
peatedly threatening the crowd, gave the meant until 10 o'clock this morning, when
order to fire upon the rioters. The soldiers it was noticed that none of the Baxters had
then fired a volley, killing two peasants and been seen. Neighbors knocked at their
wounding a number of others. The rioters door, but there wee no answer, and Police -
soon afterward dispersed. Similar disturb- man Lawlor forced in the door, and there
ances are reported from Dimaborg, Vint 1 found John Baxter, a paiuter, :35 years old,
and other places, but no details have been his wife Mary, aged 28 years, and their
made public. children, Katie, 6 years, and John, 4 years
old all lying &La with bullet holes in
Her Life for Her sister's. their heacle Beside the body of, the bus -
Twenty school girls under the chaperonage revolver, with four cartridges ilischarged.
A Birmingham, Ala., despatch says : band a,nd father lay a •bulldoes 32 -calibre
of Major and Mrs. g. M. Tutviler, went on dren ancl. then shot himself. On a table was
It is supposed he killed his wife and chil-
a picnic to Blossburg to -day. After dinner
the girls decides' to swim in a big creek near
by. One pretty, 15 -year-old girl, Claudia,
Morrison, daughter of a prominent mine
operator of this city, plunged in. When
She reached the deep water she was seized
with cramp. Sallie, her. 16 -year-old sister,
sprang in to her rescue. They clasped each
other and sank together. They never rose
again.
It's a Way They nave.
St. Louis Republic: Call a girl a spring
chicken and she will laugh; call a woman a
hen and she gets mad. Gall a young lady
a witch and she will enjoy it ; call an old
woman a with and your life is in danger.
Galla girl a kitten and she won't take it
unkindly ; call a woman a cat and ,she will
hate you.
'The railroadF3 of the United States em-
it is said that a pretty girl and agold dol. ploy 700,000 men. Each year they lose
lar pass earreat anYwher6' / 2,000 bf their number in killed, and Q0,000
of them are injured annually. 'It is esti-
It may be true in geonsetrY, but it's
d that 000 people depend theao
seldom the case in trade or bueiness that mate3000on
a letter written by him to his mother, in
which he told of his intention to kill his
family and himself.
MUUDEBOUS PIRATES. ,
Five Hundred of Thellt Terrorizing the
Coast of China.
Baxter WaS probably insane. No other i
motive for the horrible crime s known.
Proved of His Beard.
A Berlin cable says : The Emperor has
ordered dealers in photographs not to sell
portraits representing him as he appeared
without a beard. All the lithographers,
coppernsiete and steel engravers are busy
issuing new' plates to show the Etnperor as
he now appears, with a beard, and the
painters on glass and porcelain and the
svorkers in leather and wood imagery are
overrun with orders for representations of
the Kaiser in the now style.
THE CAROLINA DISASTEIL
Thirty -Six Dead Bottles Taken Front the
Debris of the Train..
A Raleigh, N C., despatch says The
scene at the Statesville railway wreck beg-
gars description. The night was dismal.
and to add to the horror of the situation
the water in. the oreek was up. It was only
through the most heroic efforts of those who,
hurried to the scene that the injured were
not drowned.
The accident was caused by the spreading
of the rails. The bridge was not injured
and the trains are running on schedule time.
Twenty dead bodies are now lying in a ware-
house at Statesville. The injured. are hav-
ing the best of care at private residences and
hotels. •
The News and Observer extra says thirty-
six dead bodies have so far been recovered.
from the Statesville wreck. Nonanies have
been received.
A San Francisco despatch says : Advices
from Shanghai state that a gang of 500
armed. pirates are °refuting havoc in the
Province of Wencheu. Their progress
through the country has been marked by
the most cruel and. cool blooded crimes.
Villages have been burned right and left by
them when refused. hospitality and the in-
habitants—men, women and children
slaughtered. The object of the pirates seems
to be the capture of influential people to
hold them for ransom. Recently the gang
has been travelling southward, looting,
burning and murdering as they proceed.
" corners" are sgearee
HAPPY IN POLYGAMY.
The Law Invoked Against a Mali Living
With Three Wives.
A Lima, 0., despatch says: Residing
near Napoleon, 0., is Michael Cramer and
three wives. They all live on a $50,000
farm, and three houses are used by the
three families with one head. Crarner
brought his second wife to the farm in 1879,
and placed her in a cosy house he had
erected for her. Wife No. 1 offered no ob-
jection. He was arrested at the time, how-
ever, and tried for bigamy, but escaped on
a technicality. In 1881 Cramer brought his
third wife to the farm. For some cause no
act;on was taken until Monday, when the
county prosecuting attorney completed an
investigation and prepared evidence to lay
before the grand jury.
GRADUALLY DYING OFF.
Our
1:ocplitrliautirrtionP;rislibig
Alasilletsitdeartiten
A San Francisco despatch Says : Census
Agent Pottruff has returned from Alaska,
having completed the census of that terri-
tory. It shows a total of 31,000.
This is a decrease of 2,000 in ten years,
but as during that tinw the white and
Chiaese population increased largely, this
really represents a decrease of 8,000 in
native population. Potruff says the natives
have learned the use of liquor from the
whalers, and it is killing them off rapidly.
They manufacture for themselves a fiery
drink called "bootcha."
Troublesome Times in Rentudiy.
A Lexington Ky., despatch says : A
special from Georgetown says that the place
is passing through a reign of terror. A gang
of negroes on Friday night burned the
dwelling -house of County Judge Bates, also
a large tobacco barn and a small cottage.
They are incesed because a mob hanged one
of their number named Dudley Graham.
Ex -Speaker Owens, of the Keatucky Legis-
lature, organized a posse and panned the
streets all tight. 1VItirderer liOndall and
his four boys are strongly guarded in the
county jail. Great excitement prevails and
bloodshed is feared.
—" It is rumored that the Church of
England people here have been severely
rebuked. by the Bishop for treating their
minister so shamefully. They expect an
orator for $200 a year r—Longford Cor.
Orillia Times.
One Kind of "Accident."
A Georgetown, N. Y., despatch says
At 3 o'clock this morning a mob of 150 men
came into town, and taking Frank Dudley,
the negro murderer of Frank Hughes, a
wealthy citizen, out of jail, hung him to a
tree. Jailer Reed was seized and the keys
taken from him. Dudley WM taken out on
the Frankfort pike and. stood on a wall
under a tree with a limb extending over the
pike. He wa,s asked if he had anything to.
say and replied that he was sorry he hadt
killed Hughes, as he was a friend of his and)
he had shot him accidentally. Some one in.
the crowd yelled: "We will now hang you •
accidentally," and it was iminecliately clone.
The crowd then fired a fusila.de of shots and!
went away.
A German authority saysthat almost a
i
third of all hamanity—that s 400,000,000—
speak the Chinese language. Then the
Hindu language is spoken by more than
100,000,000. In the third place stands the
English, spoken by almost 100,00%000.
Fourth, the Russian, with 89,000,000, while
the German language is spoken by 57,000,-
000 tongues and the Spanish by 48,000,000.
Of the ' European languages the French is
fifth in place.
—London is moviag to organise a
employeets for a living. Humane Society.
But Parnell Has the Brass.
New York Herald: "David and Par-
nell were a good deal alike in one respect."
" Yes ?"
"Yes; they each put a man to the front,
in order to get his wife."
Tim Essential to Happy Wedded Life..
Women who love their husbands are
happy and at rest. 'Those who do not are
disturbed and restless, says the .Tennes,s-
lVfiller Quarterly. They are always seeking
for some means of killing time. They are
ready to flirt at any moment. Their chil-
dren are, according to their means, either
hidden in nurseries under the care of French
bonnes or handed over to Sally, the nurse,
to shake and slap and stuff with sugar, as ot
her wisdom dictates, while society and si
amusements of all sorts occupy their
mother's time. Home is not happy to the
poor woman, because she has chosen her
mate foolishly—because she trusted to
that "love after marriage" which
•
mercenary old people promise those who
make what they call a sensible match. Sad,
as a neglected wife who loves her husbandi
well must be, I believe she is happier than
this poor restless creature, though she be,
worshipped. The love of one we do not
love becomes simply a bore, especially in,
the close intercourse of home life, and she
who does not give her heart to her husband
is not likely to care mueh for his children.
So, girls, if you do not love your lover,
don't marry him. Remeasber that marriage
is a serious step, and, that when you give
him your hand that he may encircle it with
a wedding ring, you seal the happiness or
misery 6f your natural life. Don't marry
unless you are sure of your love for him and
his for you.
When Chicago tolerates a system of labor -
under which an I lsyears-old girl hap worked
15 hours a day, Sueday included, during
the last three years to earn $1 per Week,
what has she to fear from the " pattper
labor of Europe ?"—Chicano Inter.Oceevn.
The safe carriage of dynamite is now an
exP1°"06hed theory' " said jean tl e X 1 us
, mamma, , " e so .
have got tWins again. That makes three
pairs.'' Heir baby brother listened to this
news with a solemn face, and finally !Aid,
looking thoughtful, " Well, Joan, dears
that's it very bad habit to get into,"