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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 J ' 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 . Euro - 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,"