The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-06-27

scended the scaffold at l:l0P. n Al
ter religious services by Rev Mr. Etling.
ton. of the Methodist Church, he stepped
forward and made quite speech to the
crowd in attendance. He said, IF you
will keep still q minute I will talk to
you in regard to my poor dead children
and wife. To every man. woman and
child l want to cay that / have nothing
against You, hoping all have forgiven
me. May God h.ve mercy today on
me and on ali of you. stand today
on the gallo~s to pay the penalty of my
crime. To young men many Of whom
! recognize. wish ito say that l saw
them riding out here today drunk.
have done the same thing myself, and
Won SEE where am" We asked 10 bs
buried with his wife, and held in bis
hand bouquet and asked il there was
a LADY who would zee that il wa, put
on bis wifs's dear little b.nds. II
want" he said, ito see who will do it. !"
Many hands were raised, and q cry OF
there" there" came from every qusr-
ter. Brown asked all relatives Of bis
wife who were present 10 raise their
hands 10 token Of forgiveness. One Of
the dead womsns sisters Was present
and rsisad her hand. Brown said,
Thank God, there is one culprit. then
stepped on the trap. and the black cap
was put on and the rope adjusted. The
trap was sprung and poor Browns soul
launched on the seq Of eternity ct l:26
P.M. His neck vas broker, and be
died in ten minutes without . struggle.
CANTON, June 25.-Tbree murdersrs
were hanged here today together. Two
of them. g D Oh: and Geo w Mann.
were convicted of the murder of John
Wattmoush, IN aged weaver ri Phiis-
delphia, who YVES trawping through the
country, and who wss murdered year
ago 10 the woods by these men for his
money, five dollars. and silver watch.
The other was john Samuel, only II
years old, who killed Chris Spuhler last
fall on the eve Of bAmuel's trial for
burglary. Spubler being Q witness
against him. Samuel was tried. con-
victed, and sentenced for burglary, and
then brought from the psnitentiary
and tried and convicted OF murder.
There were no incidents Of importance
connected with the execution. Death
was almost instantaneous. A vast
crowd was about the Jail yard and five
military companies were on guard.
There was no disturbance.
EUROPE.
LONDON, June 25.-In the Court Of
Appeals today Lord Justice James
gave judgment denying to Thos Castro
Tichborne, clsimant, to have two SEN
terccs passed on him for perjury made
concurrent instead of consecutive.
BERLIN, June 25.-There is no longer
any doubt in regari to impending De.
cision Of powers. The Porte is begin.
ming to abandon its proud attitude of
spathetic indifference Of affecting to
caution the conference ~ to dangerous
lengths it evideatly mems to 60. g.
LONDON, June 25.-In the House of
Commons today, Psrnall moved the
second reading Of his Irish relief bill,
the object Of which was TO appoint the
commission for relief of distress. 1t
consists Of . chairman aud two secre-
taries and principal organisation en-
gagged in relief OF distress In Ireland
that for the last six months, and suggests
two hundred thousand pounds of Irish
church funds.a surplus. be handed over
to the committee. to be appropriated a.
they deem ft. Forster. Chief Score.
tary for Ireland. said that he could not
assent to bill which proposed to adopt
an entirely new. principle. He be-
lieved that the Governments course
aided by private charities would be
sufficient to meet the evil. He regret.
ted. he said, that there had been fever
in some Of the districts, but there was
no evidence that il could be traced to
famine; and It was confined TO very few
places. The reports that he had re.
ceived from ireland he said wsse reas.
suring. The debate adjourned.