Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-09-10
EASTERN NEWS.
.,,ne child Murderer.
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.oc,ArrD PRESS DISPATCHES.
- .f the Child Murderer.
t,a Mo-, Sept. 9.-Oliver Bate
eisAss; 70 confession as to the killing
nsn. ~ nnno Mclaughlin girls, says
Of tne ae AT home when the girls went
shst DO Dc sav them go into the woods
there. LazaI nuts and followed them
TO picA sf,sen minutes afterwards. They
vIsnin LIZ the edge of the corn field
we're To- came up with hem. While
vnen 18th them he saw Henry kuap-
tslElns mass. He then induced the
Penoe, IN 90 farther into the corr
cnliaia ,hiIe the eldest WAS walking
ne'o, ~ him he shot her with p
10 iIoa hall. and when she turned
eahoISa he shot her with 32-calibre
sroanIS ;iI;no her instantly. Then the
bsii, ALL. oirl started to run, wnen be
Gnsiieas md caught her. She begged
- hard for him to let net go .aas nc
s.vs he came vary near allowing neI 70
70 he did let her 90, but knowing
80 abe would tell, he followed ana
.snobt her again, threw ner down and
-. her throat. II was hfteen OF twenty
s -, after Knappenbereer passed
sssore he shot the eldest Rlri. AFTER
s:,i;no the Youngest girl he went BACK
- h;s f;rst victim and outraged her per
~ and then mutilated her person to
s,sste the impression that IL was the
80 ~ a crazy man. de relates that
.hs oldest girl said nothing after he
ut her. and that he held his hand
Ear the mouth OF the youngest To pre-
ant her cries being heard. de says
Nat after all these horrible occurrences
- vent to the creek, washed his hands,
shaw the knife into the stream and
ssnt home. When the father OF the
,;,ls came to his house InqnirinR for
,bsm he wanted to go aud help search
Gar them, but his relatives would not al
Loo him. az they thought he was sick.
Tbs 6end declares he was induced to
sosfsss owing to the circamstaHtial
manner in which Henry KnappenberRer
lad accused him of the crime.
wheat stiiI Dowa.
WV YoRK, Sept. 9.-The early course
- ,be wheat market this morning was
ses,n downward, October selling at
nv. making cash No. 2 spring wheat,
noninallv 75(d754o. SINGS 10 o'clock
there has been slight rally, aud Octo
her Is now being quoted al ITe.
Unprecedented Heat.
CHICAGO, Sept. 9.-The past ten days
In this city have constituted heated
tsrm of an intensity almost unprece
aen,ed in the history of the city. The
thermometer has rarely dropped Hnder |
Is degrees, and has risen to 80. A pecu-
Iarity of the season has been the fact
that The nights have been exceedingly
sutry, the heat continuing very even |
through the full "a hours. At z O'Clock |
This morning the thermometer regis
tered So degrees.
Hard ON she Cattle.
The Chicago Live Stock Exchange
decided yesterday to purchase ten head
Of hsalthy cattle, to be- presented to |
the Live Stock Commission, for the |
purpose of being placed in herds of |
cattle claimed to be afflicted with pleuro |
pneumonia until snch time as will prove |
that the suspected disease does not |
exist.
Shot by Mistake.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 9.-William
Collision, a telegraph operator on duty |
at Smoke Hollow, in the Hooking Val
ley, where the property of the mine |
owners Is being guarded by troops, was |
shot by a guard last night, being mis- |
taken for striking miner. II was sup |
posed that he was in the act of setting |
Gre to one Of the hoppers. He died in |
stantly.
shet while In che Performance OF HIs
Duty.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Polioe Officer |
Fowler was shot and killed this morn
Ing while in perfor nance of his duty. |
BY negro desperate named John /
LANCASTER. The officer was in charge of |
the chain gang at work cleaning the /
alleys, and Langster, Watching his OPP |
portunity, slipped away from his fellow |
criminals and secreted himself in au /
clubhouse, where Fowler found him and |
called on him to surrender. LANCASTER |
deded arrest, but the officer seized him, |
when negro named Wilson rushed up,
and struggle began for the possession
OF Fowler's pistol. Langster finally Sc
cured 10, and deliberately shot the officer |
through the heart. All this ocourred In
the presence of bystanders, TO whom
Fowler appealed in vain for aid. Lang
ster was arrested.
Hendricks I'm Ohio.
lNpIANAPoLIs, Sept. 9.--Governer
Hendricks and wife leave this evening
for Toledo, where the Governor delivers
an address tomorrow at the State fair.
Before returning he will make several
speeches, political and otherwise.
Down with the Poles.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 81 AL the tele-
graph, telephone and electric conpa-
MES were today notified that all the
poles must be removed before the hrst
Of January.
Professor New ten.
Professor Newton, of Yale, Was elect
ed President of the Scientists today.
Butler Addresses the Nebraska Anti.
Menepeiisf..
LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 9.--The Anti
Monopoly and Greenback State Con
yentions met here today. After conven-
ing and passing resolutions favoring
tusisn with the Anti Monopolists and
Democrats, the Greenback Convention
adjourned ard went into session with
the Anti Both adjourned
10 receive and listen to General b. y.
Butler, and reassembled at 3 O'Clock.
but are still wran2ling over prelimina-
ries. Butler spoke before the Ceuven-
tloa and TO the people in the open air
after supper. He advocated minority
representation, advised fusion with the
Democrats. declared that he wanted
Electoral votes only to hold the balance
Of power, and make. the other parties
come 10 the peoples party. He said
Ansi-Monopolists need not fear fusion
here, as Cleveland would win IL he car
iied New York. and lose il he didn't.
De said that he (Butier) coaId not be
elected, as Cleveland would have lt5
votes in the South. which Butler would
have with free ballot and fair count.
He was only anxious that the peoples
party should make the seeds OF q new
party.
After supper he made an anti-monop-
OILY speech IN the open air. he attrib-
atsd the want and poverty In the midst
81 plenty to the difficulty of EXCHANGE
Of commodities, resulting from exorbi.
,ant railroad charges and "Bull and
rear specializing rehearssd what he
demanded at Chicago, and explained
MS idea of the tariff. He spoke against
the importation of contract labor, and
enioeised Van wyck as a friend of the
people as against the monopolies- He
sees TO Topeka tomorrow.
A sad Tragedy.
NORFOLK, Va, Sept, ga double