The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-07-01

oI: LoUcs, June 26.-Luther X. Rruce a
leauihg druggist, shot and killed ]. C. lent.
prominent merchant and Justice of thn
:. reace az Douglas, ILL.,, yesterday. The af-
i. alr grew ontoi an attempt to suppress the
liquor TRAFFIC, Lentz being a strong temper-
anceman aad Bruce a supporter of the
whisky traffic. o'e
TWO EXECUTIONS.
=, HoPKINsvlLLE, KY, June 26.-Jordon
Iaylor (colored) was hanged at 1870
To-Day IN the presence of 5000 or 5000
people, mostly colored. The criminal
passed q restless night. A SQUAD of forty
soldiers surrounded the Jail yard. Taylor
was baptized in the river yesterday in the
presence OF thousands of people. He
mounted the gallows with a firm step. and
took a position under the beam. The exc
cution was practically public, as the hills
high buildings gave those outside ample op-
portunity to look on.
MEMPHIS, June 26.-John McKeev
ored), who shot and killed William ,col-
ner four miles south of here on theJ. Tray
last December, was hanged at 1910
o'clock this afternoon within the inclOsure
OF the county Jail. The condemned man
attempted to commit suicide last night by
cutting the arteries of his arms and legs
with rough piece of tin shaped like a knife
blade, which he had made out of a tin snuff
box. When found by. the night turnkey at
O'Clock this morning he was unconscious
from the loss OF blood. Medical aid was
summoned. On the scaffold, when asked if
he had anything to say, he replied, eyes;
l am no murderer" The widow of the muir
dered man occupied seat on the scaffold
and witnessed her husbands assassin's
leap into eternity.
DOUBLE EXECUTION.
O.
William Parchmeal, full blooded Cherokee
Indians, were hanged here at PIG o'clock
this afternoon for the murder of Henry
Fregel, an old Swede, thirteen years ago.
On the trial both denied their guilt, and en-
deavored to saddle the crime on each other.
They were represented by different counsel.
Arcine denied hoying known OF the killing.
Parchmeal admitted being present, but
said he was there under duress, and that
Arcine did the killing. Arcine made state
ment yesterday, denying the killing but i'm
plicating another mon: To-day when death
drew near he made full confession. He
said he was only boy of 10 or II years
OF age and was in a house at Table
quah, Cherokee nation, with other
Cherokees playing cards. Parchmeal Came
there and wanted him to 60 with him.
They went through the prairie half a mile;
then took the road; they saw a man COM
ing; parchmeal gave him pistol, and said,
"That is the man; shoot him." He shot
him six times; then both took rocks and
mashed the mans head, and then dragged
the body out OF the road. Parchmeal took
the mans boots and 25 cents he had in his
pocket. That man was Fregil. He did not
know why Parchmeal wanted Fregil killed,
and being only a boy at the time he did
not know it was wrong. Parchmeal ad-
mitted his guilt in few words, through an
interpreter, and said he was ready to die
Both men died without struggel and
swelled the number who have been executed
here in the last eleven years for crimes COM
mitted in the Indian Territory to sixty-six.
GOT RELIGION.
SAVANNAH, Ga, June 46-Robert Mccoy
(colored) was hanged ut Slyvania to-day
for numbering james Edgar, a white con-
stable, on November "a, 1884. About
2OOO people witnessed the execution, the
gallows bling erected in the open field. Nc
Coy's speech and religious exercises " were
similar to those usually incident to such oc-
casions McCoy's neck was broken by the
fall, and death was apparently painless.
THE JURY AGREED.
KNoxvILEE, Tenn, June 26.-The jury in
the Johnson-Hen murder case was not
able to agree up to 10 o'clock last night.
The case has been in progress two weeks,
and has attracted q widespread interest.
Senator Voorhees,, of Indiana, was the
leading couns5l for the defense. Captain
E. T. johnson, formerly of Indiana, was
arraigned for killing Major. Edwin Henry in
Green county, Tennessee, on September 23,
1884. Henry seduced Johnson's wife more
than year before, and Mrs. johnson com
mitted suicide in Indiana. At S:15 this
morning the jury returned q verdict OF
I~'not guilty" The announcement OF the
verdict caused a tremendous demonstra-
ton and applause by the large crowd in the
court house.