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The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-12-26
A FAMILY'S FATE.
Father, Mother and Two Little Ones Perish
in Their Burning Home.

!" Aher burning HOme.
DETROIT December 16-About 2 o'clock
this morning parties returning from lodge
by way of the Dix Road, just beyond the
city limits, discovered the house of Frank
Knoch, German Lutheran who kept
farm and market garden, in flames. The
home was small frame shanty, and as
there were no facilities for extinguishing
the fire the place was wholly consumed.
When the ruins had cooled sufficiently to
permit of investigation searching party
was formed. An hours persistent search
revealed the chaTed body of Knoch and
wife. A little distance from both was
found the charred body of child. Knoch's
two children, George, aged three years,
and Frank Albert, aged nine months, we're
in tue house at TIE time, but which of these
the body represented could not be ascer-
tanned owing to its condition. The fire is
believed to have originated from an oil
stove which had been used to heat food for
the baby, who had been sick.
LATER.-Frank Knooh was known to have
money in the house, which he had been
saving to make some payments. The
searchers in the ruins found a revolver,
and it is known that Knoch never owned
one. These two facts lead to the suspicion
that murder was committed for the sake of
robbery, and the building then fired to
cover up the crime. The position in which
the ashes Of the family were lying
would seem to oppose this suspicion. How
ever, nothing is definitely known, every
thing about the house having been com
pletely consumed. The body OF the baby
was not at first found, and it was thought
the flames had entirely devoured it. Later
the searchers found the clumbling ashes of
what had once been the youngest child.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-12-26
A NoTEp DESPERATE.
Twenty-Seven BnS.glaries and One Murder
Charged AgNlast Him-Logded in
tlbe Rockville Jail.

Twenty-Seven B0rglaries and One Murder
Charged AgNlast Him-Logded in
the Rockville Jail.
RoCKvILLR, INi,, December 16.-Charley
Roberts, the notstl desperate captured at
Danville, ILL.,, Sa. .lrday by Detective Flaid,
of Terre Hante, sad e. S. Gregory, of the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Company, was bought here this evening
from the Terres Haute Jail by Sheriff
Musser and twp detectives by order
of the Count, Commissioners and
locked up. HI broke out of Rock.
ville's ten-thous nddollar Jail two years
ago and escaped3o Missouri, where he was
located by the officers numerous times,
but escaped by lis desperate fighting and
handy use Of the etevolver He is suspected
OF the murder Il J: r. Murphy, killed in
his store at Jalfsville, Fountain County,
three years ago,s,nd robbed of 81 800. No
evidence could ne found against Roberts
until year agUs when person was found
who is willing tGswear that Roberts was in
the house At fAe time of the murder
Roberts says D can prove IN alibi
as he committee a burglary the night of
the crime. There are twenty seven cases
OF burglary agaiist him, mostly all in this
county. He wel the leader Of gang Of
burglars, who hive been terrors to this part
OF TIE country b any years, the majority of
whom, Scott tifherlin, Bob Hall, Sam
Buxton and lks Betty, are now serving
long terms In he penitentiary. He is a
desperate man, nd his daring deeds have
terrorlzed Wesprn Indiana. The aggre-
gate rewards To- Roberts arrest will prob
ably reach Ssb
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-12-26
AWFUL SUSPENSE.
Awaiting Tidings Of the Fate of
Imprisoned Miners.
Thirty Workmen Shut in by Torrent OF
Water from Sunken Lands.

NANTIcoKE, PA, ;. December 1s.-The drop
ping out of the bottom of large swamp,
covering several acres, and filled with
millions Of gallons of water accumulated
from the late heavy SHOWS and rains,
caused the flooding of No. Slope of the
Susquehanna Coal Company, that will
most likely be attended with terrible loss
of life, as upward of thirty men and boys
are now imprisoned in the slope, from
which there seems no escape except by
digging tunnel to them. Two hundred
and fifty other miners and boys
were at work in the slope when the
rushing torrents came in upon them. Men
dropped their picks and shovels, and dri-
vers and door-boys abandoned their places,
and hurried to the mine outlets through
which they could reach the surface. The
water rushing through the gang-ways was
accompanied by tons of coal dirt and
heavy mine timbers, which had been torn
from their places by the force of the current.
As the workmen entered the gsngway to es-
cape the water was up to their wastes. 1t
was impossible for the men to keep their
feet, and they were swept along with the
torrent until they secured firm holds on
the walls and recovered their footholds.
Several lives are supposed to have been lost
in the gangway, but who they are can not
be learned until all the men who escaped
have reported to the mining boss. Another
lot OF men in trying to escape, found the
main opening to their working place
clogged up with debris, and they were
compelled to getrace their steps until they
reached the foot of the air shaft when
ropes were lowered to them, and one by
one they were IA ised to the surface, where
they were received with joyous shouts of
welcome by thousands Of people who had
gathered. As soon as pos ible an alarm
was sounded at Nos. / and shafts, the
workings of which are connected with
those of the slope, and are of much greater
depth. The workmen we're removed as
speedily as possi le, and all were out be-
fore any water came into either shaft All
mules and oose material had been re-
moved. Around the fan house at the slope,
where all news from the mine is received,
are gathered nearly two thousand people
tonight waiting for some tidings that will
tell them of the fate of those i'm
prisoned below. Superintendent Morgan
is busy issuing instructions to volunteer
relief corps, who are now engaged in
driving a new tunnelA to reach the
men. Wives with children in their arms,
aged fathers and mothers, and brothers and
sisters, are tearfully Watching every throb
of the ponderous fan which is sending pure
air into the mine. Their bleached and hag-
gard-looking faces denote intense suffer ing,
but they hope against fate. Nothing will
be left undone that will save the men il
they are still alive. -. .s'ge Mss - y
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-12-26
WHY HE DWINDLED.
A Farmer Carries Frog in His Stomach
Three Years.

Three Years.
PARKERsBURG, W. Va, December 20.-A
strange story, well authenticated, comes
from Lest Greek, Calhoun County, There
live in that neighborhood respectable
farmer named Joseph Dountain, who should
now be in the prime of vigorous manhood.
About three years since Mr. Doun-
tain began to complain of pains
in the stomach, accompanied at times
with peculiar twitchings and jerk
ings of that organ. These pangs were not
constant, but were worse at times when
Dountain happened to go longer than usual
without drinking water, of which he swal-
lowed ...Amense quantities. When he hap
pened to have been at a distance from
springs or streams at work, and was not
enabled to get drink for several hours,
the pains and twitch ngs of his stomach
almost threw him into convul-
sions. His physical condition be-
came almost wreck. From an un.
usually powerful man of two hundred
pounds Dountain dwindled to mere wreck
of lO5 pounds, whose only qualification
and pleasure seemed to consist in supply
ing himself with plenty of drinking water.
A few days ago he came to the conclusion
that there was some living reptile or some
thing in his stomach. Having arrived at
The con op"lusion he consulted a physician,
who gave him powerful emetic, whlcb
caused Dountain to throw up. After reich
ing and groaning till he WIS black
in the face, he succeeded in
throwing up an immense frog.
which weighed thirteen ounces, The rep.
tile was still living after getting outside OF
it's habitation, but died in Il few minutes.
Dountains intense relief after the success
of the ejectment proceedings can better be
imagined than described. He is rapidly
regaining his lost manhood but doesn't
drink such immoderate quantities of water
He keeps the frog in a jar of alcohol, and
takes great pleasure in showing his strange
tenant to his many curious visitors.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-12-26
IYne.Settina Contest.

NEW YORK. December ia type-setting
contest between Joseph McCann. Of the
Herald, and W. C. Barnes, of the World
for the championship of the city and State,
took place here to-day in the presence of
large number of printers. The purse con-
tended for was Sl,0c9. The trial lasted four
hours, beginning at II O'Clock. The type was
minion. set without paragraphs. Barnes fin
ished his first thousand ems in twenty-nine
minutes and thirty seconds, and McCann
completed his first thousand two minutes
later. AT o'clock time WIS called. Nc
Cam had set s S0O9lE Ems and Barnes 1851.
Then each man was obliged to correct his
own proofs. When the corrections had
been made and the number of lines de-
Quoted which each had lost through mis-.
takes, it was found that McCann had T.
662k ems to his credit, and Barnes, 1915.
McCann was declared the winner
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-12-26
WHOLESALE ASSASSINATION
Twenty of San FraDcisco's Most Prominent
Citizens Its Intended Victims.

Twenty of San Francisco's Most Prominent
Citizens Its Intended Victims.
SAN FRANCISCO, December 16.--A most
sensational and startling plot for wholesale
assassination of the most prominent men in
this city came to light here late last night.
Some time ago the police obtained in
formation of the existence of an organiza-
tion called the Socialistic Revolutionary
Association, which, it was asserted, was
composed of ultra-socialstic members. A
close watch was kept on their movements,
and the police finally succeeded in OBJ
tanning the minutes of one Of their meet
ings, held November 23. From these
the intention of the Association to put
out Of the way about twenty men, in
cluding W. T. Coleman, Congressman W.
w. Morrow, General w. H. L. Barnes,
Mayor Bartlett, United States Judge Lo,
renzo Sawyer, Leland Stanford, Charles
Crocker, Governor Stoneman, the principal
police officials, and several others. These
names were placed on the prospective
-lst.,,.s and. placed in the hands Of the Exc;
cutive Committee to carry out tht
orders of the Association. The com
mittee were to devise the. bes
mode Of accomplishing the ends Of the bas'
plot, and were thus engaged when theil
work was brought to sudden termination
last night by the discovery of the Associa
tion's Headquarters at No. 900 Montgomer,
avenue, by the police, and the arrest o
four men found in the room, named Julius
C. Koosher, Henry Weiseman, Charle
Mittellstadt and Oscar Eggers. Ii
the room were also found a complet,
laboratory for the manufacture of inferna
machines. The men were taken to the cit,
prison, when they boldly asserted that
they were dynamiters, and proposed to ge
rid of the citizens named, and then raz'
Chinatown. The prisoners also belong tt
the German branch of the Anti-Cooli
League No charge has yet been entere'
against the prisoners. Further develop
ments are expected.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-12-26
Destructive Fires,

JACKSONVILLE, FLA, December IA fire
broke out last night in Hubbard's ware
house on the dock and was destroyed to-
gether with the warehouse of Benedict &
Co. Abel's block is badly Quilted; Hazen's
billiard parlor was destroyed with a num-
ber of other buildings, entaling an aggre-
gate loss of $3.50 900.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, December Thames
W. Cooper's cabinetware factory, this city,
was burned to day. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance $4,000.
CINCINNATI, o., December 1S.-Geo. Field
kamp Il Bros chair factory located in the
bottoms, was completely gutted by fire last
night. Loss about $4,000. At 3:45 this
morning fire was discovered in the Ware
Vinegar Factory, on Third street, near
Grand Central Depot. The fire originated
in the furnace room. At this hour-4 rs
there is no hope of saving the factory.
Once or twice the fire was communicated
to the shed of the Grand Central Depot, but
was extinguished without loss
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-12-26
A Queen Who Stands on Her Dignity.

MADRID, December 20.-The Duke of
Seville, who in resentment of the declina-
ton of Queen Christina to give him an
audience on Friday. publicly vilified her
and predicted that ex-Queen ISABELLA
would soon replace Christina as Queen
Regent, has been arrested. The prompt
action of the Government in deal
ing with the Duke has occasioned some
thing of sensation in military and other
circles, and the impression prevails that de-
spite the strong feeling manifested by the
Queen and some of her advisers in favor of
leniency to past political offenders, yet no
public avowals tending to bring .reproach
upon the Queen will be tolerated for mo-
ment
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-12-26
IERRIFIcI EXPLOSION.
The Boiler Bursts killing Two Mon ana
Causing Great obstruction of Property.


NASHVILLE, TEsN., December 17.-At
half-past this Forming, people living in
the neighborhoodEf Hart Hensley's pork
packing establishment in the Ninth Ward,
were aroused from their slumbers by
terrific explosions which shook houses to
their foundations on both sides of the
river, and jalrea the nearest inhabitants
out OF their beds IA large crowd soon col
lected The frs to enter the building
were attracted teyhe boiler-sheds by cries
for help from pile of debris where the
boiler. sheds had stood. They went
rapidly to work, and soon
pulled from II. der q pile of brick
James McWhirt.r, fireman, and Henry
Warnacke and Lad Wheeler. The latter
was dead, and PM 3ented most s,ckening
sight, his face, hsa', hands and legs having
been horribly sttsded by grease that bad
escaped from the sank. His right leg was
broken at the ks'ee and internal injuries
have been .sustalred. McWhirter was alive,
fatally injured, icing severly bruised by
falling brick and hore or less scalded In
vestigation shoWAd that the grease tank
located in the n siler sheds had exploded
The tank was ,nAsl le Of boiler iron, six feet
in diameter and Twelve feet high, with a
capacity of sixtybarrels No one seemed
able to account fdr the explosion.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-12-26
A ROMANCE IN POLITICS.
The Mexican Revolution Brought About
by Love for the Most Beautiful
of SenOritas,

The Mexican Revolution Brought About
by Love for the Most Beautiful
of Senoritas.
New York, December 16.-The brother of
Governor Sepulveda, who is now here, says
the entire difficulty in Neuvo Leon, Mexico,
originated in the personal rupture between
Diaz and Gonzales. Everyone in Mexico
says Sepulveda knows that while Diay
was serving his first term as President,
he entered into q solemn compact to
so shape matters that Gonzales
would succeed him. Diaz faith
fully fulfilled that compact, and SO ar-
ranged matters in the seven great northern
States that they all went to Gonzales when
the election occurred. When Gonzales as
sumed the presidency he, in turn, made
similar compact with Diaz, that the latter
should again be President. This compact
also was faithfully observed, and the
two Caesars thus divided Mexico
Shortly after Diaz was inaugurated
last year. Gonzales approa ched
him for renewal of their former compacts.
The promise was given, so Ganzales
friends declare, that She latter should again
be President. In order to fulfill this last
compact Diaz had but to leave the North
ern States as he found them, viz. in the
bands of Gonzales adherents. At this
point, says Senior Sepulveda, the hand of a
designing woman came between the two
great leaders, Diaz since his first compact
had wooed and won the fairest
senorita in Mexico, the only daughter
of Don Manuel Romero Robio. I'm
fortunately, her noble father is ambitious
to be President, and therein lies the hidden
secret. Robio is now Cabinet officer, and
with the powerful influence of his daughter
he has caused Diaz to violate his last COM
pact with Gonzales, and the unmistakable
signal of their success is the accomplished
fact that Coahuila and Nuevo Leon, two
powerful Gonzales States, have been over
turned and seized by Diaz since his inaug
uration. The heir apparent is now Robio
and not Gonzales.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-12-26
SIXTEEN VESSELS SUNK,
And Scores of Sailors DrowDed-Terrible
Work of Cyclone at Colon.

And Scores of Sailors DrowDed-Terrible
Work of Cyclone at Colon.
PANAMA, December 17.-Colon has been
visited by cyclone, which has done. great
damage. 1t commenced on the I'd inst.
about 2p. m. and the next day lulled, but
recommended again with terrible severity.
All the steamers in port put out to sea for
safety returned, and had again to put out.
The damage to property has been very
heavy and the loss Of life most serious.
The following vessels were sunk with their
crews Holden, Karnan, Blanch Orta Ian,
Atwood, Ariel, Veteran, Ocean, Lynton,
Avelina. Stella, Catalina Figri, Douglas,
and two others whose names could not be
ascertained. The rain poured down in tor
rents and a terrible gale of wind from the
Northeast set in. The Royal Mail new
freight office was destroyed by the storm
Wharf No. 4, belonging to the Panama
Railroad is almost demolished, the rails
having been torn up and the earth works
destroyed by the force of the tornado.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-12-26
TreasOnable Utterances.

MADRID, December 1S.-The Queen Re-
gent to day refused an audience to the
Duke of Saville, cousin to the late King
The Duke was thoroughly angered by the
refusal of the Queen to receive him, and
has openly and publicly spoken in abuse Of
her. He boasts that Queen Christina will
soon be forced TO relnquish the Regency,
and that ex-Que2n Isabel will replace her.
These declarations have caused sensa-
tion of no small interest in Madrid, and it
is very probable that the Duke will be
prosecuted for dsloyal utterances.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-12-26
Underground Wires in Chicago.

CHICAGO, December 1S.-There are, as
nearly as can be estimated, about $1,000
miles of wire in Chicago used by the tele-
graph, telephone and electric light COM
panies. Last December there were shown
to be aboutl 100 miles of wire underground.
Since then the work has been actively 60
thu ee times that amount has been put out
of sight. By May all the wires in the
business portion of the city are expected to
be underground, though it will probably
take at least ten years to place all the
wires throughout the city there.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-12-26
SeRtenc d TO be Hanued.

CAnRoLroN, Mo, December 1s.-The YER.
dict of the iur} in the case OF the State VI
Joel Anderson and Laurel Baugh finding
them guilty of murder in the first degree
for the murder of John Rea, caused much
surprise. They were tried before ON the
same charge and were sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life. but obtained a new
trial, which resulted as above. Judge
Davis yesterday sentenced them TO be
BANGED on the 18th of March next.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-12-26
WITHOUT A PARALLEL.
An Iowa Man Drives Two Chisels Thr ougf
His Own Head.

An Iowa Man Drives Two Chisels Thr ough
His own Head.
DUBUQUE, Ia, December IA case un-
paralleled in the history of suicides occur
red here yesterday. John Mueller an old
resident and proprietor of small marble
shop, was observed to be acting strangely
running about and gesticulating wildly.
About O'Clock an expressman drove up
to his door to take monument to the cem-
etery, and was Mortified to see two stone
cutters chisels sticking into Mueller's
head, which he asked the expressman to
drive in further. Mueller had driven one
chisel about seven inches long clear through
his head, Just in front of the top of the ears.
After doing this he drove another one
through the center of his forehead to the
depth of two inches. Physicians were sum-
moned and the chisels extracted He is
still alive but in comatose condition. The
surgeons say he will die. The act is one
due to intemperance.
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A DETROIT TRAGEDY.

Positive Proof That Frank knOch and His
Whole Family Were Murdered.
DETROIT, MICH, December H.-Yester
days fire, in which Frank Knoch, with his
wife and two children, we're burned, now
proves to be an appalling murder This crime
was suspected yesterday, but the finding of
revolver with all the cartridges dis
char ged was all the evidence then secured
Tonight post mortem examination of the
bodies was ma de, and resulted in proof
Bullet holes and 22-caliber bullets were
found in the skulls of both Frank knoch
and his wife. No suspicion attaches to any
one as yet. The funeral was held this at
ternoon, all four bodies being placed in a
single coffin.
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An Heir 0 Twenty Millions.

ERIE, Pa, December lS.-Recorder Ran
dali to-day recorded documents of great
interest, it being m agreement between L.
Endy and Bush x Caufield. whereby the
two latter are TO manage an enormous
estate left Fndy by grandfather in Ger
many. The fort une is estiin ted at $50 900, =
600. The will provides for the establish
ment of Nat onal Bank Il theater and a
free church for the poor. ]he heir lives in
CORY, this county
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BREAD ON THE WATERS.
A Dinner to Poor Man Brings Rich Re
turns After Many Years.


turns After Many Years.
PORTLAND, Me, December 2O-Some time
ago, while passing through railroad depot
in this city, the attention of H. Thatcher
Clark was attracted to feeble, poorly
clad old man alighting from train. Mr.
Clark watched the stranger few moments
He seemed bewildered, and knew not
in what direction to turn. Mr.
Clark made few inquiries, and
learned that the old man had ar
rived at strange city, where he had not
single friend He had no money with him,
Mr.. Clark invited the stranger to his resi-
dence and gave him dinner. AS soon as
he had finished his meal the old man arose,
said GO d-by and went on his way. Mr..
Clark never heard from the man again un-
til yesterday, when he received letter
from a lawyer of Chicago informing him
that he had been bequeathed several thou.
sand dollars by the old man whom he found
in the depot and took home.
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Prohibition in GeorQia.

ATLANTA Ga, December l7.-This morn
ing, in the u S. Court, Judge Mccoy de-
cided the contested election cases growing
out of the recent prohibition election in
this county. TheJudge refused to continue
the injunction restraining the Ordi-
nary from announcing the result
of the election, and decided the case
against the liquor men Oh every point There
is in the bill adopted provision that Geor-
gia wines may be sold, as wines from other
States were excluded That portion of the
bill Judge Mccoy decided was unconstitu-
tional and no wines could be sold.
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A Would-he Suicide Of Twelve Years.

New YORK, December lS.-For the third
time John Harmon, aged twelve years, was
arraigned before Justice Smith in the
Police Court this morning charged with at
tempting to take his own life by hanging
The father of the boy stated that the boy
would not go to school when sent, and when
spoken to about his conduct went off and
deliberately planned to end his existence.
Justice Smith committed the young would
he suicide to The Catholic Protectory.