Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-01-16


op nisns found expression ztta rso.r5
70 the propfIsty o. raising a formal
issue with the Administration Al nres.
cot Upon this question, the mai1rity
Nefe OF opinion that. ssould The infor-
u itlou sought not cltiu afely be forth.
coming, toe Republicans will. in ia,,ics
70 Tue lnen v1o have been 81 pended q,
removed for Supposed eaus be re
qaired to take some formal action IN
the Senate 20 secure INFORM .tlou. or an
sV0vai by the President that be viii
Dot give bis reasons for Masking tbs re-
mosals. There vas a unanlmeas oon-
e1rreoce In the opinion that removed
~fncials have right to know whether
tney we've removed for political reasons
or for mal4dmisi.,ration of tkeIrtrus,s
ana shas u - toe SENATOR duty to Sc
cure such inform 4tivn If possible.
The Water Famine.
CLEVELAND (Ohio). Jan. l5.-The
situation, 50 far as the water famine ID
cosoerned, remained unchanged until
III O'Clock this morning, when IL wac
fJond that water Was entering the tun-
nel and toe engine was started at .ht
pumping station. Tnis ia still sorkine
.IoSiy, and the Indications are more
favorable than for many hours.
great maj Irity of the maHufac.1r-
ing establishments which depeud upon
the city for water have shu: dow
Nearly all the courts have adi burned a.
the steam heating facilities are frozen
up. Hundreds OF tssns are engaged II
hauling water from ths lake with which
TO supply tsirsty families. Should the
present favorable coalition If AFFAIR."
continue, another engine will be put in
Operation at the pumping station Is
soon "a practicable.
Factory Burned
CINCINNATI, Jan. l5.-Hlram w. Davis
q Co.'s carriage mandatory burued
this morniug. The less Is $3.50 000; in
suranoe $loO.000.
A Missouri Hanging.
Nevada No. }, January l5.-Hsnry 8.
Stair, who 10 to be hanged here today,
vas visited by his father about 8 O'Clock
last night, after which be spent most OF
his time writing until 4 this morninR
when be went to sleep. He awoks al
8:l5.
Large crowds of people sureed
through the streets all the morning
tramPlug between toe Jail and gallovs.
which we're erected in rsvine forming
. natural amphithester about q mile
from the Jail. Trains from Sedalia and
Kansas City arrived at 1919. bringing
hundreds OF people TO see tue execution,
which will take place about ! O'Clock.
The crime for which stair Was exc
cuted was q brutal and cold olooded
murder in the extreme. Stair and bis
comp rnisn, q woman named Nanette
Osborn, who was to have been hanged
vita him. came to Nevada about the Ist
Of July from Fort Scott, Kansas. and
opened small Laundry, representing
themselves az man and wife. Shortly
after their arrival jacob Sewail, an
elderly man, and his 500, l6 year old.
With two wagons, four horses and some
other property, also came here from
near Fort so0tt and went into GIMP
near town. The Stairs aud Sewalls
we're slightly acquainted, AID the Stairs
n ,de frequent visits to Seval's camp
Later on the elder Sevsll was taken
SICK and compelled to keep his bed in
one of the wagons which bad cover,
and he was looked after by Stair and
the Osborn woman. liz was during these
visits that Stair laid plan to murder
the Sewalls, take their teams aud prop
erty and start fer his former home
somewhere 10 Indiana. Ga the night
of August 9th, stair aad the woman
vent to SewalPs camp and after short
visit started home. About midnight
stair made q second visit. and tindiag
both tas Seuails asleep, killed them
Doth With an axe. After mpletlng
the horrible hatchery, Stair placed the
mangled bodies ia a wagon and covered
them With bed clothes. lie then went
after the woman and on again arriving
1t the camp they started for town, Stair
driving the wagon containing the dead
bodies and the woman tue other one.
Arriving at their house, they filled the
wagons with furniture and started for
the Marmston river bottom. about five
miles away, where on the next day OF
nieht Stair buried the bodies. In pass
| ine through the woods they attracted
tns attention OF some men AZ " jrk, who
regarded their prose edines a. suspi
| oioas. and next day they went t. The
| spot where the wagons had been halted
| and discovered tue dead bodies.
Inform alton Vas Immediately given.
pursuit was organized and Stair aud the
Osborn woman were captured about 20
miles distant. They were lodged IN
jail and at tue next term of cour, we're
| tried and both we're convicted Of mur
der 10 the irst degree aud sentenced to
| be- hanged together. A stay Of action.
| however, vas obtained IN the woman
| sass aud she vas granted new trial.
Stair spoke from the sosfold for half
an hour, protesting his innoeeRoe and
tue innocence Of the woman implicated.
| saving they we're tue victims OF oireum
| stances. Tue drop fell at LIS aud In
| ,ifteen minutes she body was pro
nouaced lifeless and iurned over to his
| father, who will take IL to Marshall
county. Indiana, tonight for interment.
Zen Thousand people witnessed the exc
oution and good order prevailed.
An siiinsis Haagiag.
BxlLrvILLn (IIl.). Jan. Is. - Noah
Merrinan (ooiorsdD was hanged here
Of nooa today, for she murdsr Of his
wife. three months ago. Ga the scsf
| old he confessed the murder. and
alsp to killing woman peddier in Z Asst
| 81. Louis, SIX years ago. but he would
NOS give her name.
Deeitae Of Tciephsae sssek.
Bosros, Jan l6-0a the Stock Board
today telephone stock, ~ Was to be en-.
| pccled, declined, owing TO the decision
| AZ Washington. The result OF the
| Washington movement will not. in the
opiaien OF the Bell people. have much
Ii aoy. influence upon the financial
operations Of the company, yet the de-
cIsisn sent Ball stock from i72 down TO
| 1911, with loo bid. A rally occurred
| ,oat uoon, when sales we're made At
l63. New England telephone stock de
| aimed from S6t TO 81. bot atservsrd