The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-01-19
WROTHY RELATIVES.
A Lover Killed by HIS Swestheart's
Father and Brothers.
The Young Lady Cuts Her Throat and
Bleeds to Death.
Joseph Hornel's Courageous Efforts
to Save His Family.
A Party Of Coasters Meet Witt a
Fatal Accident.

5 14ANCOCh. MASS. JAIL 1O.-OdIElc
Brockaway, eighteen years old, mas re-
ceived marked attention from Wash
ington Sweet. The girls father and
two brothers warned him to cease. The
lovers, however, met in sequestered
places. Rockaway and his SONS be-
coming insensed armed themselves and
ncaded the door Of his residence. The.
Brockaways demanded admittance.
but the answer was shot fred from
one the windows, the bullet tax
ing effect in the hip OF one
of the sons. Rockaway and
his other son took refuge behind a
wood pile and then began shooting.
Sweet returned the fire for few min
utes and then his shooting ceased. In
the mean time Carrie put in an appear
ance and entered the house. Sweet
was found on the floor apparently dead.
Carrie upbraided her father and broth
ers for causing her lovers death and
Selling a carving knife from the table
cut her throat and falling across
Sweets body bled to death. Sweet was
shot in the neck and dangerously
hurt.
A COURAGEOUS MAN.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-At the residence
Of Joseph Horner a well known mer-
chant, number 1889 Michigan avenue,
shortly after midnight, the wood work
above an over heated furnace caught
fire. Mrs. Horner aWoke with a
sitting sensation, aroused her husband
and he snatched up the little girl and
rushed into the hallway. The
flames and smoke were sweep
ing up the stairway with
the thermometer fifteen degrees below
zero: Exposure meant almost certain
death. Approaching this he returned
to the front room and seized couple
of wraps. BY this time the stairway
was on fire and escape seemed cut off ,
but with wife and child Mr.. Horner
staggered down stairs to the street.
Homer then started back into his
house to save two servants asleep in
the top floor. The flames at the
foot of the stairs scorched his face and
singed his hair, but undaunted he made
his way to the servants room. Both
were nearly suffocated. The flames
had eaten their way through the stairs
by this time, but the courageous man
leading both servants, somehow got
safely through the stairs, but as he
stepped upon them they seemed to
drop from under him and when he
reached the street the night dresses of
the servants were On fire. The alarm
was then given and the flames eX-
tinguiShed. Loss SIC, 600.
COASTERS COLLISION.
OswEGN, N. Y, Jan. 16.-Benjamin
Sawyer one of the young men injured
in the coasting accident Saturday even
ing is dead and one or two others are
liable to die. There were ten persons
on the bObs. The hill where the acct
dent occurred is very steep and was one
mass of ice and the hobs were running
at least 75 miles an hour. Near the
bottom of the bill they ran into a
heavy load of timber, knocking
it into a ditch. Every person on
the hobs were rendered insensible from
the force of the collision and some
were horribly cut and mangled.
seriousness, both hips were broken, the
bones driven into his abdomen. He
was married on New Years day. 1t
required 100 stitches to sew
up the cuts in John Malott 's0abdomen,
and his arm was broken and his head
cut. George Sawyer, brother of the
dead man, has fractured skull. 9th
eTs are in bad shape. The city coun-
Gil set aside the hill where the accident
occurred for coasting. The farmer who
owned the load of timber was warned
of the approach of the hobs. but re-
fused to stop for moment. It is said
he was intoxicated.
SOCIALISTS PREPARING FOR WORK.
ST.. LOUIS, Jan. IA dispatch from
Chattanooga, Tennessee, says man
named Barneau, hailing from Fort
Wayne, Indiana, is in this
city to get socialist recruits
in enlisting ten men, who have been
cago with railroad tickets and S16 il
cash, to go to that city. Barneau
claims they had been present
at the Haymarket riot, and says
the Chicago socialists are adding tC
their numbers. recruiting from all over
the country. He leaves for Birming
ham to-day, where he expects to OBJ
tain not less than twenty or thirty
new men. He says there will be 8
terrible socialist uprising in Chicago in
less than ninety days.
POTTERY BURNED.
PTTTsBURG, Jan. IA special from
East Liverpool, o., says: The Stand
ard Company's, operative pottery, was
| burned to the ground this morning at
o'clock. Loss, S32 900; insurance
80, 600. This pottery is the first to be
operated on the cooperative plan. Il
was started on September /. 1885, and
has proved very profitable. The struc'
ture will be immediately rebuilt.
MURDERED HIS FAMILY.
PRINCETON, Mimi, Jan. IA
Swede, living some twenty miles from
here, is said to have killed his wife and
seven children, chopping their heads
of with a broad axe. A boy of II
| Jumped from an upper window and es-
capped. When asked by neighbo1
what he had done, the murderer re-
piled: ''What ] have intended to dc
for long time"
KILLED WHILE BLASTING.
BOSTON, Mass. Jan. IA terrible
blasting accident occurred at Boston
Highlands at l p. m. to-day, where fol-
| many weeks a number of men have
been blasting on Seayer street. The
accident was caused by the explosion
of a large charge Of giant powder.
Three or four men were killed and
many injured.
SAFE BLOWERS.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. IA dispatch from
Jackson, Tenn, says the safe In the
AdamSville, was blown open by burg
lars last Thursday night and robbed OF
| 81 400 in cash. No clue to the rob
bers.
BURGLARS AT WORK.
LONDON Jan. 14.-Burglars broke in.
| to Taplow Court, the well known resi-
dence Of Henry Riverside Greenfell
one Of the directors Of the bank, and
deeamped with property and money
amounting in value to IS 900.
| ACCIDENTS BY RAIL.
TOPEKA, Jan. 16.-A serious Hrecl
occurred on the Chicago, Kansas 8
| Nebraska Railroad about 3:45 o'ciocI
this morning three-quarters of a mil,
beyond the limits station of Willard
fifteen miles west of Topeka. TIL
passenger train was making abou
| thirty-iye miles an hour, when it wa
deraiied on q sharp curve, and tn
| three rear cars, two sleepers and I
chair car were hurled down an EN-
bankment about seven feet in height
There were between thirty-five an.
forty people in the chair car which over
turned, and of that number some tai
or twelve received injuries more or les
serious. none, however, being ininre.
dangerously except William Callahan
OF Fmaha- His arm was taken off be
tween the elbow and shoulder, and tn
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