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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-10
An Execution ut Wilkesbarrc.

On the same day that Mrs. Whiteling was
hanged in Philadelphia Michael Rizello, alias
'sRed Nosed Mike" suffered similar fate in
the jail yard at Wilkesbarre, Penn.
The crime for which Michael Rizello, alias
'sRed Nosed Mike" paid the death penalty
was committed in the forenoon Of October
10, 1885, j. Brainard Mcclure, paymaster
for Contractor Charles McFadden, accom-
panied by Hugh Flanagan, the stable boss,
camp above Miners Mills with S12, 900 to be
paid to the workmen on the completed job.
Michael Rizello, Giuseppi Bevireno and Vim
cenzo VellalG lay III wait on tho lonely
mountain road, expecting tie arrival of Nc
Clure and Flanagan. On their approach
Rizello stepped out and fire three shots at
Flanagan, all the shots doing deadly work.
The frightened horse started to run away
and had gone some distance when Bivereno
with rifle shot Mcclure in the back twice,
killing him instantly. The horse continued
its flight until Vellalli, who was ambushed
further up the road, stepped out and shot it
through the brain. The other Italians then
arrived on the spot, cut loose the valise con-
tanning the money and fled through tho for
est to Mikes cabin, three miles away, where
the money and guns were concealed.
Although Mike and his companions were
arrested on suspicion, they were discharged
and soon after left the city, going to Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, taking with them their
plunder-S12 900.
A few weeks LATER Mikes companions took
passage on a steamer for Italy, the Pinkertons
permitting them to leave with the money
unmolested, although Mike was still
kept under surveillance Evidence was at
terward procured by detectives which fright
ened Mike into full confession on January s,
~, Eo6 l,or hro or,t n ri
and after four days trial was found guilty.
Though entirely without money or friends,
he was ably defended by leading members Of
the Luzerne bar.
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LOST IN THE HUDSON.
A Boating Party Near Albany Run
Down by Tug.


Down by Tug.
One of the saddest drowning calamities
that has ever occurred in the vicinity Of
Albany, N. Y, took place the other evening,
resulting in the death Of six young people
who made up merry rowing party on the
Hudson. Joseph A. Cole was the sole sur
vivor. The drowned are: Edward Cole,
more Maggie Horner, Kate Ryan.
The oldest of the girls was seventeen. The
party started out shortly before o'clock to
enjoy q row on the river. They occupied
a commodious barge and rowed up
the Hudson along the islands opposite
tile lumber district. Between and 0
o'clock, they turned about and rowed slowly
back towards tho city, still keeping near
the island At this time Edward Cole and
1Iattimore held the oars Joseph Cole sat in
the stern of the boat playing the accordion.
How the girls were seated, Joseph, who alone
escaped, does not remember 1t seems alto
gethor likely that Joseph was the only one
looking in the direction which the boat was
taking, and he was probably paying more
attention to his instrument than TO what was
going on ahead.
Suddenly out of the semi-darkness came a
tug bearing down at full speed upon the little
boat Joseph saw it and warned the rowers.
That is the last of which he has any distinct
recollection. Then there was a crash and oil
became blank When Joseph recovered
consciousness he was on board the tug the
only one left alive of the party of seven.
The tug which was the cause of the disaster
is the Evelyn, owned by Clinton Robinson,
of Troy, n. Y. The Captain claims that he
did not see the boat containing the party
until he was nearly upon it. Then he blew
his whistle, but it was too late.
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DEATH OF MRS. HAYES.
She Expires After a Short Illness
A Sketch Of Her Life.


A Sketch Of Her Life.
Mrs. Hayes, wife of ex-President Ruther-
ford B. Hayes died the other day at her
home in Fremont, Ohio. She was stricken
suddenly with paralysis, and fingered but q
few days.
Mrs. Hayess maiden name was Lucy Ware
Webb. She was born ON the 2Sth Of August,
1881, at Chillicothe, Ohio, and was the young
est child and only daughter Of DR.. James
Webb and Maria Cook. Her grandfather,
Judge Isaac Cook, who came from Connectl-
cut in 1881, and all four of her great
grandfathers served in the Revolutionary
War. Her father served in the War of 1872,
and died during the cholera scourge in Lcx-
ington, Ky, in 1888. Her mother, Maria
Cook Webb, was woman OF great force OF
character and deep religious CONVICTIONS.
She removed from Delaware to have her sons
educated at the Ohio Wesleyan University.
Her daughter received the benefit of the
same instruction, and afterward was gradu-
ated from the Wesleyan Female Seminary at
Cincinnati in 1852. She was married Decem-
ber 80, 1852.
At tho breaking out of the war the family
included her mother, her two brothers, and
her four little boys. Her husband and both
army, and from that time until the close of
the war her homo was q refuge for wounded,
sick, and furloughed soldiers, going to or re-
turning from the front. She spent two
winters in camp with her husband in Vir-
einia, and after the battle Of South Mountain,
where he was badly wounded, she hast
ened East and joined him at Middletown,
nd, and later spent much time in the hos
pitai near Frederick City After the dose of the
war she accompanied her husband to WASH
ington, while he was member Of Congress-
She was one of the originators Of the Ohio
Soldiers and Sailors Orphan Home, and one
of its Board Of Directors prior to its adop-
ton by the State While her husband was
Governor & Ohio she took an active interest
in all the charitable institutions of the State.
During the four years Of her life at the
White House sho was distinguished by the
graceful cordiality with which she received
all who camo to her.
Since the retirement Of her husband from
public life she has been an ardently inter
ested member of the Woman's Relief Corps,
and has served during successive years as the
President of the Woman's Home Missionary
Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
She has been all honorary member Of the So
ciety of the Army Of West Virginia, the
medal of which had been presented to her by
the soldiers whose loyal regard for her was
ON homage the most highly appreciated.
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FOreiSn.

THE town of Bar-de-Duc III the department
of Meuse France, has been destroyed by
floods.
A RIOT, the outcome of the strikes, has oc-
Cured at Kladno, Bohemia. The strikers de-
fled tho gendarmes and the latter were COM
PEELED to fire several volleys into the mob be-
fore they could be dispersed. Two miners
were killed and twelve were wounded.
SIR HENRY BRoUGHAM LocH, the British
Governor of Victoria, has accepted the Gov
ernship of the Cape Colony, Africa
The Vieux Chene, in the Rue Beaubourg,
Paris, France, the largest furniture depot in
Europe, was destroyed by fire. The loss is
estimated at nearly S5OO,0 900.
CROPS in the south of Russia are in bad
condition owing to hot weather.
A LANDSLIDE occurred in one of the Kal.
tenleutgeben Germany quarrieS. Six work
men were killed and many Others injured.
THE Peace Congress has opened in Paris,
France.
A PORTION of the Manningham Mills, at
Bradford, was burned. The loss is $3.50, 600.
Two firemen were killed by falling ruins.
REV. R. T. BURNS a deputy postmaster,
of Kingston Canada, now under arrest, has
confessed that he is a defaulter to over
5000 to the depositorS' postal savings depart
ment.
TIE Shah of Persia arrived at Brussels,
Belgium. He had a cordial interview with
King Leopold and was entertained at
luncheon in the Royal Palace.
T. j. CLAYTON & Co., of Montreal, Cana
ia, have assigned, with liabilities amounting
to $500, 900.
The Swiss Council, in view of its recent
dispute with Germany, has scided to borrow
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South and West.

STATE TREASURER ISAAC G. BAMBERG, Of
South Carolina, dropped dead at Columbia,
S. c., from heart disease.
ROBERT How1cK and Benjamin Klinger,
two wealthy and prominent farmers In Mer.
Ger County, Ohio, were instantly killed by
lightning while at Celina.
In Fayette County, Iowa, Barbara Roster
shot and killed her husband, Francis Roster.
She was his third wife. Hewas of intemper'
ate habits.
MISS JENNIE ELMBLAD and Miss H1lda
Carlson were drowned while at Desplalnes,
ILL.,, out boating.
GENERAL W. n. Taft, ex-Postmaster OF
Charleston, and leader of the Republican
party in South Carolina, died recently IN
Charleston.
Sioux CITY, Iowa, was visited by de-
structive storm Of wind and rain.
THREE fires broke out at Vancouver,
Washington Territory, during the night and
in less than two hours four blocks in the
business portion of the town We're in ashes.
All three fires were undoubtedly OF lncendi.
ary origin.
ABOUT two miles below Parkersburg, w.
Va, four men seized Harvey Duncan, put
him in boat, and rowed out to the middle
of the river, where they deliberately dropped
him overheard and drowned him.
A TORNADO swept over the Godfrey re-
serve region in Indiana, wrecking numerous
farm houses, orchards and barns. Growing
crops were ruined Loss estimated at
100000.
L. J. DODGE, head sawyer in the Peyton-
Kimball mill at West Superior, Wis, was ac-
cidentally thrown upon saw and his body
cut completely in two.
In the Superior Court at Atlanta, Ga,
Tom Voolfolk who murdered his family,
consisting of nine persons, was convicted OF
murder in the first degree.
UNITED STATES troops have been ordered
to the Flathead Reservation in Montana to
quell disturbances among the Indians.
AT Ventura, Cal, the steamship W. L. Har-
rison was burned to the waters edge, causing
loss Of about $4,000.
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LATER NEWS.

The monument to Captain John Mason,
called the defender of New England in
1887" was unveiled on Pequot Hill, the site
of the old Pequot fort at Mystic, Conn.
MRS. LIZZIE BRENNAN, a widow about
fifty years of age has been arrested at Holy
oke, Mass, on warrant charging her with
the murder, by arsenical poisoning, of her
husband, Michael Brennan, and her two
sons, Michael and Thomas.
WALTER HAMP, butcher from Lancas-
ter. Penn, murdered his wife at Springfield,
ILL.,. and then committed suicide by shooting
himself.
THE Pioneer Tannery, owned by Mckay &
Chisholm, was burned at Benicia, Cal. Loss,
100000.
THE greatest failure in the history of the
Northwest has occurred at st. Paul, Mimi,
the Eureka Improvement Company of that
city making an assignment with liabilities
between s7Oo, 900 and 100000.
JOHN F. BEGGs, Senior Guardian Of Camp
No. 20, Clan-na-Gael, has been arrested in
Chicago charged with completely in the
Cronin murder. Camp 20 has been disbanded.
ONE man was killed, two fatally hurt and
eight people injured by railway accident at
Crooked Bayou. Ark. A passenger train
plunged through shattered bridge.
A mob took tramp, named Charles Ar
dell, who had murdered a peddler, from jail
at Shepherdsville, KY, and lynched him.
COMMISSIONER TANNER, of the Pension
Bureau left Washington for Ottawa Kan,
where he was to deliver an address. He was
also to speak at Crete, Neb. Council Bluffs
and Lincoln.
COMMODORE W. S. ScHLEY has asked to
be relieved of duly as Chief of the Bureau of
Eouipment and Recruiting, Navy Depart
ment, and he will be ordered to command the
Baltimore.
CHIEF ENGINEER WILLIAM 81. HUNT, OF
the United States Navy retired), died at his
residence in Washington, aged fifty-seven
wears. He entered the navy in 1855.
SENIOR MAct1s shot and stabbed his wife
and then committed suicide at Ensenada,
Lower California.
ENGLAND is having trouble with the
Portuguese in Africa and with the French
in Egypt.
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TRAINS IN COLLISION.
Frightful Loss Of Life in Pennsyl'
yania Wreck.

vania Wreck.
A triple collision of freight trains occurred
near Latrobe, Penn., forty miles east Of Pitts
burg, on the Pennsylvania Railroad about
2:9O o'clock in the morning Thirty cars were
wrecked.
It was believed that thirty people were
killed
At the hour named, freight train No. 30S.
west bound, left Latrobe and had justreached
the bridge, about fifty yards west OF thar
place, when it collidsd with extra freight
train No. 1918 coming in the opposite dlrec-
tion. Another east bound freight was stand
ing on q side track on the bridge and the
wrecked trains crashed agalnst1t causing one
locomotive and number Of cars to 60 over
the embankment into the creek, a distance OF
fifty feet.
Engineer Caldwell and his iremen were
killed instantly. Brakeman Miller was ter
ribly and fatally crushed. The bodies of four
tramps were taken from the wreck. There
was nothing about their clothes to ldentlfy
them. They were stealing ride, ana were
coming west. The loss to the railroad COM
pany was very heavy.
Tbirty-one cars went down over the bridge
and are piled one upon the other in the wa
ter. The conductor Of the freight said
that in all probability thirty or
FORTY men were still under the
wreck, rs he put Off at Derry station about
forty-five men, who were laborers returning
from Johnstown He said that when he moved
out great many of them got on again, and
in that case it was more than likely that the
killed would reach the number given.
A car load of lime in the centre of the train
was the last to go down, and it was scattered
over the pile of shattered cars. Then the de-
bris took fire. Arms and legs of the victims
could be seen protruding from the debris.
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4 WOMAN HANGED.
Mrs. Sarah j. Whiteling Pays
the Penalty Of Her Crime.
Sent to the Scafold for Numbering
Her Husband and Children.

Mrs. Sarah Jane Whiteling, forty-three
years old, who poisoned her husband and two
children to obtain small insurance on their
lives, was hanged few days since in Phila-
delphia. The drop fell at1O07. She was the
first woman hanged in that city.
tending physicians pronounced life extinct
and the body was cut down. The woman
bore up remarkably well under the trying or
deal and met her death resignedly. She slept
very little the previous night and spent most
of the time in prayers.
She arose at 6 o'clock A. II. and ate light
breakfast, after which she was removed to a
cell near where the scaiold was erected.
Her spiritual adviser, the Rev. VIM. D.
Jones, soon joined her, and considerable time
was given to devotional services, In which
Mrs. Whiteling engaged with much spirit.
At 10 o'clock A. n. she was taken from the
cell. and the procession, headed by Sheriff
Krumbhaar, started for the scaffold. Arriv-
ing there she assembled it unassisted and with
q firm step. Her hands were quickly bound
to her side, and strap placed around her
skirts at the ankles. Rev. DR.. Jones deliv-
cred PRAYER while the black cap was being
adjusted, and at O:07 the trap was sprung.
The fall was four feet, and death was due
to strangulaten. The heart continued to
beat for some time after the fall. After the
body was cut down it was turned over to
DR.. Alice Bennett, of the Norristown Insane
Hospital, who examined the brain, after
which the body was buried by the side Of her
husband and children in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Whiteling was executed in expiation
of one of the most horrible crimes Philadel-
phia has ever known. On March 20, 1883,
her husband, John Whiteling, died from
what the doctors called inflammation of the
bowels.
On April 25th her daughter, Bertha, aged
nine years, died from gastric fever, and May
26th her little son, Willie succumbed to
congestion of the bowels. There was an in
surance on the lives Of each ranging from
$500 down to $50.
The coroner accidentally heard Of the
death, and becoming suspicious had the
bodies exhumed and a chemical analysis
made of tho intestines. In all three bodies
arsenic was found.
Mrs. Whiteling at first denied all hnowl-
edge Of the crime, but finally confessed that
she had poisoned her husband and children
with rat poison. She had summoned doc
tor in each case, but had not administered his
prescription She said she killed Bertha be-
cause she was ''afraid she would become q
bad woman when she grew up" and she killed
Willie because "he was in the way.p
1t is believed, however, that she killed
them for the insurance on their lives.
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Washington.

A PARCEL post convention has been signed
by the President between the United States
and the Republic of Salvador to take effect
at once.
COMMISSIONERS OF PENSIONS TANNER has
decided to establish board in the Pension
Office at Washington for the adjudication OF
increase of pension cases, with a view to the
expedition Of the work of the office.
PRESIDENT HARRISON went to Cape May,
N. j., on a special train, accompanied by
General Seweil and Postmaster General
Wanamaker, where he spent three days with
Mrs. Harrison who is sojourning there
The President made the following addi-
tional appointments: Frank Mason, Of Ohio,
Charles B. Trail, of Maryland, Consul at
Marseilles, France, and H. G. Knowles, OF
Delaware, Consul at Bordeaux, France.
The recent small offerings of bonds has re-
suited in a steady increase in the Treasury
surplus, which, according to the Treasurer's
statement just issued, amounts to sos, ,225,
D00.
TIE President made these additional ap-
pointments: John L. Stevens, Of Maine, to
be Minister Resident to the Hawaiian Islands;
George Nancy, of Tennessee, to be Minister
Resident to Paraguay and Uruguay, and
John Martin Crawford, of Ohio, to be Con-
sul-General to st. Petersburg, Russia.
The President returned to the White
douse from Cape May, NJ.
PRESIDENT HARRISON signed the papers
asking the extradition of Martin Burke,
charged with the murder of DR.. Cronin from
Manitoba.
SOLICITOR HEPBURN has given an opinion
to the Secretary of the Treasury that there
is nothing in the law to prohibit the landing
of Chinese laborers who desire merely to
pass through the territory of the United
States in transit
GABRIEL RENvILLE, Chief Of the Sisseton
and Wahpeton Indians in Dakota, accom-
panied by an interpreter, called on the Indian
Bureau in Washington, to urge the settle
ment of the back annuities due these tribes
since 1852, amounting in all to between $500,
900 and 100000.
DEPUTY SIXTH AUDITOR HARRISON and
nine chiefs of division in the sixth auditors
office of the Treasury Department at Wash
ington have been discharged.
SECRETARY TRACY has decided to grant an
extension Of the time allowed the builders of
the cruiser Charleston in which to complete
the vessel. The contractors asked for an ex-
tension of four months on account of defec,
tive plans.
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KENTUCKY VENGEANCE.
A Murderer Hanged and the Brother
Shot Dead From His Saddle.

"a MuruefeT f1tH5cu anu CHc bfOIhCE
Shot Dead From His Saddle.
G. W. Norwood, Of Birmingham, Ala, a
contractor on the Cumberland Valley exten-
sion, was murdered at his camp, near Cum
berland Cap KY, by Toney Cravasso.
Toney and his brother were bakers at
the south end of Cumberland Gap tun-
mel and sold bread to some of Norwood's
men and requested him to hold the mems pay
till they could collect their bills. Norwood
told them that he could not do so except on
gernishee, and directed the brothers to
magistrate.
They called on Norwood next day and
asked If lie had their money. He told them
he did not and walked out of the commissary
store and started to enter cabin adjoining.
Just as he stepped in the door, Toney, who
had followed him, shot him in the back, kill
ing him almost instantly.
The brothers escaped to the woods, but
were captured that night in Tennessee They
were brought back to Kentucky and while
being taken to the Pineviile Jail Judge Lynch
took charge of them and gave them a trial, re-
sultins in the hanging Of Toney and thesend-
ing of the brother to Jail. The officers started
for Pineville with the younger Cravasso, and,
as they were travelling along the road, rifle
cracked on the mountain side and the pris-
Ganer fell in the road a corpse.
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General Simon Cameron died at his coun-
Try place, at Donegal Springs, Penn, at
about o'clock in the evening in the ninety
first year of his age.
He was prostrated with paralysis of the
right side on the Goth of June and his death
had been expected ever since.
About o'clock in the afternoon it was no
ticed that he was failing. He lost conscious
ness, and did not again rally. This was the
beginning of the end. He failed rapidly, and
life was almost gone by6 O'Clock, but not
until few minutes after did he stop breath
ing.
At his bedside as the venerable ex-senator
was diving were gathered his relatives. Mr..
and Mrs. Wayne McVcagh, James NJ. Cam
eron, Mr.. and Mrs: David Watt, Simon B;
Cameron, Mrs. Richard Haldman, Mr. and
Mrs. Chauvenet ard the two physicians. =.
That afternoon an answer was received
from Senator Don Cameron in response to
the second cablegram sent him. 1t FOUND
him at Inverness, Scotland. He sailed for
home at once.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

WALTER AND GEORGE LYFoRD, aged ter
and sixteen years, both Of Philadelphia. were
drowned in Big Timber Creek, near West
vile, n. j. George was trying to save
Walter.
BACCALAUREATE sermons were preacnec
at Yale, Trinity, Dartmouth. Williams
LAFAYETTE, Bates, Bowdoin, Wesleyan ano
ther colleges.
The Connecticut Legislature has ad
journed sine die.
ANNIE MULLEN, aged ten years, and
Thomas F1aherty, aged thirteen years, were
killed by the collapse OF frame building IN
Boston.
HARRY AND WILLIAM JESSER, aged fifteen
and seventeen years, respectively, were killed
at Philadelphia by the explosion of an old
range boiler with which they were expert
menting.
Two Young men and two young ladies, all
unknown, were drowned in the Schuylk1l et
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Their boat
was carried over the dam.
HENRY B. FLAMM, a bookkeeper for the
Marine National Bank, of Pittsburg, has been
arrested on the charge of embezzllng $50, 0UO
of the banks funds.
The Manhattan Brass Company's works,
in New York city, were totally destroyed by
fire, causing loss of about $500, 600.
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, United States
Commissioner to tho Samoan Conference in
Berlin, arrived in New York with copy OF
the treaty for the State Department.
GEORGE MCCAIN who brutally murdered
his wife Maggie with Ratchet recently,
committed suicide by hanging himself from
his cell door in Philadelphia.
MRS CHARLES H. HALL committed sui
eide in her husbands drug store at Dallas,
Penn, by taking carbolic acid and corrosive
sublimate.
The Seventh National Convention Of
Bureau of Statistics of Labor was held In
the State House, Hartford Conn. Numerous
addresses, pertinent to the objects of the
Convention, were made.