Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-10-16

charging Bfuuen WIN bue tSt Hlui
der, and he is in Jail awaiting trial
Jones says he saw the man do the
shooting, but was afraid to tell what
he knew at the time.
BOILER ExPLoDEs.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Oct. 10
The explosion Of boiler on the
steamer Evangel, at Whatcom
Wednesday night, proves to have
been more serious tbau il was al
first considered. Gus Carlson, VIM
Biggs, deck hands, aud Julius Flinti
fireman, have died from injuries
received. Alfred Bigks, second ei.-
gineer, was severely scalded; John
Feeney, fireman, Jos. Burrowe,
Cook and Charles II. Turner, stew
ard, both colored. were badly burned,
and Dayid Ross, fireman, had his
skull fractured. All the injured are
at the Marine hospital. Several are
likely to die. The steamer was In
sured for $780, but this is Insurance
against fire or mariue disaster. The
vessel will be towed to Seattle and
repaired. Captain Morgan places
his pecuniary loss at $4,000. The
boiler tore its way from the bottom
of the hold carrying everything
away forward and above.
The hull is not injured, but the
water tank is cracked, partly filling
the vessel with water. The Evan
gel has quite history, she having
received her name from the object
for which she was built. The vessel
was intended for missionary boat,
and was built about ten years ago
by the pennies of eastern Sunday
school children. The project was
undertaken by missionary society,
and collections were taken through
out the cast for the purpose of rails
ing funds. 1t was the intention to
keep her in the mission field among
the then sparsely settled districts OF
Puget sound. She did not continue
in this work long, but was soon
as freight boat. At one
time she secured the contract to
carry the mail to Alaska. A rival
company, however, succeeded in
getting her tied up, so she missed a
trip and forfeited her contract. For
the past three years she has been
owned by Morgan & Mann, of Port
who now have the con-
tract for carrying the mail through
the islands between Port Townsend
and Bellingham bay. She was
valued at $4,000.
A NEGRO CAPTURED AND LYNCHED.
MACON, Ga, Oct. l6.-Samuel
Wright, colored, was lynched on
the public road, near Helena, early
yesterday morning, near the house
where Mrs. Beck and her two
daughters live. One of the girls
went away on visit. About mid
night Samuel Wright broke into
the house, knocked Mrs. Beck in
sensible, and after desperate strug-
gle with Miss Ada Beck, in which
one of her arms was broken, as
saulted her. In the meantime the
alarm had been spread and fifty |
men pursued Wright. They found
him covering i'm the swamps. He |
was marched back, identified by |
Miss Beck, and placed under limb |
where he was to be hanged. He
confessed the crime, after which he
was drawn up to the noise of firing |
pistols. Fully a hundred bullets
were sent into his body. When a
body of negroes undertook to cut
the body down for burial, they were
notified that ifthey removed it they |
would share the same fate.
DIED OF HYDRoPHoBIA.
ELIzABErH, n. j., Oct. l6.-Jas.
Steebe, the s ear.old boy who was
bitten here over tive weeks ago by a
dog, and who first showed symptoms
of hydrophobia on Wednesday last,
died in great agony at 8 o'clock this
morning in the City Hospital. The
spasms with which he was seized at |
intervals for the past three days be-
came very violent few hours before
his death. His temperature rose to
l06 degrees when his struggles were
most severe. The physicians say it
was genuine case of hydrophobia.
The autopso on the body of Steebe
took place this evening and was
performed 10y DR.. Byron, a professor
in DIR, l.oomis' archaeological labor
atorv, New York, assisted by DIR.
Abbott, OF West Fifty.ninth street.
The post mortem did not disclose
the existence oi any particular dis
ease. There was slight congestion
of the brain and spine, which is an
indication Of hydrphobia, but 1t is
also present in other disel lses. Por.
tions of the brain and spinal cord
We're taken by the physicians to
/ New York, where a test will be
made Ia Dr, Loomis' laboratory by
inoculaling four rabbits with an
emulsion made from the spinal cord.
Should the ANIMALS die of hydro
phohic paralysis this will settle the
question. Some Of the Elizabeth
{ physicians believe that tie boy did
not die from rabies, but suceumbed
TO some other nervous disease.
! NINETY EIGHT pRsCRNpANTs.