The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-07-30
AWFUL EUTCHERY,

A Black Desperate Chops Three Mem
bers Of II Kentucky Family to Death
He Is X He'd by a Neighbour.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July 27.-Five miles
from Paris, KY, lived Nathan Conway,
81 years old, his wife, about the same
age, their sons, Charley and William,
33 and 2S respectively, Williams wife
and three children and two
nieces, Miss Florence and Lucy
Leager. AS they were all
sitting on the veranda Sunday morn.
ing negro named Craig, who had nc
fixed home, came up and asked for a
drink of water. 1t was given him. He
thereupon lifted a rusty scythe blade
and asked if it was not good knife.
Charley Conway nodded assent and the
negro throwing down the cup of water
struck him with the knife, split
ting his skull. The rest of the
family ran into the house. Craig con-
tinued to hack the young man till
he thought him dead. He then attacked
the father, who had returned, and
killed him. Then the mother coming
up had her head split open and instant
" died. After the negro had insanely
hacked her body in a dozen places he
attacked William Conway, cutting
him in the head and on the body as he
ran. He had just struck Conway to the
ground when q. w. Bailey, neighhor,
attracted by the screams, came up and
shot Craig twice with buc!xshot. This
seemed to have no effect. but other
neighbors had come up and a
young man shot Craig with a pistol.
Craig ran, and, falling beside a hay
stack, died in a few minutes from the
effects of the buckshot wounds. The
pistol ball had glanced around his head.
The Conways were from Maysville
originally, but came to Bourbon
eighteen months ago from T. G. Meg
gins farm, near Cyathiana. They
were orderly citizens and were
held in the highest esteem. Craig
said he had killed seven per-
sons and intended to kill that whole
family. He is known to have killed
his mother-in-law. He has always been
known as a desperate fellow, and was
brother of Charlie Craig, now ~>nder
sentence of death in Cincinnati.
GREAT FIRE At DALLAS.
Property to the Value Of e:oO,0oO De-
stroyed by Flames.
ST. Louis, July 27.-A brief dispatch
from Dallas, Tex, says: A fire broke
out in j. Il. Cowan & Co.'S big liquor
house on Commerce street, shortly
after midnight Friday, and spread so rap
idly to the Benbrook School Furniture
Company's place, the Brewers Stor-
age Company's warehouse and Wolfe
and Company's cotton gin. Five hum
dred bales of cotton in the gin belong
ing to Sanger Brothers was destroyed
The loss is placed at $500, 1000
A Broken Brake Ca"scs Panic on .
Scranton Electric Car.
SCRANTON, Pa, July 27.-A street
car on the Dunmore electric line, COM
ing to this city from Laurel Hill park
late Friday night became unmanage-
able. Two girls, frightened by
the efforts of the motor man to
stop the car, jumped. One of them,
Nettie Morgan, living in Hyde Park.
broke her neck and was instantly killed.
The other girl, Stella Hughes, suffered
internal injuries believed to be fatal.
Several others received slight injuries in
jumping, but those remaining on the
car escaped uninjured. A broken brake
was the cause of the trouble.
A Counterfeltor Caught.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 27.--Wil-
liam A. Teal was arrested Sunday by
Deputy United States Marshals Conway
and Moor in the act of making coun-
terfeit dollars. The officers had
watched the house all night and then
concluded to enter. A sister of Teal
blocked the hallway anG sought to
restrain Conway by throwing her arms
about his neck, but he threw her aside,
burst in the door and found Teal with
the mold in his hands He has only
been out of the penitentiary since May
and has served two terms of two years
each and one of five years for counter
feiting. He is 40 years Of age.
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Explorer Stanley Hurt.
GENEVA, July 27.-Henry NJ. Star ley,
the explorer, has met with serious &C.
cident. According to information re-
ceived here from Muerren, where Mr.
Stanley is staying with his wife, the
explorer has fractured his left lower
thighbone by accidentally slipping
while mountain climbing.
d.. Gov. Botes Accepts.
= Dies MONIES, Ia, July 27.--Gov.
Horace Boies has written his letter ac-
cepting the democratic nomination for
governor of Iowa. The missive is q
succinct statement of democratic priu'
ciples-