Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-04

hfloNOs Odi.f ANDN- -a1duECts
town fourteen miles east of here,
suffered loss by fire Sunday night.
The fire started about midnight, aud
is believed to have been of incend.
iary origin. as it started ia two
places at the same time. Several
narrow escapes of life occurred. Th'
first fire was discovered in the rear
of DR.. Watson's residence aud the
other in the rear Of the new dru z
store. Fourteen buildings were cIn
sumed. entailing a loss of about
/ $4,000.
COUPLE MURDERED.
GEORGIANA, Ala, Nov. 4.-Mon-
day night Thomas Sheppard and
wife, an old couple of highly-es-
teemed people, residing two mile
from town, were murderer. Their
bodies were horribly butchered, the
crime having apparently been com
mitted with axes. Every trunk and
drawer in the house was pillaged
People are in a state Of frenzy, and a
large force of men are patrolling the
country in search Of the murderers.
BOLD BANK ROBBERY.
LA GRANDE, Or, Nov. A rob
berry which exceeded the recent
Enterprise affair in the amount that
was taken was perpetrared upon
the Farmers Mortgage and Savings
bank of Summerville in this county
last night. Summerville is village
three miles from Elgin on branch
of the Union Pacific seven miles
from this city. AS the mails reach
the village late in the evening and
leave early in the morning, it was
the custom of H. c. Rinehart, cashier
of the bank, to attend to his corre-
spondedce after supper. He was
leaving The bank about 8 o'clock last
evening when he was met at the
door by two men with sacks over
their heads who pressed pistols to
his head ard ordered him to go
Lack and open the safe. He stepped
back into the room and they followed
him putting down the blinds and
lowering the lamp, they displayed
great cOolness not only taking all
the money in the safe but examIn-
ing the papers as well. The amount
taken was "a, 800. After leaving the
bank they went on foot through the
fields towards the timber. There is
much excitement IN Summerville
this morning and preparation is
being made to institute thorough
search for the robbers who it is sup
posed are residents of the neighbor-
no ,d.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT ANACONDA.
BUTTE, Mont, Nov. AT mid
night last night, when one shift Of
men at the Anaconda mine were
relieving another, seventeen men
were killed by the falling of the
Cage, and two were fatally injured.
AS the cage, containing nineteen
men, started To descend, the rope
broke and the cage was precIpitated
to ibe bottom of the mine. The
dead men's forms were crushed ont
of all resemblance to human beings.
SHIP WRECKED NEAR ASTORIA.
ASTORIA, Nov. 4.-The British
ship Straithblane, 81 i>teen days from
Honolulu, in ballast, went ashore
twenty-five miles north Of here at 3
o'clock yesterday morning. She is
a total wreck. She lies abreast of
Shoalwater bay, Washington, well
upon the sand. The masts and rig
ging are gone, aud the hull fast
going to pieces. In an hour the
Cape Hancock life saving crew and
a large number of men from Ilwaco
reached the scene of the wreck on a
special train. 1t was low water
when the vessel struck, and heavy
gale was blowing. The life crew
worked bravely aud the men went
up to their uecks in the waves. One
boat load of men came ashore and
report twenty-three more on board,
The waves are sweeping clear over
the vessel. All were got ashore safely
except six, who were drowned;
Captain Cathill, Richard Hughes,
carpenter; Thomas Hunter, cook;
Donald Mcleod, seaman; a passen-
ger, lawyer from Honolulu, VIM.
Lewis, aud another man. Four
bodies were recovered.
Upon arriving at Victoria, b. c.,
yesterday morning, Captain Scjott,
of the Danish steamer St. Marie,
wired Astoria that the steamer
Wellington was left twenty miles
Off Cape Hancock the day before,
disabled, with the crank shaft
broken. The storm broke the tow
lines. The u. p. tug Wallowa
started to sea, but was unable to see
the Wellington.
1t is feared the steamer Whining
ton, which left here Sunday after
noon with freight and passengers
for San Francisco, is in trouble.
She has not been reported since
leaving. The weather has been
very heavy for the past tour days.
THE HoRsEwHIPPING OF HEALY.
DUBLIN, Nov. 4.-"Timothy Y
Healy, MeCarthyite memher uf the
house Of commons for the northern
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