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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24
MURDER AND LYNCHING.
A Mob Works speedy Vengeance on q
Brutal Murderer.

SHELBYvILLE, ND, August 23.-DOn
Bruce, City Marshal, was shot and
fatally wounded last night by Charley
Hawkins, desperado, who was lyncbed
by a mob few hours later. Hawkins
was IN a quarrel when Bruce came upon
the scene and requested him TO cease
his disturbance. Hawkins then reached
for his revolver, and with an oath, fired
three shots In succession at Bruce, each
bullet taking effect. Hawkins fred
twice more, but missed and started
TO run with Bruce following.
When about one hundred and
fifty feet from the place OF the shoot
ing Bruce caught Hawkins, placed bim
under arrest and immediately fell. lie
was removed 10 his residence. At III
o'clock Bruce was vomiting blood and
his case was considered hopeless.
At 12 o'clock mob Of 500 collected In
the court house yard and proceeded 70
the jail without word. The Sheriff
was captured and tied hand and foot,
and handkerchief was stuffed into his
mouth. One of the mob secured the
keys Of the jail and the barred doors
were thrown open and guards placed at
the entrance to keep back the other
prisoners.
Hawkins was In a rear cell, and when
the mob reached that portion Of the
jail, fell upon his face, placed his hands
over his eyes and said: please let me
pray" The committee did not wait,
but proceeded to tie his hands and feet
and TO adjust the rope about his neck.
In moment six men came rushing out
Of the jail pulling their victim by the
neck, dragging him on the ground.
Twenty feet from the jail door, q tree
was found and the rope was thrown
over a limb, and moment later Haw-
kins was suspended In mid-air. Eight
shots were then fired into his body aDd
the dreadful work was over. The mob
Immediately dispersed apd in five min
utes everything on the streets was as
quiet as q graveyard. At the hour of
the hanging Bruce was reported as
dyinz-
Hawkins body was left hanging in
the Courthouse yard.
The coroner, Clarence Bruce, broth
er Of the marshal, was celled TO the
south part Of the county TO hold an in
quest, and tomorrow will hold an in-
quest on the body of his brothers assas-
SIN. and will most likely be called upon
TO investigate the cause of his brothers
death. The assassin leaves . wife and
family, who are In almost destitute cir
cumstances.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24
Didn't See Roberts.

PITTsBURG, August ga special
from Lima, O., says: The people Of Co
lumbus Grove were out en- masse last
night to meet the north bound train on
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
railroad, on which IL was expected that
James Roberts, arrested for the Colum-
bus Grove murder and robbery, would
be a passenger. Threats OF lynching
were freely made, but Roberts did not
arrive. The prisoners father says he
will prove an alibi for his son.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24
OHIO DEsPERADo CAPTURED.
The Columbus Grove Murderer is Secure
ly Locked Up.


Iy Locked Up.
COLUMBUS GROVE, o., August 23.-
James Roberts, mention of whose arrest
at New Washington was made yester-
day. has been identified as the desperate
whose bold and bloody work at the
Maple Bank, in this city, caused such
intense excitement.
In answer to a telegram Thursday
evening Major Bagley and Butler Wea-
yer. the latter having as good an oppor-
tunity as anybody here 70 remember
distinctly the features Of the desperado,
Went To the place to identify the sus-
pect who was then being shadowed.
weaver recognized the man from across
the street and on sight. The suspect
recognized the two men from here, but
as they were got out Of town as soon as
possible, after the Identification, the
suspected man was thrown off his guard.
Within an hour, however, he was quietly
and easily arrested by the Marshal of
New Washington and locked up In the
city prison.
After the arrest telegram was sent
here requesting several Of our people to
come and make assurance doubly sure
before other steps should be taken.
Maple, the wounded cashier; Crawford,
the man from whom the revolvers were
obtained; w. S. Lenhart and j. r.
Marshal, two OF our most reliable citi-
zens, all looked upon as competent in
Identification, and six others, more or
less competent, took the train FOR that
place this morning. Arriving there at
noon, they were promptly taken to the
prison. One by one they were admitted
to his presence, and each one the more
certainly fixed the author Of the terrible
crime.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24
FATAL EXPLOSION
In the West Fairmont Coal Mines-one
Man Killed.
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In the West Fairmont Coal Mines-One
Man Killed.
Special telegram 10 The Register.
FAIRMoNT, w. VA, August 23.-This
morning at about 9:3O o'clock a fright
full explosion of gas occurred at the
West Fairmont shaft, which resulted
In the death of young man named
George Bayles and the severe burning
on the arms and face Of Alex. Robinson.
The facts as near as can be learned are:
Mr.. Robinson was formerly employed at
these mines, but had quit on account OF
sickness, but returned on Saturday 10
again get employment. He was en-
ployed. and told where he would work,
and this morning in company with
young Bayles, concluded to go down
into the shaft and examine the room
where they would work, taking with
them an open miners lamp, which
ignited the gas with the results as above
stated.
Robinson managed to get out OF the
shaft alone, being burned in fearful
manner, with but little hopes OF his re-
covery. The body Of young Bayles was
not recovered until three o'clock this
afternoon. the flesh on his body being
burned to crisp. The county coroner
empaneled jury, and an examination
of the employees OF the shaft shows that
the fan which furnished the air for the
shaft is stopped every Saturday evening
at six o'clock on account OF there being
no work on Sunday, which was the case
on this occasion.
Mr.. Robinson testified that he worked
in the shaft some weeks ago, but had to
Quit on account of the dampness of his
room, being sufferer from rheumatism
He and Bayles would have gone 10 WORK
on Monday, being given dry room
The jury returned a verdict that nc
blame could be attached TO the owners
or any employe of the Farmont shaft.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24
PARIS SHOWS UP as USUAL

In Giving to the World Terrible Crime.
Young Man Murders His Father.
PARIS, August 93.-A young man
named Bacon, of American extraction,
murdered his father to-day under hor-
rible circumstances. The young man
became engaged in quarrel with his
father, and pulling out bowie knife
made a furious attack upon the old man,
ripping open his abdomen and
stabbing him in various places. He
continued his fendish work even after
the old man had fallen. he finally dis
Matched him by cutting his throat
Bacon was arrested and he refused
10 give his motive for the awful deed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24

but all were supplied. The manage
ment was frequently compIimented yes
terday.
The crowd yesterday was larger than
on any second Sunday in the history OF
the meetings.
Most of the families who have occu-
pied cottages on the grounds will return
to ther homes during ibis week, but
many will remain for some time. The
Camp Grounds will present rather
desolate appearance to-day.
Bowling, lawn tennis and croquet
each have their enthusiastic devotees
on the grounds, and many afternoons
and evenings are spent in those pleas
ant recreations.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24
ALLIANCE SENSATION.
President McGrath Makes Speech on
Reputation.

Reputation.
TOPEKA, KAs., August 23.-President
Frank McGrath, of the Kansas Farm
ers' Alliance, stirred up big row yes
terday morning at the Alliance Com
mercial Convention by declaring that 1t
was time for them to quit bowling about
calamity and talking repudiation. He
said his Office was besieged with letters
every day from people in the East who
wanted to know whether the Kansas
farmers are really repudiators, and
whether they really intended to confis-
cate everything that did not belong to
them. OF course he had to write back
10 them that the talk about reputation
was all wind or sensational lies from the
NEWSPAPERS of their enemies. He
thought It was time to quit talking
about the starving farmers of Kansas
and tell the truth.
Most Of his remarks were directed at
Mr.. Fred. L. Bailey, Alliance lecturer,
who had made the opening speech and
had denounced the loan companies.
W. II. Bennington, lawyer, an
swered Mr.. McGrath. His idea was
that the mortgage men were rascals,
and the Kansas people were none too
hard on them. He would place matters
in such shape that the loan companies
could take no advantage Of the farmer.
He thought talking calamity was all
right.
Bailey said that the Alliance people
were not repudiators, but they pro-
posed to keep even with the loan COM
panies.
1t looked for time as though Nc
Grath was getting the worst OF 1t, but
Hammers, of Kiowa county, came to his
rescue and read statistics showing that
Bailey had Overestimated the farmers
indebtedness.
Easter, of Usage, took up McGrath's
side and declared that there were just
as big raScals among the farmers as
there were among the mOneyed men.
He told of numerous instances where
men mOrtgaged their farms for moro
than they cost them, lived on them as
long as the mortgage would allow, let
everything go to rack and ruin and only
moveed off when the mortgage was fore
closed.
At this point Noah Allen, Of Wichita,
came in, and, finding that McGrath was
getting the better of the fight, went for
the State President. He was not re-
pudiator, but, if saving the property of
the mortgager debtor from the avarice
of the money-lender was reputation, he
would repudiate. Then he went for
McGrath and both men used personali-
ties with freedom.
The feeling OF the convention was
against McGrath because he is known
to be opposed to the Subtreasury scheme
and the Anarchist element in the ALI
auce. His friendship and sympathy fol
] President Hall, of Missouri, in his tight
with Macune. is another reason why
many Alliance men are secretly refuting
| McGrath.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24
SENATOR EDmUSDs' sUCCEssOR.
1t VIII be Proctor, and Another vermonter
Will Take HIS Place In the Cabinet.

MONTPELIER, VI, August 23.-The
President is due at Montpelier on Au-
gust 26. and it is generally understood
that on that date Governor Page will
announce the appointment of Senator
Edmunds' successor. There is no doubt
that this will be Proctor. The question
then arises as TO Secretary Proctor's
successor in the Cabinet. The news
comes from one close In the confidence
of the President that this successor will
be q Vermonter II the right Vermonter
will accept. II is stated that the Office
has already been rendered TO the Hon.
Wheelock @. Veazey OF Rutland, MEM
Der of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission and former Commander-in-
Chief Of the G. A. K. General Veazey
has not been inclined to accept on ac-
count OF the uncertain tenure OF Office
which accompanies an unexpired term.
Efforts are being made 10 induce him
to withdraw this decision, and 1t is ex-
pected that he will accept. AT any rate,
it is regarded as certain that a Yer
monter will take Proctor's place in the
Cabinet, and, il not Veazey, il is likely
TO be Proctor's strongest opponent in
the contest for the Senatorship, and
this sits the question down TO ex-Gov.
Smith and Gov. Page, with the chances
In favor of Page. Veazey can have the
place If wants it-that is considered cer-
tain.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24
A SENSATIONAL ENooUNrER
Between Two Millionaire Capitalists in a
Kansas City Hotel Lobby.

Between Two Millionaire Capitalists in a
Kansas City Hotel Lobby.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, August 23.-The
rotunda Of the Coates House was the
scene to-day of a sensational personal
encounter between ]. E. McElroY and
T. II. Sweepe, two millionaire capital
lists of this place. Mr.. McElroy and
Mr.. Sweepe had had miSunderStand-
ing concerning an investment. To-day
Mr.. McElrOy was conversing with
a friend in the Coates
House rotunda, when Mr.. Sweepe
stepped up to the latter aud told him
that McElroy was thief, liar and a
villain. Mr.. McElroy thereupon felled
Mr.. Sweepe to the floor with his walk
ing stick. As Mr.. Sweepe arose be drew
his revolver. Mr. McElroy followed
suit aud the men were about to open
fire on one another when friends sepa-
rated them.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24
Parsons Assailant Captured.
- y,,f.oro,,, II fhS Rs0ister.

PHILIPPI, w. VA, August 23.-James
Norris, cOlOred, was arrested ana
lodged in Jail here to-day to await hear
ing Tuesday at 10 o'clock on the charge
of shooting Isaiah Parsons, also colored,
with intent to kill. Norris denies the
shooting, but there is quite sentiment
prevailing that If he did the shooting
he was iustifiable in doing so. Parsons
Is suffering severely from the shot and
is not expected to recover.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24
"sHoE-Box" MILLER's STATEMENT.

"sHOE-BOX" MILLER'S STATEMENT.
-,.svI-rmruE participation in the Rob-
berry.
PITTSBURG, PA, August 23.-The
Dispdtch tomorrow will print twenty
column statement submitted by James
w. Miller to show his innocence Of the
Connor's robbery in Clarion county, for
which he was sent to the penitentiary.
The statement is accompanied by an
affidavit from Frank c. Dunn that he
was accidentally shot by Miller in
Cleveland on the night the Connor's
robbery was committed.
Another affidavit from one Of the pro-
prietors Of the Red Lion hotel, of this
city, Is submitted TO show where Miller
was every moment of the time that it
was alleged he was negotiating the sale
Of the stolen catfish bonds. 1t will be
remembered that Miller's engagement
10 Miss n. Stuart Mosby, of Washing
ton, recently led to the lady'S brother
attempting 10 shoot Count Mtkiewicz
for the latter'S having introduced Miller
10 Miss, MOSby.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24
Prisoner Escapes.
SpeeSaI Telegram to tAs RA0tstsr.

PH1r1PPI, August 25.-William Moss
a prisoner confined Ia the jail here on
An old indictment, escaped last night 6y
saving through large brass paddock.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24
GOV. CampbsIl's Condition.

COLUMBUS, o., August 23.-Gov.
Campbell is still improving and expects
to leave for Spring Lake, N. j., next
Tuesday.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24

Hon. G.. Wesley Atkinson was APRON
inent visitor on the grounds yesterday,
and took part in all the exercises.
Prosecuting Attorney ]. w. Hollings-
worth, of st. Clairsville, and Misses
Alice Edgerton and Annie White, two
charming young ladies Of that place,
were among the visitors on the grounds
yesterday.
At the campground hotel the ar
rangements for accommodating guests
were better than ever. Five hundred
people could have been served with din
ner between noon and two o'clock.
There was the usual rush for meals,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-28
ALASKA AND STATEHOOD.

1t is said that Senator PLATT is so deeply
impressed with the magnitude and re-
sources Of Alaska, as well as by its i'm
portance in national sense, that he is
thinking seriously of presenting, as chair
man of the senate committee on territories,
bill for the admission of the ice banks and
seals, together with the grease loving ma
tives, into the union as free and indie
pendent state. The Senator thinks that 1t
is lnconvenient and expensive for the fed
eral government to make and administer
the laws for Alaska, aud that if statehood
were conferred people would rush in and
make it a great commonwealth.
With due respect to the Senator it is be-
lieved that there is more of partisan poll
tics than anything else in this scheme.
Alaska is not so well prepared for state
government as is the Sioux reservation
The permanent white settlers in all the vas,
region number less than thousand. anG
a fair sprinkling of these are mer
who went there because it was safer fol-
them personally to get as far away as pos
sible from their previous haunts. Tht
Indians are somewhat milder in their dis
positions than our aborigines, but they art
not much higher civilized, and have gooC
deal less of the 'getup- and get' spiri
about them. 1t would be folly to make
state of Alaska and withdrawing thu
federal financial and physical support
turn that vast territory over to self-govern
nent. Absolutely there are not enough
white men to fill all the Offices of a stat
organization, and the Indians don't know
enough to be officials.
We suspect that Mr.. PLATT doesn't car
much for Alaska, but he sees an oppor
tunity for getting two more Republica,
Senators and three more Republican vote
in the electoral college. If he could Sc
such party gains by the admission o
Arizona, New Mexico Or Oklahoma, or ever
by letting in Utah, he would make state
of these territories at once.
When Alaska shows ability to govern
itself it will be time to take it into tn
union, but so long as it is practically I'm
inhabited it will be well enough to avoi
the farce which the Senator proposes
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-28

would be acted upon if the strikers did not
fear that hanging would follow the shoot
ing Of the officers.
1t is unfortunate that workingmen, in
their disputes with employers, will persist
in placing themselves under the direction
and leadership of such men as the anarchis
tic agitators who have gone from New
York to influence and manipulate the strik-
ers in the coal region. Its unfortunate be
cause the influence of the agitators is bad
and in too many cases the poor, ignorant
men are led into an attitude of lawlessness
which must result in their injury. The
less that working people have to do with
socialists and anarchists the better it will
DE for tho working people; the less the lat
ter have to do with agitators who teach
violence and resistance to the law, the bet
fnr
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-28
DANGEROUS AGITATORS,

1t was the intention of the Socialist agi-
tators, JONES and DELABER, to address q
mass meeting of strikers at Scottdale, Pa,
on Sunday, but this was abandoned and a
convention Of hundred ardent supporters
of the Jewelers. was held, when JONES,
speakiug of the revolution which is to take
place, said: "Bloodshed is not necessary.
but should the Pinkertons attack you with
guns you know what to do.''
Free speech is great thing and we ali
insist upon it, but where speech becomes
so free that it urges and invites to resist
ence of the law and to crime ought we not
TO think of the wisdom of applying some
sort OF censorship JONES meant to in
spire his hearers with a determination to
murder. His object was to encourage them
TO resist the enforcement of the law to the
extent of shooting down the officers. That
kind of talk would have no effect upon in.
telligent, law abiding citizens, but it in.
fiuences men who listen to agitators of the
JONES stripe, the ignorant, brutal fellows
who were born and are trained in
the idea that the possession Of wealth is q
crime and that laws were made by the rich
for the oppression of the poor. The dis
patch does not say so, but we do not doub,
that the advice was heartily applauded by
4 the convention, nor do we doubt that il
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-28

REPUBLICANS, AS well as all Democrats
will regret that Senator JOHN H. REAGAN,
of Texas, has thought proper to resign his
seat in the Senate and retire from the
legislative councils Of the nation where for
so many years he has taken an active and
conspicuous part. He has been in Congress
so long that his retirement will cause those
who have been associated with him to eX
perience sense of loneliness, and the
absence of his name in the accounts of
congressional proceedings will incline
newspaper readers generally to wonder il
the Washington correspondents are doing
justice. REAGAN was elected to Congress
IN 1857, and two years later was reelected
Then secession came, and he went into the
secession convention of his state, by which
he was sent to the provisional congress of
the confederacy, and in March 1861, was
appointed postmaster general of the con-
federate government, a position which he
held until there was no such government
In 1875 he was again sent to Congress and
continued in the lower house until 1887,
when he took his seat in the Senate as the
successor of MAXEY. The Democrats could
better spare some of their other Senators
than part with REAGAN, whose ability and
integrity made him useful man in the
chamber. 1t is observed that the governor
of Texas will appoint to the vacancy a
young lawyer named CHILTAN. We under
take to assert that nine out of ten Demo
Gratis upon hearing of REAGAN's resigna-
ton will say that Representative MILLS
should be given the place, his services for
the party and his great ability giving him a
claim upon the senatorship which ought
not to have been ignored.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-28
MAJORITY RULE.

President HARRISON has been talking
glibly about majority rule" in this coun-
try during his ''swing round the circle"
In those moments of ecstacy on the subject
of majority rule, does 1T ever occur to him
that ex-President CLEVELAND received
100, 900 moro votes from the people than he
did? Of course President HARRISON is not
responsible for the system of voting for
President which makes minority rule in
this respect possible, but it seems to US
that man who has boon elected by
minority Of the people Of the United States
would feel peculiar at the roots of his
hair when advocating so strongly the
rule of the majority. There will have to
be number of changes in our methods of
election before majority rule is secured.
Take the recent municipal election in Chi
cago for instance where Hampstead
WAsHBURNE, the Republican candidate for
mayor, was elected by less than one third
of the votes polled. Of the 162,940 votes
cast, Mayor-elect WAsHBuRNE received but
&c, 967; so there were 1888 more votes
against him than for him. Yet he becam g
mayor of the great city of Chicago. Not
withstanding all our republican pride, and
our disposition to sheer at the effete
monarchies of the old world they can give
us points occasionally on republican prin-
ciples, among which is this one of major
ity rule. Why, imperial Germany can
give US instructions on that subject. BY
the law of the empire in the event of can
didate failing to get clear majority of
votes over all, the candidate receiving the
plurality of votes must make second con-
test with the adversary who in the first
contest received next to himself the highest
number of votes. This method of electi on
is illustrated in the recent election in the
department of Geestemunde for member
of the reichstag. There were three candi.
dates in the field, one of whom was Prince
BISMARCK. Neither candidate received q
majority; but BISMARCK received a plur-
atty, and must now submit to a second