Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-26
A DESPERATE CRIMINAL.
A Singular Death The Worlds
Fair---The Strip.
CAPTAIN STEVENS FUNERAL
The Right Stuff, The English Storm,
The U, P, R. R., Selling Wheat,
Immense Salmon Run, Below
Freezing, The Latest from Chill,
The Prohie's, Swallowed a Pin,
State and Foreign News, etc.
DESPERATE CRIMINAL.

DESPERATE CRIMINAL.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug. 6.-Two
detectives here arrested William Me.
Dermott, aged twenty years. He is
a desperate character, and the police
Il Cory, Pa, are anxious to take
him into custpdy. McDermo,t l.
charged with train robbery and pos
sibly murder. On August 18th he
entered train on the Western New
York & Pennsylvania railway and
fiourishing pair If big revolvers,
commanded everyone to hold up
their hands. After Iobbing the pas
sengers of their valuables, the des-
perate criminal pouncsd upon an old
man and woman and beat them into
Inconsistencies. He then shot an
other woman and she now lies In
critical condition at Cory. He sho
a child and it, too, was severely
wounded. McDermott and tw
companions, who stood guard at tn,
doors Of the coach, then jumped
from the train and escaped to tht
woods. After dividing the booty
they separated.
SINGULAR DEATH.
TACOMA, Aug. 26.-John Waters
a young man from Seattle, met b,
death In a rather peculiar manne,
here, while visiting at his sister,
home. He, was standing on the
front porch when he was attacked
by an epileptic fit and fell over the
railing to the lawn below, a distanc,
of about eight feet. He injured hi,
spine and died in a few hours. Hi,
people are well known pioneers OF
THE WORLDS FAIR.
CHICAGO, Aug. Exchanges were
made In the interior plans of the
building of the worlds
fair, which will add ten acres to the
floor of the building and give it
forty acres available for exhibits aud
avenues, making the largest exposl-
Iion building ever constructed. The |
music hall and shoe and leather
are forced out by the new
to other parts of the
ground. The change was the result
# protest by Vice President De
Young, of the national commission,
Who demonstrated that under the
'revious arrangement there would
e barely room for foreign exhibits,
hus completely shutting out Amer
can manufactures. The proposition
f M. Eifiel, of Paris, to erect
over at the exposition, was today
definitely rejected. An American
ompany headed by w. e, Hale,
will, II is said, submit more accept
BILE plan.
THE CHEROKEE STRIP.
GUTHRIE, 0. IT,, Aug: 26.--The
'herokee strip IL ablaZe In inuum-
rable places. Prairie fires were {
tarted by homeseekers to drive of d
be cattlemen aud herds. The eva
lon of President Harrison's Cape I
lay message permitting Cherokee I
indians to Craze only their own G
attle on the strip, has aroused the }
oomers to desperatios. 4
SWALLOWED A PIN. /
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 20. - The '
lse of Clarence Johnson, who swal, L
wod pin three weeks ago, is ex. Il
ting great deal Of interest among a
le physicians, owing to the pecu. p
Ar suilerlngs of the patient, The
in appears to be travelling in John Il
ms body, and In five minutes time c
q has been known to complain of o
lins In three different and often re.
tote parts of his body. He has e'
sriods of from one to three hours In II
hich he is free from pain. but these IA
e growing less and frequently the II
lin Is becoming more and more In al
nse, AT times his pulse is so high 81
'at II cannot be counted, and at
her times so feeble as to be almost NJ
lperceptlble. A number of the u
st physicians In the city have ex- II
mined johnson and agree that his
SO Is an exceedingly peculiar one h'
UNION PACIFICR. oil