Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-10-16
A DREADFUL HANGING.
Trotting Stables Burned, Earth
quake Again, He Lit a Match,
Uncovering a Mystery, A Boiler
fxpIodes, A Negro Lynchpd,
Gone Away With His Aunt,
Foreign and State News, etc,
etc,
HOMICIDE.

shot and killed John Rieble, 70
memlly Of Napa City, yesterda.
The shooting took place on Scar
ranch. Sears came to town an
dr!ivered himself up to the author
ties. The cause of the homicide
tul known. Sears has been engage
IN u bitter lawsuit oyer the posses
slun OF his home with his sistel
Mrs. II. J. Snyder, and been drive
to the verge Of insanity with hi
many troubles in connection with II
THE LOUISIANA LOTTERY.
WASHINGTON, Oct. l6.--In a let
ter addressed to the postmastergen
eral Of Canada, Postmaster Genera
Wanamaker says that the Louisiaui
Lottery Company has established
agencies at Toronto, aud is flooding
the United States mails with its cir
culars, in sealed envelopes from tha
point. AS all lottery circulars ar,
liable to customs duties, the post
masters mt the United States eX
change Offices have been instructed
to place upon mail matter which
they believe to contain dutiable ar
ticles supposed to be liable to Gus
toms duty.n At the office of desti-
nation such matter is opened by the
addressee in presence of customs
officer, aud If found to contain lot
terry matter, is forfeited to the Uni
ted States. Postmaster General
Wanamaker asked the Canadian
postmaster. general if 1t would be
proper to instruct the postmaster nj
Toronto to so stamp letters mailed
there by an agent of the lottery
company. If that course is pursued,
postmasters at the United States
exchange offices, he says, will make
a similar Endorsement on behalf of
this country.
DREADFUL HANGING.
REDWOOD FALLS, Mimi, Oct. Is,
"A dreadful scene was enacted this
morning ut the execution of VIM.
II >se. The prisoner made speech
in which he protested his innocence
aud acused man named Slower OF
tn murder. The trap was sprung
at 4:56, aud the rope parted, the
body was picked up, and another
moose adjusted, when the trap was
sprung again, The man slowly
strangled to death.
STABLES BURNED.
SABINA, o., Oct. l6.-fhe stables
of U. M. Morgan, breeder of trot'
ting horses, were burned yesterday
destroying thirteen valuable trotting
and pacing horses aud mares. The
total loss is estimated at $4,000. Nc
Insurance. The fire is believed to be
OF incendlary origin.
EARTHQUAKE.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct. l6.-A
slight sh lck of earthquake was felt
in the eastern part of this city last
evening.
HE LIT A MATCH.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. .l6. j. NJ. .Hor-
ton, wealthy colored farmer of this
county,ls nearlySl0,0 600 out of pocket
through the criminal carelessness OF
IA negro deputy sheriff named Bill
Bolton. Saturday night Bolton
went TO Horizons steam gin to levy
on lot of cotton therein belonging
TO one of Horizons customers. Go
ing into the cottou-room, where tn,
atmosphere was charged with fin,
particles of cotton lint, he struck 1
match, Instantly the whole plac'
was in blaze. and IN ten minutes
the gin house and contents wer,
destroyed. A crowd of negroe
gathered, and, ON finding out wha
Bolton had done, they set upon hiu
aud beat him so severely that Ia
may die. Horton has no Insurance
GONE WITH MS AUNT.
PINE BLUFF, Ark. Oct, l6. New
reaches this city of u sensatioua
elopement at Magnolia, Ark,
station south of here, ON the 81
Louis and Southwestern Railway
Richard Stoggs, a wealthy lumber
Inan aud merchant, has disappeare
with his aunt, Mrs. Jenne Bufor,
Stoggs' wife has been dead less tina
a mouth, aud Mrs. Buford leaves
husband aud children,
UNCovERING A MYSTERY,
ARKANSAS CRY, AK, Oct, l6.
The sheriff of this county made a
arrest In Oklahoma which may lea
to the solution OF n great mystery
The prisoner, John Pruden, is ~
oused of murder which was CON
muted here over Two years ago. a
that time a man named Charlie
Webb was reported 60 have beel
killed by q horse. There was, how
ever, some evidence to show tina
Wehb was noI dead aud that
tramp had been murdered TO &c
the Insurance on Webb's life. Whn
the coroner was Investigating tht
supposed nun or an old man name,
Louis Fnrnier, who lived Ina tn
nelghbarhood. Was murdered, and /
Was supposed he Vas ki cd 20 pna
vent his telling what he kasw N Ia
Webb murder. The exeitemeal
over these malders ended wl,h th'
arrest aud acqUltt,N { several inca