Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-07-07
Pour Men Killed at Sing Sing
Prison.
MORE CYCLONES N THE EAST.
Fire in San Francisco, The Robert
and Minnie, Enrolment Of Pub
lie Schools, Collision at Dover,
State and Foreign News, Etc.
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smiler at 5l4, Wood 5sS9 end Jugiro
at Gs8. A small white fIag run 70
the top of Of pole announced r.
10 the waiting reporters outside that
gIocun1, the base ball player, the
man who hacked bis wife 10 death
with an Ak had died just figr minu-
tes before. Before the flag was set
the news was on dozen waiting
wires. A deatblike silence which
followed the hustle caused b. the
raising Of the flag was oppressive.
At5:I5 O'Clock the first raise Of the
morning sun topped the eastern
bluff and frightened up the scene
A square Of blue bunting which
crawIed slowly up the pole at 5l9|
announced that Smiler, salvation
army boy, slayer Of his third
wife, bad given life for
life five minutes before
No one knew who we're the legal
witnesses to the killing. Witnesses
had remained iD prison all night
IL was an idea Of the warden 10
keep them within the walls, where
they could not be interviewed. Al
5;44 o'clock black flag went up the
pole. IL settled the fact that Negro
Wood who had killed bis companion
Aquedem during quarrel was
dead. shibuya JIgiro, that big
muscular Jap, who in fit Of rage
stabbed TO death one Of bis own
c0untrymen. was 10 be The next.
The flag OF death for him was red.
Red flag went up ut 600 O'Clock.
The entire time coDsumed In execut-
Ing the four men was one hour and
twenty-three minutes. The mis-.
takes Of electrical experts which
made the execution Of Kemmler In
the past failure were carefully
avoided today. The tested voltage
Of dynamos had beeis brought up TO
5000 while the estimated voltage
which was turned into Kemmlers
body was only $50. They went to
the execution chair braYely and met
their tate without struggle. Elec-
trodes were not applied as In the
Kemmler case TO top Of skull and
base Of spine, but were bound TO
the foreheads Of the condemned men
and calves Of thGir legs. The cur
rent turned on In each case for
twenty seconds. The voltage was
There was an apparent evidence Of
revival as Ia the Kemmler case, and
the current was turned on a second
time for each man. Medical men
present agree that death came on the
first contact and that the seeming
revival was merely relax muscular
action. DR.. Barker, prison physician,
came out shortly after IL and said
the autopsy was completed but that
no statement would be- given out for
several hours. Witnesses were be-
selged by reporters when they came
from prison. All Of them refused
to say anything, however, except
that the executions had pessed of
without any hitch and had been a
success from a scientific stand point.
CYCLONE IN LOUISIANA.
New ORLEANS, July T. - Dis
patches received here this morning
report the damage by storms rs fol-
lows; In Lafayette parish many
houses are blown down, aud North
bert Washington was killed. In
West Baton Rouge parish many
buildings are demolished. About &
O'Clock this morning u cyclone passed
through the country three miles
from Chester. Many houses are de
stfoyed. a negro woman aud her
child were killed. Several other
persons were wounded.
CHURCHES DESTROYED.
MADISON, Miss, July IA cy.
clone struck this place yesterday,
doing great damage TO property
One negro was killed aud number
injured. The Presbytori,n church
aud two colorod churches were com
pletely destroyed.
Five DWELLINGS BuHNED.
SAN FRANCISCO, July Z. Soon
after . o'clock yesleldty morning
Ave frame dwelling houses were
gutled by fire. The total damage
h estimated at $4,000,
A PHILADELPHIA nLAzE,
PHILADELPHIA, July IA fire
last evening destroyed Piiestly's
carpet mill In Lawrence street, In
volvlng loss OF 100000. Furbush
A Co., who had some machinery
stored In the building, lose about
Ss0,O0o, partially lnsund.
ROBERT AND MINNIE.
Los ANoRLls, July T.--Judge
Ross, OF the United states circuit
court, yeslsriny dhm ~, cd tho libel
OF the schooner n bert aud Minnie,
niezed 10 connection with the Itata
episode. ia lge Ross, Ia bis decls-
Ton says that while the facts alleged
may be good reason for con.
hscatins shs steamer Itaia, there Is
10 show that the schooner
was fitted 0ul fof the purposes Of
of war, ani therefore The libel Is dis.
missed. Commander Miguel 1ejada,
u the steamer Ilata has officially
notified the FEDERAL authorities that