Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-07-14


f6Nnk Men ace forming int
armed bodies and conflict i
deemed inevitable.
WOMAN cAPreRED.
ERIE. Pa, July li-Nrs. Jams
Leland, woman Of 90, and cor
neciei with some oflbe best famiiie.
ia Pennsylvania, lies in The Erie
county jail raviDg mad. Her son
Frank was recently sent 10 prison
for stealing cattle, and the Eoibci
ewore vengeance upon all who had
anything 70 do with his conviction
Witnesses aud jnnrs since then
have been pursued by common
nemesis and their horses aud cattle
have been killed by poison. Suspi
zion resulted ~ her detection TIM
morning. just as rhe had inoculaled
q valuable stallion With arsenic
Mrs leland aud her dauRhieI
fought The officers with axes. bat
were OftfpoNcftu.
CAUSED HgR DEATH.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, July 14-At a
coI0red dance held ct Cahokia, H.,
q small hamlet across the river. two
of the men present became engaged
in quarrel al 3 O'Clock yesterday
morning a. to which one should BE-
favored by woman, who was un-
decided which to give a dance, and
who both the negroes claimed
Finally one Of them drew a revolver
and fired at his antagonist, but not
before the woman had thrown
herself across the breast OF
the object Of the bullet.
The mans life was saved, but the
woman, whose name il Catherine
Brooks, was mortally wounded, the
bslI entering her back aud passing
nearly through the body.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
JEFFERSON Cry. No, Jaiy A.
A double homicide occurred at Toas,
ten miles east Of this city, Sunday.
Just after mass at the Catholic
church at that place, Francis BERN
lemans was accosted by Joseph
Frank Ia a quarrelsome manner.
Bermlemans tried TO pacify Frank,
and apparently succeeded In doing
20, as the two walked away arm iD
arm. After going about sixty feet
together. Frank drew a revolver
and fired, the shot taking effect
Ia Bermlemans' left breast. %he
wounded man caught Frank by the
shoulder and begged him not to
shoot again. Frank fired d second
tlme, and Bermlemans fell dead
with a bullet. IN his breast and
brain. Frank pointed the revolver
toward his own head and snapped II
twice, and then started off. The
excited congregation gatheredaround
the remains Of Bermlemans aud
carried them 10 a school house near
BY. Frank started down the road,
but had gone but short distance
when he again placed the revolver
TO bis head. and blew out his brains.
No cause was discovered for Franks
assault on Bermlernans.
TRAIN WRECK,
SPOKANE, July IA local
freight train on the Northern Pacific
crashed through a high trestle on
the outskirts ofthis city last evening,
and plunged into the ravine below.
There were five freight cars and a
caboose besides the engine. Fire
man Michael Flaherty was badly
crushed Ia the cab. He was taken out
alive, but died at the hospi-
tai a few minutes after
being removed there. Roadmaster
Speer was badly injured in the spine,
and Is now AZ his home In critical
condition. The other trainmen and
the passengers escaped with a few
bruises. Two cars were loaded with
cattle and horses. most Of which
were killed. The west-bound over
land passenger train was five hou rs
late, or It would have crossed on just
ahead Of the freight train, Work.
men were engaged in repairing the
bridge Just before the accident oc-
cured. All trains are delayed, the
passengers being transferred.
CENTRAL PACIFIC DIVIDEND.
NEW YoRK, July 1.-THE dlrec-
tors or the Central Pacific have de.
clared dividend Of one dollar per
share. payable August lst.
HUNTINGTON N-sEARLEs.
NEW YoRK, July l4.--A dispatch
lrom sau Francisco In regard to
Etadard oil crowd acquiring the
Hnntngton-Searles interest Ia the
Southern Pacific railroad was shown
70 VIM. Rockefeller this murning.
He stated he has not heard OF any
such transaction being contem-
plated.
DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.
NEW YoRK, July IA. There was
an ex xplosion VI dynamite ON board
the steamship q. II. Gorty, al Brook
Ign this morning, by which two
men we've killed aud tho stern Of
ibe steamer badly damaged,
FIRE an PIrrsFIRLp.
PlHTsFIErD, Mass, July lA-
Rracken's new brick block burned
fhls morning The building WAS 90
cuplod hy number of stores aud
49, ENula