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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-07-28
QUEER ALL AROUND.


A Young Militiaman Utters an Incsn diary
Remark and IL ordered TO ne Tortured
ny His Colonel.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, July e5.-Private
Iams OF company X, Tenth regiment,
shouted Saturday afternoon when the
report Of the assassination Of Mr.. Frick
reached the provisional brigade Three
cheers for the assassin
Col. Streetor from his quarters heard
the inccndiary shout lie hurried into
the camp and ordered the regiment to
he paraded In double quick time. When
his command was drawn up he recited
TO the soldiers the remark he had heard
81 heard the voice distinctly" the
colonel said. ~ think I recognize
II and want the man who
made the statement to advance two
PAGES" The colonel had recognized
lams voice and he was standing direct
ly in front OF the accused when he was
talking. Immediately Private Iams
stepped 10 the front. lie was trembling
like an aspen leaf and seemed unable TO
hold his gun.
ing OF Mr. Frick, did you not?' the
colonel asked,
lams did not answer. lie hung his
head and nodded in the Affirmative lie
was ordered to the guard house. The
colonel and his staff, including the sur
gcons, then went TO the guard house.
The officer Of the day took charge Of the
criminal and at the colonels orders he
was hung up by the thumbs for thirty
minutes. The surgeons remained with
the unfortunate during all his punish.
ment; one OF them kept watch on his
pulse while another looked after his
heart, and at the end Of thirty minute.
Surgeon Ncff ordered him taken down
When released young Iams was linn
and apparently unconscious The sur.
geons remained with him for an hour
when he was taken To the quarters.
The severity Of lams' punishment wa
due to his refusal To take back or apol
ogizc for the expression. Yesterday
one side Of his head was shaved and the
buttons cut from his uniform Of whicl
he was then stripped. lie was given {
suit OF cast Off plain clothing, par
being pair of overalls and was a
once drummed out OF camp.
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in every one. lie - no, famous for gentleness
or consideration in dealing with workmen, and
his name is not loved by laboring men, while
the feeling against him has at times been In.
tense. The day before the Homestead works
were closed he was hanged in efngy By the
workmen.
Frick has been classed as third In the list OF
Americas great coal kings, jay Gould and the
Coke family Of Drifton, Pa, being respectively
first and second He owns or controls over %,
900 acres Of rich coal land In western Pennsyl
yania. This enormous bed Of fuel Is mainly IN
the Connellsvlle coking coal region The II
C. Prick Coking Co. has over 1000 ovens its
daily output Is about 1900 tons and its total
product is larger than that Of any other coke
producing company In the world
Mr. Frick Is u small man, being only ave feet
four inches in height is slight Of build has
blonde hair and sandy complexion His Gus
tomary manner is anable. Few men have at
tanned so much wealth or taken such conspic.
uous part in the Industrial world at early age
His fortune II estimated at from Ave to eight
million dollars Twenty years ago he was
bookkeeper on u small salary. lie was indus
trious saved his money won the respect OF hts
employers and later entered into business for
himself
In 1850 Frick entered his grandfaiher's -four
mill and distillery at Braddock as bookeepcr.
While there he discovered the possibilities OF
the coke business with the means then at his
command he purchased an interest In coal
tract near Brazil and with several other young
men built nifty coke ovens This number was
soon doubled, more land was purchased and
second time the number OF ovens was doubled
making 900 In all
In 1873 the panic came Frcks partners
embarrassed by too numerous Inducements,
were forced TO sell their interests, which were
purchased by friends Of Frick As the financial
distress increased, others In the coke businc
were forced TO sell and Mr.. Frick or his friends
were on hand TO buy Ovens which he could not
| buy he leased.
Prick carried on the business In his own
name until 1873, when he sold one share TO +.
| NJ. Ferguson Of New York and the II G. Frick
| company began its existence
In 1859 the Carnegie company bought large
| share In the coke company, and the name was
| changed TO the H. c. Frck Coke Co II was
| then the largest coke company in the world,
controlling over 1900 acres Of coal land, more
/ than 1000 ovens and giving employment Ia
| 5000 men. Several years later Mr. Prick
| purchased an interest in the firm OF
| Carnegie, Phipps & Co, at Pittsburgh, and
| when w. L. Abbott retired three months ago
| Mr. Frick succeeded him us chairman Of that
company.
The capital stock OF the Carnegie Steel asso
citation il 5000 600 and when elected chair
man Of the board OF trustees Mr. Prick was
| given absolute control. The Homestead plant
is valued at tS,OO0,OOl.
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FIRED AT PRICK.
Desperate Attempt on tho Life of
Carnegie's Manager.
THE DEED DONE BY An ANARCHIST.


PITTsBUReH, Pa, July GA desper-
ate and almost successful attempt was
made Saturday afternoon to assassinate
Henry Clay Frick, chairman Of the Car
negie Steel Co.
His assailant was Alexander Berg
man, a Russian jew, who came here
from New York with the evident inten-
tion of removing the man who has been
the principal on the employers side OF
the great struggle now going on be-
tween capital and labor in this city.
II was few minutes before o'clock
when dark complexioned young man,
with Jewish cast Of countenance, of
medium height and fairly well dressed
entered the elevator in the Chronicle
Telegraph building, which is also occu-
pied by the Carnege Steel Co, limited,
and asked TO be let off at Mr.. Tricks
office. The young man had been fire.
quent visitor during the past few days
and David Fortney, the elevator
boy, thought nothing whatever
Of the request but stopped at
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FIRE AT cARRoLLToN.
A Considerable District Burned over In
the Missouri City.

the missouri city.
CARRoLLroN, Mo, July cat 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon a fire
started in the coal yard of Davis & Co.,
In this city. In few minutes the en-
tire building was n sheet Of flames.
From this building the fire was commu-
nicated TO the other buildings in the
block, all of which were brick and
occupied by Pelter & Co., groceries; the
second story OF this building was occu-
pied by the Recorder office, owned by w.
f. Chalfant, Seland e. Crouch, hardware;
Il. +, Berry e Sons, groceries; Pclsue
Bros notion store; Coombs Il Gruzenber-
ry, groceries; Wilcox, Son e Co, bankers;
Seibert's barber shop, Isaac's saloon,
Jackson's saloon, Willis & Sons, furni-
ture store, and the Coffey building, the
first floor of which was used as a store
room for furniture, the second floor as
the Republican Office.
The burned district takes in all the
buildings on the south side OF the
court house square east to and includ-
ing the Wilcox & Son bank, on the cor.
ner, and from there south on the west
side Of Main street TO the southeast cor
ner of the block.
The loss OF the property will not be
less than 500, 900 Most of those burned
out have insurance.
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AN ADDED CHAPTER.
Reported Attempt to Poison All OF
Tricks Household
TRICKS REMARKABLE GOODNESS,
An Interview with tho Prisoner In the
Pittsburgh Jaii-An Avowed Enemy
OF the Rich aud other "oppross-
ors"-His Prison Changed.

WHEELING, w. Va, July e5.-A sem
sational chapter Is added to the Frick
tragedy by the receipt of a startling
letter in this city.
Robert Alexander, a Pittsburgh fres-
coer, working here, has received let
ter from his sweetheart who is EN-
ployed as a domestic in the Frick house
hold.
She said that within the last four
days desperate attempt had been
made 10 poison the entire Frick house
hold
Mrs. Frick and her infant son were
made dangerously sick and the wife of
Frick's coachman is In a dying condi-
ton. Strenuous efforts, the writer said,
had been made 10 suppress the facts
while detectives were employed to fer
ret out the perpetrators of the outrage
The letter appears to be genuine.
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PITTsBURGH, Pa, July -. MIR. FriclS
was able this afternoon To describe to
friend more fully than before, his mem
DRY of the assault.
After the shots had been fired Berg
man still held the revolver In his right
while with the left hand he drew the
knife. Mr. Leischman had the mad
dencd assassin by the right arm trying
to wrest the knife from him and Mr..
Frick had clutched his throat, thus the
three men struggled and swayed about
the room.
Bergman, in the meantime, plunged
his knife, cutting deep into his victim
upon every opportunity that the
chances and changes of the struggle
gave him. Three of the wounds barely
missed being fatal.
Nothing In his life has so thoroughly
demonstrated Mr.. Tricks courage and
sclf-contrul as the dastardly assault
upon him and the exciting scenes which
followed. All who were In the office,
from the time the assassin fired the
shots until he was removed to his resi-
dcncc in Homewood, agree that he was
calmcr and more self-possessed than
any one about him.
lie could hear the ncwsboys ON the
streets shouting; "All about the assas-
sination OF II. c, Friclt," and the voices
of the thousands of people crowded into
Fifth avenue about his office, but he
was as little affected by this AS though
II had been matter in which he was
not directly interested.
Superintendent O'Marn left for New
York last night on private business,
which he refused to divulgc. 1t is pre-
sumed that he has gone on to discover
i the truth Of Bcrgman's statements
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AN ILL-FATeD EXPEDITION.
Capt. Bodson shoots Ru African King and
IL Himself Killed-Ths Death OF capt.

Capt Bodson shoots au African King and
IL Himself Kiiled-The Death OF capt.
stairs.
LONDON, July 25.--The Times says
that Marquis DE l'eauchamp, coli
league of Capt. Stairs and Capt. Robson
in the i'll fated Catanga expedition,
has landed at Marseilles lie de
scribcs how the Meiris attacked
the expedition and how Capt
Stairs sent Capt. liodson to King
Meirics TO parley with him. Mcirics
was about TO kill Capt Bodson, when
the latter in sclf-dcfcnse shot the king.
Capt Bodson was then himself killed
by the natives. The expedition had
been for twcnty-siN days without food
except white ants and locusts The
Belgian mission was reached just In
time to save the surviving members OF
the expedition. subsequently they
tried to reach the coast by way Of the
Zambesi river Capt Stairs had been
i'll for long time and died at Shinde,
One hundred and ninety natives at
tached TO the expedition also persisted.
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the second floor and pointed out the |
way to the chairman's private office. |
Two minutes later the occupants of the |
building and passers by on Fifth av-
enue were startled by three pistol shots |
fired in rapid succession. lntuitively |
the victim was OWNED and Prick is
shot" Prick is shot" were the words
soon passed from mouth to mouth on
the street
II was true. A man believed to be n
crank had assailed the great steel mas
ter, but the latter, notwithstanding
two bullet wounds and four ugly gashes
from dagger, still lives and will prob
ably recover.
As was his custom Mr.. FriclS took
lunch at the Duquesne club at noon
Saturday and returned to the Office at
1870 in the afternoon. lie went to the
fifth tioor where he remained but few
minutes. He then came down the ele-
vator to his private room on the second
floor fronting on Fifth avenue, where
he seated himself at his desk. The
office of Mr. Leisman, a business partner
of Mr. Frick, adioins that of the chair
man. Mr.. Lcisman came in and the two
were holding private conference no one
else being in the room. A few minutes
before o'clock Harry llccltlcy, the Of
flee boy, noticed man hastily push
open the swinging gate in the railing
that runs between the public portion
and the inclosurc where the desks of
the stenographers and clerks are lo-
Gated There was no one near the pri-
vate office door and the boy hurried up
1 II. l.. 4
but he was too late as the stranger had
already entered the private apartment
As he entered the office Mr., Frick
looked up, as did also Mr.. Leisman, to
see who it was
Mr.. Frick was examining a bundle of
papers. The man sprang within about
five feet of Mr.. Frick, and quickly
drawing his revolver, pulled the trig-
ger. The first cartridge did not explode;
the second shot entered the back of Mr.
Tricks neck and glancing downward
passed to the outside below the armpit
Frick made an exclamation and jumped
10 the circular window on Fifth avenue,
and tried in vain to open It, The as
sailant passed in front of the desk and
approaching close TO Mr.. Frick fired
again. The ball entered the muscles
on the left side OF the neck and passed
around TO a lodgment under the right
ear where IL was later reached by the
nrobe
A. ,his instant Mr. Lcisman threw
himseIfor The assassin and wrestled
Co., ,nssossinn ~ thc revolver Mr..
Ia,s,r,a,, clrtcbed the borrel and noint-
ad ,Iarnn1z,e onward as IN, cartridge
oSoIndod Tbe hail entered The
,Idstarin,, nenr the GLASS nartition.
Will AGILITY the desperate man
dre,y doggsr and ottemnted IN stab
Mr. Ieismo6. who was holding the as
sailant Inv the shoulder and body. Mr..
Frick saw the CLEAN of the steel and
although staggered bv the shock Of
two wounds and bleeding profusely
summed between the men and seized the
-, -, M I,..o, f.oad bi,,sal .
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ROAD AGENTS LYNoHsD.


Two Brothers Hanged By Mob For
Holding Up the Redding stage.
REDDING, Cal, July 25.-Iohn ID. and
Charles Ruggles, the two brothers who
robbed the Redding stage near here
several weeks ago and killed Express
Messenger Montgomery and wounded
the driver and a passenger, were taken
from the Jail and hanged.
The recent sentimental attitude OF a
number of women toward the prisoners,
as well as the line OF defense adopted
by their counsel, who has been evident
ly endeavoring TO implicate Messenger
Montgomery as a party to the crime,
caused the lynching.
About o'clock n. IN. a body Of armed
men, who had evidently rendezvoused
some distance from the town, marched
through a quiet street 10 the court
house. They secured the keys and the
cells Of the two men were opened and
the elder one, John Ruggles, asked the
crowd TO be lenient TO his brother, say
ing he was innocent
The brothers were handcuifed and
their hands tied behind their backs and
were led from the Jail The party
walked several blocks and stopped near
the railroad company's large wood shed,
where cross beam was suspended from
two pine trees. The ends Of the ropes
which had been placed around the
necks Of the two men were thrown
across the beam and the men were told
they could make statement
The brothers had little 40 say. The
older one said the younger one az in
uo.spt ORe monsnt later, ON d signal
from the leader, they were suspended
about four feet from the ground After
securing the ropes the crowd dispersed,
and the bodies were left until cut down
by the coroner Passengers on the
Oregon trains saw the bodies from the
car windows dangling IN the morning
zuE-
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The Prisoner transferred.

PIrTsBURGH, Pa, July 2j.-Much
to his own surprise and TO that Of
everybody else, Bergman was trans
ferred from the central station 10 the
jail at o'clock yesterday evening. De-
tectives Shore and Colson called at
the station and quickly walked the
prisoner away, hoping thus TO evade
any public attention. A couple Of
sharp gamins standing at the corner Of
Cherry alley recognized bergman and
at once began 10 form "a procession.
The officers tried 10 drive them away
and To deny that their prisoner was the
notorious anarchist, but the boys fol-
lowed them, telling everyone they met,
At Fifth avenue fully 100 people were
eagerly crowding forward 10 see the
man, and by the time the Jail
gates were reached there must have
been twice that number on hand. There
was no demonstration OF any sort, the
people seeming TO be actuated by curl
osity simply.
When Bergman was turned over 10
Warden McAleese, he was searched and
asked the usual questions lie gave his
name as Alexander bergman.
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The nobi1eri or nn1Ker n omtt.

DENvER, Col, July D. A great sem
sation was created by the bringing into
town Of j. II. Cross and j. Daniels, who
are charged as principal and accom-
plice in no less robbery than that
Of David II. Moifatt, president Of the
First National bank Of this place. 1t
will be remembered that on March 60
1889, daring robber entered the First
National bank 10 broad daylight and AZ
the point of revolver forced Mr.. Moi
tatt 20 give up Ell 900, with which the
thief made good his escape. The arrest
Of Cross and Daniels was made by De-
tective W. T. Sawyer, who claims that
he has been working on the case for
two years.
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LAWRENCE, Kan, July 2j.-Miss
Mary Simpson Of this city, was thrown
from buggy by runaway team last
evening killed. When the horses start
ed to run she jumped from the carriage,
striking on her head. She lived only a
few minutes. Miss Simpson was u
teacher, a graduate Of the state uni
versity Of the class Of 1886 and was
well known in college and educational
circles throughout the state
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Gaudaur and Hosmer have challenged
IIanlan and O'Connor TO a double scull
race, three miles with turn, from $500
TO a 900 and the championship Of the
world, 10 be rowed on any fair course
and 10 take place any time after Au'
gust L
Previous TO the reign OF Edward vi.
grapes were brought 10 England 10
large quantities from Flanders, where
they were frst cultivated about 1870.
Tho vine was introduced into England
In 1859, being first planted at Bloxhall,
In Suffolk.
TANNING leather with the bark Of
trees was early practised. Tan was In
troduced into Great Britain from llol.
land by William III. for raising orange
trees about 1854 II was dlscoDttIued
until about 1910, whom bananas wepa
4Nt hAAght me EBalAad
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=, =, -. -
NE" i"hN, "u'y - "inS
paper puolishes an interview WIN
bergihan' the Wou'u.pv nSsass,n oi
frieN' hau IN tnV J"', at 'i,,so"rg"'
bergman s,''u ne ueS'r'n 70 XII rlcn
men ana other oPPr'ssorH' al" was
asked -, ,,u a.,
why ana So' Waht 10 Nil, W.T. r'''N
rather than oth.r rich mem
on WELL a beginning ma" 10 DC
made somewhere ana oesiues' FLICK
was more prominent just now as an OPP
pressor OF the poor thah any other CAPT
tallst IN the country VIZ now happy
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LAWRENCE, Kan, July 2j.-Clydc
Spaulding, "a son of W. II. spaulding, Of
this city, was drowned while bathing
In the river above the city yesterday
afternoon. The body WAS found after
n long search. lie Owed into the water
and II is supposed was taken with
cramp lie was Is years old and n boy
~ much nromisp
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Henry Clay Frick has been chairman OF the
board OF trustees OF the Carnegie Steel associa.
ton since July I, when all OF Carnegie's inter
ests were consolidated. Previous 10 that time
he was best known as the head OF the H. G.
Prick Coke company. Although he is only ~
years old he hiss fought numerous hatlel with
Sgbay - h. Goa VGE-S AID H. h.aa1 gEtlaIouA
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-07-28

tB-The republican convention in
1858 did a good piece OF work In six
days. In 1899 II took only four days 10
do an equally good one. N. Y Trib-
upe.
.. favors one-ceHv Ieter postage Al
the earliest opportunity.
II commends civil service reform.
II fayors the Nicaraguan canal project
and urges United States control OF the
great waterway
1t favors the admission OF the remain
ing territories.
II fsvors the cession OF the govern
ments arid lands to the states.
II favOrs national aid 10 the ColuIn-
bian exposition Of 1898.
Il favors continuation of liberal
TeatUeat toward the gplOa sotdisg
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AND STILL THEY COME.
The House Trying to wipe out the Mo
klnley Law,

klnley Law.
The democratic house has vcntured
on one more separate" tariff bill, one
TO remove the duty on tin plate. Their
courage in having venturcd TO reduce
the duty on three separate articles,
when they were elected, according TO
their own claims, TO wipe out the i'm
iquitous Mckinley law" is very admir-
able. The democratic congressman
are probably not aware that on the day
the republican platform was adopted
at Minneapolis. one OF the largest tin
plate factories In Wales, Llanelly &
Swansea, announced that II had com
pletcd arrangements to remove Its
twenty mills to Indiana. This was one
OF the most important news items that
came across the waters of the Atlantic
on that day, but still the democrats in
congress are going ahead AZ n IL
amounted 20 nothing. as II the an
nouncement had never been made.
This single plant, which the Mckinley
bill has given to this country, is valued
at one million dollars and employs two
thousand men. Its removal 10 this
country means that there will be
ten thousand more stomachs to
fill three times day with
the produce OF American farms II
means that the surplus will be less On
the day following the Minneapolis con-
vention tin plate and mining com =
pany was organized, the head Of which
is also n Welshman, and who gave the
following statement Of the objects Of
the concern:
wales produces w per cent Of the tin plate OF
Great Britain aud 10 per cent Of this product
comes 10 tho United States To meet this de-
mand go mills will be needed, NJ against NJ or
% now located In the United States. The value
Of tho tin consumed In this country annually Is
about $50 90 90, aud the labor employed In Its
production equals 5000 900. Nine plants under
Welsh management are now running, or shortly
will be established IN this country, including a
large plant at Elizabeth, n j. Wages In this
country are Just double what they are IN Wales.
Our eight mills will provide work for 100 hands,
the average Of wages being " per day The
Illinois Steel Company produces better steel
than any made In Wales, so We are all right In
that regard.
So let tho democrats In congress pro
coed TO try 10 tear this growing industry
down The people Of the country can
be relied upon TO support the party that
stands for this development, not for the
party that obstructs American indus
tries. Iowa state Register.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-09

OFFICERS NOMINATED FOR TIE COMING YEAR

OFFICERS NOMINATED FOR TIE COMING YEAR
THE ELECTION WILL DE- NEXT WEEK
4 special meeting Of the New England Society I'm
the CITY o. Ncw-Yorh held last evening at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel for the purpose Of nominating n
board of officers for the coming year and TO elect
new members. Clarence W. Bowen presided nnd Luther
Prescott Hubbard and John II. Townsend were sccrc
tarics The following members were selected by lot
as a committee on nominations: ". +. lIocomb. John
T. TORY, W. f.. Webb. Thomas II. Wood and John T..
Townsend. The committee reported III, following
Nominations:
President. Daniel g. Rollins; first N'c-pr sIdont.
Ehu Root: second vice pcsidcnt. Charles G. BE imam
treasurer William Dowd; secretary, Luther Prescott
Hubl ard.
The election viii take place at the annual meeting
next Thursday evening.
The following ucw nbcrs were elected the Rev.
Francis Goodwin, Vale r. Andrew Frederick H..
Bradley Ed Twin \. bradley Henry H. Fierce. Phlander
b. ilal. Albert a. Frost, ". IL. Porter. Joseph T..
Mason, Isaac Mycr. Thomas Denny Jr. julien T.
Davic, Edwin W. Wilson, Charles l.. Colby. Thrma,
Fcsscndcn Lee George Thaddcus stevens. i. :. Miller
H. Walter Webb and George :. brewster.