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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-07-14
Killed his Father.

News has just been received by
messenger from q settlement near
The Dalies, called Ten-Mile, of the
killing of man named Il. w.
Wilhelm. Wilhelm was a man 65
years old, who had very violent
temper, and had not been living
with his family for some Tune. 1t
is understood he frequently beat
his wife, and had trouble with his
sons concerning the working Of
their farm. When he left home
the last time he told his family to
take charge of the farm and that
he was coming to The Dalles to
live. Yesterday he returned home,
and being in an ugly mood, quar-
relied with his wife. His youngest
son, William, % years old, came
to the assistance Of Mrs. Wilhelm,
when the man became violent and
reached for gun to shoot her.
The boy, seeing their lives in dan
ger, struck his father over the
head with a club, killing him in
stantly. He came here this morn
and gave himself up to the sheriff
who, with the coroner, has repair.
| ed to the scene Of the tragedy.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-07-14
HANGED in CHAINS.
A Negro Brute Pays the Penalty of His
Crime.

Whether guilty Of the awful
crime with which he was charged
or not, Seay j. Miller, the negro
arrested at Sykeston, Mo-, last
night, has paid the penalty for it.
He was dragged from the jail at 3
o'clock this afternoon by an in
furiated mob, whose purpose it was
to burn him at the stake. That
he was not burned alive seems to
have been due to the very fury of
the mob that killed him. Excited
into Mysteries, the ringleaders lost
their heads and hanged him with
chain to telegraph pole, while
they were shouting s'burn him."
John Ray, the father Of the MUIR
dered girls, with singular inconsis-
tency, asked that the negro not be
burned, although in the morning
he had set the hour for the torture.
It is doubtful if he knew what he
was doing, he was SO excited.
After being dragged from the jail,
the negro was hurried away amid
the cries Of ''burn him." Sburn
him." until a telegraph pole was
reached. A cham was drawn
around his neck and two men
climbed the pole with the other
end of it. The negro was drawn up
and strangled. Some one fred q
shot into his body before he was
dead. Every body was disappoin-
ted and angry at the manner OF
his death. The body was lowered
and horribly mutilated. The ears,
fingers and other pieces were cut
| away. The body was thea drag
ged by the mob 500 yards across
the railroad track and burned
The fire is to be kept burning all
/ night. After his arrest at Skyes'
ton, the negro was positively iden.
titled by the fisherman who ferried
| him across the river. He also had
ON his person a ring belonging tt
one of his victims and his knife
contained hairtorn from her head
These identified by her father. HI
was lodged in Jail here about noon
He called for Methodist breaches
and one waited on him. He pro
fessed conversion and was baptized
Immediately after being baptise'
be raised his hands and swore h
was innocent. This statement h
repeated to the mob, but it is sai'
he afterwatd made a partial con
fession. The door of the Jail wa
f battered in a few minutes before
and he was dragged out. Full
t 1000 men, women and childre
! witnessed the execution. Me
who did the hanging are from Ker
lucky, Tennessee, Illinois and Mil
souri,, but the work was done ]
such a manner and the throng wa
! SO great that no man can name tt
: individual who participated.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-07-14

no one could be found who would
risk ten cents OIL his whaleship.
When Pulley Point was passed the
boat was ahead fully six lengths,
and five minutes after passing the
Point the greatest race on record
was ended, the man had construc-
ted to sail on top of the water q
boat that could outrun the swiftest
denizen of the deep.
A passenger who came up on the
boat crossed the Flyers track re-
ported seeing dead whale near
Pulley point. Whether or not
this was the remains of the whale
that raced the Flyer has not been
verified, but it is quite probable
that the race the boat gave it may
have proved fatal.-Tacoma Led
ger.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-07-14
The IOWA CYCLONE.
In Every Direction Nothing
But Wreck and Ruin.
NEARLYA HUNDRED LIVES LOST
Will Be Buried Alive--A Young
Man Kills HIS Father.

Seventy-four people dead, at
least five more to die, and over 100
injured is the result of the cyclone
that started at Quimby and ended
with awful results at Pomeroy
Thursday night. AT the latter
place 48 are dead and over 105
blocks of residences are dem olished.
Nothing remains but kindling
wood. Two hundred families are
homeless, many having lost all.
Business blocks arebadly damaged,
and the new postoffice, drug
store and seven churches are com.
pletely demolished. The loss in
Pomeroy will reach fully $4,000.
All is chaos there. The residents
still alive are in dazed condition.
and it is very difficult to get in
formation. The storm came from
the northwest and did it's terrible
work in literally one minutes
time. An immense amount ol
damage is done to crops. The
path of the storm is strewn with
the carcasses of animals, and in
every direction there is nothing
but wreck and ruin. Immediately
after the storm had passed, the
cries and means of the Injured and
dying were heart-rending, and will
ling ones kegan the work of rescue.
Their work was sickening, as peo-
pie were found literally torn tc
pieces, some with legs or arms
gone, others suffering from terrible
wounds with life oozing out. Many
were dead, so disfgureds as to be
unrecognizable. The body Of a
young lady was found, but the
head and one Of the lower limbs
were missing. The old postofict
was turned into a morgue, and al
one time contained 26 bodies
The Good Templars' hall and
hotels were turned into hospitals
where every effort was made to re,
lieve the mfortunates.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-07-14
Blnger a straddIer.

We are afraid Binger Hermann,
congressman from Coos county, in
his straddle of the silver question,
will be in the position of the new
circuit judge who tried TO please
both parties to the lawsuit by rend
ering his decision so as to compro-
mise the matter, with a view of re-
tanning the friendship Of both,
But he incurred the lasting ennity
of both. In his next decision he
had learned a lesson, and he secur'
ed the friendship of one side by
rendering a f1at-footed decision ir
their favor. Binger has been ir
his time a most artful and graceful
straddler. But the silver question
is hard one to successfully strad.
die. 1t is really a painful spec
tacle to witness any one trying tt
straddle it. He is likely to be
split clear up the back.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-07-14
Racing on Puget Sound.

What was probably the most
unique race on the record occurred
on the waters of Puget Sound be-
tween Tacoma and Seattle on Fri
day afternoon-namely race be-
tween a whale and steamboat.
Shortly after the Flyer passed
Browns Point on her afternoon
trip to Seattle, large shovel-nose
whale was noticed on her port bow,
and as it was in about the same
position when the Flyer came up
on her previous trip it excited the
curiosity of the captain, who de-
cided to stand off bis course to get
a near view of the monster of the
deep. Judge Of his astonishment
when, instead of oyerhauling the
whale, the whale drew away from
the boat. BY this time it had got
noised about among the passengers
that it was the intention of the
officers Of the boat to overtake the
whale if possible for wood, steel and
steam to do SO.
Word was sent to the engine
room, and in a few moments it was
plainly noticeable that the crack
boat Of the Pacific had got an ex-
ira move on herself, and in about
five minutes it was clear she was
gaining on the whale. About one
mile south of Robinson's Point the
whale put on an extra squirt speed.
and for minute or SO gained q
J little on the boat, but it evidently
was only squirt for the boat again
gained. When Robinson's Point
was reached the whale took tht
| inside course. and it was feared il
would run ashore and so end The
race, To prevent this the Flyer
/ kept ON shore as to allow it plenty
OF sea room in rounding the point
By reason of taking the outsid,
course after the point was roun
| ded, the whale had gained consid
erable on the boat, but it was evi
dent from the erratic movements 0
the leyiathan that it was fast be
| coming tired out, and that
would be only a matter of fey
miles more when the monste
would have to acknowledge defea
About half a mile from Pulle
Point the whale and boat wei
side By side, and the excitemer
among the passengers was intans,
women and children joining In tt
wild vigorous yelling. Bets whic
at the beginning Of the race wei
offered that the whale would do i
the boat were al withdrawn, an
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-07-14
viii Be Buried Alive.

The Press special from Toledo
says: Seymour the mind reader,
was in Toledo yesterday on his
way to Chicago, where he is going
to be buried alive after the man
ner Of the Indian magicians,
who say they can suspend anim-
alton for my period by swallow
ing their tongues and controlling
the heart and mind. "My coffin
has gone ahead" said Mr.. Sey-
mour, "its fac-simile of the one
in which General Grants remains
now rest and cost $4,000. It is
made in three sections, one fitting
inside the other. will be buried
six feet deep in the coffin. Signals
are to be arranged so that if things
don't 60 right / can communicate
with the soldiers on the outside
who will guard the grave. Direct
ly after am buried crop Of
barley will be sown over the grave.
I will remain buried till the germs
sprout, grow, ripen and are har-
vested. Then the disinterment
will take place. ! won't come back
to earth until September oath. ]
am positive | can do it and the
scientific men who are assisting me
are beginning to think 50 too"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-07-14
DIED AT THEIR POST
Awful Fate of Thirty Of Chi
cago Brave Firemen.
BURNED IN A TRAP LIKE RATS.
Racing on Puget Sound; the Steamer
0utruns a Huge Whale.

Fire broke out in the cold stor-
age warehouse just south of the
Sixty -fourth-street gate of the
worlds fair.
The fire started at the top of the
cupola, which rises fully 200 feet
from the ground. Through this
cupola the chimney passed. The
cupola was made of wood, sur
mounted with a staff, and was
highly ornamented with pillars
and columns. Near the top is a
landing. The fire broke out 80
feet above this. AS soon as the
.fremen arrived, 35 Or 40 of them
climbed up the ladders and were
preparing to throw streams Of wat
er on the burning portion, when
the fire which had eaten its way
inside to point below where the
fireman stood, broke out with vol
canic ferocity on all sides. An ex-
clamation of horror broke from
10000 people gathered about the
building to see the fire. Five men
saved themselves by sliding down
the ropes. Before the others could
follow the fire burned away the
ropes. Those who remained were
huddled together on thenorth side of
the cupola. It was beyond the reach
Of any ladders, and the crowd
stood horror stricken, helpless to
aid. The flames leaped higher and
higher until the men were almost
concealed from view. One fire.
man sprang far outand was dash
ed to pieces on the roof go feet be-
low.
Another and another, crazed by
the awful heat, followed his ex-
ample and met the same fate.
When five had jumped the upper
portion Of the eupola gave way, and
the remaining firemen were swal-
lowed up in the mass of burning
timbers. Meantime every effort
was being made to extinguish the
fire, most of which was above the
reach of streams. The entire
building will be destroyed. Itcost
$250,000, and was stored with
wines, meats and fruits. The loss
will be S5oOOGB. It was built by
the Hercules Iron Works, manu-
facturers Of refrigerating machin.
cry. 1t is reported that three wo.
men and several clerks in the of
| flee on the third floor were crushed
by the falling cupola.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-07-14
Herr Most on AItgeId.

Altgsld, the Illinois democratic
governor who outraged decency by
his recent pardoning Of the anar-
chist dynamite mufderers Of
Chicago policemen, and who in SO
doing SO went out Of his way to
denounce the administration Of law
in the state which has the dis
tinguished obloquy Of having him
for chief executive IS getting it hot
from all sources.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-07-14
Attitude Of Oregon.

While the citizens of Oregon
may have doubts.as to the wisdom
of California in elongating the
worlds fair exhibit by holding q
mid-winter show in San Francisco,
there can be no question as to the
course. Oregonians should pursue
if the exhibition is decided upon,
which it undoubtedly be from pre-
sent indications. Oregon should
enter into the exhibit with gener-
Gus, hearty good will and make as
much of it as possible.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-07-14
Pay mp.

All parties knowing themselves
;ndebted to me. are notified to
come forward and settle without
delay.
Jan. 1st #. n A. MILLER
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-07-14

Go to Helix for your house and
barn bills.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-07-14
LIE. FORD, EVANGELIST.
of Des Moines, iowa, writes under date OF
March ., 1898:
S. B. MED. MFG. Co,
Dufur, Oregon.

Dufur, oregon.
Gentlemen:
On airing home last week, found
All well and anxiously awaiting.
Our little girl, eight and one-half
Years old, who had wasted away to
SO pounds, is now we'll, strong and
vigorous, and well fieshed up. s.
B. Cough Cure has done its work
we'll. Both Of the children ike
it. Your S. B. Cough Cure has
cured and kept away all hoarsness
from me. So give it to every one,
with greetings for all all. Wish
ing You prosperity, We are
Yours, Mr.. & Mrs. ]. E. Ford.
r vou wish to feel fresh and cheerful. and
aasav for the Springs work. cleanse your
.Ssfa,n with the Headache ana Liver cure,
~ taking two or three doses each week.
30 cents per bottle BY all druggists.
said under a positive guarantee BY the
Pioneer Drug STORE
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Spruce header bed lumber, reel
slots and good material for racks
at the Helix lumber yard.
j. L. BAYsE.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-05
-FOUR WERH FOUND
HANGING TO A TREE.
All Were Characters OF the Worst
Description.
W. B. CURTIS ON A TOUR.
st. LOuis Is Making Preparations for a
Lynching.
Train Robbers Captured, one Probably a
Valuable Prize-The Akeson Murder
ers Narrowly Escape Lynching-
Murderer Stone Convicted.

Fayetteville, Tenn, Nov. .4.-Early
this morning on the farm of Jack
Daniels, near vnchburg, Ned Wag
goner, his S, VIM his daughter Mary
and his sc n-law sam Motlow were
found har ing in Tree. They were
all coloret The only cause assigned
Tor their ynching IS that they were
supposed to nave been implicated in
he barn burnings that have taken
place recently in Moore and Lincoln
counties. There is no clue to the per-
Detrators.
Another account says q mob of over
700, all mounted, and some masked,
rom the west end of Moore county
did the lynching and gives the name
of Motlow's wife Eliza as one of the
victims instead of Waggoner's daugh-
ter. 1t says Waggoner's wife was ter
ribly whipped and given three days in
which to leave the country. Henry
Motlow and JEFF Wise a boy of twelve
years, were in the house at the time
but did not recognize any of the lynch
ers.
All the negroes hanged are said to
be desperate characters and that the
mob made sure of their guilt, some OF
its members have been overheard max
ing plans to burn barns and houses.
The trouble originated &. the convic-
ton of Ed Waggoner and his sentence
to the penitentiary last year for steal
ing wheat. Sam Motlow's wife last
year robbed the house of man named
Hobbs and then burned it. Motiow
was a desperate character and recent
ly tried to kill white man here.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-05
CURTIS AND HIS TOUR.
The Actor Fleeing Through the East in
Disguise.

Chicago, Nov. A report was re-
ceived from Denver this morning that
NJ B. Curtis, the actor, who disap-
peared from his ranch in California,
is flying towards New York as fast as
says he left San Francisco Wednes-
day afternoon in disguise until he
should cross the California state line.
1t is further reported that he passed
through Colorado Springs yesterday
afternoon and should have reached
the Missouri river this morning, over
the Rock Island road. He appears to
be avoiding large cities Agents of
the Associated Press at points likely
TO be touched by him have been in
structed to look out for him. but thus
far have been unable to locate him.
A local paper has special from Col
orado Springs giving the following
purported interview with him: 81 am
on my way east" was all he would
say. II did not skip from California,
but left there to go to New York to
make arrangements about my new
play If you want to talk tbout that
all right"
1T is said, Mr.. Curtis, you fed from
California in the disguise Of a tramp"
4 did nothing of the kind. My law
yers said 1 could come away if 1 want
ed to and L guess they know what they
are talking about"
The dispatch further says as soon
as Curtis crossed the California line,
he threw of the tramp disguise and
made no secret of his identity, adding
he was in company with a young ac-
tress known only to the trainmen as
''The Kicker" AS she was about II
years old, she was not his wife. The
report adds that during the afternoon
they consumed four bottles of beer and
one Of whisky.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-05
THE MEMORY OF
HARRISON DISGRACED.
A Scene That Would Paralyze
Even Salt Lakes Council.
FIGHTING FOR HIS SEAT.
Police Called in to Quell the Unseemly
Disturbance.
The Crape-Draped Desk OF the Late
Mayor Invaded and the EmbIems of
Mourning Torn from Their Places
and Trodden in the DIRT.

Chicago, Nov. 4.3Such scenes were
never before enacted in a city council
chamber of this city as transpired
there today.
Before the crape-draped speakers
desk stood two aldermen, political OPP
ponents, each declaring himself chair
man of the body
The reading clerk leaped upon the
back of one contestant and tried to
eject him. Another clerk tore up
resolution because it was not in line
with what his party desired. Over
the sombre-draped rail of the speak
er's stand. leaped another alderman
upon the back of the clerk and his col
leagues hocked to his aid. Upon him
jumped an alderman of the opposing
faction, clutching at the throat of
man who by force was trying to get
before the council that which should
have legally been received.
Police officers rushed into the en-
closure to separate the struggling
aldermen, and in the fight that en-
sued, the Grape hung about the desk
of the dead mayor was rent, torn
down and trampled on the floor. The
men who. three days days ago. spent
money and labor to honor Mayor Har-
rison, disgraced his memory today by
a disreputable brawl over the right to
sit for twenty minutes in his chair.
Tonight the council chamber is guard
ed by police officers, and no one al
lowed to enter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-05
THE WHITE HOUSE GUARDED.
A Miner from the West Who Proposes to
Assnssinate Cleveland.

Washington, Nov A number of
officers in citizens dress have been de-
tailed to guard the White House and
protect the life of the president, which
is supposed to be in danger from a
murderous crank who is at large in
this city.
Last Wednesday, there arrived in
Washington a man who keeps a res
taurant in Boise City, Ida. The name
of the man the police for the present
refuse to divulge. Yesterday he went
to the chief of police and told his
story He said about a week ago
miner who was out of employment,
came to his restaurant and in the
course of heated discussion about
the silver question and the effects of
the repeal bill on the mining interests
of the west, declared, with emphasis,
that he was going to Washington. and
if the repeal bill passed uncondition-
ally he would kill the man whom he
knew should be held responsible. The
restaurant keeper did not know the
man, but as he disappeared from Boise
he concluded it was his duty to come
here and notify the authorities. He
arrived on Wednesday and that after
noon strolled up the White House
promenade and the first person he saw
WAS Inc InlHeI With WuOlA he udu the
alteration.
AS soon as the man saw him, he
took to his heels. The restaurant
keeper thought it was possibly a case
of mistaken identity, and he said moth
ing to anybody until the next day,
when he again went to the White
House, and saw the same man Turk
ing there, no mistake. He went to the
chief of police, and told his story, Civ
ing a full description of the man. AS
a precautionary measure, a number of
officers were detailed to guard the
White House and detectives are look
ing for the man, who avows himself
an intended assassin. The police de-
clare they do not believe there is any
danger, but say precaution is being
taken to guard against possible con-
tingencies. and the matter is being
kept very quiet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-05
OVER THE OCEAN.
The Usual Weekly Budget of Great Hap
penipgs Abroad,

Berlin, Nov. 4-[Copyright 1898, by
the Associated Press. 1.-The close Of
the Worlds fair at Chicago has
been made the occasion of num-
Der of articles in the German
press. referring to the satisfac-
ton of German exhibitors at the
manner in which the affair was
managed, and regarding as a foregone
conclusion that it will have an i'm
mense influence over the German
American commercial relations of the
future.
There was a large gathering this
morning at the Potsdam barracks to
witness the recruits of the Potsdam
garrison take the oath of allegiance in
the presence of the emperor and en-
press, who were accompanied by their
three eldest sons. The function was
purely formal one.
The. sequel to another army scandal,
embracing charges of brutality to
private soldiers, is the cashiering of
Lieutenant Schrag-Muller, of the
Thirty-ninth regiment of infantry,
stationed at Dusseldorf.
At the instance of the prince regent
of Bavaria, the Royal Opera House of
Munich has offered prize of 5000
marks for a new German opera.
The Bavarian diet at Munich this af-
ternoon discussed the motion to abol-
ish the Bavarian legations at ST. Pc
tersburg and Paris. The debate on
Germany's position in Europe followed,
during which Deputy Railing declar-
ed that but for the war on German
people in 1866, the policy of blood pur-
sued in 1870 might have been avoided
and in place of the present limited
Germany, an empire comprising all
the German race might have been ere
ated with the Danube remaining the
German river In reply the premier
said Germanys position as now allied
to Austria was better than at any
time since the union of the German
races.
The Associated Press correspondent
received from the finance ministry
tonight a copy Of the bill embodying
the new financial scheme of the en-
pire, and which will now be submitted
to the Bundesrath. The bill provides
the federal contributions to the imper-
ial treasury, apart from special sums
payable by individual states, shall be
limited each year to a sum at least
40. 0O0 900 marks below the total pay
lnents to the states out of the imper-
ial revenue from customs and from to-
bacco stamp excise and spirit duties.
Iln the event of a deficit in the ordinary
imperial budget, the taxes on articles
of consumption may be decreased.