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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-09-02
A Mass Of Corruption.

could get hn: little ease and comfort and less
benefit from the medical treatment received.
Some OF my friends advised me to have the Loo
nmputateu, but hcstatcd, not wanting TO lose
paper embracing Il testimonial for Hood's Sar
saparlla from one Mr. John McNIilrrav teilinu
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
Confessed a Terrible Murder.

Henry Frame has confessed that he
helped Charles Macard rob and kill old
Mrs. Miles McKendrick last January at
Grand Rapids. He was arrested at
Libertyville, Ill.
The murder was dastardly one
The woman was gagged, robbed of
$500, and finally suffocated to death
Charles Macard, whom Frame impli-
Gates, is now on trial. Frame says
Macard was masked, but in the excite
ment the mask fell off. He knew the
woman recognized him, and then,
Frame thinks, Macard purposely fixed
the gag so that it would kill her, al
though at first he had no intention of
committing murder. Frame got S235
of the swag, then they separated,
Frame going to Chicago and Macard to
San Francisco, where he was finally
captured. Frame learned that the
woman was dead, and then he suffered
agonies of remorse. In sheer despera-
tion he squandered every cent he had
stolen, and he had no rest till he had
unburdened his mind of the CHASTITY
secret.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE.

NEW YoRK.-R. c. Dun s. Co.'S weekly re-
view OF trade says: When accounts OF great
strikes and labor disturbances crowd in 10 is
impossible to look for much Improvement in
business That every week OF idleneSs for so
many men must apprcciably lessen the aggre-
gate power TO purchase products OF labor is
evident. But In spite OF all some improvement
still appears. Several large auction sales of
textile goods have disturbed markets and
brought remarkably low prices. Continual re-
ports OF changes in the tariff bill add To diffi-
entities of producers and dealers. Speculative
markets are practicing the philosophy Of Mr..
Micawber, and arc naturally lower. Western
receipts OF wheat have been light, but the price
has dropped one cent. Corn is inactive and a
shade higher: pork. lard and coffee a shade
lower. With continued business depression
and new crops drawing near, even the unlim-
tied supplies of idle money do not kindle specu-
lative hopes. The decrease In liabilities OF
firms failing still continues. The failures last
week were $50 in the United States against lld
last year, for the first time in many months
showing decrease, and in Canada e. against
% last year. The list includes none OF great
Importance.
NEW YoRK.-Bradstreet review OF the state
OF trade says: The general business situation
throughout the United States Is less favorable,
as shown by the reports from more than 50im-
portant distributing centerS A specially de-
pressing influence is the strike OF l47.OOO btu
mnous coal and coke operatives in twelve
states. Buffalo. Cleveland Chicago and Duluth
are feeling the strike, the effect on vessel in
terests at these and other lake ports being
very discouraging Only two cities OF 35 re-
porting In central, western and northwestern
states report material improvement In general
trade-Indianapolis and Kansas City; even az
those points the gain Is slight. Activity in the
stock market is checked by the labCr disturb
ances and the delay In reaching conclusion on
the new tariff bill. Foreign exchange is duh,
but 81 .yO0OOO in gold was engaged foT export to
France. Silver had speculative rise on a
rumor that midas minis would reopen. but the
quotation FOR bars has receded TO 6t1sc.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
An Ep,demIc of suicides.

Sherman Tenney, aged about co
years, hanged himself in his room in
the Scanlon house, Saginaw. He used
small piece of clothdsline suspended
froIb peg. Tdnny WIS for 2OyeaIs in
the employ of Wylie Bros, and un-
married. No cause is assigned for the
act.
Cornelius Dananga, IS years old,
was found in the woodshed by his wife
lying in a pool of blood. His head
was almost severed from the body and
there was a razor beside him. Danenga
had been respondent for several
months. He was thrifty Hollander,
living in a comfortable home.
Lyman Aldrich, a Seneca farmer, 20
years old, committed suicide by taking
morphine and chloroform. Despond-
ency, caused by i'll health.
Frank Stevens committed suicide at
Battle Creek by taking strychnine.
He formerly was nightwatch at the
Advance, but was discharged for be-
ing drunk.
Edwin Howafacker and Miss
Boyer, were married at Owosso and
the same night the young lady took
strychnine and died before morning.
The poison was purchased from Conrad
Bros. about week before to poison
rats with. 1t is thought she had been
contemplating the deed for some time.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
MINOR MICHIGAN NEWS.

A freight train on the ID. & Il. c.
road was derailed at Hunters Creek,
four miles south of Lapeer. Five cars
were completely wrecked. No one was
injured.
The mills around Muskegon Lake
are all running but the supply some.
what exceeds the demand just at pres.
ent. The cargo shipments exceed 300,-
600 feet per day.
Mrs. Ellis Bancroft, a young married
woman, was run over by n Chicago &
Grand Trunk express train at Nichols
Station while taking leave of friends.
Both legs were crushed and her recov.
cry is doubtful.
Prominent cultivators about Cold.
water state that the strawberry crop
in Branch and Calhoun counties will
be almost total failure. The plants,
they claim, were almost all killed by
the cold weather.
The Lake Angeline mine superin-
tendent has decided to add 100 men to
its force at Ishpeming on May 1. The
old mine, which was closed down
about three months ago. will be re-
opened and the additional force will be
employed there.
While sixteen Golfers were descend
ing shaft leading to mine at Bots du
Lack, in the Mons district in Belgium,
the cable broke, precipitating the
whole party TO the ground. Thirteen
of the miners were killed, and the
remaining three severely injured.
At the saw mill of Sayers & Millxs, at
Summit City, one of the employees
somehow got caught in the power
belt. lie was carried around the shaft
several times, but fortunately slipped
and escaped death. Two fingers were
torn from one of his hands, however.
Joseph Remillard, farmer residing
nine miles from Lake Linden, started
for home about o'clock at night. He
was driving furiously when leaving
the town. His body was found in a
creek the next morning near his home,
his head under the water. The sup.
position is that he fell out of his buggy
while asleep. He was single man
as years old.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
Michigan Miners Starring.

Nearly LOCO miners paraded the
streets of Iron Mountain, demanding
bread or work, and great excitement
prevailed. business men fear that
their places will be looted, but the men
appear to be good natured. The men
besieged Mayor Crowell and requested
that Gov. Rich be telegraphed that 500
families in Iron Mountain are starving.
There is no reason to believe that the
statement is overdrawn. There is more
restitution and suffering there now
than at any time since the mines have
closed. and unless aid is received, and
at once, there is bound to be rioting
and may be blood shed. The city and
county treasures are empty, and the
authorities arc helpless.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
0ALVIN's COxEY ARMY.
Took Possession OF Train and Had to he
Threatened With Guns.

Gen: Calvin and his 200 common
wealers took possession of freight
train on the Il. a. O. railroad at Mt.
Sterling, o., and announced their in
tention of staying on it. The crew side
tracked the train and the road was
blocked to freight trains for nearly two
days. The officials of the road appealed
to Gov. Mckinley. who at once ordered
battery II, of Columbus to go to Mt.
Sterling. The battery has gatling
guns and cannon. The governor also
ordered Companies A, Il, c, and +, Of
the Fourteenth o, n, e., Col. Colt, of
Columbus to proceed to Mt. Sterling
These companies numbered about $50
men.
When the troops arrived Gen. Calvin
promptly surrendered. The men, how
ever refused TO move and not until the
Calling guns had been placed and the
troops were moving upon the train to
force them off did the commonwealers
climb down. There was no harsh feeling
shown and later on the citizens raised
money enough to pay the Galvinites'
transportation to Columbus.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
Coal Operators Dissatisfied.

Chicago: If the coal strike is not
settled within the next few days at
least one Chicago operator will make
a breach in the ranks Of the bosses and
set his men TO work at their old prices
soon. w. u. Rend, who has large in
terests in the coal fields of Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio, is growing tired of
his efforts to end the strike, and may
break loose from the bosses and start
up his mines this week. His son, j. p.
Rend, says il has been discovered that
there is large pool of operators which
has 500 900 tons of coal about Duluth
and West Superior which was mined
at reduced wages and shipped at re-
duced rates, and which the pool is
holding for big advance, and mean
time is endeavoring TO prolong the
strike TO gain their point.
Charleston, w. Va: 1t is believed
that the greater part of the miners
will be at work in a few days in both
the Kanawaha and New River district,
as the operators have about determined
that the strike was gotten up by the
Ohio and Pennsylvania coal operators
in order to injure the interests of the
operators in this territory.
Columbus, o.: John Mcbride, after
reading the statement of Col. Rends
son, said: Before Col. Rend can set
his men to work at the advance in
wages asked he must first secure the
consent of his men. There are hum
dreds of operators ready and willing
TO begin to work and pay the price for
mining which is asked by the Miners
association if the men were willing to
return to work. The docking Valley
operators attach no Importance to the
statement that Col. Rend proposes to
resume work. What they desire is fair
treatment of the miners and fair treat
ment by all operators toward each
other"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
Ohio penitentiary omc,aIs Fight.

sensational scene occurred at the
Ohio penitentiary at Columbus during
the chapel exercises. There has been
strong feeling between Warden James
and Deputy Warden Playford for some
time, which resulted in the warden
some weeks ago refusing TO appoint
Playford for another term. Playford' s
time would have expired in one day
more, and he secured permission of the
chaplain to make brief farewell
speech to the prisoners at chapel.
About the time he was to begin speak
ing the warden told him to sit down.
and while an explanation was going
on between the two Deputy Warden
Stackhouse undertook to remove Play
ford by force. He dragged him par
TALLY across the rostrum, when they
engaged in a fistic set-to and Stack
house was knocked down. While this
was going on the more than 1,500 pris-
oners rose in their places and made
demonstrations which looked as if a
mutiny was at hand, but the strong
words of the chaplain restored quiet.
Playford was suspended by the warden.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
Erank Hattnn Dead.

Washington: Mr.. Frank Hatton, late
editor of the Washington Post, is dead.
Less than n week before, Mr.. Hatton,
who apparently had been in good
health, was suddenly stricken with
paralysis while working alone at his
desk
Frank Hatton was born In Cambridge, O..
April %. 1916. At tho outbreak of tho war he
enlisted in the Ninety fifth Ohio Infantry. and
in 1894 was commissioned first lieutenant.
When the war came TO a close Mr.. Hatton, in
the town OF Mt Pleasant, Ia. edited the Jour
nal from 1869 20 1874 and then removed TO Bur
lington, Ia, where he purchased a controlling
interest in the Hawkeyc, his partner being
Robert j. Burdctte, the humorist. Mr.. Hat
toms first federal Office was that OF postmaster
at Burlington. In 1881 President Arthur APP
pointed him associate postmaster-general In
that capacity he served from October. 1881. until
October. 1884, when he was made postmaster
general He continued in that Office until the
close Of Gen. Arthur's administration. In 1885
he removed 20 Chicago TO become editor-in-
chief of the Chicago Mail In 1893 Mr.. Hatton.
in partnership with Beriah wilkins. purchased
the Washington Post, of which he has been
oditor-in-chtef ever since.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
CANADIAN REAL ESTATE
Takes n Big Drop-At Least Four Square
Miles Did Near Montreal.


Miles Did Near Montreal.
Special from Montreal: An extern
sive landslide has occurred at a place
called Riviere Noire. on the River ST.
Anne. A piece of land about mile
wide and four miles long was dislodged
and carried distance of about 20
acres, completely blocking the river.
The water rose very high in conse-
quence and flooded the country. The
dam soon broke, carrying away every
thing in its passage. Bridges at st.
Adams, st. Casimir and st. Anne were
swept away. Lumber merchants also
lost considerable timber Their booms
were broken up and carried off.
1t is reported that seven houses were
demolished when the slide occurred
and that a family of four persons
named Gauthier have persisted. 1t is
understood that 10 lives in all were
lost. The parishes of ST. Anne, st.
Adams and st. Casimir, lose several
thousand dollars each.
Smoke was seen rising Immediately
over where the houses are buried. and
it is thought that they had taken fire.
Many hundreds of animals perished;
earcasses could be seen floating down
the river, whilst others passed near
the shore, apparently alive, but too
exhausted to crawl upon the banks.
laundering operations are entirely sus-
pended. The damage has been csti-
mated in round figures at S500,000.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
Coxey ut NYashInrtnn.

Washington is besieged. General"
Coxey and his good roads army of the
commonweal arrived at their mecca
and went into camp at the Brightwood
Driving Park. After the tents had
been set up large crowds of curious
people poured out from the capitol city
on the first day of the encampment
There were only $50 men in the line
when the end of the long march was
reached.
The encampnent had very much the
appearance of n country circus and the
scene was certainly picturesque and
interested the thousands of city peo-
pie greatly. Among the curious were
several senator's and congressman and
hundreds of fashionable ladies.
Gen" Coxey, Marshal Browne and
the Choir" entertained the sightseers
with speeches and songs.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
NEW ORLEANS HOTEL FIRE.
Four Lives Sacrificed and 200 Guests
Narrowly Escape.

Narrowly Escape.
Fire started about II o'clock at night
in the kitchen of the st. Charles hotel,
New Orleans. From the kitchen ii
assembled through back elevator to
the upper stories of the building. The
progress. of the flames was so rapid
that the Commerce street side of the
third, fourth and fifth stories were
soon in flames, and before. the occu-
pants, guests and servants could be
moved Every effort was made to
awake all the occupants, but the flames
drove the firemen and others back.
Most of the 200 guests were in the
front rooms and escaped. The hotel
was built in 1856 at cost of million
dollars and for years was the finest in
the south.
LATER.-Four lives were sacrificed
in the st. Charles hotel fire. One man
leaped from the fourth story window
and was almost instantly killed, while
four men and one woman were seen to
leap from the iron staircase leading
from the rear of the building and were
lost TO view in the court which looked
to be almost n solid mass of flames.
One made his escape into the street,
but nothing was seen of the others.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
Emily. MoGnrrnhan Dead.

William McGarrahan. the celebrated
claimant TO the New Iberia mine, in
Nevada, died at Providence hospital,
Washington. He had been familiar
figure at the capitol for years and was
well known TO majority of senators
and members of the house, majority
of whom believed in the justice of his
claim. A bill to permit trial of his
case in the court of claims was passed
by the last congress, but was vetoed
by President Harrison. Several other
bills had been passed by one house or
the other and a score Of committees
had reported favcrably on this claim.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
THE NEWS RESUME.

Washington: Representative O'Neill,
of Missouri, has introduced a bill to
protect free labor from the injurious
effects of convict labor by combining
the sale of the products of the latter
class of labor to the state where pro-
duced.
The Upton avenue Touring and saw
mill and the adjoining wooden mills,
owned by William Lambert, at Reed
City, were destroyed by fire. These
mills were insured. There is much
speculation as to how the fire origin
ated. The loss will amount TO nearly
SO, 900.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
900 coxEYITEs ARRESTED.
An Oregon Army steal - Train and Are
Promptly Captured.

An industrial army numbering about
900 men, which camped at Troutdale,
Ore, captured n Union Pacific train
and started on its journey to Washing
ton. The train was special bearing
General Manager Dickinson. Assistant
General superintendent Baxter and a
party of the Union Pacific. The indus
trials were expecting the train and
were ready to act Immediately upon
arriving at the station. They took
possession of the engine, and in few
moments had run the coaches on
switch, detached the locomotive, de-
posed the engineer and fireman, in
stalled their own engineer and fire.
man, and within ten minutes had
coupled to their own train, and sailed
eastward with the army comfortably
settled in the freight cars.
The Union Pacific officials at Port
land were at once notified and At
torney-General Cotton went before
United states District Judge Bellinger
and procured warrant for the arrest
of General Schefeller and all members
of the industrial army for the violation
of a restraining order previously issued.
An engine was turned over to Marshal
Grady, who started posse in pursuit
of the commonwealers. At Arlington,
about II miles from Portland the com
mOnwealers were oyertaken. The
railroad company had placed a heavy
freight train on the side track and a
special train with the troops remained
on the main line, thus effectually
blocking the road. The industrials,
when they arrived, appreciated their
position at q glance, and Su rendered
without offering any resistance.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
Hattie Blaine Married.

Very quietly and in the presence of
their intimate personal friends, Trux-
ton Beale, ex-minister to Persia, and
Harriet Blaine, daughter of the late
Secretary Blaine, were married at the
family residence, on La Fayette square,
Washington. Rev. DIR. Hamlin, pastor
of the Presbyterian Church of the
Covenant, performed the ceremony.
Edward Woolston, of New York, was
the best man, and there were no
bridesmaids. There was an entire alb
sence of show or ceremony about the
wedding.
Miss Blaine and Mr.. Beale had been
engaged for some years, but family
sorrows from time to time had post
pom ed the wedding.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Senator Wolcott was hanged in
effigy at Victoria, mining camp in the
Cripple Creek district, Colorado, with
the inscription on his back: Down
with plutocracy." The reason for the
act was the senator's recent speech
against the Coxey movement.
A dispatch from Coal Creek, /. T.,
says that party of bandits, supposed
to be the Dalton gang, encountered a
posse of vigilantes near there and had
a terrible fight. Three of the bandits
were wounded, one mortally. Three
of the vigilantes were killed and others
wounded. but not fatally.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04

All overtures for a peaceful settle-
ment of the Great Northern strike
have been declared off, and the COM
pany and the American Railway union
have begun test of strength tina,
may cause considerable bloodshed be-
fore IL ends. The committee repre-
senting the Great Northern strikers
handed their ultimatum to President
HILL They absolutely refused TO ar
bitrate and demanded the restoration
of the schedule. President Hill refused
this, as he has repeatedly stated, and
he will try TO operate the road with
out the American Railway union. The
battle promises To be long and bitter.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
Coke Strikers Win One victory.

Uniontown, Pa: The coke strikers
scored their first victory by the Atlas
Coke Co. signing the scale as demanded
by the Scottdale convention. The
plant supplies Ohio furnaces. Their
men went to work at once at the adj
vance.
Connelsville, Pa; The coke strike
is spreading, and almost every plant in
this section has closed down. Mobs of
strikers are again marching through
the region to intimidate worlmen, bat
so far no violence has been committed
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
suGocated by Gas.

William Madden, aged %, of Port
Huron, was suffocated by gas at the oil
works at Sarnia. The deceased, who
had been employed in the laboratory
went to the working stills alone, and
while at the worm end of one of them
was overcome by the gases thrown off.
Madden was almost dead when found.
lie is the second young man who has
been suffocated since the works opened
a few months ago.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
Shot His Drunken Father.

Jay Seymour, Burr Oak we'll dig.
ger, was shot by his 16-year-old son,
Arden, and died within a few moments.
lie had been drinking heavily for some
time and his family was obliged to
leave him. While intoxicated, he went
where they were, broke into the house
and proceeded to drive the family out.
when mis- son shot him, firing four
shots, all taking effect and causing
death
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
Held HIS own Head Under Water.

ids for a Cleveland sewing machine
house, committed suicide by drowning
himself in the basin of the Fulton
street park fountain. The water was
bat six inches deep and the position of
the body indicated that he had delib-
erately held his face under water. He
was 40 years old and has wife and
four sons in Cleveland. He was dissi-
pated in his habits.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
MICHIGAN NEWS.
NEWS IN BRIEF FROM THE TWO
PENINSULAS.

The Odd Fellows of Michigan Celebrate In
Many Places the Seventy-Fifth Ami
versary OF the Founding of the Order.
Governors Levee at Detroit.-Items.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04
Honor to the Governor.

Detroit did honor to Gov. John T..
Rich of the state of Michigan. The
occasion was the governors levee, the
annual social function of the Detroit
Light Guard. The levee was held at
the Hotel Cadillac.
When the governor and his hand
some corps of assistants, the members
of his staff, appeared at 0 o'clock, the
band struck up Hail TO the Chief" and
the party arranged themselves as per
program in parlors A and b, the COVER
nor and Mrs Rich being stationed mid
way between the two parlors. The
governor and his staff fulfilled their
part of the program TO the eminent
satisfaction -of all who were present
AT 10 o'clock the party filed into
the dancing room in pairs, the COVER
nor and Col. Henry NJ. Dufiield leading,
followed by leX-Gov. Jerome and Mrs
Rich, GEM and Mrs. Alger, DIR. and
Mrs. w. G.. Henry and the officers of
the staff, with ladies. Then followed
the ball with IS numbers. The decora-
,ions were very fine and the supper APP
Dreciated.