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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-28
ROANOKE.
FORTS MOUTH.
Runs BY INNIEa.
SUMMARY Y.

HUNS INNINNs.
iportemouth...........0 O o . J
Roanoke ........... , 0 U o 0 K 3
SUMMARY.
Earned runs-Portsmouth, 2. Two.base hits
JoAnes, Padden, Stah and Viox. Home run
Joanes Sacrifice hits rhurston and Fultz
Double plays-lIargrovc to Fuller. Viox to Little.
Bases on ball.-Of Stahl. 4. Hit by pitched
i0all-Hargrove. Struck out-By Leach o. nv
Stahl, !. Time-1:2O. UmpIre-DaleY :.
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Rain at Richmond.

RICHMOND. June 27.-The game be-
tween Richmond and Norfolk was post
poned to-day on account of rain.
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National League Games

National League Games
At Cincinnati: r. H. K
Cincinnati ........ OolO3x-4 o 3
Louisville .......... 5000 1200-3 ,
Bttteries-Poreman and Murphy; Cunnin ham
and Spies.
At Pittsburg: II. H. X.
Pittsburg .......... ol2 1Ol3x-g 19
st. Louis. IL 101 O000-4 /
Battcries-uart and Merritt and Sugdcn.
Staley and Miller.
At Cleveland: Il. q. e.
Cleveland .....,.... 01OlOx-4 9 /
Chicago .......... o 10000 00O-.2
Batterles-Young aud thinner; Hutchinson
and Donohue.
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Games Scheduled For To-day.

Roanoke at Portsmouth; Norfolk at
Richmond; Lynchburg at Petersburg.
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1.-THE Altogether

Is very cool, but not to be COM
pared to the effects Of the
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-02-20

He returned after seeming to go
home. The least scream he would
have heard as he at last heard
yours, but I am glad you did not
scream before, for now we have
had an experience and know what
we can do"
Hans Schmidt has decided upon
the chest as a safer hiding place
than that in which Julia had first
discovered him.
Upon the very morning on which
Harry Irving stunned and secured
the rufian in our room, the officers
of justice were searching for the
old Hessian scoundrel as sup
posed murderer, and he was soon
convicted and hung.
Julia became the wife of Harry
Irving, and a most excellent wife
she was. Magnanimous and un-
revengeful, she was perhaps tine
only person who felt no gratifca-
rion at the fate of Hans Schmidt,
but rather pity for the ignorance
which had stepped him in crime.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-02-20
Story Of Three Tunnels.

My brain was on fire. l felt
choking as l walked away from the
office. Dismissed as a thief! |,
the son of man whose very name
was still held sacred for his honor
and integrity; oh. it was too much.
For three years l had been in an
office in Edinburgh, and prided
myself l was getting on fairly we'll.
l did my work honestly and faith
fully, and all seemed going
smoothly when Mr.. Heron, my
employer, took a strange and un-
accountable dislike to me. | tried
to persuade myself l was mistaken,
but the pleasanter tried to be the
more distant he became.
Things went on like this for
about three months, till one day
was called into my principals
sanctum and dismissed. Of course,
l demanded an immediate explain
alton. Mr.. Heron sneered, and
my blood began to boil. l felt as
if could have killed him as he
said:
emo heroics, if you please,
Blair, but thank your stars I am
not to prosecute; for your widowed
mothers sake l refrain, but not
another day do you stay here"
"Mr. Heron" began, as calmly
as my Indignation would permit
me, 81 demand to know what you
dismiss me for"
"For theft, he answered curtly.
"For months it has been going on.
Everything pointed to you as the
culprit, but l was 10th to believe
that the son of William Blair could
have fallen SO low, but this day has,
proved it,"
elm what way7" 1 inquired, sar-
castically.
Mr.. Heron's face flushed angrily
more at my tone than my words,
| think.
"You have overreached yourself
this time" he said. ''The check
you so cleverly forged my name to
was suspected. AS a rule one uses
his checks straightforward, and it
would have answered your pur-
porse better had you not clumsily
supposed 1t would avert suspicion,
and used the last in the book"
In vain l protested threatened
demanded clear explanation.
quest, and sternly pointed to the
door.
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IlSIlCC HIS CIl1S1 IOpS 1SStCu uPOA
his ability to lift US up, lid and
all.
Even then, in the absolute terror
that might have been supposed to
possess her, a queer feeling of ex-
ultation sprang up in Julia's heart.
81 was right, Mary" she cried.
"They won't think me fool now,
will they I shan't be ashamed
to see Harry Irving"
Poor Julia! under the circum-
stances the idea was really lud1-
crous; but nature will everywhere
assert itself, and Julia hated a
coward. Thump! thump! thump!
Lid and side and end, alternately
felt the cramped, powerful blows.
Then came the lift-the steady,
straining lift, and Julia cheered
me when the cover shook, and rose,
and trembled.
"He can't get out, Mary! We
are safe; only just keep your full
weight on the lid, and don't be
nervous, either; it is almost morn
ing"
She knew it was not one o'clock.
But one o'clock came. How |
wished it was five! And two o'clock
came, and three and four; and we
hoped that our prisoner had yield
ed to his fate: which must now ap-
pear to him inevitable.
A small aperture at one end OF
the chest, where there was
fracture in the wood, supplied him
with air, and hence we could not
hope that he would become weak
through suffocation. He was
evidently resting from the very
necessity of the case, for his ex-
ertions had been prodigious. There
was a faint streak of morning light
in the sky; and there. upon the
chest, we sat, and watched for the
CLEAN to broaden.
Suddenly there was a tremend-
Gus struggling beneath us, as the
ruffian had concentrated all his en-
ergies in a final effort. At my end
of the chest there was a crash
and Immediately the Germans feet
protruded through the aperture
that they had forced in the board.
So horrible now appeared our po-
sition, that | uttered a scream, such
as l do not think l ever at any
other time could have had the
power to initiate.
To get off the lid in order to de-
feat the movement through the
chest end, would have instantly
! been our destruction; therefore,
still bearing our weight on the
chest we caught at the projecting
feet. In doing this, however, we
partially lost our balance, and a
sudden bracing up of the muscular
shape below so forced open the
lid that the head, arms and shout
ders of Hans Schmidt were thrust
forth, and with a fearful clutch he
seized Julia by the throat.
Just then a heavy crash was
heard at the door below, the foot
tramps springing toward us as if
| IL
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-02-20
A Night Of Alarm.
BY EDWIN F. RICE.

4'1 OASASA ItA1CA w C1O way wv q
geous. In our youth the country
was wilder than now; but it Nigh
be said of her that she was no
brought up in the woods to b.
scared by an owl. She would trav
erse the most unfrequented path:
wondering at my timiditY.
There was nothing masculine
however, in Jul1a's appearance; she
was simply sweet, Joyous child,
with an absence of fear in her char
acter and a consequent clearness
of perception in all cases of sup
posed or actual danger.
When l was sixteen and Julia
eighteen, my father hired a labore1
named Hans SCmidt, Hessian.
who had been in the British serv-
ice, and who, at the close of the
war, had deserted from his regi-
ment.
He was a powerful man, with G
heavy, imbruted countenance, anc
both Julia and myself were struck
at the very first with an intultive
dread of him. The feeling in Julia
hardly took the character of fear,
but was one rather of the most in
tense loathing.
One evening she read of a hor-
rible murder that thrilled our
blood, and upon turning her eyes
from the paper, they encountered
those of Hans Scmidt. There was
something terrible in that glance,
and, from that moment, she re-
solved that the villain should be
turned away.
AS her wishes and opinions were
always of much weight with he1
father, he took her advice, anc
gave Hans his discharge.
Soon after this, Julia and | were
left alone in the house, both father
and mother being absent upon a
visit until the next day. At night
we went up to bed and had partly
disrobed, when Julia turned hastily
to the window.
II declare" she said, "the even
ing is so pleasant that it is pity
to remain indoors. | don't feel a
bit sleepy; let's go down on the
lawn"
We descended the stairs. How
little l imagined what was in julia s
heart! Harry Irving came up just
as we reached the lawn. He was
only casually passing the house.
Julia engaged him in converse
ton and he joined us. My siste
was more than usually lively.
"Where are Tom, and Edgar
and WHIP" she asked.
"Oh," replied Harry, "they are
over to my uncle's. They will be
coming back soon.
The three young men soon APP
peared upon the road; and, to my
surprise, Julia arose at their ap
proach and called us aside from the
door.
CHOW, Mary, you need not be
nervous" she said. "Keep quiet.
and do not speak above your
breath. There is man under ou1
bed-there, there!" and she ClaspeC
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|
did l experience a greater sense o.
relief than when the assailing party
descended, looking partly ashamed
and partly amused, having found
nothing to justify their sudden
armament.
Julia was in an agony of NORTH
cation and wept piteously; for, al
though but half convinced that hel
apprehensions had been ground
less, the idea that she, who had
never till now feared anything, had
placed herself so ludicrously in the
eyes of those men was insupport-
BILE.
The man, she said, must have
taken the alarm and fled out the
back door, for she could not have
been mistaken.
Our young friends, more in pity
for her modification than from any
belief in the reality of the night in
truder, offered to remain in the vi
cinlty till morning; but she would
not listen to the proposition and
they took their departure.
l was sorry to see them 60, and
watched their forms till they were
out of sight, for the affair of the
evening had almost frightened me
into histories.
Julia, however, at once rushed
to the chamber, and hinging her
self on the bed, continued bitterly
weeping. She had exhibited her
self in a character which she de-
spised; and her man under the bed
would be the talk of the neighbor-
hood. | followed her, but neither
of us could sleep.
The clock on the mantle piece
struck eleven and then "tick, tick, ~
it went. on for the next dreary hour.
Julia at length ceased weeping, and
lay in thought, only an occasional
sigh betraying her wakefulness.
Again the clock struck, but ii
had not reached the final stroke
when Julia, leaping out of bed,
flung herself upon an immense
chest at the further end of the
room.
ooh, Mary!" she cried, "quick
quick! He is here! cannot hold
the lid-he will get out!''
There was indeed some living
thing in the chest; for, in spite Of
Julia's weight, the lid was lifted,
and then as the instinct of self.
preservation overcame my terror,
I sprang quickly to her assistance.
Whom or what had we caught
Imagine yourself holding down the
lid of a showman's box, with boa
constructor writhing beneath; o.
keeping a cagetop in its place by
your own weight alone, with {
hyena struggling to tear his way
out and devour you.
But we we're not long kept II
suspense. Horrid execrations
half German, half English, chilled
our very hearts, and we knew tina
there, in the midnight, only the
| lid of an old chest was between
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-21
BLACKS BLOWN UP.
REVENGEFUL TEXAS FARMERS
SLAUGHTER HALF A DOZ-
EN- NEGROES.
DYNAMITE THEIR WEAPON.
DWELLING DESTROYED AND
FIVE OF THE OCCUPANTS
INSTANTLY KILLED,
THE OUTCOME OF AN OLD FEUD.
Bloody Work Commenced Several
Months Ago Continued by
Friends of Victims.

WACO, Tex. July 2O.-At Mart, a
small borough twenty miles from
here, five negroes were instantly
killed this morning, and one seriously
injured, as the result of a dispute
which began several months ago
when Abe Phillips, a negro, and Phil
Arnold, white, both farmers, were
killed. Since then the feeling be-
tween the friends of both men has
been very bitter, and the negroes
have been frequently threatened with
destruction. At o'clock this morn
ing the entire town was awakened
by a loud report. Investigation
showed that the house occupied by
Mrs. Phillips, widow of the negro
killed by Arnold, was in flames.
The house had been blown up with
a stick of dynamite thrown into it,
and fire finished the work. Of the
six negroes in the house at the
time, five were killed by the eXplo-
sion or burned to death, and the
one person who escaped is so badly
injured that he will die. Officers
have been sent to Mart to investi-
gate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-21
HILL GOES TO BUFFALO,
But No De Can Say for Just What
Purpose.

Purpose.
''Mr. Hill is by this time aboard the
Steamship North Land, blowing the
blue waters of Lake Superior" Such
private secretary yesterday, when a
G l o b e reporter made his daily visit
to the office of the railway magnate and
Inquired if he could be seem.
Last night" was the brief reply.
There was no use of questioning.
Whatever the mission may be that took
the president of the Great Northern
keeping of subalterns. He took the
steamer, as the trip by water is more
pleasant in hot weather, and because
the "seclusion which the cabin grants"
porters. who besiege Mr.. Hill on every
journey. Uutil he reaches Buffalo, at
least, he will enjoy perfect peace and
repose. What follows later remains to
be seen.
OF course there are always rumors
afloat whenever Mr.. Hill concludes to
make a. journey, and on this occasion
the rumors are not lacking, anG, are, IA
usual, connected with the now famous
Northern Pacific deal. Mr. Hill may
have gone East for consultation with
others on this gigantic enterprise, and
he may not. The G | o b e some time
since gave conclusive reasons why the
deal to combine the roads cannot sue
ceed or become effective, and this story
has only been confirmed by later
events.
MIR. Hill may have simply gone on a
trip of pleasure, or one of business con-
nected with the Great Northern line
There is nothing to indicate anything
of greater Importance, as there has been
an absolute standstill in the affairs of
the Northern Pacific, which will con-
tinue/until the new organization COM
mittee takes hold next September
Therefore there seems but little of sig
nificance attached to Mr.. Hills sudden
departure
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-21

Labor Expects of the Press Besides
the above toasts others will be specially
responded to, including 1.-THE Trades
and Labor Assembly," and Affiliated
Unions" The affair promises to be
decidedly Interesting and pleasant,
and it's conception reflects the highest
credit upon the trustees of the as
.sembly. Apart from the social phase
of the function, much practical good
to organized labor and label goods will
result. Following is the invitation
which has been issued to those in
vited to participate:
Your are respectfully invited to be
present at a meeting to be held under
the auspices Of the hall trustees of the
trades and labor assembly, Friday
evening, July &C. 1895, at Assembly hall,
300 Wabasha street. The object of this
meeting is to endeavor to create a
closer relationship between the labor
organiza tons of this city, to make the
officers better acquainted, and to dis
cuss some questions of interest to the
trade union movement. Refreshments
will be served Meeting will be called
to order at $3.50. Harry Franklin,
Herman Bonn, John F. Krieger, W. E.
Noyes, J. L. Hughes, hall trustees,
traces and LABOR assembly.
~ ru-pcnses will be limited on
sir-e. so tat the interest will be lively.
Co.! rnioE-m de music, together with
I'D recitations. will intersperse
= s.2e shr,aking.
re tin, Sect iron and co:'llice work.
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to their assistance, and, striking a
match, the explosion followed. Four
men were carried out badly burned,
but, contrary to first reports, it is
not thought any were fatally in
jured. The search was Immediately
resumed by another force of men.
When the explosion occurred it was
at first thought by the officers in
charge that it was caused by dyna-
mite, and they hastily surmised that
a trap had been laid by Holmes to
prevent the possibility of a discov-
cry of the bodies supposed to be
buried there
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-21
HOLMES GAS sWINDLE.

The men injured by the explosion in
the cellar We're: Timothy McMulhale,
Joseph Patrello, Thomas Olfort, Joseph
Kenyon, fire marshal; Joseph Ballick,
Thomas Greiers, James Meagher and
Edward Mccormick. The first three
men werei members Of the construction
gang; the others were firemen who
were overcome by gas. An investiga-
ton showed that the gas came from a
large cedar tank about fifteen feet
deep and ten feet in diameter. 1t was
partially filled with particular SMELL
ing liquid, the exact nature of which
has not yet been determined. From
the sides of the tank numerous pipes
extended, the ends projecting inside the
tank being carefully wrapped in bur-
laps. Marshal Kenyon, with several
of his men, descended into the tank
to make a, careful examination of ii.
Within a few seconds Kenyon called
coming too much for him. He and his
companions were quickly hauled UP
and all of them recovered within few
minutes with the exception of Kenyon.
He acted like a crazy man and ran
down an alley in the rear of the house
shouting and waving his hands. He
was pursued, brought back, and in 8,
short time was himself again. The
opinion was that the tank was =
swindling device of Holmes, who a.
one time while living there claimed to
have a new process for the manufac-
:, ture of gas, in which he induced sew
eral people possessed of more money
than caution to invest. The tank was
covered up this evening and Will not
be investigated again until Monday.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-21
HOUSE OF HORRORS
MORE CHASTITY DISCOVERIES IN
MURDERER HOLMES, CHI
CAGO RESIDENCE.
HUMAN RIBS IN THE ASHES.
NOMAN1S HAIR FOUND ON THE
INSIDE OF THE CHM
NEY.
sAs EXPLODEs IN THE CELLAR.
Four Men Burned While Search
ing for =: Supposed Hid
den Well.

CHICAGO, July 20.-The search
FOR the bodies of the missing Will
Jams girls was begun early today
in the house in Englewood, formerly
occupied by the alleged murderer,
H. H. Holmes. The examination of
the large ash CRATE of Holmes stove
resulted in another startling discoV
cry, when two charred bones, re-
sembling human ribs, We're found.
The bones We're badly burned, and
We're handled with great care to
prevent their breaking. The finding
of the supposed ribs, with the
burned woman's shoes, the buttons
and the piece of cloth was consid-
cred by the police as practically
proving that at least a portion of
the body Of a woman had been Gre
mated. The ash CRATE in which the
two bones were found today had
been removed from the stove, thus
accounting for the fact that the
discovery was not made during pre-
vious examinations. This afternoon
a bunch of human hair was found
in the chimney of Holmes house by
several newspaper reporters. The
stove pipe had been taken down, and
clinging to the bricks of the chimney
was found a quantity of human hair
The police We're notified, and upon
examination the hair was pro-
nOunced that of a woman. The ap-
pearance of the locks led to the be-
lief that they had been burned from
the head and drawn up the stove
pipe. The discovery was considered
of the greatest Importance by the
detectives in charge of the search.
EXPLOSION IN THE CELLAR.
While the workmen were digging
in the cellar of Holmes Chicago
house today an explosion of gas oc-
CURED, injuring four men. The men
had been searching for hidden we'll
in which it was thought the bodies
might have been buried. When the
well was opened a quantity of gas
rushed out into the cellar, overpow-
ering the men. One of the laborers
who was in the house above rushed
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-21
HOLMES PLEADS INNOCENT.
Denies the Murder of the PietzeIs
or Minnie Williams.

PHILADELPHIA, July 20.-The
Press today prints an interview with
H. H. Holmes, who was visited in
his prison cell by a reporter of that
paper. Holmes insists that he can
prove an alibi with reference to the
murder of the Pietzel children in
Toronto, and says the authorities
here cannot prove that PietZel was
murdered in this city. He states:
81 am as innocent as a newborn
babe of the charge of numbering the
Pietzel children. 1 don't believe they
were ever murdered, and if they were
L am not guilty"
He says he saw the children last
on their way to Niagara Falls with
| Minnie Williams, and that he sup
| posed they went to England after
| wards with the woman.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-21
G. A. II. EXCURSION.
The Passenger Agents Providing
Against HitcheS.

CHICAGO, July 20.-Western pas
senger officials are now much con-
cerned about the rates and the ar
rangements for the encampment of
the Grand Army Of the Republic at
Louisville in September. They are
fearful that their experience with
the Christian Endeavor tickets will
be repeated, and they are above all
things anxious that they should not
be called to go through that kind
of thing again. They claim that
very low rate has been made for the
business, and it is essential to their
interest that there should be no in
reference with the restrictions that
have been placed around the hand
ling of tickets. They are particularly
anxious that it should be understood
that the one-fare rate for the round
trip which has been agreed to is
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-21
FIENDISH NEGRO GIRL.
Murders Baby and TOrtures Il
Little RoV.

COLUMBIA, S. c., July pa spe-
cial from Fairfield county gives Anna
Bell as the name of the human mon
strosity in the form of fourteen-year-
old girl, who diSemboWeled a three
monthS-old baby and then hung a six
year-old boy over a well and burned
him with a torch because he refused
to say that he had killed the child.
The girl had been sent to the house to
cook dinner by the parents who were
working in a field near by. In a few
minutes she came to the parents and
told them the boy had killed the baby.
The boy was found suspended over the
well. She is now under arrest. The
same girl, two months ago, was found
disinterring a corpse to rob it of a
breastpin. Three years ago she killed
another baby, but got cleared at the
trial because of her age.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-21
3 .. IN THE !
s LHBOR WORLD. !

Wage workers, as rule, are always
looking for the record of organiza lions
before they are willing to join, says
the Cleveland Citizen. Laboring men
are prone to denounce syndicates and
trusts for drawing interest and profits
on watered stocks, and in the same
breath demand $40 revenue for every
80 cents investment in a labor organic
alton. Thousands and thousands of
workingmen apparently do not realize
that their Indifference and neglect
of support of the trade union of their
craft is the cause of their pitiable
condition. How to make them under
stand their own interests and demon
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-21

applicable only to routes by which
short line rates usually apply. The
roads are not willing to rely en-
tirely on the Ohio river lines for
the certifying of their tickets. A
meeting of all the lines interested
has been called for next Tuesday to
devise proper precautions for the
protection of tickets.