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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-28
ENGLAND HAS A CLAIM.
Wnnton killing of IL British Sailor
in Cuba Reported.

BALTIMORE, March 27.-At . o'clock
on the morning of March 10, Spanish
sentries murderously shot and killed
seaman of the British steamship
Laurestina, and badly wounded Gu
ban negro at San Jago, Cuba. The
British government is investigating the
matter, and complications between
England and Spain may result. The
Laurestina arrived at this port from
st. Jago, and her officers denounce the
shooting as a murder. They stated to
an Associated Press reporter that the
seaman was John Lowe, aged thirty
five years, a resident of Leeds. Eng
land, who had shipped at Cardiff, Wales.
on the night of March IS, the crew went
ashore for a stroll and walked UP from
where the vessel was lying to the town
of st. Jago, short distance away. The
boatswain, Lowe, and another seaman
were in one party, and after a walk
about the town started to return to the
ship. When nearly there, Lowe de-
termined to return to the town, and
started back in company with a Cuban.
negro. En- route they had to pass a
Cuban fort, garrisoned by Spanish
troops. Suddenly a sentinel sprang out
Of the darkness as they neared the
fort, and in Spanish commanded them
to halt. Lowe did not understand the
command and started to hurry away.
The next instant the sentinel raised his
nusket and fired. Lowe dropped to his
knees and rolled over, corpse. The
negro then started to run, when he,
too, was shot and rlortally wounded.
The dead man and the wounded negro
were Carried inside the fort. At day
break Capt. Gavin, Of the Laurestina,
went to the fort and demanded the
body of the man. This demand was re
tilsed, and he has ma'la e formal COM
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he fell to the ground and mover infer

he fell to the ground and never utter
ed a sound. He was at the steps OF
the baggage car when he fell. About
this time the two men who had come
out OF the baggage car with Morrow
opened fire upon Eddy and were shoot
ing at him pretty lively
when the train had stopped I had
gone under the truss rods of the bag
gage car, which are near the wheels.
saw a party at the steps of the ex-
press car, and as soon as the two men
opened fire on Eddy, this man advanced
toward me and got on the first step of
the express car. I fired on him and he
fell to the ground, not uttering word,
but lay there. When 1 went to find
him later he had gone, and I do not
know what became of him. The firing
on the other side of the car had now
stopped, and the only men to be seen
were those two, one dead and the other
mortally wounded The confederates
who escaped, 1 think, are three in
number. A large posse of people resid-
ing in the vicinity started in pursuit of
the men, who, 1 think, have taken to
the mountains. The man killed was
Jesse Morrow, aged about forty eight
or fifty. He resided with his wife and
a number of sons in Wayne county,
about fourteen miles from the scene
of the trouble. He was known as the
worst and most desperate man in the
community, and L heard a number of
people say that whoever fired the shot
which killed him had fired the best shot
ever fired in the county. The people
on all sides were loud in their praise
of the man who killed him. He was re-
Gently implicated in the killing of a
man, who, it was alleged, he had
robbed, shot and threw the body in a
river He was arrested and was in
Jail for some time, and was only a
short time ago released from custody.
Thomas Morrow, the man who was
picked up near the dead man, was
found to be shot through the breast,
and, L think, twelve buckshot struck
him. He was picked up and carried
by myself and another person to the
depot at Greenwood, where he died at
4:0S, after suffering intense agony. This
man was a son of the big man who had
been Shot and killed instantly, and was
about thirty years of age, and was a
tough customer He, l heard, lived
bic several times. The leader of the
gang is man by the name of Under
wood, and he is a desperate criminal
having been implicated in several cases,
and has been arrested on a charge of
numbering a friend some time ago
| don't know which way this man went
after the affair was over. He resided
in the vicinity of the attempted rob-
berry, and L am of the opinion that
the parties concerned were residents
of that portion of the county.
Martin, the man who was so badly
wounded, and will, it is thought, die
says he is from Pennsylvania, and that
he was a tramp riding on the blind
baggage and was not with the gang;
which held up the train. He said that
he was trying to get away when shot
When found by the engineer he was
riding by the side of the tender, and
was taken off the train at Cumberland
Falls, a few miles below. He cannot
recover, being shot in several places.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-28
GERMANY TAXES TT cooLLy.
New Minister Sent to Venezuela
From RerIin

WASHINGTON, March 27.-Advices
received here state here that Germany
has sent new minister to Venezuela,
and that he has already passed Though
New York en- route to his new post.
This is regarded as the first step to-
wards an adjustment of the trouble
arising over the departure from Vene-
zuela of the ministers of Spain, Ger
many and France and Belgium, be-
cause they had united in a communica-
ton 10 their governments rejecting on
II e prosid"lI AMI Officers of Venezuela.
! he mipi:t rs Of Spain and Germany
witt drew Voluntarily, and those of
Franc and Belgium were politely given
their passports. France ASSUMED a
somewhat belligerent aspect sending
gurboat to take her minister The
subject has been watched with inter-
est by the state department, owing to
the ptrt the United States has taken
in the boundary contest between
Venezuela and Great Britain.
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hILLED TWO ASSATLANTS
bloody Tragedy Among SIays in
Ohio Mines

WHEELING, w. Va, March 81
Meager accounts come from the vjcin-
lty OF Dillonvale mines in Mount Pleas
ant township, Jefferson county. Ohio
OF a tragedy that occurred there Mon
day evening. A fight started in a
crowd of Slav miners on the street
and one Of their number, a giant in
stature and physique, when hard
pressed picked up a club and knocked
smaller man stiff and cold. Then
gathering up large sharp stone he
buried it In the head of another man
cleaving 1T In two. as far down as the
jaw bone, killing him instantly. AS the
men are all foreigners there is diff
Guilty in obtaining their names. An
inquest is being held at Mount Pleasant
by Squire Harbourrt There is great
excitement among the Sfavs at the
mine in consequence of the double
murder, and as the friends of the MR.
derer and his victims are about evenly
divided there is a probability that there
Will be further trouble. The SIay who
did the killing is under arrest and is
strongly guarded.
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Won DER AHE IN COURT.
He Is Charged With Shootinp
Negro

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. March 27-In the
criminal court Chris Won Der Abe
president of the st. Louis Browns
was held to the grand jury today in
ponds of $500 to answer to the charge
OF shooting George Stevenson in the
root Chief of Police Harrigan Went
On his bond --t.
On the stand Mr.. Won Der Abe
stated that on the evening in question
ne was sitting in his saloon talking IN
MS friend, Mr.. Weylo, when his mari,
superintendent informed him that one
VI the crowd of negroes who had bean
steallng property out of the park was
proving around outside He went ont
ana saw the negro crossing the plat
form towards the Lindell railway de-
pot. He followed the colored man he
SAD, and asked him what he wac
dolns there, and the latter told him
none OF his business. 81 told him I'd
make it some of my business" chris
resumed, and l drew my revolver To
scare him l fired at the ground
Know L did not hit him, for he was
three feet away, and if 1 had hit anv-
oody L would have hit Mr.. View who
was by my side.''
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ViIIers Found GuiItv

LAMOURE, N. D., March 27.-The
Villers case went to the jury at 5
O'Clock last night. Blackwell and Glas-
pell presented the prosecution very
forcibly. Baldwin made vigorous eff
fort for the defense in an attempt to
prove an alibi, but it fell fiat. The de-
tense also tried to impeach the testi-
mony of the prosecution, but without
success. The jury was out three hours
last night, and brought in a sealed YER
diet Villers was found guilty. This
morning Judge Rose sentenced him on
the opening of court to nine and a half
years Imprisonment, and he will be
taken to the penitentiary at once.
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Monterey Goes to Peru.

w WASHINGTON, March 27-Orders
have been sent from the navy depart
ment to Mare island, to have the coast
defense ship Monterey proceed to
Peru. Peru has been in the throes of
revolution for many months, and it
has been felt desirable to have war
ship at Callao to look after American
interests in case they are endangered.
1t was intended to send the United
States steamer Ranger to that point,
when she started some time ago from
Mare island on cruise to the south
ward, but when she reached Buena-
ventura, Colombia, the situation in
that country was said to be so pre-
carious, as a revolution was also in
progress there, that it was found neces-
sary to detain the ship at that point.
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RAEDED THE BLACKS.
Race Troubles Caused by n Strii. e
at Bath, s. c.

at Bath, s. c.
BATH, S. c., March 27-Trouble
has broken out between whites and
blacks at the site of the new mill
of the Aiken Manufacturing COM
pany. The town was aroused late
last night by the report of firearms,
and investigation revealed the fact
that party of white men had be-
gun firing on the negroes assembled
to do the work on the mill. The
negroes were notified by the white
men to leave town in fifteen minutes.
They refused to obey the order and
the shooting commenced.
1t seems the shots were fired into
the air, and were intended to fright
en- and not to kill. The object was.
OF course, to run the negroes off
and give the whites a chance to do
the work. 1t is said that one negro
was struck in the leg. The negroes
fled to the swamps, where they re-
NAMED all night. They returned
this morning, however, and are at
work today. All is quiet at present,
put further trouble is apprehended.
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AMY THILL'S FATE.
minneapolis Actress Meets a
Tragic Death in New
York.
SHOT DEAD BY HER LOVER
Who Afterwards Puts a Bull
let Through His Own
Brain.
SHOT DEAD BY HER LOVER
MUCH MYSTERY IN THE CASE
No Motive for the Deed Known
Parallel Of Gentry's
Act.

NEW YORK, March 27.-John E.
Bigelow. an actor, shot and killed
Amy Thill, an actress, today in the
furnished room of the woman IN
West Twenty-fourth street, and then
turned the weapon, a revolver OF
large caliber, to his own head and
blew out his brains. The double
tragedy was not discovered until
almost evening, when both bodies
were found lying cold and bloody
on the floor of the apartment where
the crime had been committed. None
of those in the house could assign
motive for the deed. Bigelow was
about thirty years old and the young
woman was not more than twenty
five. She had lived in a room on the
third floor since last summer, and
was respected by all with whom she
came in contact and bore a charac-
ter which was blameless. The man
was known to the elevator attend
ant and others in the building, but
only slightly. It was near 1920 this
morning that Mrs. Coleman, the
janitress, heard three or four reports
of a pistol. AS Miss Thill had not put
in an appearance during the day,
Mrs. Coleman later became alarmed
and went to the young lady's room.
Receiving no response to her knock,
she tried to open the door, but it
was locked. The doors were forced
and revealed the
TWO DEAD BODIES,
both bloody, stretched on the floor
From the appearance of the room, it
would seem that the two had par
taken of light breakfast. The cor
Oner found two letters on the table,
which Miss Thill had written the
evening before. One was addressed
to her mother, Nine. Thill S12 Miller
avenue, Minneapolis, Mimi, and the
other to S.. S. Kartsch, manag ger of
theatrical paper. Amy Thill and
her. two. sisters, Louise and Marie,
also actresses, lived in the Twenty
fourth street house together for sew
eral months. Louise and Marie Sc
cured an engagement a fortnight
ago with DickSon'S ''Incog'' COM
pany, which was booked to open at
Erie, Pa, tonight. Any's last en-
gagement was with Joseph Ha-
Worth's company, which. played
'Rosedale" at the Star theater. this
city, last spring. The girl had been
In the best of spirits lately, and her
friends can assign
NO MOTIVE FOR THE CRIME.
John E. Bigelow, who committed
the crime, was the son of James
Bigelow, an eX-mayOr Of Morris
town, n. j., who is a retired lawyer.
The young man lived on West
Thirty-eighth street, and Just be-
fore the Christmas holidays was a
member of Sidney Drew's company.
1t was during this engagement that
he met Amy Thill. He fell in love
with her. She was also a member of
the company, and the two decided
to leave it at Christmas. Since then
neither of them has been engaged
in professional work. Bigelow is said
to have been offered an engagement.
but refused to accept it unless Miss
Amy Thrill was also engaged.
Members of the theatrical nrofes-
sion tonight assert that the case is
parallel to the case of James p.
Gentry, who shot Madge York at
Philadelphia few weeks ago.
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Second Fire Run

WASHINGTON, March q. Mary
Delaney, the Milwaukee woman arrest
ed for setting fire to st. Dominic,s and
st. Pat"ick's churches, was on trial in
police court today. The organist of St.
Dominic's identified her as a woman
VINO was in the church near the spot
Where the fire was lighted at the time
OF the attempt. Judge Miller said it
was evident that the woman was not
responsible for her acts. The case was
not concluded. Last night an attempt
was made to burn St Mary's Catholic
school by pouring oil on one of the
floors and epplying the torch just as
the two churches were fred. Forum
ately the fire failed to spread,
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THE THILL FAMILY.
Its Members Much Excited Over
the Tragedy.

The family Of Amy Thrill reside in
Minneapolis, at No. Ninth street
south, in a large frame house. los
eph Thill, the father, is a Iandscape
gardner, and his wife, Madame
mil, is well-knoWn hair dresser
A GLOBE reporter was the first
TO convey the news of the tragedy
to the family at about 10 O'Clock last
night. Mr.. Thiil and his eight-vear-
Old daughter and two sons were
present. The mother and daughfers
were at the theater. They were sent
for, and returned home in a state of
extraordinary excitement. The
mother was very hysterical, and her
aSonizing shrieks were heart-rend-
ing. The only information which had
been received at that time was that
Amy had been shot by an actor
and the uncertain news was so nm
satisfactory in its possibilities that
the entire family was in a FRENZY of
excitement, and could not nor wouId
not answer questions. Madame Thrill
was SO overcome that she needed
both Of her daughters care, and but
little could be learned from them
OF their sisters history during the
past few weeks.
The father accompanied the re-
porter down town, and stated that
Amy had been with the Sidney Drew
company until recently, but Of late
ne did not know much about bar
She vas formerly connected With
The Peoples stock company, playing
minor parts, and was prote~e ~
Ieonore Bradley. the leading lady
at the Poo2!e's. Amy TE!ll was p
beautiful b-unette. Her three sis
teEs arc also n the profession. Alice
and May are at present with the
"incog' company, and when the re-
porter caiie'i. thc little children were
playing With q number Of unious
HtI" boxes, All advertising device Of
Charlie nt1an'a
The daughters \. Kern, sf nr.se,t
are JPsts ant An:,%sta, Doth act
re"ses, "Ac hs"s aee:: Identified with
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TWO THOUSAND DEAD.
Bloody Battle in CoIombia-Reb
els Defeated

COLON, Colombia, March IA great
battle was fought at Ensico, on March
10, between the government forces, I'M
der Gen. Reyes, and the rebels. The
latter were defeated after a struggle
of ten hours, although 1,5OO of the gov
eminent troops died while on the
march. The rebels, who numbered $500
men, were completely routed, and the
town was captured. The government
forces lost 200 men during the battle,
and the rebel loss amounted to 1900
men. Two thousand rebels surren-
dered.
The steamship Alliance, Capt Cross
man, of the Colombian line, from New
York, on March 20, arrived here, after
passing over her usual course. She was
not molested. This is the steamer
which was recently fired upon by the
Spanish gunboat, off the coast of Cuba.
The gunboat La Popa has arrived here
with fourteen prisoners
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DONE AT MADISON.
The AK Called Into Play Again
New Tax Mortgage Bill.

MADISON. Wis, March 27.-In the as
sembIy MIR. Davidson introduced a bill
cutting down the list of legislative en-
ployes, by which a saving of $4,000 can
be made on an ordinary session. Mr..
/ Davidsons bill requiring registers of
deeds to notify assessors of mortgages
on file in their offices, so that they may
be taxed, was passed by a vote of 81 to
49, The, bill forbidding the locating of
a saloon within half a mile of the Mil
Waukee soldiers home was passed by
vote of So to "a, after being amended
so as to include the Waupaca home.
In the senate the joint resolution for
the appointment of a committee to fix
a date for final adjournment was
passed. Recess was taken until 1880
this evening, when Mr.. McGillivray's
woman suffrage bill is the special
order.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-28
LOTTERY PEOPLE SHUT OUT
Letters for the Honduras Com
Dnny Excluded From the >J,iJs

WASHINGTON, March 27.-AIl
mails hereafter addressed to e. J.
De Morest, Puerto Cortes, Honduras.
or care of the Central American Elk
press, Tampa City, Florida, will be
stopped by the government and re-
turned to the writer's through the for
warding postmasters, or sent to dead
letter office for confiscation. De Nor
est is the president of Honduras lot
terry company, the successor of the
former Louisiana lottery and a fraud
order instructing all postmasters to
intercept all of De Morest's mail was
issued by the postiffice department
today. The department has been here
mail addressed to the company and
tofore able to stop only registered
its officers, but under the new law all
communications are supposed to be of
a lottery nature.
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TO REIMBURSE UNCLE SAM.
Central Pacific Sinking Fund to
BE Turned Into the Treasury.

WASHINGTON, March 27.-The at
torney general in an opinion sent to
secretary of the treasury today, holds
In effect that the sinking fund credit
ed to the Central Pacific railroad COM
pany, and now in the treasury. amount
ing to nearly $6,000,O0O, may be used to
reimburse the government for s., 3G2, coo
paid on Jan. &c. last, i'm the redemp-
ton of it's bonds loaned the company
in 1860, and that the sinking fund may
also-b be applied 20 the payment of the
balance of the interest due on these
bonds, amounting to $339S, ~ In this
sinking fund are bonds amounting to
$5,5G1 ,000, which when sold VIII in
crease the available cash III the treas
ury by that amount plus = consider
able premium which will undoubtedly
be realized
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HE DIES OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Was House Enrolling Clerk in
the Minnesota Legisla-
ture Of 1893.
FIVE CHILDREN BURNED.
Awful Loss of Life in a Fire
in a North Dakota
Home.
Special to the Globe

Special to the Globe.
ELBOW LAKE, Mimi, March 81.
"A. c. Belyea, editor of the Herald,
died yesterday at 1 :35 of tuberculosis.
He was prominent in all business
enterprises and a leading Repub-
hcan politician of the county and
district. He held many positions of
trust and honor in the village and
county; was enrolling clerk of the
lower house of the Legislature in 1893.
chairman of the Republican county
committee, a member of the Knights
of Pythias and Mason. His age
was thirty-six. He leaves a wife and
three children. The funeral oc-
Cured today. 1t was the largest
ever witnessed in Grant county. 1t
was under the auspices of the
knights of Pythias. Many knights
were present from Hermann, Bar
rett and Ashby.
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HANDS OFF IN THE ORIENT.
Germany and the United States
Neutral.

ST.PETERSBURG, March Eft is
semi-ofticially stated that in reply to
China s request that they mediate for
the declaration of an armistice during
the peace negotiations, Germany and
the United States have notified China
that they are resolved to maintain a
strictly neutral attitude in regard to
China and Japan. The other powers TO
which a similar appeal was made have
refused to interfere.
WASHINGTON, March FIT was
stated at the Japanese legation today
that no dispatch had been received
from Japan indicating that the wound
of Ii Hung Chang was more serious
than at first reported. II was said that
nothing further than the dispatch
made public last evening giving an
official account of the shooting of Ii
Hung Chang had been received
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Todd Isn't Satisfied,

LANSING, Mich, March 27.-Attor-
neys for A. NJ. Todd, triple candidate
for congress in the Third district, to-
day asked the supreme court to compel
the election commissioners in the
Third district to place Mr.. Todd's name
on the Democratic ticket, vice Gilkey,
withdrawn. The court promptly de-
MED the application. The decision is
based on the fact that after, Giikey s
withdrawal, another certification of
Todd's name took place after the anti
fusion law had taken effect, and the
latters name was already on the bal
lot on three other tickets.
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Worth of "a Character.

MANKATO, Mimi, March PA
jury this morning brought in a verdict
for SIS and cost for the plaintiff in the
5000 SANDER suit of James Mullen
against his uncle, Timothy Murtaugh.
Both parties reside at Madison Lake,
and Murtaugh's brother claimed to
have been robbed of $500 in Mullen's
saloon. Timothy called Mullen a horse
thief and Mullen sued him. Murtaugh
admitted the charge and attempted to
prove it in justification.
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Unknown Victim Discovered.

TOLEDO, O., March 27-The police
of this city were notified today that
the body of the man who had been
murdered in Michigan Central freight
car while it was in transit from Up
silanti, Mich, to Toledo, on Sunday,
had been found in a ditch a short dis
lance outside Ypsilanti: From there it
was taken to a neighboring farm house.
The name of the victim is not given,
and it is surmised he has not been
identified. =
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Regarded as a Joke.

DULUTH, Mimi, March 27.-The
New York Herald recently contained a
long article about a $50, 600 canal
company that is seeking franchise
from the New York legislature Among
the incorporators were several Du-
luthians. One of these gentlemen says
that he takes no stock in the thing
except that it is an advertising scheme
for the lock invention around which
the plan is built.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-28

several theatrical companies. jose
phine Thill greatly resembles Julia
Marlowe. She is but fifteen years old,
and on the occasion Of Miss Mar
loves last visit here she sent for
the young girl and offered her an
engagement with her company for
next season. The resemblance is
most striking.