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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-08-28
BANNocKs WERE THE VICTIMS.
Captain Van Arsdale Reports That Whites,
Not Indians, Did Murder.

Captain Van Arsdale Reports That Whites,
Not Indians, Did Murder.
The report OF Indian Agent Teter Of the
Fort Hall reservation upon the recent BAN
mock trouble was received at the Indian
Bureau, Washington. It confirms the here
tofore-published accounts Of the killing Of
Bannock Indians.
An interesting report has been received by
the Secretary of the Interior, forwarded from
the War Department. It Is from Captain j.
T. Van Arsdale of the Seventh United States
Cavalry, formerly acting agent Of the Fort
Hall reservation. The report says in part:
"Being short rationed and far from self
supporting the Bannocks hunt for the pur-.
pose Of obtaining sustenance. BY treaty
they are granted this privilege. It would
seem that the killing of these Indians
under the circumstances was nothing more
nor less than murder. Further, / be-
ter OF game by these Indians, while 1t is a
notorious fact that hundreds of the animals
are killed by white men for nothing
more than heads and horns. There are
men In that country who make 1t busi-
ness to pilot hunting parties from the East
and abroad, which not only slaughter elk,
but capture and ship them out Of the coun-
try. The killing Of game by Indians in
terferes with this business. The Indians
can hardly be expected to submit to the kill
ing Of their people while engaged in an oe-
cupation which they think they have a right
to follow more quietly than white men, and
failure by the Government to take proper ac-
tion is liable to result In serious loss OF LIE
and property"
The report Is dated at Fort Logan, Col,
and bears the endorsement OF Lieutenant
Colonel Henry E. Noyes, Of the Second Cav
airy, commanding the post, who says he
concurs heartily In what Captain Van Ars-
dale has said. It Is also endorsed by Brga-
dier-General Frank Wheaton, commanding
the Department Of the Colorado, who hopes
that Captain Van Arsdale's recommendation
will be favorably considered.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-08-28
NEW BUILDING coLLAPSES.
An Eight-Story Structure Tumbles II
Killing Many Worklnen.

hllllng many Workmen
By the collapse Of a part Of the roof and
all of the floors Of the eight-story building
In the course Of erection at the northeast
corner of West Broadway and West Third
street, New York City, seven men were in
stantly killed, thirteen were buried In the
ruins, and nine were injured. The building
is owned by John B. ireland: the architect
was Charles R. Behrens, and the contractor,
John b. Parker. The contractor and his su-
perlntendent. Jefferson Seligman, were ar
rested.
The cause OF the collapse is variousiy at
tributed to defective material and to the
everloading Of the floors with building ma
terial, but it will require an investigation
by the officials Of the Building Department
before 1t can be determined where the blame
Is TO be placed.
Those found dead in the ruins were John
Burke, forty-dve years old, plasterer;
Michael Flynn. f1fty-three years old. Brook
lyn; Michael o'Hare, forty years old, labor
er; Charles E. Peterson, twenty-five years
old, electrician; Augustus Phillips. fifty
old, laborer; John ". Schmidt, wireman.
After finding these bodies the search for
the dead continued, as nine men were re-
ported missing. andit was thought that all
would be discovered buried In the huge pile
OF debris.
The architect said that, although he did
not advance this as theory OF the collapse,
the reported fact that shoulder on one of
the upright columns had snapped off was,
in his opinion, enough to account for
the wreck That shoulder supported the
girder he said, which. resting on similar
shoulder on the next pillar, upheld one Sec
tion OF the building at that spot Between
the girders were only cross rods to uphold
the heavy fireproof flooring. and If q
broken shoulder let down girder he could
see no reason why the heavy floor material
should not fall and carry everything with it.
The fireproof flooring that was in place In
the Ireland building, he said, weighed proba-
bly, eighty-fye pounds to the square foot.
When completed the floors were to weigh
100 poundsto the square foot. If, in addi.
tion to this, heavy material were loaded
onto the floor, and then one Of the girder
supports should give way, it seemed per-
fectlY natural that collapse should result
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-08-28
KILLED A BEAR TRAINER.
farmer MoCombs Shot at Them When
They Refused to Leave His Place.

farmer MoCombs Shot at Them When
= They Refused to Leave His Place.
Five Frenchmen, whose business Is that
OF exhibiting trained bears, met at Summit
Vile, Sullivan County. N. Y. One Of them
came from MiddIetown and three from FL
lenyille. Each had performing bear. They
drank lot Of beer during the afternoon,
and held sort of informal jubilee. They
had their bears give exhibitions for their
own satisfaction and had an all-round good
time. E
When night came they went to the barn
OF Farmer James McCombs and prepared
to turn in for the night. Farmer Nc
Combs had gone to Nappanoch early In
the morning to buy horses, and his wife
ordered the men away. They refused to go
and threatened to kill her. Mr. McCombs
got home in the evening and found
the men giving the bears bath IN his
milk spring near the house. They refused to
leave. and he went to Summitville and bor-
rowed gun. While he WAS gone to the
village Mrs. McCombs was chased from the
house with her six children. When he got
back he sent his family to neighbor's and
started in tn drive the Frenchmen away.
The bear trainers showed fight. They drew
knives and said they would sleep IN the
barn and warned him not to interfere WITH
them. McCombs ordered them to go away,
but instead they attacked him, and he
fired shot cutting the jugular vein Of Jean
Courate. McCombs fired again and hit Jean
Balent il the leg and hand. The Frenchmen
retreated, and McCombs went to the house
and reloaded his gun. He areda third time
at the intruders and hit Jean Lameraux in
the face. Then the Frenchmen got as fast as
they could. When near the Summitville
station, about 500 yards from McCombs's
place, Courate died.
McCombs gave himself up. Coroner
Roesch, Of Wurtsboro, commenced holding
an inquest. assisted by District Attorney
Hill. Ita Lucten, one tof the Frenchmen,
swore that when McCombs fired they were
on the lands OF the Port Jervis and Monticel-
10 Railroad at the crossing. ~
The dead man and his wounded compan-
ions had honorable discharges from the:
French army.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-08-28
MABEL HARTFoRD's STATEMENT.
A Loyal Servant Saved Her From . Chi.
nese Assassin's Spear.

A Loyal Servant Saved Her From . Chi
nese Assassin's Spear.
Miss Mabel C. Hartford, the only Amerl-
can at Hwasang at the time OF the massacre,
makes the following statement:
august l, at 7.30 a. m, heard shouts:
They we're the yells OF servants, who rushed
In shouting to me to get up, for the Vege-
tarians were coming, tearing down the
houses on the hill belonging to the English
Mission. A few minutes later teacher
came to my door and told me to run. put
on my clothes and rushed to the door. was
met by q man with trident spear, who
yelled:
"'Here Is q foreign woman.
"He pointed the spear at my chest.
twisted it to one side and 1t just grazed my
ear and head. He threw mo TO the ground
and beat me with the wooden end OF the
spear A servant came and wrenched the
spear away. then told me to run.
81 jumped down the embankment and ran
along the road servant came and pulled
me along until got up on the side OF the
hill then lay down there to get more
breath. After resting twice l reached Sc
cluded spot and lay there.
.'All this time the yells went on and two
houses were burning to the ground. After
while the yells stopped. supposed the Veg
etarians had gone away. A servant went TO
see how matters were. He returned IN nall
an hour, telling me to come home. that five
ladies of the English Mission had been
killed and some had been wounded, bat that
my house-a rented native house-had not
been troubled at all.
II went home to find Miss Codrington
much cut about the head and beaten all
over; Mildred Stewart, twelve years old,
with knee cut and bleeding very hard; her
bert Stewart, six years old, cut on the head
and almost dead Baby Stewart, with one
eye black and swollen; the second Steward
girl, Kathleen, eleven years old, with the
second boy, Evan, three years old, were
beaten and pierced with a spear, but not
seriously injured. The boy vomitted oil
dav. hut va thnnont 1t waa from fright"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-08-28
THE MISSION MASSACRES.
Detailed Account Of the Butchery Of
Christians in China.
THRILLING TALES BY SURVIVORS

Only Oae American, Miss Mabel c. Hart
ford, Was Hurt, But Nine British Sub
Jects Were BrutalIy Killed---Many
Wounded and Much Property Destroyed
Fanatics Perpctrated the Atrocities.
DR.. Gregory. an American missionary, who
escaped from Kucheng. China, gives the fol-
lowing account Of the massacre there to the
representative Of the New York World In
Foochow:
"At 1890 p. m. on Thursday. August I, q
native Christian rushed into my study. say
Ing that several OF the foreign ladies at
Hwasang, mountain resort four puo (about
twelve miles) from the city OF kucheng, had
been killed that morning, and that two
houses had been burned Fifteen minutes
Inter note from Mr.. Phillips confirmed this.
He wrote that five ladies were dend, the
stewarts were missing and four persons were
seriously wounded. He expressed the hope
that was then on my way to Hwasang.
"Iimmediately went into the Yam en-, where
hundreds Of excited natives had already
gathered, and requested the district magis-
trate, Uong. to send some soldiers at once to
Hwasang to protect those still living. In
half an hour the magistrate went to Hwasang
under an escort of about sixty soldiers.
"At 8 p. m left Kucheng City under an
escort Of thirteen soldiers, arriving at Hwa-
sang at D. M. to find that nine adults, all
British subjects. hal been murdered, and
that all those still alive at Hwasang-eight
only-had been more or less severely injured,
excepting Mr.. Phillips, who arrived there
only two or three days before, and was lodg-
Ing at native house some distance from the
English cottages.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-08-28
HOLINESS ANTEcEDENTs.
The Mother OF the Notorious Criminal Says
He was q "Gentle Little Fellow"

The Mother Of the Notorious Criminal Says
He was q "Gentle Little Fellow"
Herman Mudgett, or, as he Is known, q.
81. Holmes, who is now confined in Moyam-
ensing Prison in Philadelphia awaiting SEN
tence on charge Of conspiracy to defraud
an insurance company, and awaiting indict-
ment for heaven only knows how many MUIR
ders and other crimes. is, II he Is guilty, the
great criminal of the age. To him murder
seems to have been as common q crime and
no wickeder than stealing. In fact, Of the
two he seemed to consider murder the pre-
ferahle, for, committed after his plan, there
was no one left to. point an accusing finger
at him. He built a house In Chicago,
which he called "The Castle" and
there he is accused Of disposing
Of his victims as rapidly as and with the
deftness of the Bluebeard OF fiction. The
bodies Of some, they say, he utterly de-
stroyed with quicklime and acids. He 1s
accused of having his own private articula-
tor, too. and he had the skeletons OF some OF
his victims mounted and then sold them for
cash, thus realizing more from the victims
than the mere property, to obtain which he
killed them. Holmes didn't cenfne his
crimes to his charnel house, the police say.
Any place was good enough for him, and the
slightest motive was sufficient to actuate
him to take the lives even Of innocent chill
dren. There Is no such record as that cred
tied to him in the criminal history OF score
of years, II there Is In the century.
The Boston Globe has been investigating
Holiness family antecedents. Around Gil
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-08-28
| THREE Big Ships LOST.
Two OF Brazi's Coast and Another
Near Sidney, New South Wales.
NEARLY A HUNDRED PERISH.

The Wreck Of the Catterthun--.She Went
Down at Night OF Australia's Coast
With Fifty-four Souls---The Third Ves-
sci Went Under Ten Minutes After Be-
ing Struck by the Prince Oscar.
Dispatches received in New York brought
on the same day news Of two fatal disasters
at sea. The British steamer Catterthun
foundered near Sidney, New South wales;
lfty-four lives were lost. The British ship
Prince Oscar collided with strange craft In
mid-ocean OF Brazil's coast. Every soul was
lost on the unknown.
Dispatches from Sydney, New South Wales,
say that the British steamer Catterthun.
bound from Sydney for Hong Kong, ran on
the Seal Rocks, ITO miles north ofSydney, at
2.45o'clock a. m. , and sank In twenty minutes.
AS soon as an examination Of the vessel was
made 1t was soon seen that there was no
chance ofsaving her, and orders were given
to abandon the ship. All hands took to the
small boats and laid their course for the
mainland. There were Australian and Eng
lish passengers on the steamer. The officers
of the vessel were English and the crew
were Chinese. The names OF those lost
are Neil Shannon. the Cantain: First Officer
Pinney, Third Officer Leffler, Chief Engineer
Harper. Second Engineer Adams. Third
Engineer Wilson. Fourth Engineer
Wolstenholme, Chief Steward Man.
ming, Surgeon Anderson Phtps,
twenty Chinese and eight Lascars,
all of the crew. and the passengers. Mes
~
ing. Robert Fraser and twelve Chinese steer
age passengers. When the vessel struck
heavy southwest gale was blowing. There
was shock that could be fell in every part
OF her. The passengers were greatly
alarmed. and there was much confusion.
The Captain reassured them, stating that
there was no danger. He thought the steam
er had been struck only by heavy sea.
The ship continued on her way. but before
many moments it was found that she had
hole in her bottom and was making water
rapidly. She began to settle down and took
on list to starboard. The fires under the
boilers were extinguished, and she was then
helpless. She broached to and the seas
swept over her fore and aft. Every effort
made to lower the boats was bafied
by the seas, which swept them in
board after they had been swuna out on the
davits. The port lifeboat was lost entirely,
being swept from the davits. Excellent dis
cipline was maintained. During an attempt
to lower the starboard cutter tremendous
sea broke aboard the steamer and carried the
cutter away. It also swept from the bridge
the Captain and chief and second
officers and Captain Fawkes. The SURVIVORS
say that Fawkes, having been unable to reach
his cabin to obtain life belt. had borrow
ed the Captains knife. and was cutting the
lashings OF small table on the bridge when
be was swept off into the sea. few min
utes later the starboard lifeboat was Lowered
and it picked up Fawkes. who was cl1nglng
other Europeans were rescued. Besides
her general cargo the Catterthun car
ied $55, 900 In gold.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-08-28
The Labor World.

Mechanics head the list OF inventors.
new England mill laborers are joyous over
the great advance in wages.
The Rome Iron Works, at Rome, Ga, has
advanced wages ten per cent.
Theatrical mechanics will hold their next
convention in Baltimore, Md.
The strike of the quarrymen at Stony
Creek, Conn, has been settled.
Strikers at Ishpeming, Mich, augmented
by all the city employees, INDUCED in mon
ster street parade.
The colored men Of Chicago appealed to
Governor Atgeld to protect the eolored
miners at Spring Valley, Ill.
Secretary Smith has decided that Govern
ment officials who do extra work on Sunday
must do it at their own expense.
The United Brotherhood Of Carpenters re-
fused to allow Knights Of Labor carpenters
to establish Union in Brooklyn.
Mining operators signed an agreement In
Pittsburg by which the miners demands are
accededto. and Dig strike prevented.
Puidlers' wages were raised at the rolling
mill in York, Penn, from 52.75 to 80 per
day. Fully 10000 puddlers get the better
scale.
General Master Workman james R. Sover-
eign. of the Knights OF Labor, has accepted
an invitation to speak at Lynn, Mass, on
Labor Day.
Minnesota farmers have been offering from
t35 to $40 a month and board 1or 1arm
hands, and have not been able to get enough,
even at those rates.
Secretary Carlisle issued I'm order lncreas-
ing the CONF mpensation OF the pressmen at the
Bureau Of Engraving and Prlntlng, wash
ington, from 1920 81 per day
A suit has begun In the United States Cir
omit Court to test the Federal shipping laws.
which make it crime for sailors to refuse
to work when on the high seas.
The tailors OF New York City, Brooklyn
ond vicinity are to be congratulated on hav-
inc conducted great strike in wholly
nninue manner-there has not been any vio-
lence to speak OF.
General Master Workman Sovereign visited
thn Southwest looking up good farming
lands for the location of laborinS men, in Or
dor to relieve the distress caused by over
crowding in cities.
Under the new French Arbitration law
there were lfty-one appeals by Workmen last
year and four by employers. The masters
refused to arbitrate in twenty-four cases and
the workmen in sixteen. There were S9l
strikes during the year.
The blacksmiths, horseshoers, harness.
makers and hackdrivers of Quebec, Canada,
have made AL energetic protest against the
granting ola permit to build an electric
Street railway in the city. for the reason that
1t will interfere with their means OF earning
living.
Complaint is made in New York that the
wages OF women are rapidly declining.
Strange as it may seem, one OF the chief
reasons given for the decrease is that men
are seeking employment In various trades
that have heretofore been practically monop-
olized by women.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-08-28

manton Corner, N. h, where Herman Mud
gett was born, all his forbears have borne
an excellent reputation. The Mudgetts for
many generations past, according to the
records and traditions of Gilmanton Corner,
have been models Of New England virtue
and propriety. His father, Levi Mudgett,
was born on a farm in the village. and, like
his father before him, WIS brought up re-
igiously In the Congregational Church. His
son, the now notorious Holmes, was born
and bred in the same way.
On his mothers side this star criminal was
equally we'll descended. His material
grandfather was Moses Price, another far
mer, who had lived honestly and prosper
ously on wel-kept farm Just beyond Gill
manton Corner. Holiness mother still
speaks of him with affection and esteem, and
refuses utterly to credit the terrible story Of
his misdeeds. She aff1rns that she
was always kindhearted, gentle
little fellow" when he was young,
that he "never did anything wrong,
never had to be scolded for not doing as he
was told. nor for playing pranks." She says
that she never knew him to tease other chill
dren or to abuse animals. that he was all
gentleness, and that the mere sight OF blood
filed him with nausea. She further testifies
that, as boy, he was. If anything, too in
dustrious, and that she never knew him to
tell lie or be guilty of any deceit.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-08-28


An engine on the Baltimore and Ohio road
struck trolley car near Chester, Penn, in
jufing nineteen people.
The Whisky Trust was sold by public auc-
tion ut Chicago to the reorganization COM
mlttee for s9.sOO,0,0.
Thomas Hovenden, the we'll known artist,
was killed while attempting to save the life
Of little girl at q grade crossing near Nor
ristown. Penn.
At Pierre, W. W. Taylor. ex-Treasurer OF
South Dakota, pleaded guilty to embezzle-
ment Of the States funds.
The Bank of Shelby, Tenn, a small con-
cern, has suspended.
A defective air brake on Third avenue
"L" train. New York City, caused crash ut
the City Hall station and injured numerous
passengers.
Edward Miller Cameron, President OF the
HySeia Distilled Water Comraay, killed
himself. perhaps intentionally, at his home
in West 1slIp. n. y.
Fire in Philadelphia destroyed two large
manufactures and burned out many 10 lging-
houses, rendering nearly two hundred peo-
pie homeless.
Several persons were killed by lightning
during the terrific storm that swept over
New York Stale, Long Island. New jersey
and Connecticut. Many buildings were set
on fire and destroyed.
The United States cruiser Columbia was
found in the Brooklyn Navy Yard to be dam
aged by improper docking at Southampton.
Eighty-one years ago the British bonn
harded Old Stonington Conn., borough, on
the sea, for three days and killed goose.
Stonin4ton had great celebration OF the
anniversary.
William c. Murdaugh, of Portsmouth, Va,
and Arthur Il. Gatewood. of Norfolk, were
killed in a trolley car wreck in Norfolk, Va.
Edward R. Perkins, the discharged con-
vict who stole pair of horses, a surrey, and
was arrested at New Haven. He admits the
theft and insists that he was alone in the
robbery.
whose bodies were believed 10 be buried in
the ruins, was the casualty record on the
fourth day after the tragedy at the collapsed
Ireland warehouse building ut West Third
street and West Broadway. New York City.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Convention
in New York City adjourned after the 1900
delegates had renewed their pledges on their
knees. 1t adopted resolutions calling on
Catholics to keep out OF the liquor business.
Four people have been burned to death by
a fire, which destroyed the Transfer Hotel
and several adj Joining buildings in Pendleton,
Oregon.
A collision occurred on the White Mount
ain division of the Boston and Maine Rail-
road one mile south Of Plymouth, N. q.
Three men met with instant death. several
received injuries, and the ten or fifteen
passengers received shaking up.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-08-28
THEY ROBBED A STATE PRISON.
Two Men Steal a Team Of Horses From
the Jail in Wethersfield, Conn.

Two Men Steal a Team Of Horses From
the Jail in wethersfeld, Conn.
At about o'clock a. m. two thieves got
into the yard at the State Prison in
Wethersheld, Conn.,, by climbing a high
fence, and then broke the lock OF
the stable, about one hundred yards from
where they entered. They took Il span
Of black horses, harnesseI them to surrey
wagon and drove around inside the prison
wall. Then they cut wire fence and drove
across field Of cabbage to the main road,
running TO Middleton and Hartford. There
all trace of them was lost.
A big mastiff, the terror OF Wethersheld,
lay in a stall near the horses which were
stolen, and gave no alarm. The team be-
longs to the State. and is worth about SGO0.
The harness has the coat of arms OF the state
on the blinderssand saddles. 1t Is thought
that the thieves are discharged convicss. be-
causethey were familiar with the premisesnnd
the dog did not modest them. The theft was
committed without being observed by the
watchman stationed in the tower on the in
side wall Of the prison.
Warden Woodbridge has offered reward
OF $40 for the apprehension of the thieves
and the recovery Of the property. The mis-
creants intended to take two other horses
which were found loose In the yard.