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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-08
NRA|LROAD BILL" KILLED
The Famous Negro Outlaw Rid
died With Shot
BY AN ESCAMBlA POSSE
The Posse Wasin a Store When the Desperate
unsuspectingly Entered.
ARMED WITH A RIFLE AND TWO PISTOLS
He Was Instantly Recognized and Perfo-
rated With Shot-There Was a Re-
ward of 1880 for His Capture.
Avenged at Last.
ARMED WITH A RIFLE AND TWO PISTOLS

Mobile March morris Slater, alias
Railroad Bill, noted negro desperado.
who has terrorized Escambia and adjoin-
ing counties along the line of the Louis
VILE and Nashville railroad for a year
or more past, was shot and instantly
killed tonight about 8 o'clock at Atmore,
a small station on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, by posse who had
been on the lookout for him all day.
He was killed in the store of Tidmore
q Ward and the posse was taken some
what unawares when he entered, but IN
stantly they recognized him and opened
fire on him with double -barreled shot
guns. He was literally perforated WIN
shot and was instantly killed.
He had a Winchester rife in the leg Oh
his pantaloons and two pistols in his belt;
which was full of cartridges. Several
nights ago the residence of the telegraph
onerator at Atmore was robbed, ana ne
gro VIII Payne, was accused Oh .he Ioo
berry, but said that Railroad blli lotcea a
him at the point of a pistoi to s,anu ~.
guard while he (Railroad BID Went IN
snd robbed the house, after which he TOOK
to the woods. The negro stuck 10 MS t sto
~ so earnestly that some or the White
citizens believed him, and the posse was
organized which killed the desperate W
night. ,,oa FOR tho
rast wear at intervals, but has Always
managed to eude his captors' Dui,ns
that time he has killed man narheu ..
II Stewart near Hurricane Bayou wno
was a member of a posse when was allex 81
him and he also shot and Killed oneiia e,Iis se
Mcmillan of Escambia county d. piuil
Gprings not very long ago, or iate tneae
he's not been much heard OF ms Wherea,
bouts and at one time he was reporieu
10 have sailed from Savannah 10 Africa
There were rewards of 1880 for ms cap
ture.
MoGowan Fired the First Shot.
Rrewton. March 7.-(SpeciaL)- faii- s
.,,ad PilI the noted south Alabama des-
nerado is dead He was killed In llu-
more e Wards store, at Atmore, Town
twantvfiye miles south of here by Leo
nard McC,owan, assisted by two men py
the name of Jones' They had been hunt,
ino hin, for some days. McGowan nreo
tbe first shot when the other two 1oiioW-
cd ouickIy. Bill was killed almost m
stantly. He had Winchester rlne III ms
breeches leg and two pistols ana io' VI
cartridges on his person
Superintendent Mckinney or the LOUIS
willie and Nashville railroad sent special
train here, from Flomaton 10 CARY
James Mcmillan and posse, anu thes
have just gone at u O'Clock
There seems to be no doubt put tHd.
they have the right man this time: Inus
end the days of the most noted uespe,-
ado south Alabama has known in many
la.r
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-08
AS goes Morgan SO goes the Eighth dis

In "a the fight in Morgan between
Johnston and Oates was a stand-off, each
candidate getting A votes. The Clarke
people this time didn't even want to pro-
rate. Johnston carries everything, and
will get the Morgan county delegation
solid.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-08

There were precincts in which Clarke
didn't even average ! TO 16 Johnston
maintained his parity everywhere.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-08

Captain Bankhead made Johnston
speech at Falkville. The result is not
credltable-Johnston 81. Clarke 9.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-08

A 50 cents dollar to 5 cents ginger
kake that the Klarke kolumn Is glad 1t
doesn't have an issue this afternoon.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-08

The Birmingham young money kings
were shaking their wads around yester-
day afternoon, talking about betting.
When the news began TO come in they
shook their heads and early In the even
ing they gave the crowds the shake.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-24
About EncOres.

Sims Reeves is hard on what he calls
the vicious encore system" He char
terizes it as preposterous piece of
dishonesty, of which all honest per-
sons should be ashamed. The nuis-
ance, he says rightly, seeks to take a
shabby advantage of the suffering pro-
tessiopal; and it is to be regretted that few
of our performers possess sufficient courage
to return to the platform, bow politely and
indicate firmly No! Your encore-monger
cares nothing about symmetry or balance
or cohesiveness, whether the occasion be
the lyric stage. the oratorio performance,
the benefit and ordinary concert or the
ballad concert.
He wants to hear more than he has bar
gained for, and if his demand is not Welded
to he will hoot and bray and hiss, when
an attempt is made to perform the next
piece, as if he belonged to the long
cared ouadrupeds or feathered bi ped
tribed. And then we have occa-
sionally what the newspapers terms
"a scene'-an exhibition of "'Arryism"
that dlsgraceS our boasted civilization.
If manao ers, artists and the musical pub
lie would but think this matter over and
determine to stamp out the nuisance one
great blot on our English musical perform
ances might be effaced. Unfortunately, it
is not yet quite certain whether encores
are more distasteful to the great majority
OF performers than they are to large sec
tlon of the concert-going public.-Gentle-
mans Magazine.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-24

Nearly all the old ladies of ShawneetoW9i
to-day will tell you that Henry Clay klsseu :,
them at that reception half a century ago.
Joon A. Logan married in Shawneetown.
"John did most of his courting at my
house." said Captain Reardon. MISS
Cunningham lived near US and was gener-
ally there when Logan came down from
Benton, where he was reading law, to see
her. Bob Ingersoll spent four years about
town, reading law. In those days BOD
had the most remarkable memory l ever
knew. After reading an article in ne VS.
paper he could repeat it almost word Tor
word"
The captain is rs years old and looks
good for ten years more of active steam
boating. He was born at Mount Vernon,
H.. about eighty miles from St. Louis.
He has owned several steamboats, since the
war and made a good many trips to st.
Louis as well as to points on the Ohio and
Lower Mississippi. The boat he is now
running was named in honor of daugh-
ter of General BuforG Wilson of Spring
field. One of his sons is general superin-
tendent of the Chicago, Peoria and St.
Louis Railroad
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-24
Deacon Isaac II. Morse Talks
of Applying to the Civil
Courts.
THE COUNCIL AGAIN CENsURED
1t Is Now Contended That Rev. DR..
Freeland of Oakland Was Not
a Member.

The forces that have been working to
oust DR.. Brown from his pastorate in the
First Church have now combined and
seem to be overpowering. Following are
nearly all the names of those who have
signed the petition requesting the trustees
of the church to depose the convicted
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-24
One of the Striking Features of
Their Picnic Next
Sunday.
POWERFUL TEAMS SELECTED.
Members of Unions 22 and 483 Who
Will Pull for a Purse and
Other Prizes.

The four carpenters unions of this City
are preparing for a grand picnic and out
ing at Sunset Park next Sunday, and from
all indications it will be one of the largest
ever held by labor organization in this
City. Not only will the wood-butchers
and their families attend, but hundreds
belonging to the unions affiliated with the
Building Trades Council, of which the
carpenters are part. The committee of
arrangements have in store several sur
prises for the pleasure-seekers that will be
out of the ordinary picnic line. About $50
merchandise prizes will be distributed at
the gate. 1t was suggested that there
would be cake-walk, but a second con-
sidera ton decided the committee upon
prize-dancing instead and two beautiful
medals have been prepared for The pest
and most graceful lady and gentleman
walters.
One OF the best attractions, and one that
has been talked of in carpentering circles
for some time past, will be a tug-of-war
between teams OF nine picked from the
powerful men of unions % and 483.
The tug will take place in the pavilion on
ceated floor. The winning. team will
secure as prize $50 in cash, cask OF
wine and several boxes of cigars. There
has been considerable friendly rivalry
between these two unions as to which has
the largest and most powerful men. On
Sunday the men were selected, and are
now in training for the event. The per
sonnel of these teams shows that they are
composed of large, powerful men.
The team from 483 will be captained by
K. B. lngle. r. w. Smith, native son
weighing 215 POUNDS and standing feet 3
inches, will be the anchor man. Louis
Meter weighs 200 pounds and stands G
feet ~ inches, He is native of France.
9. Kohler, native of Germany, weighs
It's pounds and is feet tail. J. Graham,
1877 pounds, 5 feet IL inches, native OF
Novia Scotia. o. M. V. Roberts, 18O
pounds, feet IL inches, ma i've of w Waes.
Frank Carson, l80 pounds, feet, native
of the United States. John Sanderson,
210 pounds, feet inches, native oil
Sweden. d. Johnson, 1877 pounds, 6 feet, a
| native of Sweden. j. Lawson, 165 pounds,
feet Ii inches, a native of Sweden
The heavy weights of union 81 will be
under the captaincy of Charles W. Page.
The team will be composed of f. R. Mel.
son, 24S pounds. 6:1. native of Illinois
George Bronson, 1874 pounds, 5:111z. ma
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-24
TO MOoRwIN's SPEECHES.
The First One Made in Congress to Win
National RenOwn.

The First One Made in Congress to Win
National RenOwn.
The first of his speeches to win National
renown was Corwin's reply to General
Crary. like himself a member of the
House. Crary was bumptious general of
militia from Michigan, and in the course
OF speech on a bill giving Government
aid to the Cumberland road had taken oc-
casion to attack the military record of
General Harrison, who had already been
nominated as the Whig candidate for the
Presidency. The defense of the hero of
Tippecanoe fell upon Mr.. Corwin, and the
next day he took the floor and began a
speech which for delightful ridicule and
crushing satire won him instantaneous
fame throughout the country. Compli-
ments were showered upon the orator
from his associates in Congress and news
papers writer's at the capital. John Bell
of Tennessee said he had never before
| heard such a speech in Congress. John
| Quincy Adams referred to the vanquished
militia general as "the late Mr.. Crary of
Michigan"
But it was in his famous speech upon
! the Mexican war that he won his greatest
fame. That was not an humorous speech !:
it was a classic. 1t was magnificent
panegyric upon the blessings of peace and
| the folly OF powerful nation going to war
with weaker country for no other pur-
pose than glory and aggrandizement. This
was a speech which not only won the
highest encomiums in this country, but
was copied abroad, wherever the English
language was printed, as mastery ex-
ample of human eloquence. 1t was in this
speech that the oft-quoted phrase is heard:
Sir, if l were a Mexican l would tell you.
Have you no room in your own country
to bury your dead? If you come into
mine we will greet you with bloody hands
and welcome you to hospitable graves
But while this Mexican war speech in
the Senate rendered Corwin famous, he
made another at his home in Ohio defend
ing this speech in the Senate, in which he
is said to have surpassed himself. For the
reason, as stated above that the art of
stenography was not in such general use
in those days, this last wonderful speech
was never preserved to history.-From
Life and Speeches of Thomas Corwin."
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-24
He Says There Is Almost a
Boom in the Hawaiian
Islands.
COFFEE LARGELY THE CAUSE.
The Minister Has Merely Come Back
for a Vacation, After Three
Years Absence.

Hon. Albert s. Willis, United States
Minister to the Hawaiian Islands, arrived
here Yesterday on the steamer Alameda
from Honolulu, and is at the Occidental.
He is accompanied by Mrs. Willis and Al
bert S. Willis Jr.
al am away merely on the regular sixty
day vacation that the Government allows
once wear to its representatives in the
consular SERVICE said Mr.. Willis. 81
have no thought of resigning, and the
auction sale of some OF my goods would
have taken place anyway. L am not at all
in poor health. In fact l don't know
when have been in such good physical
form, for l have increased materially in
weight.
"Though the Government allows vaca-
ton each year, this is the first one have
taken in almost three years that have
been at Honolulu We are going to our
old home at Louisville, KY, and will also
visit Chicago, Washington, -. u, think
and other places, beginning at Denver.
''There has been almost a regular boom
at Honolulu. During the last two or three
years many young men have gone down
there and engaged in coftee-growlng. a
good many men there have also gone into
it and into gar-growlng. The third
=
things are looking we'll.
'At Honolulu they have been erecting
schools, building roads and reservoirs and
putting up electric and pumping plants.
The city looks well and over the islands
where there is any settlement there is
thrift and prosperity. At the time of the
cholera scare, some months since at Homo
lulu, a census OF the people was taken
there and reputed al 80, 600.
~ think this is inside. My own opinion
is that there are $4,000. This will show
you how it is growing Honolulu is
destined to be great resort,
II can't tell you anything politically,
for that would touch on my duty as
foreign Minister, but with what 1 have
said you will get a good idea of how
things are there"
Minister Willis and his family will be
here several days. Mrs. Willis unfortu-
nately sprained her foot recently while
stepping into boat and has not yet en-
tirely recovered from the sprain.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-24

insisted upon. The advice given dis
tinctly by the council was that the name
of no person should be used. in the organi-
zation of that church. In spite of this the
church organized under the name of
Cooper and is now known as the Cooper
Church.
Representation was also made by the
Rev. l.. l.. Writ that the unusual haste
displayed by the church for its organiza-
ton was not intended at all for the pur-
pose of having delegates in the Bay Con-
ference to vote against DR.. Brown. The
question was distinctly asked, and the
question was based upon newspaper re-
ports. whether such report had any foun-
dation in fact, and the council was
solemnly assured by Mr.. Writ that that
had nothing whatever to do with it. The
Cooper Church would not appear there in
any unfriendly attitude toward DR.. Brown.
AS matter of fact the delegates did
appear there and were active in their OPP
position to DIR. Brown, so much so that it
seemed quite evident that that was I'M
doubtedly the object of the unusual haste
in the organization of that church.
81 also intend to bring before the Gre
Dental committee the attitude of the
First Church of Oakland toward the First
Church of San Francisco. By established
precedent in Congregational usage no per-
son supplying pulpit can take place in
council. 1t is generally understood that
DIR. S. M. freeland is now, and has been
all the time, unfriendly to DR.. Brown.
Presumably this was known to the church,
and in order that DR.. Freeland might sit
on that council he was elected acting pas
tor. This would naturally be considered
an unfriendly act to sister church, and it
seems to be of sufficient Importance to de-
mand a thorough investigation by the
committee on credentials, and the matter
will be properly presented 10 them"
The opponents of Brown will meet in
the Columbia building tonight, when a
final plan of action will be agreed on. 1t
is thought that many new names will be
added to the petition requesting the trus-
tees to remove DR.. Brown.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-24
GOOD OLD RIVER DAYS.
Captain Reardon's Experience Extends
Over More Than Half a Century.

Over More Than Half a Century.
Captain j. E. Reardon of Shawneetown,
H., registered yesterday at the Moser, saws
the st. Louis Globe. Democrat. The gen.
tleman owns and commands the Jessie
Wilson, an Ohio River boat His steam
boating career began more than sixty
years ago. sit was in 1886 that made nv
first trip down the Wabash in keelboat."
said the captain. II was only IA then,
and was cook of the boat. In those davs
we used to float keelboats and fatboats
down the river and pull them back. A
crew generally consisted of twelve men.
and the cook and captain, as well as the
others. had to do a good deal of pulling
sometimes. A stake was driven in the
ground on the shore above the boat il there
was no tree near, and we pulled ourselves
up to it with ropes.
Before my day my father-in-law owned
twelve keelboats that ran from Pittsburg
to New Orleans and it took six months to
make a round trip. [ worked on the Big
Wabash, the little Wabash and the White
River. Sometimes we used oxen in pulling
upstream. Nor was it such an easy matter
TO go downstream. There were milldams,
for example, ON the Little Wabash, at
Carm1 and New Haven. If the water was
very high we Jumped them without un.
III.
the freight below the dam and Jump the
dam with the empty boat, and then reload
There were no railroads in those days, and
the farmers of Illinois and Indiana had no
other way of marketing their produce.
Many of them built boats and foated them
to New Orleans loaded with grain, cattle.
hogs and vegetables. Deer meat, TOO, was
plentiful in those days. l remember one
fatboat that was loaded with ninety tons
OF freight, and just about half the entire
load consisted of venison hams.''
captain Reardon met Lincoln, Clay and
other prominent men before the war, some
OF them frequently. in the hard-cider
campaign of 1840 Lincoln came down to
our country on horse back, - said the cap
tain. "He was candidate for Elector on
the Whlg ticket, and travelled with a man
named Lambert. | heard him speak at
Shawneetown, New Haven and Carmi.
Inc meetings were held in log cabins, and
the hard cider and the coon were aiways
tnere. Douglass l saw several times in
the httles. Clay was a frequent visitor at
ohawneetown, and Zach Taylor met there
also and at Louisville. Clay I first met in.
Louisiana. He had a cotton plantation
down there and occasionally visited it. On
one OF these trips the boat he was on, the
Anarew Jackson, stopped at Shawneetown
ana the whole population went aboard to
greet the popular statesman. Sam Mar
snail mace speech on behalf of the Shaw
neetowners, and Clay responded in man
ner tnat made him still more population
that part OF the country. When the time
LOT separating came he shook hands with
good many and kissed some of the girls.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-24
ENGLISH TABLE CUSTOMS.
Breakfast Word Unknown Five Hun
dred Years Ago.

The old English had three meals q day,
of which the chief meal was taken when
the work of the day was finished. The
first meal was at 8, dinner was about 8
and supper was taken before bedtime. The
Normans dined at the old English break
fast time, or little later, and supped at
P. NJ. In Tudor times the higher classes
dined at IL and supped at 5, but the
merchants seldom took their meals before
II and O'Clock.
The chief meals, dinner and supper,
were taken in the hall, both by the old
English and the Normans, for the parlor
Elizabeth. Breakfast did not become
regular meal until quite lately and DIR.
Murray in the Oxford dictionary gave 1643
as the date of the earliest quotation in
which the word occurred. The meal did
not become recognized until late in the
seventeenth century, for Pepys habitually
took his draught of half a pint of Rhenish
wine or a dram of strong waters in place
OF morning meal. Dinner was always
the great meal of the day and from the
accession of Henry " to the death of
Queen Elizabeth the dinners were as sump-
tuous and extravagant as any of those
now served
Carving was then fine art. Each guest
brought his own knife and spoon, for the
small fork was not introduced into Eng
land until Thomas Coryate of Odcombe
published his "Crudities" in 1911. Pepys
took his spoon and fork with him to the
Lord Mayors feast In 1868. The absence
of forks led to much!stress being laid upon
the act of washing the hands, both before
and after meals. and to the rule that the
lett hand alone should be dipped into the
common dish, the right hand being occu.
pied with the knife
The perfect dinner at the best time of
English cookery consisted of three courses,
each complete in ITSELF and terminated by
a subtlety or Device the whole being
rounded off with ypocras, after which the
guests retired into another room, where
pastry, sweetmeats and fruits were served
with the choicer wines. The English were
essentially meat eaters, and it was not un-
til the time of the commonwealth that
pudding attained its extraordinary popu-
larity; indeed, the first mention of pud-
ding in the menus of the "Buckfeast' at
st. Bartholomew's Hospital did not occur
until ITO, and in 1712 is an item of 5s for
ice.-London Times.
Glassblowers in Germany receive no
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-24

tive of Denmark; Frank schaadt, 22S
pounds, 61l feet, native son; H. f. Yum
ker, 2l0 pounds, 5:111z, a native of the
United States; Dolph Johnson, 1875 pounds,
a native ST Sweden; B. Judge, 1875 pounds,
6H feet. native of the United States.
Chris Anderson. 1877 pounds, $40, native
of Norway; A. Mckenzie, 1877, native or
the United States; III. NJ. Saunders, 214
pounds, 5:9H, native of the United
States.
The picnic and incidentals are under the
management OF the following committee
OF arrangements: W. II. Hutchison of
4S3, chairman; T. Doane of Amalgamated
Carpenters, secretary; f. M. Thompson of
%, treasurer; III. NJ. Saunders of %, chair
man printing committee; Thomas Saun-
ders of %, Joseph E. Lee of 463, Ira E.
Johnson of 4S3. A. A Zimmerman of 3O4,
Henry Overdike of 304 and Gus Miller of
3O4
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-24

Glassblowers in Germany receive no
more than $155 year.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-24

There is project to generate power in
Kern County, Cal, by the agency ofwater-
falls, for transmission to Los Angeles, 18O
miles distant. The power is to be used to
light the city and run the electric streer-
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-24
Napp, NJ.

Smedburg, Fannie NJ.
Statham, Miss Ada
STatha NJ, William
Stevenson, Charlotte P.
Stone, Frank p.
SIraus, Meyer
Sober, Mrs. L. T.
Statham, Miss Grace
Statham. Matilda G.
Stone, Matilda +.
stone, Kate K.
Strauss, Marion A.
Wetherbee, Ellen NJ.
Woodwork, Annie E
Woodwork, Liza J.
Woodwork, NJ. Rose
Woodwork, Marshall B.
Whalley, Eva Lizzie
Whalley, Emily l..
Whalley, er.rude
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Adams, Mrs. J. p.
Brown, Addie f.
Brown, Charlotte 3.
Burnham, May
Burnham, Cordelia 7.
Buron, n. K.
Childs, George
Clay, Eliza NJ.
Ching, J. j.
cooper. Sarah B.
Cottrell, Henry d.
Condron. Mrs. ]. B.
Cutler, Mrs. f. NJ.
Cutler, Miss E.
Dutton, Annie r.
Dutton, Samuel L.
Dutton, l. j.
Forester, Kate A.
Forester. Miss Kittie.
Foulkes, George II.
Fillmore, Mrs. Mary L.
French, Helen
French, F. :.
French, Harold
French, Mrs. l.. J..
Frank, Florence P.
Griswold, Harriet NJ.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-24

Tunis, the famous black charger of Cen
eral Boulanger, has been accidentally
burned 20 death.