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A Brutal Murder.

ROANOKE, Va. Sept. 80. The Blue:
Geld Telegraph of yesterday prints the
following: On Sunday evening at
Upland, Gus Miller and his pal, Jim
Hawkins, who had been drinking
heavily, had a shooting affray, in
which Hawkins was killed, Miller was
terrorizing everybody in the communi-
ty, and his pal, Hawkins, having no
pistol. Miller told him to 60 and get
one, saying if he did not he would
shoot him. Hawkins went out and
secured his pistol and Miller opened
fire upon him. Hawkins took shelter
behind nearby house. Miller climb
ed TO a position where he could see
Hawkins and again fired at him, but
missed him. Hawkins returned to his
assailant. 1t so happened that Miller
got Hawkins's head under his arm,
and holding his murderous weapon a
few inches from Hawkins's head dis
charged his pistol frequently. The
brains splashed upon the murderer's S
shirt front and smeared the sleeve and
breast of his coat. Releasing his VIC
tim, who fell limp and dead upon the
ground, this fiend in human form said :
There, told you would kill you" D"
Miller then tried to escape, but was
held forcibly by the crowd that had
collected. Miller was taken to Welch
and lodged in Jail. Excitement ran
high. A large crowd gathered at the
depot and threatened to lynch Miller,
but he was finally gotten on the train
without any trouble and taken to Jail.
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trees. In Baker County four towns
were almost totally destroyed: They
are McClenny, Sanderson, Glen, 81
Mary and Olustee.
No one was killed outright in these
towns, but many were injured, among
whom were Mrs. @. S. Richardson
James McAlpin and North Webster
all of whom will die.
| At Live Oak, the destruction is com
plete, but no loss of life is reported.
Near Walborn the house oil Amos
White was destroyed and two OF MS
children killed.
AtLake City eight business houses
and thirteen residences were destroyed.
Mrs. Sarah Fletcher and two boys
were killed and Dora Jennings. sam
uel Hudson and Jonas Mabry were
fatally injured. ,.,,
Six persons are reported killed at
Fort White, in Columbia County, but
no names are given.
The hurricane passed over Duval
County, striking the edge of Jackson
Vile but doing very little damage.
There was no loss of life here. Just
North of here, however, in Nasslia
County, considerable destruction is
reported. Five children were killed
in the wreck of school house. Miss
Stewart, the teacher, had her arm
broken.
Lila Rails, 12-years old girl, was
killed at her home, her mother being
fatally injured. Harry johnson was
also killed. At IIillyards, another
school house was wrecked and four
children were killed.
AT Kings Ferry, Andy johnson,
Moses Lassiter, Simon Henderson,
May Jones and a child were killed.
Mrs. Fisher was nursing sick child
and the infant died as the house fell.
The mother was hurt, but will recover.
Three sailors were killed on schooners
that were loading lumber at Kings
Ferry.
Across the line into Georgia the de-
vastation was continued. At Folkston,
which is near the Okeefeenokee
swamp, the school house was wrecked
and four children killed. Several
casualties sre reported in Camden
County, Ga.
The storm then continued on its
| way to Brunswick and Savannah.
There is no way to estimate the pro
perty loss in Florida. The losses may
seem heavier now than they will when
more closely examined, but the talk
among insurance men is that the losses
will foot up 50, 100000. This seems,
however, an excessive estimate.
The storm extended as far North as
Maine, but the principal damage was
done in Florida and Georgia. Char
lesion suffered little, but not much.
The storm covered a large scope OF
country, and while it lasted was very
Savarp
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Sad Fate of q Brave Crew.

SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 3O.-The
sailing schooner L. M. Morrill,, Capt.
Cantilli, of this city, arrived on Mon.
day night at Schwaer's dock direct
from Unalaska, after cruise of nine
months sealing on the Japan coast
and Behring Sea. The schooner brings
the news of the loss of seven men from
the British cruiser Satellite in Clutch
harbor or the night Of September 4,
during one of the worst storms thai
ever struck the coast. Eight men, un'
der command of the first lieutenant,
were in the boat that left the Satellite.
It was, as far as could be learned,
picked up bodily by the wind and ov'
erturned. One of the sailors swan
ashore, the others were never again
seen. The next morning their boat
was seen high and dry on the beach
on the opposite side from the town
The two men whom the lieutenant's
crew started out to save reached the
land in safety.
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Fire In n Play House.

ABERDEEN, Scotland, Sept. 80
The Palace of Varieties, play house,
was burned at the beginning of the
performance tonight. The perform,
ers were compelled to fly, leaving all
their property. The audience was
thrown into panic. Many were
trampled and crushed in the rush to
get out of the burning building, and
sustained injuries. The music hall in
the structure was complete ruin IN
half an hour after the fire was discov,
cred. A search was instituted among
the ruins after the fire and resulted in
the finding of three corpsss, and it is
feared that many others did not have
time to make their escape, SO rapid
was the fires headway. 1t has been
ascertained that forty persons are IN,
jured by being burned or tramped
upon in the panic. OF these, 13 have
serious hurts and others are IN the
hoSpita1
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Negroes Drowned.

SAVANNAH, Ga, Sept. 1.-Reports
come from the Savannah River sec
tions of South Carolina that there was
considerable loss of life among the ne.
proes in Tuesdays storms. The small
Schooner Island Flower which left
Wilmington Island, Tuesday, for this
port is believed to have been lost with
her crew of men. Houses arc down
in all parts of this section.
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The Storm in Washington.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.-The West
Indies tornado, which struck Wash
ington between II p. m. and midnight
last night respected neither official nor
diplomatic proprieties. It ripped off
some of the coping of the White House
and Law most of the historic trees in
the White House grounds, including
the elm tree which Lincoln planted
land this gave the relic fanatics q
fruitful field for their operation,) it
carried away part of the roof OF the
state department, where the official
documents are stored, but fortunate'
Iy left them uninjured. The costly
roof of the patent office was picked up
and distributed all around the neigh
borhood and skylights half an inch
thick were remorsely beaten in. The
naval observatory, and in fact every
other public building was more or
less damaged. Churches and theatres
suffered alike. The slate roof OF the
Church of the Covenant, where Presl-
dent Harrison used to worship, was
blown down and each square slate, by
a curious freak, planted itself upright
in the grass parking which surrounds
the edifice. Still more disastrous was
the fate of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian church which Bryan re-
Gently attended, sitting in Lincolns
pew. The whole tower of the edihce
was reduced to matchwood and per-
sons in search of souveniers had no
difficulty in obtaining them. Nearly
every other church in the city suffer-
ed more or less and their antipodes,
the theatres, were equally visited.
The total destruction of property In
Washington city by the storm is estl-
mated at nearly half a million dollars.
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Eight Lives Lost.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-Passengers
and trainmen on the Shenandoah Val
ley train on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, which arrived here at 4
o'clock today, bring confirmation OF
the report of the disaster at Staunton
caused by Tuesday nights storm in
that part of Virginia. They say the
damage was done by flood rather than
by wind and that the flood was caused
largely by the bursting of the dam OF
a lake in the public park at Staunton,
causing the loss ofseveral lives at that
place, variously stated at from five to
eight. The unfortunate people drown,
ed were caught in the water by the
intense darkness. VIM Thomas, re,
siding at the town Of Newmarket, be-
low Staunton, was also drowned. lie
was riding along the river bank when
the ground, which had been under.
mined, gave way, and precipitated
both horse and rider into the swollen
stream.
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More NIoslem Massacres.

LONDON, Sept. 2S.-A dispatch to
the Times from Gambia, Island OF
Crete, says that a band of armed MO-
hammedans, which left there by per,
mission of the Governor, looted and
burned the villages of Drapte, Kaly::
vim and Kastelliana, in the district OF
Monofatsi, and destroyed the church
at Hagio Apostoloi. The Vice Con
suls warned the Governor and the
Mohamedan leaders that renewal OF
the outrages would have serious con-
sequences.
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Captured by Democrats.

LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. Is. THE Mid,
die of the Road Populist convention
to-day, for the purpose of putting into
nomination a straight ticket for Presl'
dental electors in opposition to the
fusion electors was captured by the
silver Democrats and every attempt
to conduct business failed. Only two
Middle of the Road Populists-C. M:
Clark of Lincoln and DR.. Bryant OF
Norfolk in an appearance and
the silver Democrats present passed a
resolution endorsing fusion on the
State and national ticket.
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put nm or Shut I'm.

The New York World, it is said, has
the following letter in possession for
one month, but declined to push it:
HELENA, Mont, Aug. 81. 1896.
To New York World:
Gentlemen: I hereby authorize you
to publish that will make contract
for one hundred thousand dollars
(S1OO,0OO) worth of silver for which
will agree to pay one dollar and ten
cents ($1.1O per ounce In United
States gold coin, and to be taken as
soon as W. j. Bryan, as President OF
the United States, has signed a coinage
bill, which will provide for the free
and unlimited coinage OF silver at a
ratio compared with gold at 1G to 1,
and if any of those who are talking
about so cent dollar desire this con
tract, and are willing to put forfeit,
I am prepared to secure this offer by
forfeiture of twenty thousand dollars
$2O, ,O0O. l feel confident that can
ARA, 90 similar contracts among my
circle of business acquaintances for
twenty million dollars (S20, 600, 0OW to
be taken one million a month for
twenty months after the signature OF
such a bill. Yours truly,
r. II. KLEINSCHMIDT.
Mr.. kleinschmidt is owner of a
bank and one OF the richest men in his
State. He is abundantly able to back
his offer, but getes no takers. His
substantial proposition knocks the
props from a. favorite gold bug argu
ment, and the World knew it. In old
DAYS when Senator Mcpherson talked
about silver dollars being worth only
20 cents, or in that neighborhood
Senator Stamford, it is said, used 10
shut him up by just such propositions
as that of Mr.. Kleinschmidt. t.-Augusts
Chronicle.
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A Terrible Storm.

CITY OF MEXICO, Mexico, Sept. 2S.-
The Western coast has been visited
by terrible storm causing great dam
age to the town OF Altata. which was
inundated. The waves poured into
the principal streets Of Mazatlan. Aid
iS rpnl1ested
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FIood SusDends Business.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Sept. 2S.-Busi-
ness is suspended in the town of San
Marcos, just north, the street being
covered from four to twenty feet with
water. -Four persons are missing.
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Il UalnoSTlllc tllc MoIuOuist SuutSLi
and twenty residences and business
houses were destroyed, and while q
number of people were hurt no fatal
ties are reported. At La Gross, fifteen
buildings were destroyed. Rev. w.
A. Barr, Mrs. f. +. Mcintosh and her
baby are are reported killed. Near
there four laborers who were in a cab
in on turpentine farm were crushed
by falling trees.
Newberry, in WestAlachuma, is to
tally wrecked. G. J. Eastlin, Mrs.
Nanny Moss, Frank Olmsted and
David Jones were killed. At IIigl
SPRINGS, Malissa Harden, Jane Morris
and Sallie Mobiles. colored, are re,
ported to have been killed.
At this place a number OF people
took refuge in a box car, which
was in the path Of the cyclone.
1t was blown along the track
and then off of it a distance OF fifty
feet and every person in it was BADLY
injured. Steve Mason and George
johnson have since died.
At Gracy, a small place, twelve
houses were blown down, woman
was killed, but a babe at her breast
was unhurt, although it hid been car
ried some distance by the force of tn:
wind.
At Lake B ltler. Bradford County,
Mr.. q. H. Harkey, Mrs. J. M. Futch
and her infant were fatally hurt. Many
buildings were blown down. At this
place the wind blew 10 pieces two cars
loaded with bricks and a negro, Hen
ry Sullivan, who was 300 yards away,
was killed by being struck by one Of
flying bricks.
On Judge Richards turpentine farm
four convicts were killed by falling
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came here in search of Art Vincent.
We rode up in front of the house and
Joe Robinson began to curse at us be-
fore we even got to the house. l ask
ed him what he meant, as we had not
come there for him, but for Art Vim
cent. He said if we did not leave the
house he would be G ID if he did
not kill us. lie drew his pistol and
started out the door towards me. l
asked him what he meant, for he had
drawn the pistol on me. 1then rolled
off my horse and came round in front
of him, and by that time Mr.. Mitchell
came up and told Robinson to put up
his gun as no one wanted to hurt him.
Robinson said the first Cd white
that put his foot on the steps
he would kill. He threw his pistol on
Mr.. Mitchell and commenced snapp'
ing it, and Mr.. Mitchell shot him. He
had snapped once at mo when Mr..
Mitchell shot him, and he fell"
This concluded the evidence. The
body was then examined by DR..
Charles R. Taber and DR.. Waller w.
Wolfe. 1t lay towards the centre OF
the room, opposite the front door, and
rested in remarkably easy position,
showing that death had been instanta-
neous and painless. Drs. Taber and
Wolfe deposed as follows: 1--WE
found that Joseph Robinson was shot
through the heart by seven buckshot,
the balls passing through the body.
The wound was sufficient to cause i'm
mediate DEATH"
The jury then withdrew. In a few
moments they returned, and Foreman
Maynard handed in the verdict tina.
Joseph Robinson came to his death
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in money. These would be- enor-:
monsly enhanced in value, and would
gain a disproportionate and unfair
advantage over every other species
of property. If, as the most reliable
statistics ALI rm, there are nearly 81
O0U,OOO,OOO of coin or bullion ia the
world, not very unequally divided
between go d and silver it is impos-
slbie to strike silver out of existence
as money without results which will
prove distressing to millions and ut
terly disastrous to tens of thousands.
! believe gold and silver coin to
be the money of the constitution; in
deed, the money of the American
people, interior to the constitution
which the great organic law recog-
nized as quite independent Of it's
existence"
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on the question, and the convention
can decide it for itself. And in view
of the fact that the question there to
be decided is a question of principle,
and not of either men or methods. |
frankly concede the right of any mar
who differs with the majority of he
convention in its determination. to
decline to be bound by it. | have
no doubt myself as to what the de-
cision of hat convention will be.
My undoubted confidence in the
good faith and sincerity of the re-
publicans of Montana forhids me to
believe that they would repudiate
the plain and unequivocated pledges
of the party made in various states
platforms in the past in favor of BIZ
metalism and protection, but on the
contrary that they will, in spite Of
the allurements of promised political
patronage on the part of the gold
standard advocates and the gold
standard agents of this state, remains
faithful to principles and let public
patronage 60 where it will. Every
indication now points to the defeat
Of the gold standard at the coming
election, and that carries with it all
the official plums which are held as
temptations to men to desert princi-
pie. But, if those indications have
been misread by me, and if the gold
standard nominee should be elected.
for n | prefer to be a private
citizen, maintaining my s~elf-respect
and yielding continued allegiance
to the principles which deem essen
tial to the prosperity of the people
represent, than to yield those princi
pies and forfeit that property as the
price of political power. Much asi
would crafty me to be able to aid il
!, giving remunerative places in thu
public service to the many frien'
that [ am proud to claim in this state
believe I am doing them a grea
service by standing firmly for tn
prir ciple which in my Judgment vii
: give additional employment to labor
increased profits to producers, an
consequently give added impetus t
!, the prosperity and happiness of all.
Very truly yours,
: CHARLES S. HARTMAN
Bozeman, June q, 1896.
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Judge Kerley used to run the
Townsend Messenger. BY the prin-
ciple ''Once an editor, always an
editor" he left Townsend, only to
engage in newspaporial work in a
larger field, founding the "silver
Occident" in Missoula, where he is
making him self the individual requir-
ed whenever the people want a square
deal. He has watched the condemn
ably dubious transactions of the man
agement of the Broadwater mines
and has his figures as true as if he
were on the ground. Under the head
ing, "a line Managers Duplicity,"
referring to W. Clark, the Occi-
dent prints the following:
About one year since the Brod-
water Mining Company, Of Neihart,
undertook to force its employees to
purchase their supplies from the
company store or to board at the
company boarding house. This
the miners refused to do and the
people of the town boycotted the
store. Some of. the. citizens were
arrested fol conspiracy, and put to
considerable expense, but the boy
colt was continued until the manager
of the mine was compelled to close
the store, and boarding house. Then
peace reigned. Eventually an ex-
plosion took place in the mine and
several men lost their lives. A
subscription paper was circulated
and 500 raised by the citizens and
the superintendent of the mine sub,
scribed $1,000. The Superintendent,
was made treasurer, and $3.50 was
paid to the widow of one Of the
victims and $50 to another. The
superintendent promised to pay the
funeral expenses and it was suppos'
that the entire sun raised would be
paid to the dependent relations o.
those who were killed. An investi.
cation set on foot by the NE1HAR1
HERALD disclosed the fact hat only
$500 was thus appropriated. The
balance of the seven hundred wa.
expensed for the burials, and tina
the $1,000, the superintendent 81
Dgave, is still in his hands
In other words he did not put up
cent of his subscription, and tn
victims of the explosion were buried
at the expense of the people of tina
town. The citizens are Justly indig
nant.
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Those republican papers who have
turned loose their walls of wrath upon
Hartman and Mantle, for their in
dependent course at St. Louis will
hold Il small hand in the coming
state convention. 1t matters not
what motives prompted the bolt at
St. Louis, the state of Montana will
always honor the men who had the
courage to stand and fight for her
sacred rights, and the next republican
convention, despite the sheepherders'
plaintive wall, will vote honor tc
Hartman and Mantle, and repudia-
ton to Mckinley and the reign OF
plutocracy. Hartman and Mantle
will sit in representative halls among
the first mcn of the land, when Sam
Gordon and f.. Fl. Becker are fork.
ING manure on a suburban truck
farm. Here are your smart Alexan'
ders in journalism. Their heads are
like single.jointed California pea.
nuts. and their clothes SAVIOR strongly
of mutton. They are no wider
between the eyes than a herring il
across the lower part of his back
1t is seldom such men break into al
editorial room; but when they do
may the hand of Providence save the
community.
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JAMES G. BLAINE.

II believe the struggle now going
on in this country and in other coun.
tries for a single gold standard, would
if successful produce widespread dis
aster in and throughout the CONNER
cial world.
The destruction of silver as money
and establishing gold as the sole unit
of value must have a ruinous effect
on all forms Of property except those
-l:l - c-el-aA.>p
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Bozeman, June q, 1896.


Bro. G. K Wight, editor of the
Meagher county News is a Hartman
republican in whom there is no guile.
He has the courage of his conviction
and in the midst of a froward anC
perverse generation, swings a logica
blade that news to the line. Stay
with it, old boy. You will accom-.
plish more for White Sulphur Springs
and for Meagher county than all the
milk-and water fellows between Can
yon Ferry and the Musselshell. Yo,
have them on the run; stay with them
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Council Notes.

The council held its regular meeting
Tuerday evening, July 7, with Il full
attendance, Mayor Sanford in the chair.
The reports of Marshal, treasurer, and
of police magistrate for June were read
and ordered filed.
Aid. Bonner from auditing committee
reports for payment the following claims
| against the town:
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Patronize western institutions. The
Union Life Insurance Co., Omaha, Neb,
writes the most liberal policy written.
For information address W.. d. Godfrey,
Rutta nr Dr-I. Loda. Salt Lake. Utah..
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The Tribune proposes the name of

The Tribune proposes the name of
Fletcher Maddox, of Meagher county
as a candidate for attorney general OF
Montana. He is well qualified for
the position and would make a good
officer. He was employed by the
last Legislature to annotate and
supervise the publication of the codes
which shows that the Legislature had
confidence in his ability. He did
not compile them, thank goodness.
else we would never mention him as
a candidate for anything.-Dillon
Tribune.
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Those lows democrats are made
OF the proper material. They break
down the idols of all that trust in
gold and build a glorious temple in
the cause of financial truth. The re.
publicans of Colorado are no less
clamorous for the humiliation of the
gold-bug hosts. For they have
turned down such able men as VOL.
colt, Howbert and all who we're not
so staunch in their faith as Senator
Teller. From every hill and valley
comes the swelling chorus of those
who hoist the standard of indeDend.
ent bi-metallism. All the talk about
a fifty cent dollar gets the laugh
when the people learn that F. A.
Preston keeps everything in the line
OF staple groceries and that he still
takes the 80 zen dollar at face val.
ne in exchange for anything to be
found in the market. Goods at
reasonable prices.