The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-12-03
DRUNKEN MEN SHOOT
Young America Starts Out to Guy
Poland
TWO KILLED IN The SCRINNAGE
ssIoonheeper'. story the only One Told as
Net-Arre.t. Are hsde-Two Prisoners
Escape to the Mouptsins-ThsnLs-
giving n ght In Pittston, Pa.

Pittston. Pa, Nov. 2s-Three men were
fatally shot and several others more or
less seriously wounded in a drunken riot
at Duryea. early this morning. The dead
are:
JAMES MOTZLI; shot in abdomen;
died almost instantly.
FRANK LAMBERT; shot in breast
three times; died this afternoon.
JOHN BEETs; shot in the leg and can
not recover.
The injured are:
John Terry; shot In tnign.
William Mocklnes, shot in side.
Two Polanders. names unknown; not
seriously wounded.
Duryea is a small mining village three
miles north OF Pitteton and there IL a
large colony OF foreigners there, who are
employed In the mines. They celebrated
Thanksgiving day principally by drink
ing. and the Palley tavern was their
headquarters. Several men say that the
night was a veritable reign of terror, in
which IL was unsafe TO be at large. and
the assertion is made that fully a score
OF men we're held up and robbed at pis-
tol points. In various sections OF tho
place.
The shooting occurred about 3 o'clock
told by Palley, the tavernkeeper, is the
only one yet heard. He says that a num-
Der Of Polanders were drinking in his
place, when a party of young Americans
entered. After much drinking they be-
gan to taunt the foreigners. This led
to a quarrel in which the Americans as
sumed the aggressive and set upon the
Polanders with canes. The first blow
had no sooner been struck than the for
elgners drew their guns and bullets be-
gan to fly. The Americans beat a retreat
The shooting was 50 general and promis-
cuous that 1t rs impossible to tel who
fired the fatal shots. Lambert was car
ried away by his friends and Moazl. and
Belts were found on the floor when the
fusilade was over. The two wounded
Polanders were taken to their homes,
where their wounds were dressed. The
authorities promptly started an investi-
cation and this afternoon arrested Pal
ley. the tavernkeeper; his bartender, VIII
liam Cosgrove: James Ryan, James Bra
dy, ]. Clark, Samuel Barclay, J. Flood
and Alexander Wileyni. They are
under charge OF being the ringleaders OF
the riot. While they were being taken
to Pittston, Barclay and Flood escaped
from the constable and fled to the noun
tains
DEAD BODY FOUND.
Tombermoray, Ont, Nov. 2s.-The cap
tain OF the tug Seaman yesterday found
the dead body of John S. Rankin, a De-
troit land locker, in hut on Fitzwill-
lam Island. Georgian Bay note PIN
ned TO the corpse stated that Rankins
companions. Thomas ]. Austin of De-
troit, and George +. Belrose. a guide
from Tombermoray. had left for Tomb
ermoray last Tuesday. Nothing has
been seen as yet of the two men.
DISAPPEARANCE EXPLAINED.
Omaha, Neb., Nov. PA special 10 the
Bee from Tabor. Ia, says: While out
hunting near Sidney today several boys
discovered the badly decomposed body
of a man, which, upon investigation,
proved TO be that OF Moses Vowel, who
disappeared from Sidney about two
months ago. Vowel was postmaster az
Sidney and the postofiice authorities,
suspect.ng that all was not correct in
that office, sent an inspector TO investl-
gate the matter, who discovered a short
age of about $500. Yowell stated that
he had the money as his house and was
allowed to go after it, but failed to re-
turn.
CIVIL SERVICE FFFENSES.
Washington, Nov. 2S-The secretary
OF the treasury has dismissed William
r. Morley, engineer OF the public build
iEk. Denver, Colorado, for collecting po-
liticsl assessments from government EN-
pluyes in violation of the civil service
law. His case has been under investiga-
ton by the civil service commission. Nor
lev's room In the postoffice building was
political headquarters during the cam
pgign. The case has been referred TO
the attorney general for prosecution of
those persons alleged to have violated the
law
MURDERER BURT SENTENCED
10 /,
case of the Burt murder trial handed
in their verdict at noon, finding him gull.
ty OF murder in the first degree and fix
ing the punishment at death. The case
will be appealed. The crime for which
Bur. is 10 hang was the cold-blooded
murder of his wife and two children
on the night OF July "a last, when he
killed them and threw their bodies into
a cistern. He then went to Chicago,
where he was arrested on August 20.
KILLED BY A TRAIN