The Mena weekly star., 1897-11-17
PANIC C-STRICKEN.
Thousands of Passengers Have an Ex-
 citing Time on Ferry Boat.
WAITING FOR THE GALLONS
rvo Murderers Convicted-Shot His Wife and Then Suicided-Child Crushed-A Paint Store House CoIIapses-As-
 saulted Ills Father.


 NEW YORK, Nov. 1z-With nearly
 xO00 passengers aboard, the Staten is
 land rapid transit boat Castleton
 erashed into its slip at St. George last
 Night. The impact was so great that
 <he blanks of the float were torn up,
 the iron cushion which bound 1t to the
 bier was snapped as though it were a
 Heed, the passengers were thrown to
 the deck and sides of the boat and
 Mrs. K. K. Cummings, of Fort Wads-
 worth, and Richard Lee, Jr., were seri- 7ously injured. For some minutes men
 and women fought for life preservers
 and in the upper cabin, which was
 Crowded, the crush at the doors was
 Terrific. All sorts of rumors added to
 the terror of the struggling throng. Gapt. Frank Braisted and his crew did
 what they could to restore confidence, Ebut it was many minutes before they Succeeded, and then only when they @assured the passengers that they were Fin the ferry slip and that the collision
 was with the floats.
 Waiting for the Gallows.
 & ST. LOUIS, Nov. 17.-After being out #75 5}5 hours the jury in the ease of John accused of murdering 8his sweetheart in April. brought in a #verdict of murder in the first degree. NTIe shot his sweetheart because she re- @-fused tc marry him until he could earn Sufficient wages to provide for a wife. Ellie received the verdict like one in Etrance
 Unless Gov. Stephens shall interfere 7-rom Johnson, alias Henry Clay" the Nnegro murderer. will be hanged at six &o'clock Thursday morning on the old #scaffold in the jail yard. Every effort is being made by the condemned mans attorney to secure a respite of 30 days # Johnson is regarded as weak-minded. The attorney has secured number of signatures to a petition to Gov. Ste phens. among them being that of Judge Withrow. who sentenced John son.
 & shot His Wife and Then Shielded. CusHING, ia., Nov. IT. IL D. SpicS- q Ter, farmer, shot and killed his wife and afterward blew out his own brains. Four children are made orphans by the tragedy. They were the children of the woman by former husband Spickler separated from his wife over year ago on account of family ytronbles and they have lived apart since that time. The man had only been back from the east short time when he went home and beat one of his step daughters. For this he was arrested at the instigation of his wife. He was released from jail in few days and swore vengeance. He went about Cushing saying he would kill his wife, but people placed no credence in the threat. However, he went to where his wife was living and upon entering the house shot her without warning. He then went outside and put bullet in his own head, dying at once. Child Crushed in Bale of Cotton. WELBoRN, Fla, Nov. 17.-In the cot ton ginning establishment of T. J. Summerall, who lives near Falling creek, while all the workmen were busy packing cotton in the press, MT. Summeralls little fve-year-old boy, Tommy, managed to get in the press unnoticed and was not missed until the bale had been sewed up and thrown 
 out on the ways ready for shipment The men cut the bale of cotton open and found him crushed and dead. Paint Store House Collapses. NEW YORK. Nov. 1.-The store house of the C. A. Woolsey paint and color works in Jersey City fell to-day. Twenty-Five people who had been em- ployed in the structure had sufficient warning by the swaying and sagging of the wall to enable them to escape and no one was hurt. The loss to the company will be about $20,0 900. Assaulted His Father. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 17.-George Sea- graves. proprietor of restaurant, re proved his two grown sons last night for some trivial offense. Ore of the sons drew revolver and used 1t tc club his father into insensibility. Both then fled, but one was captured and lodged in jail. The fathers skull is crushed and he cannot live.