Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-18
PANIC-SrRICKEN.
Thousands of Passengers Have an EH,
citing Time on Ferry Boat
WAITING FOR THE GALLOWS
Two MurdsreEs COnVloted-shOt flla Wife
and Then sulcided-Child Crushed-A
Paint store House COllapHes--As-
saultod HIs Father.

New YORK, Nov, 10. With nearly
1000 passengers aboard, the Staten is
land rapid transit boat Castleton
crashed into its slip at st. George last
night. The impact was so great that
the planks of the float were torn up,
the iron cushion which bound it to the
pier was snapped as though it were
reed, the passengers were thrown to
the deck aud sides of the boat and
Mrs X. X. Cummings, of Fort Wads-
worth. and Richard Lee, Jr., were seri-
ously 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.
Capt. Frank BREASTED and his crew did
what they could to restore confidence,
but it was many minutes before they
succeeded, and then only when they
assured the passengers that they were
in the ferry slip and that the collision
was with the floats.
waiting for the Gallows
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 16.-After being out
81 hours the jury in the case of John
Thomaschuetz, accused of numbering
his sweetheart in April, brought in II
verdict of murder in the first degree.
He shot his sweetheart because she re-
fused to marry him until he could earn
sufficient wages to provide for wife.
He received the verdict like one in
trance.
Unless Gov. Stephens shall interfere,
Tom johnson, alias Henry Clay" the
negro 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, la, Nov. 16. D. Spick-
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
a year ago on account of family troubles
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 "a 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.
A Child Crus he'd In "A Bale OF Cotton.
WELBORN, Fla, Nov. 1G.-In the cot
ton ginning establishment of 7. j.
Summerall, who lives near Falling
creek, while all the workmen were
busy packing cotton in the press, Mr..
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. 16.-The store house
of the c. A. Woolsey paint and color
works in Jersey City fell to-day.
Twenty-Five people who had been en-
ployed in the structure had sufficient
warming 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 $4,000.
Assaulted His Father.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 16.-George Sea-
graves, proprietor of a restaurant, re-
proved his two grown sons last night
for some trivial offense. One of the
sons drew a revolver and used it to
club his father into insensibility. Both
then fed, but one was captured and
lodged in Jail. The fathers skull is
crushed and he cannot live.