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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-15
HOW 1T HAPPENED.
Full Particulars of the Manner
in which Jarrett Wildman
met Death.

He used thirty eightealiber Revolver.
For some time he had been UnweIl.
He did not want any Dinner and
went to the Grain House while the
rest sat down to the Meal. 4 Pistol
Shot was heard. Rushing out He
was found Desperately Wounded
He walked into the House but never
Spoke again. The Coroner's jury
and the Eerdict.-The Funeral and
other Details Of the Affair.
The full particulars of the suicide
of Jarrett Wildman who shot him
self at his home on Pedlar's Run on
Thursday about noon, were received
here on Friday morning by tele-
phone. The deed as at first thought
was committed while he was tenn
porarily deranged by i'll health. He
had been sick for some time with
stomach trouble and had been act
ing strangely.
On Thursday when the family
went to dinner he said that he did
not want anything to eat and step
ped out of the house, leaving the
rest of them at the table. There
were several visitors present. A
moment after he had gone out q
mufiied pistol shot was heard and
the people at the table got up and
rushed out. They suspected what
had occurred.
Going to the grain house which
stood right near the residence they
went upstairs over the milk-h house
into it and there they found the
wounded man. He had fallen and
was gasping for breath. His father
was the first to reach his side.
The weapon was near him on the
floor and was thirty eight revolver.
Only one shot had been fired. From
all indications the pistol had been
held in the left hand against the
breast and had been fired by the
right thumb.
The shirt was on fire and the
breast was powder burned all around
where the ball had entered. His
left forefnger and thumb were also
burned, showing that they had been
right at the muzzle of the weapon
when it was fired. The ball ranged
upward slightly after entering his
body and had entered about two
inches below his heart.
The wounded man was not dead
when reached and did not die for
an hour after the deed was commit
ted. He did not have to be carried
into the house but walked in. He
never spoke after the family reached
his side but seemed to recognize
them when they spoke to him.
DIR. Reinhardt who was summoned
to his assistance, did not reach the
house until after he was dead but
had he done so there was no chance
of saving his life.
A coroners jury was impannelled
and an inquest held in the evening.
The jury had for it's foreman Cap
tain Garrison and the other mem
bers were Squire John Shriver, l..
r. Hess, Sanford Barrickman, Heze-
kiah Barrickman and w. j. Clark.
They returned a verdict of death
by shooting with a revolver in his
hands. All the evidence showed
this and there was no difficulty in
reaching the verdict
The funeral was held in the after
noon of Friday at one o'clock at the
house and was conducted by Rev. j..
w. Woodruff. The interment was
on Indian Greek at the Morris
graveyard and took place at four
o'clock.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-15
Another Man Froze to Death.

He didn't seem to know there was
any danger. He sat too near that
fan at Madera's soda fountain and
with the cold drink on the inside and
the fan running thousand revolu-
tions minute he collapsed. That
fan is worth going to see.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-15
Big Reduction In Flour.

MAJOR Keener has received car
load of the best -four made on earth
and he is selling it at IS cents a
sack. This is twenty cents cheaper
than -four OF the same quality can
be bought for elsewhere in the town.
The lot is going rapidly.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-15
NOT CONFIRMED.
Mrs. Kenna Still Holds the Fort as
Postmaster at Charleston.
Charleston Mail

CharIestOn Mail.
The editorial statement In the
Mail Tribune of Saturday last that
O. A. Petty had been confirmed as
postmaster at this city was mistake.
The publication of the confirmation
in the Gazette led to the error. Later
information from Washington il to
the effect that the Senate failed to
take the matter up.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-15

100 PAIRS Ladies low shoes at hall
price Waters 4 Wilmington.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-15

An elegant line Of gents silk
front negligee shirts at Hirschman's $.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-15
For Rent

For Rent
A room suitable for paint or
plumbers shop. Apply to s. A.
Posten
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-28
sALB OF CITY PROPERTY.

In pursuance of Authority given us in
two orders of the Superior court of Wake
county made ON the 4th day of NoVem-
Der, 1897, and the 14th day of January,
1898, in the special proceedings entitled
w. II. FL. Cheatham and others, against
NJ. J. Parham and others, we will on the
18th day of February, 1893, at the court
house door in the city of Raleigh offer
for sale at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, the following lot of land,
in the pleadings in said proceedings men
toned, to-wit: A lot of land on the
corner OF Martin and Swain streets
which is fully described in a deed from
r. Il. Gray, Trustee, to J. #. and B. f.
Cheatham, and recorded in Book 107,
page 737, in the office of Register of
Deeds OF Wake county: said lot is
known as the Cheatham House Place,
and as a part of the estate of the late B.
T. Cheatham and is sold for partition
among his heirs at law.
This January 18th. 1893.
A. A. HICKS,
ALEX. J. FIELD,
Commissioners.
Jan. 18th to Feb. 18th. 1898,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-28
NEW LUMBER COMPANY.

The G. III. Brooks Lumber Company,
of Beaufort county, was yesterday in
corporatef by the Secretary of State foI
d period of 80 years.
Its capital stock is $4,000 and the
ineorporators are G. II. Brooks, Henry
0rmond and r. A. Brooks. Par value
Of the shares is $50 each, and the capital
stock may be increased TO 100000.
The purpose of the company is to con.
duct Il general lumber and milling bust.
ness. It's principal office is to be in the
town of Bath. Beaufort county.
The City Trust, Safe Deposit and
Surety Company, or Philadelphia, hae
been licensed to do surety business in
this State. Mr.. w. Il. Mattress, OF
Statesville. is the general agent of the
company in this State. The license il
5000.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-28
FREE PILLS.

Send your address to FL. Il. Brcklen
& Co. Chicago, and get free sample
box Of DIR. Kings New Life Pills. a
trial will convince you Of their merits
These pills are easy in action and arr
particularly effective in the cure OF Con
situation and Sick Headache. For
Malaria and Liver troubles they have
ben proved invaluable. They are guaran,
teed to be perfectly free from every dc.
lleferious substance and TO be purely
vegetable. They do not weaken by theil
action, but by giving tone to stomach
and bowels greatly invigorate the sys-
TEN. Regular sizes 25c. per box. Sold
by all druggists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-28
THDY OUGHT TO CONNECT.

Petitions have been fled with the
Railroad Commission, asking that the
Southern and Seaboard be compelled
10 make connection here with their
morning trains. The railroads interested
are summoned to appear before the
Commission today and show cause why
they should not be compelled to do this.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-28
DUNCAN IN WASHINGTON.

The new collector, Mr.. Il. G. Duncan,
went TO Washington last night to make
a further effort to get some modification
of the civil service law governing APP
po;ntments in the revenue service. lie
expects to return tomorrow morning.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-28
NO CURE NO PAY.

That Is the way all druggists sell
GROVES TASTELESS CHILL TON
IC for Chills and Fevers and all formS
of Malaria. 1t is simply Iron and Quin-
Inc In tasteless form. Children love it.
Adults prefer it to bitter, nauseating
tonics. Price, Soc.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-28
EXCEpTIONs TO BE HEARD.

The Railroad Commission announced
Yesterday that it would this morning
hear argument on the exceptions filed TO
the new fertilizer rate also the excep-
lions of the Southern to the cotton rate
on the Western North Carolina and the
Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio railroads.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-28

II Is because persons who once try
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, always buy it
again, that its sales have become so
enormous. The success of this great
remedy in curing cold, cough, Group and
sore throat is simply marvellous.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-28

TO CURB A GUILD LIN ONB DAY.
Take Laxative BromO QuinIne Tab.
let's. All Druggists refund the money IL
it fails to Cure. 2Sc.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-28

More money! That is plank upon
which every man can stand.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-19

then all forces were applied on the can
non and beach cart. They arrived at
Alseya early in the mornfn~ and, hur-
rying to the wreck, found they were
unable to do anything. as the ship was
beyond the reach of their lines and
their cannon was useless.
The ship had broken in two ana the
waves were dashing over her. Large
pieces of her works were being carried
away with each successive wave.
The beach is strewn with WrecKaee
of all descriptions.
If the story of the rescued sailors Is
correct the officers Of the bark were
responsible for this awful disaster. IL
"a IN he hoped that when the apparatus
of the life-saving crew arrives and they
are able to reach the wreck they Will
find that some of the seamen nave
waathered it out until help arrived.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-19
SCENE OF THE WRECK.

A1sava Raw and river are between
Cane Perpetua and Yaquina bay' pe-
i,,g eixteen miles from Newport, Whlch
is ., yaouina Bay, and eight miles
,,ortb from Cape Perpetua. The south
head is an abrupt, long, rounolis Gun
OF sandstone of less than lOo 1eet III
height and covered with trees Ihe
norfb noint is broad, low and sandy,
ttor go -. charters of mile long and
coverad with driftwood. The entrance
to the river is one-quarter OF mile
yvide at the narrowest part. There is
M we'll defined channel and the depth
of water is from five to eight feet. A
,,atia and a quarter inside the entrance
the river expands into bay about
mile wide and one and nVe-elghths
miles long. 1t is filled with sand Hats
ON the north side of Alseya Bay is
the small town Of Collins and on the
south side is the town and Postoffice
~ Waldnort. Broad off the mouth of
the. bay and eighteen miles from shore
there is seventy fathoms of water on
a sandy bottom.
A strong current, called the David
son inshore eddy current, sets into
Alseya Bay AS an experiment the
Dawn. a steam launch that used to run
between Astoria and Ilwaco, was towed
to near Cape Orford and there cast off.
She then drifted northward in the cur
rent to the Alseya River, distance OF
ninety-five miles.
Inst how the Atalanta got ashore at
this particular place may never be fully
known. She left Tacoma on November
IL and passed Cape Flattery the same
day. Six days later she is wrecked
about 400 miles from her starting point.
1T was blowing a Southwestern on the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-19
PARTIAL LIST OF THE
MEN Who LOST THEIR LIVES


TACOMA, Nov. 1S.-The names of the
Atalanta's entire crew are not obtain
able, not having been filed with either
Shipping Commissioner Steel or British
Consul Alexander. The names of those
who Joined the ship here and signed
before the British Consul are:
d. F. GREEN, able seaman, aged
81, Chapel place, Dublin.
j. WEBER, able seaman, 132
Forty-second street, New York.
S. A. JACKSON, able seaman,
Stockholm.
j. SMITH, Finsbury.
G. CoVALIS, Callao.
J. TONES, Valparaiso.
N. SoRENSEN, Bergen.
G. FRASER, 329 Monroe street,
Philadelphia.
r. CoDD, "a Flanders street, Liv-
erpool.
]. MARKS, Brightwood Addition,
Indianapolis.
Captain Charles Mcbride. or Prince
Charles" as he was best known, was
great favorite among local marine men,
The ship Atalanta sailed on SATURDAY
afternoon for Cape Town with 92,5o9
bushels Of wheat. She was the last snip
to start in the triple race to the cape
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-19

Oregon coast last Wednesday" said an
old coasting captain yesterday, ana
Judging by the seas outside 1t must
have been a ccrked. The chances are
that the Ata1anta was caught in 1T and
was driven back. Then the compasses
may have been at fault and in a gale
there the current runs as much as four
or five mil IS an hour, and then the
magnetic iron ore on the beach may
have helped along, and the hrst thing
those aboard knew the Atalanta was
hard ard fast on the sand spit that
runs out from the north point of Alseya
Bay"
The Atalanta was built in 1885 at Port
Glasgow by R. Duncan & Co. She was
1893 tons net burden, 265.1 feet long, 1877
feet broad and 23.4 feet deep. She was
owned by N. Hill Of Greenock. The
insurance on both hull and cargo was
placed in England. Captain Mcbride,
who was in command Of the Atalanta,
took charge of her the day she was
launched and was in command of her
to the last. She was painted port
ship very like the British ship Illawara
that left here for Sydney a few days
ago with a cargo of barley and -four.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-19
HIS CRAFT SEIZED FOR DEBT
he TRIES TO PILOT HER OUT OF
QUEENSTOWN.
Runs Aground but Floats Again.
Is Chased by Government
Steam Pinnace, but
Escapes.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

QUEENSTOWN, Nov. Something
in the nature of a sensation has been
caused here by the extraordinary con-
duct of Captain Johnson, commander
of the British steamer Briarden, Which
arrived here on October 81 from New
York extensively damaged by severe
weather, during which she was almost
submerged for ten days. Since that
time the Briarden has been repairing
for passage west.
The Briarden was seized this morning
by a marshal of the Admiralty Court
for debt, and a bailiff was placed on
board of her The captain determined
to defy the court and started for Della
ware breakwater. But the pilot, who
was on board, refused to navigate the
ship out of the harbor, with the result
that the captain attempted TO do SO
and grounded the Briarden off Hall
Bow Light. Two hours later she was
floated off.
In the meanwhile the Admiralty
Court officials communicated with the
admiral in charge of this station ana
the latter sent a steam pinnace to in
tercept the Briarden. The pinnace met
the Briarden as the latter was passing
out of Queenstown harbor at full
speed and ordered her to stop. The
captain of the steamer paid no atten-
ton to the summons, but continued on
his way to sea as fast as. the engines
of the Briarden could drive her, with
the little pinnace in hot pursuit. The
chase was watched by excited croWds
ashore. Off Spike Island the Briarden
had completely outdistanced the pin
mace and the latter gave up the pur-
SlIft
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-19
SIBERIA MAY BE A
RIVAL TO KL0NDIKE
Route Of the Proposed Railway Re-
ported Extremely Rich in
Gold Fields,

VANCOUVER, B. c., Nov. 18.-Count
John Thun of Austria, who has arrived
here from Japan, came across Asia over
the route of the Trans-Siberian Rail-
road. He left Moscow last May.
For some two hundred versts beyond
Irkutsk the journey was full of great
peril and required nine days and nights
of hard travelling, greater part of the
time afoot, to go the distance.
Work upon this part of the road had
been well advanced a year or SO ago.
but an era of unprecedented storms set
in and embankments and bridges to the
value of about 100000 roubles were
washed away. The work of restoring
them during the past summer was
greatly interfered with bv sWarms OF
insects and other pests which made it
impossible for the men to work.
Count Thun says it is intensely cold
all along the line of the road. and for
the most part barren and utterly
desolate country.
A region some 200 versts In extent IN
each direction north of Manchuria in
China is undoubtedly full of almost
inexhaustible gold fields, but the ex-
treme cold will not permit them to be
worked for more than three months in
the year. The road will, he thinks, be
completed in about two years time, and
will be valuable chiefly in the move
ment of soldiers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-19

of Good Hope, to be participated in by
the ships Earl of Dalhousie, Imber-
horne and Atalanta. The latter was
known in maritime circles as crack
clipper and breaker of passage records,
having made many quick passages be-
tween London and India. Captain Nc
Bride confidently expected to win the
race to Cape Town. The wager In
volved was the good-natured one OF
champagne dinner at Cape Town, to be
paid for by the ship making the longest
passage.
The general opinion among shipping
men here is that Captain Mcbride was
caught in the heavy southwest gale
after being given an offing by a tug
outside of Cape Flattery. The weather
came on thick and the ship picked up
the southerly set OF the Japan current
running down the coast. This set, to-
gether with his lee drift. brought Nc
Bride into the breakers before he was
aware of his position, there being no
clear weather for an observation. This
theory is made more plausible through
the fact that the Atalanta was Obliged
to take anchorage in Clallam Bay, In
the Straits of Fuca, oil. arriving there
because of the heavy gale and nasty
sea prevailing outside Cape t1attery:
He was windbound there ten hours ana
then proceeded to sea.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-19

were carried over with IT, They sue
ceeded in rescuing one of their com
panions from the mass Of wreckage and
drowning sailors, but were soon swept
away by the gale. They were tossed
in the breakers for hours, half naked
and nearly perishing, without oars.
They were entirely at the mercy of the
storm until it finally deposited them on
the beach. One Of them made his way
to a cabin, and, awakening the occu-
pants. started them in all directions for
help, which 1t was impossible for them
to. give.
After they had arrived on the scene
so thoroughly exhausted were the men
that after twenty hours one of them
had not yet recovered his physical and
mental powers fully.
The people were very slow in notify
ing the life-saving station at South
Beach. twenty miles away. The report
did not rsach Captain Clark until late
in the evening.
Captain Clark immediatcly made
every effort possible to reach the wreck
and rescue any one who might yet be
on the wreck'or penned up in the fore
castle, as supposed by the survivors.
Having no horses, they depended on
the neighborings farmers for assistance,
and obtained one team and a saddle
pony. The team was hitched to the
surf boat wagon and the pony to the
cannon, and with the crew and captain
pushing with nigh, and main they
struggled down the beach toward the
wreck, twenty miles away.
Flesh and blood weie unequal to the
task of transporting the heavy vehi-
cles. After traversing about six miles,
the horses gave up the struggle and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-19

Herald Copyrighted, 1885, by James Cor
don Bennett
HAVANA, Cuba, via Key West, Fla,
Nov. 1S.-Last nights procession in
honor Of st. Christor--- the patron
saint Of Havana. gave the Spanish -
unteers an c~1ortunity to give vent to
an expression of their hatred of Amer
leans. Late in the evening there gath
cred in the vicinity of the race of the
captain general several regiments of
volunteers to take part in the process
sion.
After their dismissal from duty many
bands of these paraded, giving vent to
the cries, Death to Americans" and
Viva Espana." Bystanders were in
suited and jostled about and the slight
est offensive incident would have been
the signal for some outbreak. AS 1t
was, with many Cubans in the vicinity
who had come in from their camp at
Marianao, a collision was averted onIy
by a miracle, it seemed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-19
DISASTER DUE
TO THE CAPTAINS
OLHARDINESS
Carelessness Cost the Lives of Him
self and His Crew-Life-Savers
Handicapped in Attempts
TO Reach the Wreck.

to Reach the Wreck.
YAQUINA, Or, Nov 1S.-The ship
Atalanta, 2SOO tons burden, from Taco
ma, with wheat for an African port.
was wrecked off Alseya Bay early
Thursday morning and now lies about
a mile from shore in the midst Of roar
Ing breakers. She carried a crew Of
twenty-seven men, only three of whom
survive, 80 far as known up to the
present time.
The story as told by the survivors is
that the wreck was due to the care
lessness of the captain, who paid for his
folly with his life, as none of the Off
GERS escaped. They were racing with
another sailing boat and were keeping
close in shore in order to get the ad-
vantage OF the wind in tacking and to
make hort cut to head off the other
vessel They were close in shore. and.
not seeing the light at Cape Foul
weather. steered ahead until they
struck the reef about four miles below
half from the shore, with such terrific
force as to snap the masts off like
toothpicks, carrying the rigging and
everything with it.
to launch Hfeboat, and two Of them
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-19
KELLEY OF
MOTOR FAME
IS NO MORE
Died at His Home Of
Pneumonia.
WAS ILL LESS THAN A WEEK
SECRET OF his ALLEGED NEW
FORCE DIES WITH HIM.
Had Constructed and Discarded More
Than a Hundred Models in His
Expensive but Futile
Experiments
WAS ILL LESS THAN A WEEK
SECRET OF his ALLEGED NEW
FORCE DIES WITH HIM.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18.-John W.
Kelley, the inventor of the Keeley
motor, died to-day at his home in this
city from pneumonia. He was taken Ill
on Saturday last and continued to grow
steadily worse until his death. Mr..
Kelley was 81 years of age and leaves
a widow.
He was a native Of this city. His
education was meager and at an early
age he became a carpenter, following
that trade until 1872.
It was in that year that he announced
the discovery of a new force by which
motive power would be revolutionized.
Following this he constructed what has
become known as the Kelley motor.
On November 10, 1874, he gave it's first
public exhibition before a number of
capitalists and scientists, who advanced
$780, 900 to enable him to perfect his dis
covery and apply the principle. Since
then large sums of money have been
expended on experiments without any
practical public results.
Between 1874 and 1891 Kelley con-
structed and discarded 129 different
models. In the first model he employed
water as a generator, but later the ex-
periments were made with what he
called a "libepator," a machine equip
ped with a large number of tuning
forks, which, he claimed, disintegrated
the air and released a powerful etheric
force.
In 1888 he was for a time confined in
jail for contempt Of court for refusing
to disclose the secret by which he pro-
duced many remarkable effects in the
presence of experts, but until his death
the secret was known only to himself.
Among those interested in his scientific
efforts was Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, the
weIl-known society woman, who ad-
vanced sums of money to Keeley for
the purpose of his invention.