The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-10-01
BERKELEY BOYS
CAPTURE A RAILROAD TRAIN AND
PUT OUT LIGHTS.
Five Hundred Students Turn on
Brakes on Car-Use Railroad
Ties for Bonfire ard Raise
Havoc Generally
Other News.

| Berkeley, CAL, Sept. 24.-The
Students of the University of Cali
fornia indulged in riotous diversion
tonight, and as result one of the
number, Winfield Reed, of Santa
Barbara, CAL, is in Jail with a
charge Of felony confronting him,
and others are likely to be incarc-
Grated for equally serious and min
or ofenses. The trouble grew out
of the big rally to the football team
on the campus. Early in the night
boys made a raid on quantity of
railroad ties and transferred the
flu, l to the campus to be used for q
bonfire. After the rally spirit of
deviltry seemed to take possession
of the students. About 500 of them
took possession of the 10 o'clock To-
cal train, put out the lights, turned
on the handbrakes and demolished
the interior furnishings. Winfield
Reed was detected in the act of
pulling the air brake, and Deputy
Constable Loveland arrested him.
The students rushed to the rescue,
and a desperate fight ensued, but
Loveland, after being reinforced.
succeeded in placing his prisoner
in the frehouse, which will be used
as Jail. The boys tried to storm
the place and rescue their comrade,
but were repulsed. Reed was later
taken to the Oakland Jail. He is a
freshman, and admits he pulled
the air brake, but declares he did
not realize the seriousness of his
ofense, which the law makes fell
ony.
President Wheeler of the Uni
versity, when seen tonight, said he
saw no reason why the law should
not take its course in Reeds case,
as the ofense was serious. Other
arrests will doubtless be made.
Oxford, Miss, Sept. 24.-Will
Mathis, White, and Orlando Lester,
colored, we're hanged here today at
noon for the murder of the Mont,
gomery DrOthers.
The murder of Deputy United
States Marshals John A. and Hugh
H. Montgomery, for which Will
Mathis and Orlando Lester were
hanged today, was committed in
November last, Is miles from OK
ford, at Mathis home, whittier the
officers had gone to arrest him for
illicit disti1ling. The mutilated
and charred bodies of the deputies
were found in the ruins Of the Ma
this house the day after the intend
ed raid. Mathis escaped to the
swamps of the Yocona river, where
he eluded large posse for three
days. He finally was forced to
surrender, and Orlando Lester, the
negro, who was working for Mathis
at the time the murder occurred;
Bill Jacobs, George Jackson, W. Fl.
Ownes, Mathis father-in-lsw, and
Mrs. Mathis, also were arrested,
charged with completely in the
crime. Mathis and Lester made
confessions which they later repu-
repudiated. But they were found
guilty of Murder and sentenced to
death. Ownes was also found gull
ty, and will be hanged October "a.
London, Sept. PA special dis
patch, from St. Petersburg says that
while 400 peasants were attending
a wedding celebration yesterday in
a barn at Werba, near Moscow, a
fire was started from a cigarette
and panic ensued. Women and
children were trodden under foot.
The fire pread rapidly, and within
a quarter of an hour over 100 of the
wedding guests had been suffocated
or burned to death, and many had |
been seriously injured.
A Parsons Noble Act.
II want all the world to know
writes Rev. G. Budlong, of Ashaway,
R. l., what a thoroughly good and