The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-11-09
OLD MAN MURDERS HIS son.
IN-LAW IN SOUTHERN
OREGON.
W. R. Shoemake Had Given Farm
to Oliver Sergeant in Return
For Care During the Rest
of His Life-Quarrels
Were Frequent.

Ecold- -blooded murder was commit
ted about two miles from Williams
Postofhce this morning by W. R.
Shoemake, who shot and killed Oil
yer Sergeant, his son-in-law.
Shoemake and his wife, who are
about 20 years Of age, live in lit
tie house adjoining the Sergeant
home, and the Sargeants were pro-
vidipg for the wants of the old
folks in return for the farm having
been given over 10 them. There
has been more or less trouble ever
since the farm was turned over, and
last night there was another quar-
rel.
This morning Sergeant took the
breakfast for the old folks into the
house, and when he turned to leave
lShoemake shot him In the back
with a revolver that he had secur-
ed, the ball passing entirely through
his body. Sergeant lived only an
hour and half after the shooting
occurred.
The coroner and the sheriff were
notified and went:to Williams, the
Sheriff returning to Grants's Pass
tonight with Shoemake in custody.
The old man has ior some time
past been considered by many as
insane at times, but nothing was
ever done about it. Sergeant was
about 45 years old, and left a wife
land several children.
i Philadelphia, Nov. 6.-Accord-
ing to the crew of the Philadelphia
and New York, express, on the
7 Pennsy1vaia railroad, which left
Washington at $50 tonight, two
4 unsu ccessful attempts were made
to hold up the train at Havre de
Grace and Perryville, in Maryland,
O by two men. one of whom was ne
gro. The men escaped.
The men boarded the train at
Baltimore, it is believed. As the
train approached the long bridge at
: Havre de Grace. a white man pierc.
ed an opening in the front of the
express, aad thrusting revolver
through the opening ordered Mes
senger Carrier to let him in. The
messenger replied by firing his re-
volver aad pulling the signal cord
When the train came to a stop
Conductor Sibley ran forward tt
/ the engine, and there found col
! ored man in the tender, with a re
volver in his hand. He ordered
i the man down. At first he refused
! but after short argument he lef
the tender. Going back to the cx
press car, he told the messenge
!. what had happened, but the whit
n man had disappeared.
. The train resumed its journey
and when 1t reached Perryville, or
the further side of the bridge, tn
two men again appeared, one o.
the tender and the other on the from
platform Of the express car. Th
train was again stopped, but befor
the two men could be captured the,
disappeared in the darkness.
London, Nov. Especial dis
patches from Chefoo and Tien Isl
report that the defenders of POI
Arthur have retired to the Liao'
Hill fort, where they are holdsn
out desperately, entrenched, an
with ten guns of large calibre, ma
ny Russians, the correspondent as
serts, are deserting and surrender
ing. The japanese it is added, ar
advancing with an irresistible enel
gy.
More reliable reports do not con
firm these statements, but the Tok
10 report of the capture of Wants
Hill, a dominating fort within tw
= miles of the railway terminus, show
r that the japanese are making raI
( id strides.
! Bennett Burleigh, the Daily Tel
} egraph's correspondent, report
( from Chefoo that there was n
+ lighting on the night of Novembe
+ 5. The troops of the Mikado, b
( says, have frequently stolen int
I the native town of Port Arthur a
; ter dark, but invariably were driy
I en- out at daylight with heavy To-
+ ses. The Japanese have four lare
+, forts facing the Russian works o
( Rihlung Mountain, and Shansh
! Mountain, where they are mountir
I naval guns on stone foundations.