The Union Times, 1894-09-07

... , i tflflWifns th< oppose the teachingsLAffTT i i< *1 u .in . _*i-iwid to believe in jrr< the Sanetified W\\pr i i u i i " * t .. and demolished a free love, utUr .... . .. church to thnt swt on Snn" <iu\ jjjjinTaftt'r which they stoned the ^ hg^es of several members of the congregation. While passing I'owden's ^ house the mob fired through the open window instantly killing Mr. ltowden. n'r who was asleep beside his wife, lie _ni leaves six small children. ^OI THROWING DULL CARE AWAY. we pol One of tho Dcinl-Moiule In AiiRiinfn At tempts to Cnst ofT tho Coll. Aror?T.\, (la., September 4.?A wo- \ , man by the name of Hill, one of the demi-monde, attempted suicide here j)e yesterday by jumping into the river ,nc from the Southern Kail way bridge. jia She had been despondent on account of ^ a quarrel with her lover, and being ejc tired of life, sought to end her sorrows. ^a She was under the influence of liquor at the time. The attempt was not sue- as eessful. th< GOVERNOR WAITE DISCHARGED, tic cr. Tho ntitor no#on.i?..ia in . . | ..o<l Conspiracy t'nao llelil t'mio- llnml. an Drsvrr, ("ol.. September 1.?Commissioner Hinsdale yesterday afternoon discharged Governor Waite and held An the other defendants, l)wyer, Mullins and Armstrong, to the grand jury in ' $500 on the charge of conspiracy. Governor Waite in his own defense, vigor- | *,u oil sly denied any connection with the y? conspiracy, and said lie would abide by the decision of the commissioner. ?P' nci FIGHT AGAINST W. L. WILSON. in, lUnl, of Maine, to I.rart the C'riiHinle (Iot- P'T trii frnor WII*on for the TrtrlfT Rpfornirr. ^ CiiAKl.F.HTON, W. Ya., September 4.? jn Ex-Governor Wilson has tendered his services to the state democratic com committec - mittec committec to stump the second district for Hon. William L Wilson against Hon. Thomas II. Heed, of Maine, who will * shortly be here, and is expected to ln' make a bitter fight against Wilson.

i of the lynching was known l?y Will or Cox and detected by him last week, be- rf, fore the lynching occurred. It is his ^ understanding' that detective lliehnrdson was in with the crowd. Charles , Cox visited Cuba, near the scene of the lynching, last week, and ho. too, heard of what was on the tapis. Roth . men made those statements last week (jr but now they deny them. There is no doubt that, they did debate the programme. When this fact is published, it will intensify the feeling against 1. Richardson. jSUMMARY OF THE DEAD. of sn Kntlm:itc<l Tfial Four Hundred i?n<l Fifty (j? llnvc I'crlsliod Since Saturday, ^ Pixk City, Minn., September 4.? or Three towns. Hinckley, Mission Creek and l'okatna. lie in ashes this morning W( and huiidredHof corpses lie in the region Sp and neighborhood of Hinckley, and all nr over the lire swept district. The vast co valley between the Kettle river an<i Cross Lake is luid waste, including sev- |ia oral villages and settlements. Resides Qf the towns that were reduced to ashes, ^ farms were swept clean by the llames. aT1 The forests are still burning fiercely ^y and rain is required to drown the lires ^ that are sweeping over that vast region, Whole families have been cremated. In sonu* instances only one or two men es- rj,j eaped from a neighborhood to tell of 0f the destruction. ^ The dead may be estimated: Hinclc Hinclcley - ley Hinclcley Sandstone 40, Sandstone June- ^ tion 25, 1'okama 25, Skunk Lake at. Uli?Oell?TW<n?>> 1??, 100. R MURDERED WHTLE HE SLEPT. wl w Prominent Cltlxon of Virginia AuMMlntted ^h as a Result of s Sectarian Fued. CiilNCOTKAOfK, Va., September 4.? so Thomas Rowdcn, a prominent citizen iej of this plnce, was assassinated here on I llf

I'MIVVM 111 nn t M luitv. A 111' Iiri^lllMjring town of 1 'olcuma is wiped out. The eastern Minnesota train which left St. Paul at 1 :.*>0 o'clock Saturday afternoon nnd arrived at Hinckley Saturday night took 800 people on hoard and moved westward toward St. ( loud. The train has not been heard of since. It has not reached St. Cloud nnd has not gone hack to Hinckley. There has been a general four that it has been burned with all on board. There is no chance that they are alive, unless they have found a stream or slouch into which they could go and escape the fire. Kverv family in I'okoma is homeless and In danger of starving to death. Llw? Vet In Dancer. A freight train is in a diteli one and a half miles west of l'okama. Twentyfive people are in the caboose and the fire is all around them. If they are not rescued soon all must perish. Hans Nelson, section foreman at l'okama, started away yesterday afternoon with his family on a handcar to escape the lire, and nothing has since been seen or heard of them. It is certain that they have perished. A St. Louis special says the Creat Northern road is doing all in its power to reach fire-stricken Hinckley. Kver since Saturday afternoon work trains have l>een .. iiuuuiiift fnirne<t bridges, and afl the men that can be used are being rushed to the front. Three large bridges were down. The officials expect to get into Hinckley about noon today. The scenes at the front where the work trains are engaged are frightful. One crcw-go'iorU ?d that They* saw Hmu(.s on a house close to the track. The place was enveloped in fire before the people could escape. The workmen were powerless to render any assistance although thev were so close flint time

could hear the people screaming astb-.i' were lieinff cremated. Iljr One of the He?ciie?'. The first train over the St. ,au' an<| Ihilnth railroad direct froir '',e ?* the great ftre reached M""eup<.bs teniavafternoon. T\ert' "'ere about one dozen persons '? boar<l including Mrs. Laurence. ",e ?nly one of the passengers on tb "Limited" which started Saturday wternoon. Mrs. Aaurence says the first evidence of t'r<" "re was notioealde about ten ,?/(es north of llickley when the air became almost suffocating. One mile north of llickley a number of persons, Mrs. Laurence estimates the number at fifty, rushed toward the train screaming frantically. The engineer seeing the danger they were in if they remained, stopped the train to let them aboard. The heat became intense and the whole volcano of fire seemed to burst, out in a michtv efTort to wipe train and its occupants off the face of the earth. I'nnle With No Humanity. Mrs. Laurence describing the scene said: "At the first rush of. the Haines toward the cars the window panes bust with n loud report, and the train began slowly to return toward Skunk Lake. People screamed ami men jumped through the ear windows. The wild panic was horrible. There was 110 humanity in it. Every person was for himself and did not care how lie got out of the swirling, rushing avalanche of flumes. My dress caught lire but I extinguished the flumes. "I saw two Chinamen. 1 can remember the scene as if before mc now. They were pnralized by fright and made 110 effort to get away but simply hid their heads under tlicir seats and were burned to death. I stood it as long as I

e Chnlrmnn of the Itrpnhtlrntt Xaftonal Committee in the Hare In Montnnn. iVariiinotox, September 1.?A. w. man, who was for a number of years lewspnper correspondent in this city, d who is now internal revenue collec- . of Montana, has been in town this ek on business. Talking about the litlcal outlook in his state he says ? most interesting fight will be over ?! election of United States senators, successor to Senator Powers, and one fill the vacancy now existing, are to chosen. It promises to be one of the >st peculinr senatorial contests that ve ever token place, and there is a ssihility thnt it may result in no (ction or a deadlock. Senator Powers s an opponent in Chairman Carter, of ? national republican committee, and they both come from the same town ? fight is hot. Itoth nre shrew *8inns. The fight will be a tri""" " i' ^'.veen reptrrdU aiW? ?? - d populists. tragedy!5n the stage. Aiimtuer TniRedlHii t'lm ft I.moled Tl?tol Through Mistake. iKiiAM.t, Mo., September 3. ? At e's Summit Saturday night ^n nma.t theatrical company coaiposed of ung society people was presenting a play "The Postal Clerk," at the era house. In the play it becomes cessary to use a pistol. In the dressf room of William tiibhs were two itols, one loaded with blank onrdges and the other with bullets, irlng the act (llbbs tired at J. P. Sherman, an operator for the Misiri Pacific railway, who was playr an important part. The audience s horrified to see Lathcrman fall to ? floor with a stream _of blood spurtf from a ghastly wound over his left s. He cannot recover, (iibbs is nost crazed with grief, as the men re warm personal friends. Wine Grower*' Trout Fnlln.

Prof. Henry A. llnzcn said: '"This is lint ma}' be called the Indian summer y Iiazo. Just what is the cause of it, is u little ditlicult to determine. I.Ike I'hninnienoiiH In the I'hsI. miTar conditions have been noticed in e past, notably on the "dark day" in 81,which was due to a dense condition the atmosphere, probably caused by loke. In 1881 there was another dark ly known as "yellow day" which e.\nded from New England to Virginia i the Atlantic const." Professor Cleveland Abbe, of the eather bureau, who has made a ecial research into this smoke pheunenon, said: *'I begun today a llation of all the data the weather ireau has relative to the spread of the ize which now covers the greater part the United States. Early in July I (fan to receive reports of forest fires id large areas of smoke in Minnesota, isconsin and upper Michigan. Since en reports have come from lower ichigan, New York and Pennsylvania. forest Fire# the VouiiIIiIp ('muse. iere is every reason to believe that all the smoky haze which now covers e country is the result of the di(Turn of the smoke of burning' forest ea and crops. A coroparitlvely little fire will make large quantity of smoke, unless it is idely diffused by strong winds, in hich case the smoke becomes like the in haze of the Indian summer, llut bo happens that in this present" sonn the United States has exper[iced r$|)ier .h'ffb temperature apd ze lias notJ^ ' ^8' 80 that the smoky present tftrie an , i&vohge clbnalty mter than usual." i " CARTER FOR U. S. SENATOR.

l he counterfeits consisted of dollars, halves and quarters, and are the best I that were ever made. Several thou- j sand dollars of the spurious coin wore circulated in southwest Arkansas. LABOR DAY IN NEW YORK. From 512,000 to 2A,noo Men Marched llehlnd the American Flag. Nkw York, September 4.?The first ?.?w>nnl labor day in New York was "sterday in gnwid style. The occasion was made memorable by the largest and finest parade of organized workingmen ever held in this country. It is estimated that from 22,000 to 25.000 men were in line, marchlug behind the American Hag, and with their hundreds of hundsoine banners lending color and brilliancy to the scene. All of the offices and institutions closed and there was a general suspension of business. ROYALTY AT HIS BEDSIDE. Feeling at the Death, In Kille, of an Honorable Man and a Zealous Worker. London, September :i.?The condition of the Count of Paris is not improved. The Princess dc Joinville, Prince Emanuel IVOrlcans and the Due D'Aleneon arrived at Stowe House to-day. The Paris Matin, referring to the Count of Paris, says: "If his illness should prove fatal, thougliful Frenchmen will feel remorse at seeing die in exile an honorable man, a zealous worker and the possessor of all the solid qualities that France needs to-day." Coekran In the eoulh Carolina Campaign. CoMTMBIA, S. (>? September 4.?It is generally talked in political circles here that llourke Cockran, of New York, Senator (Jordon nnd Speaker (UmJ* ,_:ii ..?- ?il.

miles west of the Southern l'ucifie a:i<i the town of Dhanis, Mcdialla county, fifty miles west, Wednesday night. After midnight, the water in l^al-liwas three feet deep and the populati . > took refuge on high ground. Thrv people were drowned. In Dhanis I v.i children were drowned. The water is four feet deep. The bridges and approaches of the Southern Pacific v.. re washed away, which will stop trains for a week. A PAPER MILL SYNDICATE. Kngllah Capital Raid to Have no lit Thirty-four Blllln In Wlironiln. Appi.ftow, Wis., September 8.?,\u English syndicate has closed a deal : r the purchase of all paper and pulp i.. in Wisconsin. The mills in the ? a I number thirty-four, und the pi . agreed upon is 014.009,000. The tr; ,sfev will be made March 1. ITalf the price is to be paid in cash nil 1 half in bonds secured by mortga; Most of the property involved is loca! I on Fox river and fifteen of the mills arc at Appleton. Another Tragedy In the l'almetto. Maxtow, N. C., Septeml?cr 4.?X James Martin, living just across 1 state line in South Carolina, wh < <sleep - sleep <sleep in bed at his home, was shot a I killed Sunday night by n negro. V posse is in pursuit of the murderer a.ij ^ if cuught^ie will be lynched.^ ^ The f'h olera Record. Viknua, September 4.?There linvo been 023? fresh cases of cholera and 81 a deaths in Oalicia in the last three dac .