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IEXAN BARBARISM. rjeviiish Outrage Perpetrated by a White-Cap Gang. 1 KAN ALMOST WHIPPED TO DEATH, Anil an Official of the Santa Fe Railway privrii Out of Town Fatal Figlit rith i;IiIht anil Hi Wife at McKeespirt l. Detective Shot Through the lSr:i:ii Horrille Case of Depravity in i-u York 1 riuiinal Notes. Gaim-'M'illk. Tex., March 23. News jrs brought to this city yesterday of a jjrrihli- eiitr.ige committed by White in Temple Saturday ninht, in w rich jVsi-:.uit Superintendent Van Fleer., of he S.-mtf I'V railroad, aged 50 years, and i private detective of the company rcre :bo s;:iTereis. While these men were ou .iseir way, about 10 o'clock Saturday 1 rm the superintendent's oftiie to Win Heft's residence, they were con ;r..i:te.l 1" a " quad of masked men n-ii.t i:.uMi revolvers, who compelled the two ,.i m.nvli before the mob to the outer t-clge ,,; the town, where the detective was .i;ule to take off bis clothini?. Most Horrible Atrocity. He was then whipped almost to d.-ath .nibis ban- back with horsewhips. The rfkia!. IvholJing the terrible punishment inflicted i:iKn the detective, cried and liest.-pii nn.-t. pitifully to be spared from i!i auiul ordeal He was informel by the rii.lian-mat they would spare hi n if he would leave the towu at once never to r.-:,;ri This he ag-eed to do. The whipped man was reclotbed and man bed .:T;:i one direction, followed by a number i: t. ire t aps, ami Van Fleet was taken i:i an i pposite ditection by others of the ;;ir.ir to a small station a few mi les m uth Temple, where he boa rded a traiu and Ict't for tialvestou. Ah j' He Wan Ordered Away. Beth Van Fleet and the detective were f .rlmideu to ever show their faces in Tem ple .tiain under penalty of death. Van Fleet was charged some time ngo with iiivin' said that there were no ladies in Temple. This remark aroused a bad lee) -.i:-Tagaiut him, and lie was waited on by niuinbfr of men and fjiven only a few l "ir to leave town, which he did in short .rier, but one day last week returned i-'i:i. accompanied by his family, in 1 ,-i.a he eu'ered unon his nftirinl unrl- the Santa Fe compauy. He has I en '. unpopular witli tbe bant.-i Fe . m- yes under him. A MURDEROUS THIEF AT BAY. KilN One Ottlrt-r ami W.iun An- other with His Wife's Aiil. iTTsBfliG, Va.. March ;. Taree ET.-.ths ago Ilupert's jewelry store, at li iTiiestead, Pa., was robbed of sewral : -'usand dollars worth of goods, and a a days lat.r Skelly's dry goods store, at MiKeasport, was robbed of a quantity of ir.erchandise. It was supposed that the liU-ry was committed by the same per ns. Both cases were investigated liy the iuersou detective agency, of thisiity. .:e detectives located the thieves, and it:;r :ay evening Chief Detective 1). 11. ii.ikersun and his assistant, P. J. Murphy, -. i:t to Bull Run, a mining village near Mi Keesport, to arrest a man named litz- The First Shot Kills Oilkeron. The moment the officers entered 1'itz .:n:iions' house his wife handed her hus liiai a revolver. Fitzsimtnons began 'ting, and at the first shot ("ilkerson !-1: dead with a bullet in his braiu. There ".f. a regular fusillade betveen I'.r-dive Murphy, Fitz-immons tvd 1-.- wife, which continued until i:e:r weapons were emptied. When the firing ceased FitzMmmous was lying m the floor bleeding from several womids. Il.-tt-c tiw Murphy was also badly hurt ;ia i dazed, b?iug shot in his left shoulder iii'i in his breast, and having a deep "ur r e.v ploughed through his chiu by a "mil let. The woman stood by like an iniuri-;-! animal at bay, uninjured, with an empty pistol in her grasp. An Kx'Hpe to the M ou n taiiiH. Detective Murphy placed Mrs. Fritz s;iiiiiuins under uuard and she was taken ! McKeesport jail. Before Detective M;:rp:iy had recovered from the shock had excitement Fitzsimtnons jumped fr e.ii the room aud in the darkness es r'P"l to the river and mountains. A M-arch party went in pursuit. Murphy's wound, are very serious, but he will probably recover. Fitzsimtnons au 1 his wife are comparatively unknown here, 'Hid are believed to be a pair of New York '"'"ooks." Mrs. Fitzsimmoas refuse.- to make any statement. The Murderer Arrested. Firy.Mninions was arrested near Home "lead, I'a., last uiht.- A satchel to md near the scene of the murder contaim-d a lot of valuaole jewelry stoleu at Home--!' A copy of the will of Hubert F.tz -:m:i,ons, dated at lirockville, Ont.. Drc. i'1. ivi i, was also found in the valis . 1 his wi.i hnws that the murderer's lather was iiwi-aiii,y man having about -4'),0(KI ia Mey to divide among his heirs, be.-ide ''ir;e amount of real estate. The n.ur-tl-r-r is named in the will as Frederick arr.,lton Fitzsimmoas and is bequeathed iV' i i in money aud a good share of real TERRIBLE CASE OF DEPRAVITY. loit a New York Humane Society Agent Found in a Tenement. Si w Your, March 23. An aaeut of the Humane society Saturday taiJed a U ue '""I'.t house at 037 First avenue. In a rc oiu "ti the third floor a most shocking s iM net hih gaze. Mary McKenna, S yean Id, 'aV 'ti the floor in a state of ulcoh -die f"!i.a. Near her lay her father druuk, "t'd Katie Dougherty, 22 years old, idso 'tit'ixicated. On a lounge was a wot lan Partly dressed, who was sleeping off the sffects of drink. In another room, on a narrow bed, lay Arthur McXally, 40 years iji in the last stages of consumption, ftie officer then stumbld over the body a McNalbr's wife, lying on the floor irunk. Mrs. Cameron's Story. Behind the bed was found little Maggie "cN'ulty. aged 15, in rags. McNally -va Amoved to the hospital and the others wre taken to court and sent up for one nnt h. The children were taken to the Humane society. The partly dresset Ionian said that she was the wife of L iw Ver John Cameron. She said that sheliad n,t l)een home since Wednesday. She had ard of the desperate condition of 21c ally, and had gone to his room to see b'm, taking home whisky, trlnking looje herself bhe became drunk. During SnVITi;,,,,e,,ld Iwned"her diamonc ring and wed ling ring to get mere liquor. She Itrought on Her Own M.rf.. Zaxesvillk, O., March 23. A special to Xlie iimes-Kecorder from Caldwell, O., Another brutal murder t! savs tempt at suicide was committed here Sat urday n'ght at 7 o'clock. Gjorga Harris, frenzied with drink and jealousr. hi, Wife s throat from ear to rr win. . roat from ear to er witli completely severing the windpipe. He then cut his own throat, but did not sue c.ed m end.ux his life. He was arrested and is in danger of being lynched, lie was out in a lunatic asvlum a few years ago, but his wife and mother beeped his release. ft Patricide Not. Much of a Crime. IIcuox, S. D., Mate 23. -The jury in the Hundley murder trial returned a ver dict yesterday finding Fred R Hundley Kuilty of manslaughter in the first degree. It is suppose l that the sentence will be for s,x or teu years. Fred is 17 vears old, and shot h,s father. Zick T. Hundley, here June 5 la,t. They quarreled whik putting down carpet. Hundley was chair man of the Democratic state central com mittee, editor of The Herald-Democrat, and a prominent party politician. A Student and His Gun. Axx Akhok, Mich., March 23 II. W. Booth, of Erie, Pa,, a student at the Mich l-'an university here, Saturday night shot George Stoll, motor man on the Ypsilanti motor line. While returning from Ypsi lanti Booth wasou the front platform, and insisted ou the motor man backina up the car so he could qet o.T of the front platform on the crossing. This request was refused, and a discussion followed, duriiu' whh li IJooth pulled a revolver and hred. The wound is not s-rions. Wil'.iei-spo.m Thotieht To Ite Iiuiorent. Beavf.i: Falls, Pa.. March 2:1. The Bork-liradley burglary case i.-. assuming a rather sensational aspect by the fact that the girl look poison yesterday with sui 0,1,1 'uteut. The general belief here now is that she either did the whole business herself, or with the aid of an accomplice, w ho did it iu a bungliug manner. J. II. Witherspoon. who Miss Bo-k implicated in the burglary, is thought to be innocent of the crime. ANTJ-CHHISTIAN RIOTS IN CHINA. American Missionaries lit Treated and Their l'roperty Destroyed. Sax Fkanclsco. March 23. The steamet Oceanic brings news that anti-Christian riots have occurred in the districts around Chung King. China. The Christians have nearly all been driven from the districts. Many of them have been plundered of everything tla y possessed, aud in many in stances their houses have been torn down; or br.rned to the ground, leaving them en tirely destitute. Troops sent to the scene of the outrages have had several encoun ters with the rioters, and a number have been killed and wounded. Set I'pon hy a Mob. Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Hunter and family, aud Rev. Mr. Lane, of the American Pres byterian mission, the first foreign mission aries to reside at Chiming Chow, have been driven from their premises. Twc Canadian ministers named Golforth and McLure, were set upon by a mob neat Honan, who ill-used them and destroyed their property. Other outrages are re pWted. ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. The Tompkins Machinery and Imple ment company, of Dallas, Tex., is "short." Liabilities, ils.;,TS7; assets, $37!,330. It is believed now that both the war ship Galena, and the navy tug Nina will be got otT the leach at Gay Head aud saved. Fire at St. Joseph. Mo., Friday destroyed the stock ami the building of the Kennard Grocery company, causing a total loss of $110,0;K); partially insured. There will be no horse racing at Mou mouth park this year, i he New Jersey leg islature having failed to make any pro vision for legitimate sport of that kind. A memorial service for the Italians mas sacred in New Orleans was held Saturday nt an Italian Roman Catholic church in New Y'ork, at which the priest declared that the lynched men were martyrs. Engineer George Burgess was killed and Fireman Alfred Erickson seriously in jured by a collision on the Louisville and Nashville railway near east Louisville Saturday. Au open switch did the work. No passengers hurt. In a closely-contested race over the usual course ou the Thames river Satur day, the Oxford boat crew won the annual rae over the Cambridge men in 22 min utes, but by only half a length. It was the twenty-fifth victory for Oxford. Fire which no one doubts was incen diary destroyed Holmes' Opera house at Detroit Sunday. Loss, S43,(XU; insurance, $25,000. Some of the bodies recovered from the wreck of the Utopia in Gibraltar bay were so entangled aud embraced by others that legs and arms had to be amputated before they could be got apart, so as to bury them George W. Moss, a Pennsylvania mur derer who is to be hanged to-morrow, Sat urday requested that he be allowed to build the callows, as he is a nood me chanic. His request was refused. Vincent Laforme, a member of the Bos ton board of public institutions, who re s gned last week because he had to, says that be bought several members of the Boston common council at the rat of $."00 apiece. Capt. "Anse" Hat field has published t card announcing t hat the famous Hat field-McCoy feud is at an end, and that a i amuesty has been arranged. Peter Richmond, of Wheeling. W. Va , Friday ordered his wife to pick up a pair of scissors. When she refused he seized ai ax and chopped her head off. United States Senator Shoup, of Idaho, has just found at Pittsburg a sister whom h had not seen sines the war began. C ncinuati Republicans Saturday re uo.uiuated John D. Mosby for mayor. The Jersey City Argus was burned out S Lturday night; loss, $135,000; on building, 18,000; all partly insured Gove rnor Hill has accepted the invita tion to deliver the oration at the unveil ing of the Henry W. Grady monument at Atlanta. The Weather We May Expect. Washington Citt. March 21 -The foUowto t are the weather indication for twenty four hours from 8 p. m. yesterday: For Indiana Fair weather: slightly warmer; variable winds." For Illinois-Fair weather, except liitht rain in northern portion: cooler Monday nisht; southerly winds, ahifting to north west erly For Michigan and Wisconsin Light rain; colder Monday night: southerly winds. For Iowa-Fair weather Monday imfht; cold er; northerly win da THE ABGUB. MONDAY. MAECH. S.i, 1831. JOSEPH E. The Laiit of the Prominent War Figure. Iaaes to the Other Shore. Washington- Citt. March 23. -Gen. Joseph Eggleston Johnson died of heart fat ure at his residence in this city at 11:15 u ucs ssaiuruay nig n. With him at the last mo ment was ex-Governor McLane, of Maryland, and the nurse. His death was very sudden, and a few moment before the dissolution there was no out ward appearance io muicate it. He1 t hen gasped fee- J8- E- JOHNSTON. h!y once or twice, and the great leader of "nines had himself obeyed the last sum mons. Gen. Johnson had leen confined o ins room for several weeks past, an 1 uunngtbe last few days had gradually grown weaker. Went to Sleep IJke a Itabe. His death was so peaceful that Gen. -Mci.ane, who was at his bedside, could not for a moment believe that the general was dead. There was not a sigh, not a movement; his heart ceased to beat, and he sank to rest as peaceably and as quiet ly as a babe to sleep. In addition to his Heart trouble the general bad contracted a severe cold, when he recently acted as rwll bearer at the funerals of Admiral lorterand Gen. Sherman. Itrief Sketch of His Career. (eu. Johnston was Ixirn near Farm ville, Va., Feb. ;, lNOi. He was graduated in the same class with Gen. R. E. I?e from West point in l&, and ranked Lee at the outbreak of the war of the re inrllion, being his senior as a geueral in the Confederate army. Alter the war he served in congress from the Richmond, a., district, and was subsequently com missioner of railroads, being appointed by President Cleveland. With the death of Gen. Johnston there ia removed the last prominent figure on either side in the great civil war. The funeral of Gen. John ston will probably take place on Wednes day, and uis remains will lie interred at the Greenmount cemetery, Balti more. NOW IT IS IN MICHIGAN. The So Frequent Itriberv ( h:r It.. I,. I'p Once More. Laxsixu, Mich., March 23. The charge of bribery which seems to be an inevif i ble incident of every gathering of Ameri can politicians has come up here. The Democrats say that Senator Wilcox has made a statement to the effect that a friend of bis on several occasious, the last time a few d tys ago, apprjacheil him aud told him that if he could get two other senators to join with him and give the Republicans control. Detroit parties would provide fctO.OOO to divide between the three. According to the story, il cox kept his friend "on the string." at the same time informing Charles Lawrence, of Owosso, of each interview. All Along of Itediktrirting. Wilcox was elected by a fusion of Alii ance men and Democrats, and he acted with the Democrats until the two Repul licans were unseated, w hen he changed his base. Since then both parties have leen struggling for the mastery, as the re disricting oi the state hinges on it. Wil cox refuses to give thenaine of the alleged briber, and ''enies that he has touched the money. An investigation will be called for. A Converted Paginal Cremated. Fr.AXKMX, Pa., March 21 About 5 o'clock yesterday morning the residence of N. P. Tobin was burned, and shortly after the body of Tobm was found in the ruins. There is a suspicion that Tobin was murdered by burglars aud the house burned to conceal the crime. Twenty years ago Tr-hiu was brought from Canada to Franklin to whip Ben Hogan, then an oil region terror, but one eveniug he wandered into a Methodist prayer meet ing and before he left was converted and has siuce lived an earnest Christian life. Teemer Challenge llanlan. Boston, March 23 The Globe Friday night received from John Teenier, of St. Louis, a certified check for $2UU as a forfeit for a sculling race with Edwaid llanlan for t.0(K) a side, the race to be rowed on May 30 a the Point of Piaes near Boston, or any other course llanlan may select; oistance to be three miles with a turn; the challenge to remain open ten days, aud if llanlan does not accept, the challenge is open on the same conditions to Gaudaur ? O'Connor. The Disaster llroke Ills Heart. Buffalo. N. Y., March 23 W. Hough taling, aged 00, the conductor of the train which was wrecked on the Lake Shore road at East Hamburg last April, in which several lives were lost and who was indicted for manslaughter in connec tion therewith, but was acquitted, died at his home in t his city Saturday. The ter rible affair and his subsequent indictment preyed on his mind to sucti an extent that his friends say he died of a broken heart. Carter Harrison Heads a Holt. CniCAGo, March 23. At the Demo cratic city convention Saturday, when the committee on credentials reported ngainst seating the Harrison delegates iu the contested wirds, Harrison's support ers withdrew in a body and repaired to Uhlich's hall, where they organized a con vention of their own aud nominated Carter IL Harrison for mayor. After the withdrawal of the Harrison men the con vention nominated Dewitt C. Cregier. National Convention of Mutirians. Milwaukee, Wis., March 23. The na tional convention of musicians adopted a resolution Saturday petitioning the gov ernment to prohibit any band in govern ment empioy from entering into contract for private entertainments. A resolution was also adopted asking from the secre tary of the treasury a consistent defini tion of the term "artist" under the alien contract labor law. The conventicu ad journed sine die. The Indiana KighUUoar Law Upheld. Indianapolis, March 23. The suit of John Grissell against Noel Bros., to collect wages for overtime from May, 1S90, to March 12, 1831, was decided Saturday in favor of tha plaintiff. The auit was brought to test the law which provide that eight hours shall constitute a da y's work, unless there is an agreement to the contrary. The case will go to the supreme court, aa it is the first ever tried under the law. m ' ' tw-VK-tw-a MEDICAL. v IF Copyright, 1890. Which will sickness, suffering and despair, or health, strength, and spirit? You can take your choice. All chronic diseases and de rangements peculiar to women are permanently cured by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It restores the female func tions to healthy action. It removes the obstructions and suppressions which cause trouble and misery. For pe riodical pains, internal inflam mation, ulceration and kindred aik-ftents, it is a positive rem edy. 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