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A BANK ROBBED.
Masked 3Ien Raid a Bank at
Limestone, I. T.
One Hobber Shot, Another Hanged
and Two Jailed.
Aeout eleven o'clock Saturday, at Lime
stone, Indian Territory, four masked men,
all heaviiy armed, rode up to the door of the
Citizens' Bank and dismounted. The leader
entered the bank, and presenting a pistol at
the head of the cashier. IV. T. Reynolds, de
manded that he turn over the cash on handv-
While pretending to comply Reynolds
slammed the door of tho safe to and turned
the lock. He was at once laid out by a bul
let from the pistol of one of the desperadoes,
which struck him above the heart, killing
him instantly.
The bank was then ransacked and all the
money in the cash drawer, some $2,300, was
taken. An attempt was made to open the
safe, but in this the robbers were foiled. As the
sound of the pistol shot was heard several peo
ple came running towardthe bank to ascertain
the cause of the trouble. They were fire 1
upon by three of the men who were on guard
and retreated to get arms. In a few moments
the town was aroused and twenty or thirty
armed men hurried toward the bank.
The robbers were just mounting their horses
and a hot fire started, in which one of the
robbers, Thomas Evan, was killed outright,
being shot several times in the head and
body. He was identified as a ranchman,
living near town. In the melee four citizens
were wounded, but not fatally, two receiving
shots through the arms and two others being
slightly wounded in the lower extremities.
The three surviving robbers then rode away
with the booty captured. An examination
of the bank discovered the body of the dead
cashier, and a posse of pursuers was soon
upon the. trail of the flying outlaws, who were
riding rapidly in the direction of Atoka.
After about an hour's hard pursuit they were
surrounded, captured and taken back to
Limestone, where Judge Lynch was called on
to hold court.
The three men were tried. The leader was
found guilty of the murder of Reynolds and
forthwith strung up. The other two were
placed in charge of a strong guard and
started for Fort Washita, where they were
turned over to the United States authorities.
The stolen money was recovered.
The robbers were all citizens and cattle
ranc hers of the near neighborhood, and this
is not the first time that crime has been
traced to their doors. A brother of Evan
was found stealing cattle last spring and
hanged by the vigilantes, while another
brother is now awaiting trial for highway
robbery in the Cherokee Nation in February,
1SS7, and is in jail at Fort Smith, Ark.
PKOMINENT PEOPLE.
' Pacx dtt Chaiixtj, the great explorer, haa
gone to live in London.
. Millionaire Huntington used to peddla
"butter to the California miners.
James G. Blaine has arrived at Venice
He will remain there for some time.
Benjamin P. Butler's personal tax iD
Lowell, Mass., was $3,001.21 last year.
The Duke of Edinburgh has an unenviable
reputation for parsimony throughout Europe.
Senator ICenna, of West Virginia, is re
ioicing over the birth of his sixth child a
boy.
The Due d'Orleans, son of the Comte de
Paris,is going to India to serve in the British
army.
Miss Petcebe Cousins is the independent
Prohibition candidate for Governor of Mis
souri.
Mrs. General Grant has gone to Wash
ington to pay a visit to Senator and Mrs.
Lei and Stanford.
Mr. TALMAOE.it is said, dictates his ser
mons to a short-hand Secretary at the rate ol
15U words a minute.
Congressman Fisiier, of Michigan, con
tributed 2o sicks of flour to Lue poor ol
West Bay City, Mich.
Sexorita Amanda D. Diaz, daughter of
President Diaz, of Mexico, was married re
cently to Senor De La Torre.
Leo XIII. always dines alone. No one
ever receives higher honor than to be in
vited to partake a cup of collee.
Queen ViCTORiA,liko Frederick the Great,
of Prussia, cannot abide little soldiers. She
admires big six or seven footers.
The late Senator MacMaster, by h'.s last
will and testament, bequeathed $si0,0 0
toward the endowment of a Baptist uni
versity. General Alfred Terry, who is suffering
from rheumatic gout and who was ordered
to 1-Jorida by his physicians, has arrived at
fcjt. Augustine.
Isaac Pitman has been presented with o
.valuable medal in commemoration of the
fiftieth anniversary of his invention of the
art of phonography.
The Emir of Afghanistan has fallen in
love with bagpipes, and has ordered 12J0 of
them for Cabul. The Shah of Persia has also
ordered a brass band.
King Humbert is a keen sportsman and
lairt ly patronizes the genuine English fox
hunting that has Iteen introduced into Italy
by Prince John Borghese.
Albert Keep, the President of the Chi
cago and North western Railroad, comes of a
family of seven brothers, each of whom has
made himself a millionaire by his own exer
tions. Jay Gould paid $200,000 for his country
home on the Hudson, and it is. said to cot
him $400 a day, or nearly $150,000 a year. It
-embraces almost a square mile of land.ninet'
five aeres of which is lawn.
A friend of Mr. Blaine says he intends to
makeeopious notes of his coming trip through
Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Asia, and thut lie
will be prepared to write a book about these
countries when he returns.
N. K. Fairbaxk, the wealthy Chicago
lard man, frequently makes the boast that he
can lay a brick as well as a first-class work
ing mason can. He was a mason's appren
tice when a boy and learned his trade well.
The Chicago Tribune says that "Mrs.
Paran Stevens, who owns the Victoria
Hotel in New York, was in her girlhood a
waiter girl in a Lowell restaurant, while her
husband liegan life as a stable boy. She ia
i:ow worth (.00J,000, and her hotel is head
quarters for th9 Enghsh aristocracy in the
uoantrv."
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and. Middle State.
Edward Coffey, under sentence of death
at Pittsburgh, Pa., cut bis throat, inflicting
a fatal wound.
Coal has gone up to f -Sper ton in Philadel
phia. Diphtheria is raging in forty out of the
two hundred families at Rittersville, Penn.
John Gordon committed suicide in New
York by jumping through a heavy plate
glass, laceratiug his body fearfully and fall
ing forty feet to the sidewalk.
James Martin, an inmate of the Soldiers'
and Sailors' Home at Erie, Penn.. was frozen
to death while on leave of absence.
Captain Samuel Watts, of Boston, one
of the heaviest shijjowners in the United
estates, has in the past few weeks lost three
fine ships in rapid succession. The value of
each ship was not less-than $100,000.
Daniel Driscoll was hanged in the New
York Tombs prison on Monday for the mur
der of a young woman named Beezie Garrity.
The boiler of the tug Zouave exploded in
New York Harbor and scalded four men, one
fatally.
Fifty members of Peter Cooper Post, G.
A. It., were arrested in New York City for
marching in the streets with the body of a
comrade.
Small-pox is epidemic at Brooklyn, N.Y.,
the hospital containing thirty patients and
the average each day being ten new casvfs.
The striking Reading miners have pe
titioned the Legislature to seize the mines by
right of "eminent domain" and operate them
for the best interests of all.
"William Dempsey, a Brooklyn printer,
dropped dead during a prize fight with
'Swipes the Newsboy," at Fort Hamilton,
N. Y.
South and West.
Fourteen Chinamen were drowned off
Washington Territory while attempting to
smuggle themselves into the United States.
Frank M. Irwin, Register of Birminghan,
Ala., is short in his accounts $10,000, and
missing.
A passenger train near Coatesville, Iowa,
was ditched and thirteen persons injured.
A sled, with fifty-two passengers, collided
with another sled in Kansas City, Mo., and
seventeen people were injured.
Receivers have been appointed at
Cheyenne. Wyoming Territory, for the
Union Cattle Company, the largest concern
of its kind in the West. Assets reported,
$3,000,000; liabilities, $1,250,000.
Robbers, led by a former member of
Jesse James's gang, attempted to rob the
train at Missouri City, Mo. , but the sheriff
got wind of the affair in time to repulse the
deperadoes, and captured the entire band.
Governor Semple has signed the act
granting suffrage to the women in Washing
ton Territory, but exempting them from jury
duty.
Seven children, four of them sisters
named Williams, were skating near Ennis,
Tex., when two of the sisters and a young
man fell through the ice. Seeing their
danger, the other two sisters, aged nine and
thirteen, went to the rescue, accompanied
by their young brother, but they, too, fell in
and the entire party were drowned.
Reports come from the wheat districts of
Texas to the effect that in many countries
every field of winter wheat has been de
stroyed. The home of Frank Smith, at Lima, Ohio,
was burned, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith and
their five children were roasted alive.
In a fight at Moose Canyon, Cal., for the
possession of a farm, between Lewis Stone,
assisted by the Sheriff, and a family of Goens,
three persons were killed and two desperately
wounded.
Mrs. Olney, of Vanderbilt, Mich., mur
dered her six-months old child by throwing
it under the cars.
Baker and Hilt, two Arkansas farmers,
quarrelled while laying off a farm for their
son and daughter, who were to be married,
and fatally wounded each other with bowie
knives.
The latest reports place the number of vic
tims of the blizzard in the Northwest at 235.
While the mercury was 50 below zero a
rickety frame boarding house took fire at
Tower, Mich., and fourteen inmates per
ished. Mrs. Eliza Ballou Garfield, the aged
mother of the late President James. A. Gar
field, died a few days ago at Mentor, Ohio.
She was born in New Hampshire in 1801.
Walter L. Gibson, ex-Prime Minister
under King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Isl
ands, died at San Francisco, Cal.
At Marysville, Kansas, two passenger
coaches and the mail and express cars were
thrown off a high embankment, rolling over
twice in the descent. Eleven passengers
were injured, three fatally.
Washington.
Mr. Lamar was sworn in as Justice of the
United States Supreme Court on Wednesday,
and immediately thereafter took his seat
upon the tench. This was the first time that
the Supreme Court sat with a full bench
since May 4, 1S85.
President Cleveland and wife have ac
cepted an invitation to attend the Com
mencement at Cornell University next June.
A reception and banquet was given to
Commander in Chief Rea by the G. A. R. at
Washington.
President Cleveland is said to be strong
ly in favor of holding the next Democratic
National Convention in New York City, and
it is reported that a majority of the Demo
cratic National Committee are of the same
view.
the postoflice oiTicials have deeiJed to
change the color of the four-cent stamp, with
General G rant's head on it, from green to
bright vermilion.
Speaker Carlisle said he would walk
out of tli',' House rather than submit to t'.ie
reopening of the Thoebe-Carlisle elect.on
contest.
Foreign.
The German Reichstag vote I to inervas?
the army by 7(H), 0' JO men.
A convoy of Russian prisoners mutinit-i,
and a desperate fight ensued. Ten soMier
and thirty-one prisoners were killed. Twvuty
one prisoners escaped.
During a fog off Skerries. Ireland. th
Norwegian bark Freidis was run down and
sunk, thirteen of the crew being drowne 1.
Thousands of people are starving in
Turkey, and the Missionaries appeal for ai l.
Father Ryan was released from Limerick
(Ireland) jail in the presence of 1U,000 sym
pathizers. Four thousand workmen were drowned in
China while attempting to check the disas
trous Hoanho floods.
Etght persons committed suicide in one day
in Vienna.
Ten thousand people are reported to be
starving in Asia Minor.
Rear Admiral Louis Hutton Vf.rs
turme, of the British navy, suicided at Fal
mouth, England.
A powder Biagazine exploded at Ambv
China, killing 200 Chinamen.
Commandant Brasettr, a French veteran
of the Franco-Prussian war, is dead.
A Centenary celebration was held in Lon
don in honor of Lord Byron, tn poet.
Big Bear, the accomplice of Ri 1, the
Canadian' rebel, and the chief who led the
Frog Lake massacre, is dead.
Archbishop Ryan presented President
Cleveland's gift to the Pope, who spoke in
complimentary terms of American institu
tions. A disastrous fire in the business centre of
Montreal. Can, destroyed property valued
at $500,000. Several fireman were frozen
stiff, and the water froze so quickly after be
ing thrown from the hose that it was almost
impossible to check the flames,
LATER NEWS.
John F. Kelly has succeeded John G.
popsill as Postmaster at Jersey City, N. J.
Fire at Philadelphia destroyed the milli
nery establishments of Marks Brothers and
Adolph Heller, causing a loss of $1,000,00).
At Baxterville, N. Y., two passenger
coaches were derailed and rolled down an
embankment, fatally injuring four persons.
In many parts of New England and tha
Middle States the weather has been the cold
est experienced in years, the thermometer reg
istering all the way from ten to thirty degrees
below zero.
President Corbin, of the Reading Road,
and the striking unions have issued state
ments defining their position. Each side re
fused to yield.
The doors of the First National Bank, of
Auburn, N. Y., were closed on Monday,
pending an examination of its affairs. Cash
ier Charles O'Brien and the bookkeeper, Elmer
E. Moore, had fled, and there were rumors of
a heavy deficit caused by lending funds on
insufficient security.
Oliver Seward, a steamboat engineer at
Covington, Kj, killed his stepson, Garrett
Spaulding.
The United States Supreme Court denied
the appeal of Maxwell, the murderer of
Preller at St. Louis, and he must hang. Both
murderer and his victim are Englishmen.
The Senate in secret session ratified a
commercial treaty with Guatemala.
The President has nominated Marshall
McDonald of the District of Columbia to be
Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries; John
W. Ross to be Postmaster at Washington,
and John Blair Hoge to be United States
Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Louise Michel, the notorious French
Communist, was fired upon and wounded
twice while speaking at an Anarchist meeting
in Havre. Her assailant was arrested.
Tilliam W. Lawson, a prominent politi
cian of Buffalo, N. Y., fell off a ladder and
was killed.
Edward Coffey died from self-inflicted
wounds while confined at Pittsburg, Penn. ,
for murder.
Charles G. Garrison is appointed to
succeed the late Joel Parker on the New Jersey
Supreme Court bench.
George W. Knoor, a wealthy rrmer of
Philadelphia, Penn., died of starvation.
Fifteen citizens of Crawford County, In.
diana, engaged in a general fizht, in which
W. E. Moore was fatally and William Cun
ningham seriously shot. Bert Brown's skull
was crushed.
The main which supplies Lima, Ohio, with
natural gas has burst, entailing great suffer
ing from cold on tire citizens.
Johm T. Allen, ex-Stats Treasurer of
Texas, is dead. He left :00,000 to found an
industrial school for boys at Austin.
A skating party consisting of Count
Greggor, of the Russian Legation, Dr. Dick
son, of the Navy, Richard Feters, and three
ladies, all prominent Washington society
People, fell through the ice on the. Potomac
and were with difficulty rescued from drown
ing by the Navy Yard Patrol.
Viscount Das Xogui eras, the Portuguese
Minister at Washington, is dead.
John Bright has written a letter de
nouncing Gladstone and his lattei-.lr.y
methods.
There is a deficit of 350.000 in tho Mani
toba Treasury.
Havana, Cuba, is in a state of turmoil,
owing to the incompetency and tyranny of
Captain-General Marin and his officials. On
Sunday there were twelve murders, one sui
cide, eight highway robberies, and four
stabbing affravs in Havana and C.irdeiic.s.
ALL DEAD BUT ONE.
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Tiilimiiaii Iln telieries in
McCv-HatfielI Feud.
the
A Charleston (W. Ya.) dispatch says: The
climax has at last been reached in the inhu
man record of butcheries that have made the
bloody feud between the Hat fields, of Logan
County, W. Ya., and the McCoys, of Pike
County, Ky., the most revolting record of
crime ever known in the-? regions. Word
has just reached here that on Thursday night
lat a raid was made by the Hatfield-gang on
the hous, of Sim McCoy, a brother of Ran
dall iicCoy, whose house nad been burned sev
eral weeks ago. and a number of his family
killed. Determine! 1 this time to wipe out tho
balance of the McCoy trilx?, tho Hatfield
butchers surrounded the house in great num
bers during the night and proceeded to storm
out McCoy and his familj. They first
secured the wife of McCoy, whom they led
to a tree and securely bound with ropes. By
hrr side thy placed her eldest son and
riddled thni both with buckshot, while the
father was cover.l with revolvers by the
other part cf the gang. This part of the
inhuman programme over they next place I
Sim McCoy and his two youngest children in
thj houSx?, fastened them so -u rely to prevent
escape, an 1 deliberately" burned them to
ases in their home.
No arrests have leen made, for th victo
rious Hatfield are strongly barricadc-d in a
mountain fortress in th wilds of Wt-st Vir
ginia, and would make short work of a
the itFs po-se.
This bloody feui. which seems to have
ended with the extermination of the McCoys,
root and branch, tegan several years ago,
when one of the Hatfields had a fatal en
counter with a McCoy on the Kentucky side
of the river. A Hatfield was stabbed, and
his relatives swoopKl lown on the McCoys,
iOokth?!ii captives and held them prisoners
until Ellison Hatfield. who they had stabbed,
died, whon the Hatfields conveyed the three
McCoy boys to the sene of the altercation,
stripjj-t l them, tied them to a paw-paw bush,
shot tbe?n to death, aud left their bodies in
that position.
TWO TRAGEDIES.
One On the Land, the Other
On the Sea.
Miners Die By Firedamp Starva
tion in a Lifeboat.
A frightfully fatal explosion has occurred
in Xo. 5 pit of the Wellington collieries, Vic
toria, British Columbia, by which upward of
fifty lives were Iot.
An eye witness states that he was alout
one hundred yards from the pit when he
heard a report like that of a large cannon,
and there instantly shot far into the air a dense
mass of black smoke and dust, which con
verted the snow-covered ground into an
inky deposit. When tli is subsided a jortion
of the fan house had been detroyed. as well
as the wool work in the shaft. Manager
Bryden immediately proceeded to repairing
the fan house, which was quickly accom
plished, and the fan started again.
The shaft timbers were destroyed so that
cages could not be used, but pulleys and
roies were immediately prepared for the
work of rescue. Tne first man to come out
of the pit had climl! by means of the cage
wire cable through the shattered timU-rs to
within one hundred leet of the top. A rope
was then lowered to him, and he reached the
surface in an exhausted condition.
A second miner was also enabled to get out
by this jjerilous method, but a third, when
fifty feet from the top, loosed his hold, and
fell to certain death at the bottom of the
shaft. Two men were then lowered as a
search party, and they returned, stating that
nothing could be heard but calls from be
low. Fortunately the mine had not fired, so dan
ger from this source was averted. A tem
porary case was made and lowered to a con
siderable depth, the miners climbing to it by
means of ladders, so that at 1 o'clock 101 of
the 1(X men in the mine had leen rescue!.
One white man, Robert Williams, the un
fortunate who fell, was taken out dead. The
explosion took place in t lit last level, and
in this twenty-five white miners and
a number of Chinese were imprisoned.
Fears that they were all killed were verified
later, for at five o'clock all the white men
were carried to the surface dead, and the
work of taking out the Chinese was begun.
Ten Days In an Open Boat.
Among the passengers who arrive 1 in New
York on the steamship San Marcos from
Havana were seven of the crew of the
bark D. Chapin, of Boston, which had
foundered at sea a few days since.
The survivors were adrift in a boat
about ten davs without food or water. Cap
tain W. C. Hull, the cook and a seaman per
ished from hunger and privation,
and the rest got so desperate that
they were tempted to turn canni
bals. Ira W. Colbeth, the mate, told
the story of their distress The bark left
Turk's Island on December 13th for Boston,
with a cargo of salt. In the Christmas Day
gale a giant wave stove in her waist all of a
sudden and sent the men to the boat.
The ten men rowed about for three days,
having almost constantly to bail out, and on
the night of the third day saw a steamer
pass so near that the masts were visible.
After the steamer was out of sight
Captain Hall became delirious, and the next
morning he died. He was at once buried.
On December SI John Anderson, the Japan
ese steward, died, and on New Year's Day
Hans Peter Peterson died. New Year's after
noon it began to rain, and in an old rubber
coat and a tin can about three quarts of
rain water were caught. The mate
divided the water equally among the starv
ing men, but none could be kept, as the can
leaked. On the eighth day, the . mate says,
all were very hungry, and had terrible
cramps in the stomach. On the ninth day
there was a heavy wind from the east,
and the oars were stuck up as sails.
Fair progress was made, but no vessel was
sighted. Earty the next morning, however,
the schooner Louis Cr. Ralel.from Boston for
Sagua, came in .sight and soon after picked
up the almost exhausted men, who had
to be hauled up the side with rojos.
Mate Jasper, who first saw th boat, was an
old schoolmate of Mate Colbr th's in Machias
port, Me. The schooner landed the seven
men at Sagua. whence they were forwarded
to Havana. The United States Consul there
sent them to New York.
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