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THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1896.
NUMBER 8.
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Bat Shea Paid the Death
Penalty Yesterday. .
DEATH
WAS . INSTANTANEOUS
Altering; Receiving the Last Sacrament.
He Declared Bis Innocence The
Midland Congress.
Dannemoba, N. Y., FebAl. Murder
er Bat Shea was executed it the prison
at 9:58 this morning.
Bartholeinew Shea died in the electric
al chair, paying the penalty for the
murder of Robert Ross, at Troy, in
March, 1894. Shea was attended to the
gallows by a clergyman from his home
and a Driest from the Roman Catholic
church at this place. After receiving
the last sacrament Shea declared he was
innocent. While the priest read the
first voltage was turned on. . It was 9:55
when Shea entered the room and 9 :59?4
when he was pronounced dead. The
current sent the body lightly against the
straps. The neck and bared leg grew
purple. For 31 seconds the contact was
maintained and then reduced to alight
voltage for 31 seconds, when the current
was turned off.
There was an escape of air from the
filled lungs and Ransom ordered the
current on again. A contact of 27 sec
onds was maintained and then thesleth-
escope failed to show any life. The eS'
cape of air from the lungs sounded like
a prolonged sign, and made some people
thinkjhere was life, but the physicians
said death was instantaneous.
THE MIDLAND CONGRESS.
Large Numbers of Salvation Army Offi
cers Attending It.
St. Louis, Feb. 11. A large number
of officers of the Salvation Army, from
five Western states, have arrived here to
attend the Midland congress, now in
progress here. The congress will last
till Friday, February 14. Friday will be
spent in private interviews with officers
of the army. The visiting delegates will
leave for their homes triday evening
and Saturday morning..
The grand event of the congress will
be a monster parade which will take
place Thursday evening. It will break
ranks at Music hall, exposition building,
where the marriage of Ensign Chapman,
of St. Louis, and Captain Emma Har
mon, of Denver, will be solemnized by
Commander Ballington Booth. At the
conclusion of the marriage service Com
mander Booth will deliver an address on
the "Advance of the Salvation Army."
Brave Indian Fighter Found Dead.
CnicAGO, Feb. 11. Casius R. Carter,
a retired sergeant .of the United States
army, was found dead IaBt night in his
room in the Palmer house. Death was
caused by asphyxiation, but it is not
thought he committed suicide. One gas
jet in the room was turned on full and
another at half pressure. In a belt worn
by Carter around his waist there was
$1,400." He also had some valuable jew
elry. How the gas came to be turned
on is a mystery, as it is supposed Carter
was acquainted with its use. No motive
for self-destruction is apparent and the
case is one which Coroner McHale will
make a thorough investigation of.
.Last week a man - Jrom reoria was
fobnd dead in his room under exactly
the same circumstances. The coroner's
1 jury returned a verdict of accidental
death.
-- Carter had the distinction of having
served 23 years with the 7th cavalry,
General Custer's old regiment. He par
' ticipated in a dozen engagements with
hostile Indians and earned a record as a
brave soldier on the .frontier. He was
honorably discharged from the 6th regi
ment at "Fort Meyer, Va., last July and
since has been traveling. He arrived jn
Chicago, Sunday night from Albuquer
que. Abont 9 o'clock he entered the
Palmer house and engaged a room. He
told the clerk he was on his way to
Washington, looking for a man who had
extorted money from him. Carter was
in the rotunda until 11 o'clock, when he
went to his room. He told the clerk he
did not wan to be called. There was no
suspicion of anything wrong nntil the
chambermaid failed to get an answer to
her vigorous knocking on the door of
Carter's room. One of tbevporters was
called, and upon opening the transom a
flood .of gas ponred into the corridor.
On entering the toom he found -Carter
dead. Life had been extinct tor several
hours. : -
Ban Francisco's Strangler.
San Fbancisco, Feb. 12.--The police
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are incimea co relieve mat there is a
strangler in this city whose ambition or
mania ia to equal or possibly eclipse the
record of London's Jack the Ripper, who
in the course of a year or two murdered
many, fallen women and terrorized the
entire Whitechapel district in that great
metropolis. It seems as though such
were the case for, within the last few
days a young girl oft Morton Street has
been strangled to deah by an unknown
assassin, and several woman in the same
region have been beaten, stabbed and
strangled.' In each of the latter caees
the assailant escaped without leaving e
tr,ace by which he could be detected. ,
The night prior to the murder of
"Little May Smith," a man bearing the
appearance of a thug entered the room
of a young girl who bad assumed the
name of Lulu Tabar, on Morton street.
After Inquiring as to the amount of
money the girl had on her person and
receiving a reply favorable to him, he
became exceedingly rough, tearing the
girl's clothes from her person in an en
deavor, it is presumed, to rob her. The
girl ordered him into the street, but he
refused to go, and again assailed her,
but her cries and threats to call the
police attracted the attention of the girls
in rooms adjoining her, which evidently
frightened him, as he made a hasty
exit.
Both Girls Were Drowned.
Middleton, N. Y., Feb. 11. Four
teen-year-old Maggie Calleran and Ma
bel Winters, and-13, ventured on the
thin ice over a pond last night, against
the injunctions of their parents. They
broken, and both were drowned.
NEWS NOTES.
The porte has iniormed the ambassa
dors of the powers that it agrees to grant
amnesty to the Armenians who have
been for a long time past besieged by the
Turkish troops in the town of Zeitoun,
after revolting against the Turkish rule
and capturing the town.
Alexander Lavrenue, a Russian politL
cal prisoner who escaped from Siberia in
1S88, and who was formerly of Chicago,
died there on Tuesdav. He came there
last August and studied medicine. His
health was broken- "down by the hard'
ships attending his imprisonment in Si
beria.
James II. Mcvicker, who was yester
day stricken with paralysis at Chicago,
and is not expected to live, has been for
nearly half a century a prominent the
atrical manager and one of the best
known and universally respected men
identified with the stage. He was born
in New York, in 1822, of Scotch-Irish
stock. '
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
At Aurora yesterday wheat was quot
ed at 60 cents.
A dispatch from Topeka, Kan., says :
An organization of ex-slaves has been
effected here by fifty colored men for the
purpose of making a demand on congress
for pensions. It is the purpose to make
t of national scope. Of those in the
meeting fully one-third had felt the lash.
The aged, the lame and the blind were
happy in the belief that a'l they will
have to do is to write to congress to get
national relief for their distress. There
are possibly 1,500 ex-slaves here.
The Experience Social.
A very entertaining event was the ex
perience social at the Christian church
last evening, at which over one hundred
persons were present. Besides a short
program of music and recitations, the
novel feature of shadow pantomime,
with well-known Dalles ladies as the
actors, was most important in point of
terest. The lights being turned low
in the auditorium, tne shadows were
made very plain on a white surface
about twelve feet square in front of the
chapel of the church and at the rear of
the stage. The several experiences of
each lady earning her dollar were acted
out, and created great amusement.
Mrs. Hazel earned a dollar by painting,
as was easily seen by the outline of that
lady rapidly sketching upon an easel. It
did not take a shrewd guesser either to
learn that Mrs. Baird baked a dollar's
worth of bread and that Mrs. Andrews
ironed for the amount. Mrs. James
made butter, and the way she handled
the churn dasher and butter paddle
proved fully her "thorough information
on this important line of housewifery.
Mrs. Ulrich chose the hardest way of
them all, that of washing. Mrs. Dnfnr
chose the less arduous task of crocheting.
The most pleasing experience thown was
that of little Genevieve Watkine, who
blacked boots. , The task finished, a
huge hand went down into a trousers
pocket, bringing with it the pay for the
service rendered, and .acknowledged by
a gracefnl courtesy by the little miss.
The remainder of the program included
instrumental music by the Misses Stone,
recitation by Miss Schooling, quartette,
Misses Edna apd Etta Stone, Dr. G. C
Eshelman and Rev. I. N. Hazelj and a
selection from Pickwick papers by Geo.
Ernest Stewart. The proceeds for the
evening amounted to $25.
WORK OFJLDGE LYNCH
A Murderer Hanged by an
Illinois Mob.
A LATE PHOTOGRAPHIC DISCOVERY
How It Is Used In
eal Test At
Surgery A. Practl
the Carnegie
Sullivan, UK, Feb, 12. Grant Atter
bury, the murderer, was taken from the
jail here a,t 12:45 this morning, dragged
to the courthouse in bis nightshirt, and
hanged to a tree.
Under the tree to which he was
hanged Atterbury began to realize more
fully that he was to die. He pleaded
piteously, protesting his innocence, say
ing:
"Thank God, you are hanging an in
nocent man."
The mob was wild and restless until
the man was strung up, when they im
mediately dispersed. The gang was well
organized and masked with white hand
kerchief or pieces of white'cloth and all
were heavily armed.
The evidence against Atterbury was
very strong. The morning after the
crime was committed bloodhounds were
brought to the scene, and three different
dogs went-directly to the house of Atter
bury. Another party was suspected,
but he has not yet been found. Atter
bury was a brother-ih-law of Mrs. Roxy
Atterbury, and it is thought that he,
committed the crime, for the purpose of
revenge, Mrs. Atterbury having given
some very . damaging testimony against
him when he was on trial, together with
her husband, fort the murder of their
lather a little more than a year ago.
OF USB IN SURGERY.
Practicability of Prof. Roentgen's Dis
covery Shown.
Chicago, Feb. 12. Cathode rays were
brought to use for the first time today in
a surgical operation. Casper Schmidt, who
had been shot in the hand several years
ago, onerea tiimseli as a subject to Dr.
James E. Burry and Electrician Charles
E. Scribner, who have been conducting
a series of experiments at the laboratory
of the Western Electric Company. The
builet in the hand was small. The in
jured hand was exposed to the cathode
rays for about an hour. The plate dis
closed an excellent likeness. Schmidt
suffered but little pain.
AT THE CARNEGIE WORKS.
New (Process ' of Photography
to Be
Tested There.
Washington, Feb. 12. A possible use
of the new process of photography by
involving the application of cathode rays
in determining the existence of secret
flaws in metals is now about to be tested
thoroughly at the Carnegie works, where
a large amount of Balaval construction
is under way. The proper apparatus
has been secured and experts there are
now at work to demonstrate whether or
not the new rays will penetrate the
bodies of metal. If this can be done the
mportance ot the process from an in
dustrial standpoint can scarcely be over
estimated. It will be possible to secure
an exact knowledge of the nature of the
metal of great guns without running the
risk of explosion; defects in the shafts
of ocean steamers can be discovered be'
lore tne snatts Dreax ana tnerebv cause
less loss of life and property, and steel
castings used for structural purposes can
be accurately tested before being put in
place. ..
RET. MARY E. LEASE.
The Populist Leader Changes Her
Pro-
fesslon.
Wichita, Feb. 12. Next Sunday
morning Mrs. Mary Lease will make her
debut as a minister of the gospel, and
henceforth hec. literary prefix will be
reverend instead of colonel, fler recent
sickness was the immediate cause of her.
mind taking a divine turn. She prom
ised the Master that if she got well she
would consecrate her life to him and she
is keeping her promise.
Strong Drink Is Raging.
Following is tbe Good Templar prize
essay, written by Mr.G. E. Stewart, and
delivered at a recent meeting of the Good
Templars lodge, receiving a handsome
gold medal in appreciation :
In the year 1889 there occurred one of
the most horrifying disasters that Iras
ever been, chronicled in the pages of
history for years. , The breaking of a
mighty reservoir, "the outburst.of furious
and raging torrents of imprisoned waters
from behind those vast walls, the swift
and terrible speed at which they came
tearing and plunging through the peace
ful vale of Conemaugh, converting it in-
J sUmtaneously into a valley, of death;
quickening its speed at every leap, de
stroying lives and property at every
plunge; growing fiercer and roaring
louder and surging wilder and rolling
higher, until with one stupendous swell
it seemingly combined all of its strength
into one terrible effort,' and charged.
madder than ever, upon the peaceful
and unsuspecting inhabitants of the city
of Johnstown, eighteen milea away
horror-stricken man goes riding with
lightning rapidity into that citv with
tbe alarming cry of "Run to the hills!'
But the people, wholly ignorant of th'ei
awful fate, only regarded him. as a luna
tic, and heeded not his warning in time
to escape.
So it is with th"e enemy of our soul
strong drink, that accursed, disreputa
ble, disgraceful, damnable widow and
orpharr-niaker and pauper-manufact
urer; a blight upon many a yodng man
and woman who otherwise would be
sinless; a murderer of many a strong
man lying still and cold in death's em
brace in the gloom of a loathsome drunk
ard's grave, who would otherwise be
living in peace and happiness with his
beloved companion and darling children
Oh, why is it they wiU not listen to the
warning appeals of their fellow-beings
and seek what is best for their eternal
welfare? Why do they utterly ignore
earnest entreaties in their behalf the
messages of danger ahead; the urgent
words coming . to them as from that
Johnstown hero to flee to the hills of
refuge and safety and salvation?
Strong drink is raging! Slowly, but
surely, it is doing its deadly work. It
is weakening the vital powers of man
kind the world over. It is sapping the
life-blood of many an innocent youth
who has assured promise of noble man
hood. It is being poured down the
throat and rushed down into the atom
ach, a very cataract of the vilest poison
Strong drink is raging! Day after
day, week after week, mouth after
month, the newspapers of the world are
regularly recording crimes, divorce cases
and deaths, consequent npon the rav
ages of the heinous liquor traffic. A
man has ' murdered bis fellow-being
while drunk, and is sentenced to be
hanged. A woman sues her husband
for divorce upon the grounds of cruel
and inhuman treatment caused by
drunkenness. A man is found in the
gutter, dying from delirium tremens.
young man of good standing in tbe
community becomes despondent and
shoots himself by virtue of the weakened
condition of his constitution by strong
drink. Not a day passes but that in any
of our large dailies will appear numer
ous instances ot the character last re
ferred to. Homes are ruined ; families
broken up and rendered destitute; Ms
bands become brutes; wives are often
consigned to the poorhouse ; children be
come beggars, and manhood, physical
and spiritual, is utterly destroyed ; the
brain is on fire and reason is dethroned ;
man is deprived of a happy life in this
world and of eternal life in the great
hereafter.
Strong drink is raging! Experience
will prove it; general observation will
teach it ; physicians tell you so ; all hon
orable business men are ready to reiter
ate it; newspapers assert it; authors
and orators are insisting upon it. The
Bible, the true source of happiness from
whence Cometh all light and life, corrob
orates it. Strong drink-is raging! These
awful words (Originate with the wisest
man that ever lived, and that'ever will
live. They have resounded through
century after century of the past; they
will reverberate through the far-distant
future, though thousands of years roll
by.
"At the last it biteth like a serpent
and stingeth like an adder!" How true
this is! When a man has .become so
beastly and brutish as to sacrifice, his
manhood that his passions may be grat
ified ; when he is so steeped in disgrace,
misery and shame; the pangs of the
serpent are upon him; tbe poisonous
sting, as of a rattlesnake, is penetrating
his body through and through with
pains that none but a drunken, wretch
can fully realize or imagine.
Strong drink is raging! Ob, may we
profit by the lessons of this proverb, and
go out and Eound the warning to fallen
humanity to flee to the hills of rescue
and. relief ere the infernal floods of
strong drink, with all their wreck and
ruin, bear down upon them and bury
tham in a drunkard's grave, and eventu
ally consign them to eternal torment
and eternal damnation.
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PIIXS
NORTH POLE REACHED
Dr. Nansen, the Norwegian
Explorer Successful.
HE FOUND LAND AT THE POLE
Emperor William 8truck With a Bundle
of Papers Thrown at Him by
an Anarchist.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 13. A telegram
received today from Irkutsh, Sioeria,
says a Siberian trader named Ivoucbna-
reff, the agent ol Dr. Fridtjof Nansen,
the Norwegian explorer, who sailed in
the Fram, June 24, 1793, for the Artie
regions, has received information that
Nansen reached the north pole, found
laud there, and is returning towards civ
ilization.
EMPEROR WILLIAM INSULTED.
Thrown at as lie lVts Driving Through
Rrandenburg Gate.
Berlin, Feb. 13. A gross insult was
offered his majestv. Emperor William,
this afternoon as he was riding in an
open carriage through the Brandenburg
gate. The sidewalks were crowded at
the time. Some miscreant, who evident
ly had knowledge the emperor wa3 out
for a drive -and would pass through the
gate, threw a 'package of newspapers at
the kaiser. It struck his majesty on the
left shouldier. Beyond causing the em
peror to suddenly grow pale and give' a
quick order to drive faster, no harm was
done.
Despite the fact that special officers
rode as a body guard behind the kaiser's
carriage, and. that several policeman
were near the gate, the thrower of the
package was not deterred.
When the package was taken to police
headquarters and opened it was found to
contain a number of copies of a recent
edition of the Vorwaerts, which was
full of attacks on tho government. It
had a lengthily1 editorial contalnirgradi-
cal suggestions anient tbe big tailors'
strike now in progress, another one on
the unprovoked persecutions of social
ists, the suppression of socialist news
papers and the unwarranted imprison
ment of their editors, besides a conglo
meration of evil anticipations resulting
from a continnahce of the autocratic
policy of the present rufer of Germany.
GOMEZ' WOUND NOT SERIOUS.
Kotnrlttafitandlns It He Personally Di
rects Ills Forces.
New York, Feb. 18. A special to the
World from the headquarters of General
Gomez, near San Antonio de las Bas,
says :
General Gomez' wound has not proved
serious. In spite of. bis hurt, of bis 72
years of age, and of his 13 years of war,
(10 of them continuous exposure in the
ast Cuban reOell ion), his rugged consti
tutiou enables him to manage his fiery
horses and endure the exceptional fa
tigue of long marches like a younster".
He was struck by a bullet which passed
through his right leg from the front.
Although causing no fracture of the
bone, tbe wound is painful. He has
personally directed his forces in their
daily marches and almost daily skir
mishes. In answer to the question "How will
tbe substitution of General Weyler for
General Campos affect the Cuban
cauae7" General Gomez said : .
"The change will benefit the Cuban
cause. We have lost a most wonderful
enemy in Campos. He is without
doubt the first general in Spain. The
troops all idolize him, and with his de
parture they are left without a leader in
whom they have confidence. I regard
these good soldiers as being in the same
state in which the grand army of France
found, or rather lost itself, upon the de
parture cf Napoleon the First.
"I regard General Weyler as an hon
orable, but cruel eoldier," he de
clared. "In his military ability,
however, I do not think he' can for a
moment be compared with Campos. In
the last movements of his former com
mand he was noted only for his unre
lenting cruelty toward defenseless non-
ccBubatants, which action he now claims
was in obedience to superior authority.
The government of the republic of
Outfit has been loath to order me to de-
. Highest of all in Leavening Power.
IIVX.V iliyiT Till 1 DUnw ft
u vrc irovj
stroy the cane of American estates. Ia
fact, I did not like to have to destroy
any property, but it was deemed neces
sary to strice a blow at the finances of
Spain. This has been done and our en
emy will not now receive the $18,000,000
with which to carry on war against ns
that she would have received as import
duties upon articles brought into Cuba
in exchange for the sugar crop. All the
plantations have been treated alike,
American, German, Spanish, even those
owned by patriotic Cubans have been
prevented from making sugar this
year." "
"Are Cubans still willing to purchase
their independence?"
After some thought General Gomes
answered: ''Of course, owing to tbe
rapid increase of the growth of the re
bellion this course would not be so read
ily approved by the Cubans as at
first. Moreover, it is a question for our
government to decide, but I think I an
warranted ia answering yes to the ques
tion. The Cubans would now offer for
their freedom $100,000,000, or perhaps
more, to be paid within one year from
this time. To secure the loan I believe
the government of the republic of Cuba
would go so far as to allow the govern
ment of the United States, should the
loan be placed there, to administer the
finances and retain the revenues of Cuba
until such time as the full amount
should have been repaid.
A diepatch was received tnis after
noon stating that the Fitzimmons
Maber prize fight, which was to have
taken place today near El Paso, Texas,
has been postponed, and will occur Mon-
dav. . All cars in and around the citv
have been chartered for use, as it is ex
pected tbe fight will occur about sixty
miles irom that city. The principals
and all connected are trying to elude tbe
vigilance of the authorities, so that de
tails are hard to get. '
The residents of Chinatown have been
exploding firecrackers for several days
commemorating their New Year. The '
small boy deplores the reckless waste of
shooting large bunches off at once, for"
he would etring them out and prolong
the enjoyment. The Chinese have the
oldest authenticated history, and their
customs have followed down the ages
unchanged, but their persistence in
clinging to ancient modes and ideas
have made them, as a race, unfit to cope
with any other civilized people in art,
science or warfare.
A young man in Lowell, Mass.,
troubled for years with a constant suc
cession of boils on his neck, was com
pletely enred by taking only three bot
tles of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Another
result of the treatment was greatly im
proved digestiou with increased avoir
dupois. It has been determined that Senator
Quay's name shall be presented to the
republican national convention at St.
Louis tor the presidency. This deter
mination was raised yesterday at a con
ference of friends of Quay.
Did
you
know?
That we have opened
up a Wholesale Liquor
House at J. O. Mack's
old stand ?
The purest Wines
and Liquors
for family use.
STUBLING & WILLIAM6
Four, Dollars a Cord.
Four dollars will now buy .a cord of
good oak wood delivered at your wood
shed. We will sell at this price for a
time to reduce our stock.
deci8-tf Jos. T. Petebs & Co.
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