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g ivers-G' °‘ ° 'S e THE EUGENE GUARD HANDSOME o’clock waa not ridible from tbe heart MINISTERIAL BIGAMIST Plead Guilty and Baldwin lauded i ear Blankins’ six- [ mil“ house iu a swamp. He was; | slightly bruised. Tbe inventor claims I that the machinery w s all right, not being fully understood by Baldwin. Inventor Gertb immediately started tbe machinery, showing no defect. Baldwin claims be attained a height of 30,000 feet, and that tbe descent aud landing weie perfect. Got In Prison. Judgi Gave Him Within One < Year of the Limit on Ac count of His Calling. Sigourney, Iowa, April 23.—In pro nouncing sentence today againet Kev, I. B. Taylor, who pleaded guilty to bigamy, the court said that he im posed a sentence of four years, oue less than the maximum, because he felt that one in the ministerial call ing should be held stricter to account than others, Taylor laughed and re- marked. “Glad it’s over.” He is a handsome young evangelist bad explosion IN NEWARK Paris April 23.—Resolutions rat if.-> log the sale of the Panama oanal w<i' passed at the meeting of the Frei.« company today. GRANTS PAS Grant’s Pass, April 22. —Residents Two Firemen Killed and Twenty of Grant’s Pass awoke this morning Injured This Morning. Newark, N. J., April 23.—Two firemen were killed and twenty in jured in an explosion in the factory of Weiner & Company, saddlery and hardware manufacturers, this morn ing. The dead are William crane and Jacob Bleyhle. The origin was from a tank ot naptha taking tire. Four teen engiuss and four truck compa nies were massed in front of the building when the explosion occurred the falling walls burying the men and machines. The loss is fifty thousand dollars. Pre ident Loubet Travels. Paris, Apiil 23. —President L.oubet today started for Rome to visit the King of Italy. A Put-the-Shot Record. Philadelphia, April 23.—R. Rose, of Michigan, put the shot 48 feet 3\ inches today, breaking the world's record. YOUTHFUL BANDITS Paid the Penalty of Nu aud cream and eggs. 'Twc Sisters ut Mercy were eigerly greeted. Marx, j who breakfasted similarly, was per- ' in it ted to enter the prisou chapel with I Van Diue, aud toegtber with the Sis ters the bandits prayed for an hour. Before leaving their cells the I i doomed men gatbere I their effects to- I I getber aud sent them to tbe jail office I { aud the undertaker was admitted to I see tb^m. His visit made Neidermei- er more sullen and visibly affected 1 the others. NEIDEKMEIER’S PHILOSOPHY. Father Cox gave Neidermeier a book entitled “Notes on lugersoll. ’ merous Crimes on The bandit read four pages, then re turned the volume with the comment: the Scaffold. “I get my opinions from my own thoughts, not from Ingersoll or any Indian Agency Land Sale. one else. I wish I could believe in Washington, D. C., April 23 your religion. If 1 could hypnotize President Roosevelt this mornn myself into the belief 1 was going sigutd the bill opening for sale 416 Neidermeir Defiant to the somewhere to be happy forever, don’t (XX) acres of laud iu the Rosel i you think I’d be glad to die? Tae Last—Marx and Van Dine Agency, South Dakota. world’s all wrong—there’s no attrac Met Their Fate Re tions for men like me. We grow up Impressing Railroad Strikers signedly. in the slums half-starved, always i miserable. We work day after day Vienna, April 23. —All army r< like slaves, to die miserably. Chi serve» among the striking Hungary cago is full of boys like me, growing j railroad strikers, eleven thousand i (The ages of the three “boy ban up without advice or help. I’ve been ot btventy thuu&aud, will be urden < i to join their color» and work traits dits’’ who met death on the scaffold pretty bad, I admit, but I’m going ' at Chicago today ranged from nine to pay all the penalty 1 shall ever as soldiers. j teen to twenty-four. A full accoun pay this morning. If the churches , I of their criminal career and the crime did something they would de more SNOW AT leading up to their detection and good than they can by converting j punishment is puciished in today's about to he hanged. But you ' commenicng on the editorial I do some good. You’ve cheered two j Guard, i page.) me i iu the other cells into toe belief Chicago, April 22.—Peter N’eider- that they are going to heaven; that’s meier, pale, weak from double at consoling to them. If you hadn’t tempts to commit suicide, stubbornly got Van Dine into that belief it would South rn Oregon Covered With refusing to embrace religion within a take a dozen men to strap him for the I few hours of certain death, joking, noose." An Inch of “The Beautiful.” laughing with bis guard and smoKing , At ten the jailer notified the men to ! I To Unload Panama Elephant. Four Years CHICAGO’S to find an inch of snow covering their lawns and the air living thick with the fleecy etutt. A snowstorm is ram pant over Southern Oregon, which is a most ucusual thing for this time of year. Report! come of twelve inches of snow at Greenback, in the mountains in the northern pa,'t of the county, and two feet of snow at the Copper Eagle mine, near Galice, in the northwest part of the county. The bills about Grant's Pass are covered with from fsur to six inches, and the higher mountains about are piled to a great depth. About the only one who is pleased with this condition of things is tlie placer miner. He can look ahead to almost an all summer ruu of bis giants. But with the fruit grower, the melon grower and the farmer it is a uifiersnt story. If good weather follows immediately but little dam age will be done, but a frost follow ing on the heels of the present storm w uld paralyze the peaob,almond and other crops. A few melon fields have been plant ed and it is likely that these will have to be planted again. then returned to the chapel to escort | Marx. Marx, who was praying, arose1 and tried to speak. He turned to Van Dine,who was kneeling with him, I with an extended hand. The men I stood silent a moment,then embraced. “Goodbye, Gus,” exclaimed Va': ! Dine. “Remember what the priest says, we shall be together again. ” Marx answered in an audible tone, and the journey to the scaffold be gau, wb'le another shout came from the thousand prisoners. Marx walked calmly, and submitted to being strap I Kiilemen Put Four BuL ped quietly. Two priests uttered kl.« About Heart of prayers und the drop fell at 11:17. His convulsions lasted two minutes, death ensuing in six minutes. Before Murderer. stepping on the scaotfld Marx request ed that none speak to him, concen trating bis mind on religion. He was in the midst of prayer when the drop fell. His body was cut down at 11:34, the yellow grass rope removed from The Monster Killed His Wife and bis neck and again tied and tested for Left Three-Year-Old Child the third victim. Marx’s neck was With Body Two broken. UTAH LEGAL SHOOTING Days. THIRD AND LAST VICTIM. Van Dine was found in prayer when the executioners visited the chapel, Salt Lake, Utah, April 22. — Trank Two piiests took positions by bis Rose, convicted of the murder of his side, and with his eyes bent on the wife, was executed by shooting today. crucifix carried In bis band, the The tile of riflemen selected to per march began. Arriving at the scat- form the duty put four bullets in the fold Van Dine stood with head erect region of the heart. Death was al to permit the »til u n e most instantaneous. noose. While he was uttering a pray- 'To the last Rose was indifferent and er the drop tell, at 11:55. His short, I callous. He begged to be allowed muscular body hung without move- [ to walk unladed and with eyes uncov- ment, death being almost instantane ered to the fatal chair. He objected ous. His neck was broken. to being strapped, but his wish was APPEASING MORBID CURIOSITY. not complied with. From the time 7 The'bodies will be left with the un he left his cell until four bullets were dertakers until Mouday with the con- in the region of his heart was barely sent of their families, that sightseers two minutes. Before the execution Rose declared that he speut the last may view the remains. fourteen years committing crimes ranging from robbery to the moat re volting murders at St.Louis and Chi cago, the last being at San Francisco, where he killed a companion in a quarrel and threw his body in the bay. He went into the details of each crime. The officers, however, doubt hie stories. Rose shot his wife Xmas day in bed. He left her body with their three- year-old baby looked in the room two days. He gave himself up to the po lice,who broke in the door and found L. M. Christensen Killed the child uearly dead, cuddling by ite mother. Rose boasted of the crime, and maintained that be wanted Three Deep Sea to die. CAPTURED A HERD OF WHALES Monsters. it With His Little Hatchet the Mouth of the Siuslaw River—Exciting Experience. Terrible Scene at Bull Fight. at Madrid, April 22.—During a bull fight Thursday two bulls dlsembow eled four lighters, mortally injuring them. The fight was suspended ano the spectators fled In terror. Destroyed Warship Plans. St. Peterbsurg, April 22.—Fire at the Nevsky naval shipbuilding yards (Guard Special Service.) today destroyed a number of import Florence, April 22.—Tuesday morn ent plans. ing L. M. Christensen, who is watch From Russian Sources. man at the government werks at the Missionary Murdered. mouth of the river, saw four whalts Palis, April 23. —A dispatch from inside of the bar. They played around St. Peterbsurg states the Japanese TRIALS DEGIN Berlin, April 22.—The Koleuiscbe for awhile and then oame up beyond Zeitung asserts that an Amerioan mis losses in the reported engagement at t the end of the jetty. Mr. Christensen sionary and his servant, the names Yaiu river numbered seven thousand. ON MAY 4 VICE ADMIRAL AVELLAN, RUSSIA’S MINISTER OF MARINE. armed himself with a gun,and getting not obtainable, have been murdered Correct Postoffice Department. into his boat proceeded to capture Russia’s minister of marine corresponds to the secretary of the navy of the whole herd single-handed. He near Rurniah, northwestern Persia, by a Persian Moslem. The Amerlcau Washington, A; ril 23.—The poetof the United States. Vice Admiral Avellan, who not long affo succeeded Vice fice attorney general decides that the \dmiral Tyrtuff, is at present acting minister, the nominal commander in chief pulled around them and backward minister at Teheran demanded the ar business of receiving bets to place McKinle,-Puter-Ware Cases Will being the Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovitch. A most difficult task confronts and forward, driving them before rest and punishment of the murderer, him until lie had them in the en- but the authorities refused to take Vice Admiral Avellan, that of re-enforcing the shuttered Tort Arthur fleet. on races fs in violation of the law Come Up Separ ' trance to the south ohanuel, when he any steps toward appletlending him. prohibiting lctteries a< d games ot commenced shooting at them, which get rea<ly, and announced that the ately. chance, and that the mails nay not cigarettes the greater part of the frightened them so that they made a be used for such business. 1 night, isolated from Marx and Van hangings would be separate. dash for the south channel and land Dine, his companions in crime, wno NEIDEKMEIER’S END. ed themselves high and dry on the OREGON’S BIG Manufactured Divorce Evidence. Delay was caused by N'eidermeier’s sand. They tore around and spouted The land fraud cases involving Mc- themselves were converted to the London, April 23. —Henry Slater, Kinley, Puter, Miss Ware, Mrs. Wat 1 Christian faith and spent tbe night refusal to permit the guards to escort i considerable, but were unable to get LOG AT ST. LOUIS bead of the largest private detective son, D. W. Tarpley, Guy Huff, and ' in peaceful slumber, were incidents him to the scaffold. As he was car- back into swimming water. i agency in England, and four assist the ca e involving Charles Cunning 'that marked the doping hours of the [ ried through the long corridor a Finding that he could not kill them ants, were arrested today on the ham, et al., ot Pendleton, will be “autr.matic trio.” thousand prisoners signalled the hour with his guu, Mr. Christensen pro false evidence None of tbe bandits showed any procuring charge of J of execution by shouting “Hate off.” cured a butcher knife and a hatchet The M nster is Attracting Great tried commencing May 4. The cases j with which to permit a woman client have been divided so that the first de signs of weake. ing. While N’eider- Another shout warned those assem- and again went to the attack. His Attention at the World’s to obtain a divorce. fendauts to be tried will be Horace I meier did not go to si.ep until ', I bled il . the execution chamber ot the knowledge of the anatomy of a whale j Fair. G. McKinley and 8. A. D Puter. ■ Marx retired at 1:30 and Van Dine I approach of the condemned man. came in good play. Cautiously dp- [ New Form of Government. Van Diue’s Ja»t J Neidermeier was pale and trembling proaching each victim in turn he gave I The next case will deal with Mrs. | two hours later. Berlin, April 23. —Tbs Frankfurter I Emma L. Watson, aud following her hours were spent in writing letters to at be approached. The doomed man it a vigorous slash with his hatchet, 1 (Special cirrespcadeuce.) Zeitung reports the Russian concile Miss Ware will be tried. The next his mother aud reik:ives. While tbe was quickly pushed into an upright cutting the arteries and letting them St. Louis, April 18.— One of the ministers, consisting of old aud con-| case will deal with McKinley, Puter condemned men slept holy candles position on the drop. The jaile.- bleed to death. In this manner he servative statesmen, have demanded nad Miss Ware jointly, and after that burned by their bedsides. Up to mid strapped bis arms and legs, adjusted despatched the whole herd. It was most attractive cards in the outdoor a limited form of popular government the Cunningham case will be taken night Ma'x and Van Dine played the white domino and noose, stepped a great undertaking, as a slight blow exhibit of the foresty display at the “sixty-six," Van Dine winning tbe back, and the drop fell at 10:36 of one of those monsters’ tails would j St. Louis fair Is the big spruce log for Russia. Minister of the Interior i up. Plebve is said to have agreed to their The reason for dividing tbe cases, last game. Ten minutes later they o’clock. For six minutes the body have sent him to kingdom come in al which will represent Oregon there. It demands to a degree. while not given by the United States hade each other farewell to meet on writhed and twisted. The doctors LUUBL X UO HllRtlin most UU no unir, time. The largest ID la QUMUI* about is a veritable monster, and thousands gathered about to feel 1 District Attorney, probably is tnat the scaffold. ' his pulse, twenty-five feet long, the tail about of people daily are attracted by its • ? ? a«* * *1 odc ' A . — » - • « • . • . ■ • • « • a • Neidermeier slept until 8:20. “The man is conscious," said FtSras his desire that Mrs. Watson and four feet wide, and the fish will weigh enormous size. It is by far the la.g AIRSHIP FAILED “ Well, ” he growled at the jailer I eat log on the grounds, and old tlm “He realizes bis condition. He up in the tons. Sliss Ware would by their absence be unable to bias the jury eitEer~one while that official stood by tbe bed may be too numbed to feel physical When the tide raised it floated them i era cannot remembei when they have WITHOUT AERONAUT way or the other. Alflaywera a<l’mitj side preparing to awaken him. "It’s pain, but his mind is not too clouded up the bay. Mr. Cbriktenseu landed seen anything nearly so large, it tow and cuurt' records prove,~thaTlt~ a neatly nine, Pete; how do you feel?" I to know the solemn import of the one just above the government works. ers above the other outdoor exhibits hard matter to copyict a pretty wo- Neidermeier arose and turned ¿(bis events taking place." Iue doctor’s After hitching the largest one be and can be seen for a long distance. Webrung man of a crime, especially when that back on tbe jailer without reply, then fingers felt pulse fully five minutes, found he bad rather more than he General Superintendent woman ts^ cultured and refined. sullenly moved away. “Anything you when life became extinct. could manage and the tug L. Roscoe thought that be had a white elephant Neidermeier had kept his stubborn came to his assistance; taking a line on hia hands, as there seemed to ba Made a Number of Circuits When lienee Mrs. Watscn and Mias Ware want, Pete?” “Yea,to be let alone,” snapped the bandit. His breaafas resistance to religious counsel to the will be tried separately and tbe jury , from the tug ha fastened It back of no leasable meaut of unloading tbe the Engine Stopped—Drifted will be able to return a verdict consisted of berries, cream and veg last. Weakened by bis efforts to com the front fine, While the tug was log and getting it into position. B"t etables. Six Miles Landing in looking over tl a mit suicide, be bare!- could sit alone towing it ashore Mr. Christensen’s after carefully i against McKinley and Puter without, having undergone fire during the en- a SWEETHEART’S S.xD OFFERING in the chair In which he was carried boat was cspeized and rolled over sev ground, he decided to have a launch Swamp. under the dreaded loop. But at »he eral times. He managed to keep nn ing. and accordingly ways were pre tire trial form two batteries of femi- ( Mamie^Dunn^ Van Pine’s sweet- last moment he held his bead »rect to top, however, and was rescued by the pared and jacks brought into use. San Francisco, Aprii 23 —T. A. nine eyes. early and wa» admitTS! enable the jailor to -dj lit ", oooee, tug. The whale was landed at thM Even then it waa no easy matter I > Besides the attorneys mentioned on beart^rrlveai~ Bsldwln, a famous aeionau», made a move the huge monster, which weigh then it fell limply on his breast. His old cannery. suceeisful ascenaicn tbls ULortnng in tbe docket, A. C. Woocdock and to the office of the jail. She left ed 50,(XX) pounds. Quite a crowd • f * e ai.ehi;, risina to tbe «'berles *. Hardy, of Fngene, and1 clean linen and a white silk ehrond. ’ body was cut down at 10:56. Two . pe« iaiurs us*» gathered to witness the The garments were taken at once to hundred officials and epectatura wit- beighl >1 ILCtTìeét and matlLg a*num- i Judge Martin L. Pipes will partici- sight, and they were uot diaappoii t rst» in tbe McKin)»y and Pot»r cnees Van Dfne’a cell. He donned them, nested the execution. Lfci ui CMlLpiei.» ciicUiie WitÒ tbe w, lor tue log soeu,e<i to be all* »Le» aiuLt Ul & guii. Aiktr t€Ìr.» iu rn »hr «He -f the defense.—Telegram. stopping in the act to feel »he text I ilzittX j L aj C.'D and went lumbliug aud lulling duwi ure of the silk and rnll loose threads tue Hii «Ludi Iti* uJiuutefi ile ttOj * • ,uu iong slops like a youox cub aft* « • • r r N.H"® — ' 1 frern It, then r n ®nmed his mat on tl ■ id y ’ tit rug.be Haid Wkr apparali lj » »-i buuuy. it brought up wituiu a fr r^ rT , I l.fter cl ) »be bed. IT? r- s- ’ hi- pr»yer bo- ’ '••** * toa turi li taglio, hfc lue CHiiOCb rap- lent of its luuw rssliUK place, wbei > eating a breakfast of strawberries tried tbe rope for the aecuuJ victim, Tjty’driftedto tbe eculb ar <1 at^ li :1 It ] it was ; ’seed on u • , tu be L j pet of all timbermen. f- »