Show A POISONING FIEND boasts OP KILLED THOUSANDS OF indiana brutes lash a woman until the blood flows CHICAGO april 18 the times special from new albany indiana A band of white caps last night took james So robert benifield Bun ifield and mrs nancy wilson from the comans womans house stripped them and tied them to 1 treo the men were given lashes each blood being drawn at every stroke the men fainted several times bufa water was thrown on them and they resuscitated only again to bo lashed the woman begged piteously to be spared but was given twenty five lashes when sho fainted when the victims were untied they fell to the ground and were loft there being taken away by friends terrible if true WHEELING W V april 18 A special to the from charles town says a report has reached there that a man in calhoun county who had been away selling cattle on returning home lato wednesday night in company with a peddler discovered a light in the window and when he looked in saw his wife and his three children lying dead on the floor he also saw four men in the room the peddler drew his revolver and was told to make a noise at the back part of the house the men inside rushed out and three of them were killed outright the fourth being badly wounded it is impossible at present to verify the story but the man who brought it is considered reliable or NEW YORK april 18 A eio janeiro letter says the new ministry have already made public through a semiofficial organ that the principle and more immediate objects in their pro gramme will be the abolition of slavery this year and measures for the improvement of the nuances and currency of the country the wholesale movement which was initiated last december in the province of san patio has already produced the freedom of of its slaves accounts have been received from the southwestern frontier of san paulo of the poisoning of indians en masse according to statements forwarded thence to a san paulo paper a certain joaquin bueno who had seventy armed men under his command recently assailed a large indian village and while the frightened indians were absent poisoned with strychnine not only all the food and drink abandoned by the fugitives but also the wells and springs according to buenos own declaration ho found when he returned a few days later three thousand corpses of indians in the village he also boasted that in another village he had poisoned eight hundred indians and that he was about to treat similarly another in which five thousand indians resided emperor fredericks condition BEELIN april 18 aarn the improvement pro in tho emperor continued yesterday evening although his fever increases a little 10 a in the emperor hada tolerably good night his sleep was somewhat interrupted by coughing the fever has not yet disappeared p m the condition of the emperor is almost the same as it was yesterday the physicians held a consultation this morning bismarck visited the emperor at 11 the crown prince slept at berlin last night this morning he received the troops in Tempel hofer field he was enthusiastically greeted in unter den linden where tho troops filed p TO A consultation held by the physicians this morning showed that the emperors condition was less satisfactory than yesterday but better than last evening the emperors temperature rose to 39 degrees celsius today to day it has fallen to 38 45 4 5 degrees during the night dr hoseus inserted a wide cabula ca nula the physicians have again sounded the emperors lungs and found that they are not affected this strengthens the opinion that an abbess has formed in the trachea there was a great stir on the streets today to day owing to the circulation of a report that the emperor intended to drive to berlin arout there was much disappointment manifested on the rumor proving groundless the emperor appeared at the window at charlottenburg Charlott enburg castle at 1245 and was enthusiastically greeted by the crowds tha bad assembled Bis marcks visit this anhorn r r the today to day expel from the country bernstein the editor Got helar the publisher and two sul editors of th 0 democrat p m the following official bulletin haab een issued the em d aJa irly quiet night otherwise his conditions conditi oms unchanged the fever continues fr horses roasted to benth SAN april 18 A fire at pal alto last night burned a portion of the stables of senator leland stanford the following horses were roasted to death clifton belle aex tors emma troubadour lowell and howard norlaine which has a trotting record the fastest for a yearling in the world is not yet dead but is impossible for her to live two or throe others will probably die the loss will reach at least later details go to show that the fire on the farn of senator stanford was A very few minutes before the flames were discovered in the shed the watchman made his usual rounds and found everything in proper order he had not reached his room before the fire was discovered and almost before the stableman could raise the cry the one story wooden sheds were blazing fiercely every person on the farm at once made an effort to liberate the tho valuable racers but the heat drove the men back and they were forced to witness the cremation of the horses without being able to lift a hand to save them WINOA minn april 18 the loss to the manufacturing interests of this city by the flood is estimated at one company loses feet of logs valued at making the loss to the lumbering interest alone the river is four miles wide here at Trempe leau wisconsin while five indians were endeavoring to drag a canoe across a raft of logs the logs parted and all were drowned another road CHICAGO april 15 the times tomorrow will say it is announced upon very good authority that the chicago milwaukee st paul com pany is behind the proposed leavenworth denver short line which is just now exciting a great deal of interest among the business men of denver and other points along the proposed line it that the st paul has purchased 1950 acres of water front at oakland and that it has quietly secured the right of way for a distance of miles from oakland through stanton and lathrop the direction of i the route selected is eastward from the pacific coast to salt lake city and AS the expressed intention of the people having in charge the leavenworth denver short line is to construct a line from the former point to denver then westward through the mountains to salt lake city it is very easy lieve that the st paul la interested in the new enterprise it has been an open secret among railroad men for several years that the chicago milwaukee st paul is anxious to reach the coast and it is oaly H question bof time until company will operate a line of its own from the missouri i eiver to san francisco Pran cisco the company has an independent line to kansas city and is anxious for western and southwestern branches it would be an easy matter to extend this line to fleaven and thence westward to denver the statement is made that denver people propose to tunnel the mountains and push the new line on to salt lake when these disjointed facts are put together it rounds out a colossal but entirely feasible scheme behind which looms up the chicago milwaukee st paul bail way company striking for the pacific coast the burlington santa fe missouri pacific and the union pacific have found it essential to build to denver the rock island is on the way and signs indicate that the st paul is making formidable preparations for the westward marchand that the proposed short line from leavenworth to denver is the line of its advance aasel at last LONDON april 18 in the house of commons this afternoon bight hon edward heneage moved the passage of the bill to legalize marriage with a deceased cifes sister the motion occasioned a sharp debate but was finally carried by a vote of to to alie front PARIS april 17 A small crowd collected in portions of paris last night cheering for gen boulanger th police dispersed them without aej trouble the journal des debats says the election of gen boulanger in the department of the nord shows the country is wearied out and profoundly disgusted with the conduct and policy of the government A majority of the electors it says can no longer endure a government which does not govern hut leaves the country a prey to the vacillations vaci lations and dissensions sen of politicians and the tyranny of electoral Elect cral committees the opportunists attempted to hold a conference at bordeaux last evening but were disturbed by the supporters of gen boulanger and were compelled to suspend proceedings LONDON april 17 the paris correspondent of the times is informed that startling revelations are about to be made regarding Bou langers election expenses the stones about bennett and others giving boulanger money the times correspondent says are absurd april 17 in view of the threats made the past few days by the alarmiste alarmists Alar mists and the arrival of boulanger sentiment and as a precautionary measure the troops will be kept in the all day thursday and in addition to extra brigades of police an exceptionally large force will be detailed to watch the chamber of deputies of st petersburg the election of gen boulanger is viewed with concern in official circles it AS feared the internal disorders of france will paralyze hera action abroad at a time questions quest ioas will require with april IS tho figaro says issue a political manifesto in which be will propose a revision of the the leagea of patriots have con boulanger upon his election to the chamber of deputies from the department of nord another attempt was made last night to hold an opportunist meeting at bordeaux but the again interfered and forced a suspension of the gathering ST petersburg april 18 the moscow gazetted Ga in an article on the french situation says it is greatly to dussias Rus sias interest that france should be strong no matter through whom V f philadelphia april 17 wm cramp sons ship and engine builders company have nearly completed the dynamite cruiser gunboat called yorktown designed for the united states navy it will be launched on saturday april in the presence of secretary whitney Vh itney it carries tour pneumatic guns for tho hurling of dynamite projectiles eich with a range of at least a mile the training of the guns is accomplished by bt cering the vessel and the loading is all done by steam the guns are 15 inch callabro cal libro and the shells which will be fired with great accuracy twice a minute will contain pounds of explosive gelatine equivalent to pounds of dynamite or 9 13 pounds of gun cotton it is claimed that this gun properly handled will be the most destructive engine of war yet invented for the heaviest armored vessels in tho world will go to pieces from the explosion of a fabell much smaller than those thrown bv the guns on tho yorktown oliree lo 10 ST louis april 17 the residence of L A hafl man a farmer near oakey eidge cape girardeau county was burned sunday morning and three of his children consumed throe other children were so badly burned that it is expected they will die and hoffman was so seriously injured he died yesterday it is thought hoffman became suddenly insane and fired his house himself ho had eleven motherless children and had been very gloomy for some time Xiii pi l iff ivf eliott iii conn april 17 W H hawley one of tho leading druggists this morning shot and fatally wounded his brother in law virgil barnum he emptied a five chambered revolver two shots taking effect the shooting took place in harleys hawleys Haw leys residence and was caused by a family quarrel badum is still alive but is not expected to survive the night hawley is also in a critical state suffering from a fracture of the skull the result of a kick inflicted by badum and is not expected to live ho is now in custody at his home here by u Mierl lr ST louis april 17 thos a wealthy cattle dealer of brownsville Browns ville texas was killed by sheriff jose maria esparza a wealthy mexican near the ferry landing in texas cause jealousy the mexican was concealed behind a tree when he fired A LAS N M april 17 while two indian policemen attempted to arrest bacate sacate a mescalero apache indian and his son who were drunk and causing trouble in camp a fight ensued in which one of the policemen was killed Sa cates son was fatally and three women seriously injured by stray shots bacate sacate was final ly secured and locked up |