| Show A DOUBLE MURDER I 1 m AND WIFE BEATES TO DEATH WITH A HATCHET the murderer confesses his foul and cold blooded arime double san francisco jan 27 A special from santa ana dated 26 says 0 B a prominent farmer came to santa ana last monday with his wife and acknowledged a deed to his property to a germac named an schlag they returned home but not being seen thereafter tho neighbors grew suspicions of foul play instituted a search today to day and found the dead bodies a lon distance from the house hitchcock and his wife were found side by side in a hole in the ground which had been covered over with earth and straw hitch cocks throat wag cut from ear to ear and his cifes head split open with a hatchet it seemed evident that an schlag had murdered them to retain the money he had paid them for the land A lunching lynching lyn ching party at once started to find anschlag tho officers captured anschlag An schlag and hiding him over night took him to los angeles and placed him in j ail charles B hitchcock came to this state in from elgin illinois his father and mother are now living at compton illinois tho maiden name of mrs hitchcock who was found murdered with her husband was kose bradley and she also lived with her parents at elgin and was the daughter of W S bradley Sr adley anschlag An schlag who is supposed to have murdered the compte is a german 25 years aldand came state about one year ago living asan francisco for some time he bad a supposed partner named antony dyker two weeks aga at santa ana ostensibly to buy a farm and arranged to buy at paying a small advance last saturday the abstract was completed sad the deed to the farm was executed at santa ana anschlag An schlag desired to postpone the paying over of the money until monday and accompanied hitchcock to their home it is supposed he murdered hitchcock and his wife some time on monday or monday night secreting their bodies as telegraphed last bight telegrams received this morning say that both anschlag and dyker wera A lynched 7 miles from santa ana and their bodies left hanging hang inc to a tree hitchcock was a man very highly respected and was one of the most prominent men in the county los angeles cal tan 28 frederick the young german who was arrested with another man named antone decker for the murder of charles B hitchcock and wife near garden grove made madea a full confession today to day anschlag An schlag says he left garden grove at 6 tuesday morning in an open wagon with hitchcock and wife to go to santa ana that ho had previously concealed in tho wagon a hatchet and when in an unfrequented spot about three miles from suddenly grasped tho hatchet arose in the rear of the victims and first attacked mr hitchcock Bitch cock killing him with a few blows he then turned on the defenseless fenceless de wife and struck her down killing her with a single blow which crushed the side of her face and head anschlag An schlag says he tied the hands and feet of each with to keep them from swinging about with tho motion ot the wagon driving nearly a mile further away he dug a bole and put the bodies therein covering the grave with straw anschlag An schlag says he then went back to the ranch house at garden grove took off his clothes and hid them and washed the hatchet then ho went to santa ana and got decker and drove with him back to garden grove where they took possession of the ranch and went quickly to work anschlag An schlag gays he murdered the Hitch cocks to get the deed to the reach and to get the owners out of the arway without paying for the property he states positively that decker had nothing to do with the crime and knew nothing of it the funeral of hitchcock and wife took place at garden grove today to day i and was attended by a great number of people as the victims were among the leading people of the community 1 tint Wilkes barre jast 27 by the explosion of gas in tho nottingham mine plymouth this afternoon ono man was killed and four fatally burned the ice palace st jail 27 the first storming of the ice palace tonight to night was a great success twenty five thousand uniformed men joined in the parade and the bombardment and would be a small estimate of the crowd tha sidewalks and the hills and houses as well as the palace grounds the pire king was state senator D ai A i of rochester Eo chester minnesota the palace was lightel by electric lamps from within reaching the palace the dubs marchesin marc hedin and en circled Jt themire the Fire King demanding its surrender Eb realis aex from the battlement hurled bade defiance v A dufoo bomb rose into the air ans the yire kings forces answered with a thousand boman let off at once the bombardment lasted halt an hour and while the standard of borealis was burned early in the fight the palace itself was not taken S 17 A new york jan 27 the following albany special athe aimi of the ine efing oi the democratic state committee stale committee make a choice or a mao yorka v national y 1 P i ib kass S without a decision the vote was 17 for boswell P flower and 17 for william L mowry on each ballot this leaves the state without a depre tentative senta tive on the national committee it was a square up and down fight between the friends of the president and the friends of the governor and neither won in memphis tenn jan 27 james burrows the leader of a band of men who at various times during the past few years have held up passenger trains in texas missouri colorado and elsewhere and robbed passengers express companies mails etc and in many instances lolled or wounded persons who resisted hab been arrested at montgomery ala bama his companion burrows escaped by killing his pursuer and inow hiding in a swamp james burrows will be taken to texarkana Tex arkana for trial A three men springfield mass jan 26 the mail tram from the north on the connecticut river railroad last night became stalled in a cut two miles north holyoke A gang of men went to work this morning to dig it out the snow was blowing about so thick that nothing could bo seen a few feet distant from the train and the train from greenfield dashed into a gang killing three men and fatally wounding another tw arlu Troy NY jan 17 the effects of the snow storm are felt this morning with greater severity even than yesterday the boston train ran into the rear end of a freight tram a mile west of williamstown Williams town about midnight lalling conductor cudmore and brakeman wheelock and seriously injuring three other brakemen no trains are moving on the delaware hudson and the express from montreal on the central vermont is fast in de snow Terri Ocl from know ilo beading ra dpn 27 in berks lebanon schuylkill and counties the snow has drifted so that the public roads have been abandoned farmers are turning out in bands from 50 to 1000 to open the roads pittsfield mass jan 27 five long passenger trains on the boston and albany road are snowbound here awaiting news of the opening of the road before proceeding further the fast st jlouis express spent last night in a snow drift near washington cut with one hundred passengers on board notwithstanding alie fact that the fast mail which left boston for the west last night spent the night in a drift one mile from hinsdale the passengers suffered greatly from cold and many ladies were prostrated and a number of children badly frostbitten they could obtain but little to eat but the country drug stores supplied the passengers with brandy freight trains covering over a mile of track are snowed in near shakers and much perishable goods will be lost in many places the snow has drifted to ahe depth of forty feet the passenger train that can go two miles an hour is considered to be making good time dak jan 27 the situation here is growing serious the road was opened to the blockaded train between here and big stone yesterday and the train brought in the train with the mail is stuck at Ort onville ana one from the west at Twin brooks west of here this city will soon be short of coal and there is not a pound of sugar in the dealers hands wilmot is out of coal while corona and Twin brooks have neither coal or wood boston jan 27 further details of the storm received tonight to night show the rau roads are completely blockaded forty passengers on the canadian pacific express were compeller com to abandon the train and walk to the nearest village many of them getting their hands and feet frozen A cable fur urns I 1 st paul jan 27 for months the topic of interest has been as to when the st anthony hill line of cable cars would be opened the horse cars being inadequate tp supply the rapidly increasing population in that part of the city the snows have covered the tracks and minor accidents have caused repeated postponements postpone ments but today to day the cars first began to run with some regularity A serious accident signalizes signalized the occasion about half way up the third street lines turn into selby avenue at an angle and from this curve to the top of the hill the grade is sleeper some days ago an experienced civil engineer pointed out in a interview ahe danger of locating a curve at the bottom of so long and steep an incline but an officer of the road declared it perfectly safe this afternoon the grip and passenger car both heavily loaded started down the hill it was in charge of conductor north and j gripman johnston tho grip had been inspected before it left the end of the line unworked an worked in perfect order about midway down the hill the grip failed to hold the cable and ahe train rushed down to the curve at a speed of twenty miles per hour i the grip car did not leave the track but the turned over and was dragged some distance many of passengers jumped off but the majority of those in the closed car could not ho so and all of ty or more were more or less hurt the only fatality so far know nis that of il erville to saunders dera assistant treasurer of the borth western fuel company alio was standing on the rear the passenger car and was thrown against tree he was horribly crushed and died soon after being aken home j lynched plymouth cf jan 28 special tribune ran last night ana this morning people were horrified to find three negro prisoners had from the county jail by conveyed to tho woods on the outskirts to trees death catherea ga thereA before midnight and blaust jablonn aay murder of john dawson a peddler new years day the jailor refused but was overpowered and the negroes were secured matthew bioust was a preacher of some local fame A tucson jan 27 george green who confessed the railroad robbery at Pan tans arizona last april has been sentenced to five years and doc smart to life imprisonment an appeal arill be taken in case the latter attempted suicide tonight to night by shooting himself three times in the head the balls flattened on the sf ailland the wounds are not sochu warre charleston west virginia jan 28 alie vendetta between of pike county kentucky and the hayfields Hat fields of logaa county west virginia has grown to such it has been found necessary for the officials of liggan county to call upon governor wilson of this state for aid to suppress tho parties engaged in this local warfare the hostilities were lately resumed at which a number of persons of each party were killed and thero does not seem to be any prospect of peace messengers from logan had a conference with the governor today to day ha has the matter under advisement three milita companies have preferred their services to put down the trouble another I alabama jan 28 david dunce the murderer of W B wilson was taken from billgren Bell gren jail by a mob and lynched cora lee I 1 springfield jan 28 the trial of cora lee for the murder of sarah graham terminated this afternoon in a verdict of acquittal by the jury after a deliberation of about even matues oulley of murder galveston jan 28 the court of appeals today to day affirmed the verdict of the lower court in the murder case who was sheriff of medina was convicted last fall of the murder of J W huldebrandt Hu debrandt an attorney of san antonia and sentenced to twenty five years in the penitentiary hildebrandt was thomms third victim one of the others being a deputy united states mershal alto eastern horizon vv besth jan 28 in the lower house of the hungarian diet premier replying to interpellation in reference to the governments taking the initiative steps toward summoning an international conference to consider the present troubles between cussia and austria and as to whether austria might count on the alliance of germany and italy emphatically declared thero was no ground to doubt the good faith of the allied powers for their own peace and security in consequence of the marked displacement of bussian troops and their transfer in the direction of the austrian frontiers the hungarian government without doubting the azars czars pacific declaration considered it necessary to see that measures were taken to assure the safety of the frontier he hoped the peace loving governments would succeed in maintaining peace and removing the existing feeling of insecurity berlin jan 28 copyright 1888 by the new york associated press herr von statement in the lower house of the hungarian diet today to day has confirmed the conviction that war between austria and is simply lying in wait for the first chance to strike reports received at the war office from agents on the intimate the renewal of activity in the russian troops the austrian war officials suspect the real object in view is the invasion 0 bulgaria the sinews of war have been obtained by the russian treasury by a loan arranged in amsterdam which is said to be von has concluded negotiations with the frankfort koths childs for a boari of florans florins flor ins the debate on the anti socialist bill was resumed in the reichstag another batol V Y jan 28 A large quantity af naphtha escaped from the pipe line this afternoon into a sewer in the business portion of the town and caused several in business blo clas the naphtha became ignited in the sewer and is burning fiercely at the outflow the fire has been called oufa several times business blocks and build 1 ings connected with the state street sewer are filled with naphtha and other explosions are expected an employed of the gas company whose clothing had been saturated with the naphtha happened to go into a flag mans station on the railroad hs clothing caught fire and he was fatally burned A U detroit mich itan 8 the express train on the detroit grand haven and milwaukee railroad Hail road which left h ere this afternoon was thrown off the track about 65 miles west of hereby a bloksa rail everything but the left the track the baggage express car overturning md catching fire but the flames were speedily extinguished all the badly shaken up and several were severely injured the worst one hurt was george thomas of Ov rosso who is probably 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