| Show POOR JOHNSTOWN the Ill fated town visited with another disaster A cay OF FIRE CAUSES GREAT LOSS OT LIFE harrowing details of the sad catastrophe the verdict of the coroners jury dec 31 again has this ill fated town been visited with disaster this time instead of water it was a cry of fire in the theatre that sent nearly a score of live into eternity and maimed fully fifty persons several of whom it is feared are fatally injured parkes opera house where the catastrophe occurred is a three story building on main street there were about persons principally women and children in the house last to witness the uncle toms cabin show about 1030 there was an alarm of fire sounded by the firemen stationed on the corner near the opera house by the discovery of a fire an alarm being sounded so close greatly excited the audience and they immediately rushed for alie street they were met at alie entrance by a crowd from the outside alio thought the fire was in alie opera house they met on the stairway and the frantic efforts of alie crowd caused a terrible jam which was made still worse by leopla jumping from the gallery onto alie heads of those on alie stairs the firemen turned alie haae on the outside to ease alie jam and when the injured could be gotten at the stairway it was found to be piled almost to the level of the upper floor dead and injured coroner evans was summoned and immediately im paneled a jury of six men alio rendered a verdict in accordance with the facts to make the sad duties of ministering to the dead and injured more arduous a heavy rain set in shortly after and has continued ever since excitement is so great it is almost impossible to gather a clear history of the accident as every one lias his own view of the matter the theater h always been noted as a deathtrap death trap ind was condemned twelve years ago but the other one was washed away by the flood and this one has since been in use the manager tried to quiet the crowd but it was of no use one man jumped from the third story window and was seriously hurt women and men alike were mad and there was fighting on main street while those inside were being killed it was over two licurs liours after the jam before alie liall was fully cleared and the injured removed ahe excitement here is so intense that it is almost impossible to get at the the matter everybody is excited and very few people had gone to bed at 1 a in the saloons were open until a late idour and considerable drunkenness added to alie other LOVERS REUNITED AFTER TWENTY FIVE special to f ENQUIRE RED BANK N J dec 11 miss lucrettia lewis a verv pretty girl and a favorite who lived with her parents on a farm among the navesink Nave sink highlands while on a visit to new york city in 1864 was introduced to washington V montgomery it was a case of admiration mr montgomery goon after became one of a party of civil engineers working in this county and visited miss lewis very often abc her home they became engaged to be married mr montgomery went to accept a position at washington and while there sent for his sweetheart to join him explaining that he could not leave at the time miss lewis was timid about taking such a journey and the war made it lesa pleasant for a young lady to travel she wrote to mr montgomery refusing to join him at the capital but not intending to give a downright refusal mr montgomery was very much disappointed and did not write to her again soon after the close of the war mr montgomery drifted west married and settled at joliet w diore he became alie superintendent of a large steel factor 3 about two years ago his wife died A year or two after the misunderstanding of the lovers miss lewis had married halstead brown of this place who died two years ago some time last winter a letter came to Nave sirk addressed to miss lucretia Lu cretin lew is postmaster bennett not knowing any such person kept the letter for some time until it occurred to him that alie letter was for hiis wife whose maid was lucretia lewis his wife read it it was not for her but as she was about to liand it back to her bus band she thought of the satorv of her abunta love affair with a mr montgomery and slie sent the letter to her this time alie letter readied its rightful owner mrs brown wrote to mr montgomery alio came on here last march and staid ten days renewing his courtship of twenty live years ago they were married october 9 and have gone to joliet tc live A GHOST special to the ENQUIRER ind dec 11 this village lias a genuine sensation in the belief among the superstitious that a house owned by mrs susan morrison and occupied by william Horn family is haunted by an apparition which bears a resemblance to a man without a head this belief has been current a few for some time but it was kept quiet so as not to injure the sale of tho property mr hornaday and family report that lamps are lighted and extinguished gui shed articles of furniture are moved about and disarranged and members ot the family arc annoyed at by having the bed clothing whisked off them while asleep etc jessup formerly owned the house and while he will not say it is haunted he reports that if any one ill live there as he did they will observe some very strange things families heretofore tenants of the property corroborate much that is said of the supernatural visitations and give this as ahe reason why thy vacated so promptly A FOE HER DOG special to the ENQUIRER OAKLAND ky dec 12 rheid was quite an amusing incident occurred near oakland ky just over in edmonson county a lew day sago the dunn and edwards families aru considerably at cuts bad feeling having existed for soma time between them mrs thomas dunn had a dog that was accused of killing sheep belonging to the edwards family the edwards concluded to kill the do and so publicly expressed themselves olie edwards rode up to danns door with a sun in hand ready to carry out the threatened execution of the dog bonns wife taking time by the forelock hid the dog and edwards went off without carry ins out his design yow comes the amusing part of the episode mrs dunn sat down and wrote a letter to governor buckner setting forth all the facts in the case and requested him to pardon iier dog governor buckner replied in a verj sympathetic letter stating his regret at the animosity of the two families but declined to issue a pardon for dug for lack of jurisdiction in the case and hoped that if her dog was innocent ho would come clear MURDER WILL OUT special to the 1 minneapolis dec 12 michael of province of Ke gensburg bavaria is now under arrest in minneapolis for a double committed in germany nearly a year ago married a widow who lived in liis native village of the widow had one child a son of five years who on reaching his majority would come into a fortune of 1600 marks if he should die before reaching the required age this money would go to his mother it was to secure this paltry sum that became a murderer and a fugitive from justice he coveted the money and sought every way in his to aut the child out of the way one day a enticed the little fellow to a stream of water which ran haest alie village and anere he pushed the poor boy into the swiftly flowing stream and stood on the bank and watched him sink to rise no more not long after during a quarrel with Sc a man named the grandfather giand father of the murdered boy accused having killed the little one tibia so enraged that lie aw ore that lie would have the old mans I 1 life he kept his word stealing upon Steu cottage under cover of darkness one night lie fired on and killed the old man as he was sitting before the fire just before the trigger was pulled the victim happened to raise his eyes and he saw the laco of in the window just as death seemed to have fastened upon him when it looked to those about him as if his slayer would forever remain unknown he rallied sufficiently to grasp the name of the man who had taken his life fled he crossed over into bohemia and there from a man named machel kule he purchased a passport with the price of his first crime he came to america under the name of kule but on reaching this continent he took a new name he arrived in minnesota two weeks ago and secured work on a farm of a man named marks a german living six miles from minneapolis he seemed to be faithful industrious and anxious to learn the ways of the new country marks grew to like him but soon and unexpectedly discovered the character of his employee on friday evening chile reading a german paper published in milwaukee fc tumbled upon a description of the murder commuted in bavaria knowing his man came from that country his suspicions were aroused by skillful questioning he drew out of the place of his residence in alie old country the circumstances of marriage to the widow and many minor details strongly co of alie pub accounts of the murder today to day on alie plea of doctoring a felon from which was suffering marks brou glit him to and turned him iver to alie police was locked up and through an interpreter confessed to the whole story as narrated above with one exception he denies he murdered the boy he freely admitted the killing of soeurm and described how he did it with a pistol loaded with buckshot is apparently 32 years of age his face shows an unusual development of the animal and he displays rather a low order of intelligence he will be held here until the police hear from the authorities ties in bavaria WHIRLED ABOUND A FLY WHEEL special to the ENQUIRER OWENSBORO ky dec 12 white the miller ot the glenmore distillery in this city got caught by the belt on the flywheel fly wheel at the distillery yesterday and was fatally injured his arms were fastened in the belt and lie was whirled over and over and threshed on the floor in a most horrible manner both of his legs were broken and nearly all hia ribs were crushed in white is a young man 21 years old and of an excellent family |
