Show THE IOWA MURDERER THE TERRIBLE AND SINGULAR EVIDENCE IN THE CASE the jury find guilty and he will waverly la dec 31 the coren ers jury have brought a verdict against edward billings of murder in the first degree for shooting W S kingsley this case is one of the most sensational and has more peculiar features in it than any which has developed in the state of iowa billings is a mn of 45 years of age and was a respected lawyer in the town of waverly his wife was a woman of fine figure and with many charms of feature and manner but a bood deal younger than her husband will kingsley was ant 25 years of age but brilliant to a degree a law graduate and BO well read and popular that be was easily successful in keing elected county attorney the two men at one time held an office together and bad business relations one day two weeks ago billings called at kingsleys King office suddenly the passers b en the street were stanlcy by the report of pistol shots and edward billings came running down j crying out that hingeley Kin geley had shot him citizens ran up stairs and i entering office found him dead on the floor with a bullet in his brain billings claimed that the dead man had shot himself A month previous to this billings had the young attorney arrested the warrant charging him with seduction it being sworn toby a girl in poor circumstances she afterward confessed the charge was not true and that billings had induced her to swear 10 the warrant from the testimony adduced at the inquest on kingsley it developed that billings bad set about effecting the ruin of in the most manner he bad forged bis own cifes names to notes directed to the lawyer the contents of the notes full of loving terms and asking kingsley to meet her at her own house while billings was away kingsley replied in good faith declining to make assignation and warning the supposed female writer to desist from her course of course the reply fell into the bands of bil the latter even went so far as to prepare a nota filled out con all of the kingsley property ie liim belf it is believed that on lilay of the shooting billings went to kingsleys King office 10 taj by blacknail to get him to put bis signature u abe notes the evidence as to blackmail and for forgeries vas di lyol but abero was no witness to the booting and that part will have to tn proven by circumstantial evidence antul titusville Titus ville dec 31 an accident auk place at this morning on hk main line of the new york penn v ivania ohio about three miles epst of meadville at gracya cut near fp neva pennsylvania between trains ab nb 8 limited express from chicago nd cincinnati to new york and the abound freight no 23 both engi fars were killed one passenger killed and about fifteen seriously injured the cars are all pilled up hud it is impossible to tell how many ivira ivi ra injured the pullman bui bot leave the track and the pas in them were not injured luckily the cars did not take fire first report bent out was much exaggerated another oluster Ol unter chicago 31 A disastrous wreck occurred abib morning at kouts indiana on the line of the chicago atlantic railway the second seo tion of the cattle train ran into the first section the caboose caught fire and the rear brakeman on the first section was burned to a crisp the engineer and the fireman on the second section barely escaped with their lives A carload of batilo was also barned A ionti northera Kor thera diaab ap 31 A tribune special says at this morning fourteen of the heaviest loaded coal cars got loose at spring hill and wars abot tea beltt the grade between there and pillon is very heavy an engine immediately gave chase arrived at bed bock at ten minutes behind the runaway and here reported to the dispatcher the dispatcher reached the night operator at dillon at owing it is said to the wires working badly ordering the runaway side tracked at the same time the dispatch was received the runaway ran through i like a flash A mile and a half norih of town it struck the grade of apex hill reduced the speed and a half mile further on collided with a dou I 1 ble header freight train going south engineer sweeny and fireman pat mcshane wore on the first engine the latter was taken out dead from under the cab of the second engine whose wheels ran over hiis head grinding it to a jelly sweeney crawled out from under the locomotive with an ugly cut in the back of his head and seriously scalded from the waist to the knee he rests easy but complains of his back and is perhaps internally injured no others were hurt the first engine reared up and fell backward breaking off all the outside fixtures of the cab front trucks and eccentric blades the second engine was not disabled badly it stove in the front of the five empties on the train piled them up stripped of their trucks seven cars of the runaway train were completely demolished to splinters there is no night operator at melrose and the freight tram left sixty five minutes after the runaway left spring hill public opinion blames superintendent Bes for reducing the force too much he has taken oaf the night operators at bed hock glen and melrose the old winter force at spring hill yard heavy grade is reduced from three to one had an operator been ot melrose there was plenty of time to stop the train and save the lives the coroners inquest is still in session A terrible Colliu lou meadville pa 31 abe fast chi cago express on the new york sylvania eyl vania ohio railroad Eail road consisting of two sleepers and five day coaches collided with a freight train consisting of two engines and sixty cars tareo miles west of this city this morning five persons were killed outright anions whom was a passenger thirteen others were wounded nice fatally the following are the billed BO far as ascertained william george angine pr and hames fire man of the leading freight eiline E P swan and arthur irwin engi neer and fireman of the chicago express both trains present a terrible scene of destruction as the fast express waa making up lost time the blame is said to rest with the engineer and conductor of the freight train who were running on express time the strike philadelphia nearly one thousand men employed in and around the extensive freight depot of the beading railroad Eail road company at willow street wharf went oufa on a strike this morning this action of the men was in pursuance of the orders of the various local assemblies knights of labor last evening to support the order of the beading convention ven tion to beading pa dec 31 most extraordinary tra ordinary efforts were made by the strikers in the coal regions and in philadelphia today to day to induce the men in the in this city to strike telegrams innumerable were sent here making all sorts of promises of support and pledging that if the beading men would join in the strike it would extend to every station all over the reading system these telegrams were all answered by stem refusal the small percentage of those in favor of the strike not daring to go out advises advices from the coal regions today to day say the most serious difficulty is on the shamokin Sha and mathony division where hardly a dozen men are at work in mathony valley there are standing loaded coal cars unable to be moved |