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Show AT BURNED STAKE Hoasted to Djath by a Tennessee Mob. SEE THOUSANDS EXECUTION Victim of Vengeance Had Slain a Mother in the Presence of Her Two Children. Chattanooga. Tenn., Aug. 25. Lying'on the flior of tlie family room, her face e plashed with dotted blood and the planks stained with the same drupe, o Charles Williams, a farmer and one of the most prominent citizens in Franklin county, found his devoted wife Friday afternoon when he returned from marketing his wheat in the little town of Maxwell. A heavy bullet had gone through h ir head, life was extinct and her two baby children were crying alone in their grief and fear. The oiliest boy, aged 5, told what had occurred. The young mother had been Bhot and killed by Henry Noles. a negro hand upon WiAs the mortally lliams place. wounded woman sank to the floor Notes shot at the boy, the bullet grazing the childs head. Then he fled to the woods. The motive, it is believed was robbery ani $20 was obtained by Noles. Today the negro was burned at the stake by a mob of infuriated citizens, neighbors of Williams, about 6000 people witnessing the execution, many remaining all day until the body was entirely consumed. Noles was captured early this '"'morning at a water tank uyay lie was taken to Coan, Tenn. Winchester by his captors and placed in the county jail. Sheriff Stewart made haste to try to barricade the jail and protect the prisoner. Soon an angry mob of eeveral hundred inen gathered about t lie Assistant County Attorney, N. M. Whittaker, who appeared ami He made a speech to the crowd. appealed to them to assist in allay ing excitement ami upholding the He promised majesty of the law. to reconvene the grand jury to promptly indict the negro and have him speedily tried at the present term of court, asMuriug the conviction and crowd tint hi legal execution was a foregone conclusion. This appeal was supplemented hv Judge Lynch, Capt Trolley. J. M. Lit lleloii and others. No sooner had their appeals been made than eevtral hundred citizens from the neighborhood where well-to-d- . .. . the crime was committed augmented the crowd to thousands. They swept forward upon the jail, overpowered the Sheriff and hie deputies, took the prisoner aod tat red for the ecene of the crime, twelve miles distaut, at 10:15 a. m. The mob was orderly but determined. It seemed that the whole population for miles around had turned out to see the fate of the wretch. A procession three miles in length followed the mob to the Williams home. Arriving at a point In sight of the scene of the ciime the negro was placed upon a stump and given a chance to make a' statement. He mounted the stump stolidly and laughed as he began his stateTell all my ment. He eaid: meet mein to sisters and brothers Glory, I am going to make that my home. Tell my mother to meet me where parting will be no mere. He was then asked as to wheLher anyone else was implicated in the stated emphatically crime. no one implicated wus there tnat . but himself. Whv did you kill Mrs. Williams?' he was asked. I just done that because I bad nothing else to do. He finished his statement at 1:35 p. in. He wis taken from the stump, carried to a tree nearby bound to the tree by chains and N-de- s his body saturated with oil. AL 1:40 p. m. a match was applied And instantly the quivering body was euveloped in flames. Fence rails were piled about the burniug body and soon life was extinct. The negro made no outcry at any time and died aa stolidly as a stoic. There were no disorderly scenes aliout the burning body. The dead woman was a member of one of the oldest and most respected families in the country. The Manti Free Press has offended tm bfits" readers 'Because it stated that the first . duty of citizens should be to vote for men who have the welfare of the city at heart. This remark is construed as reflecting on the goodness of the present officials of Manti, but the B'ree Press declares that the point is not well taken and that the offended individual is unable to distinguish between good men and competent men. Our contemporary A man may be thor says: oughly good and conscientious, yet his judgment may be so bad that all his good intentions avail him nothing when placed In in a responsible position. our municipal affairs it is not enough that a man should be good; he must also be competent, and that embraces every qualification which every simply good man does not That reads as possess. though it might have reference to the present city council of There are several Ogden, of members FIRE. that body of whom In An exploding lamp; the clothing when it is said that they are a blaze ; a paragraph in the paper tellgood, all of their qualificasuifering from burns. ing of horrible are thereby fully extions to man moves a Tragedy in tLii form for But tears. may pressed. The people com-tencwomen who are y to notion a take l'equire daily leiig conin addition to goodness sumed by the smouldering fire when they again vote for memof disease there is bers of the city council. But as little sympathy. to that we can tell better after Inflammation, fierce with itsulcera-liothe election. The Utah State ; oa -- burning eating into the tissues ; tire nervous system si n, ( Journal. j GIRL SCARED TO DEATH. most shattered by suffering, these are only part of the daily agonies txrne by many a woman. Dr. Pierces Wmimt PraallMl Jolteri H With a MaatfMltnS J iV Fa- vorite Prescription puts out the fire of inflammation, heals ulceration, anl cures female weakness. It tranappetite, quilizer the nerves, restores the"Favorite ami gives refreshing bleep. put-u- p Prescription ' is the most reliablediseases cure for a medicine offered as It always helps, peculiar to women. almost always cures. it-- When Pierces 1 firs! .ting Dr.Strong, of nirdiciucs,- - write Mi. C.ruig A. wm Mifler-iui- r N Y., "I 4,anevoort. Siriil'ffa from bearing-dow- it. male n weak dcm.'s d the time. I vrarv and hesau 1 eeablc tliuiii. pain, weak ami lired feeling all tl raised iivuml in tlmt wuy lor two your medicine. IAfter took to feel letter. first buttle takingbuttle- ut Dr. Pierce's Pa route I'KKlip-tion- , lour one two of iolJen Medical vial of the Pleasant Pellets.' also used oneI Now fioife Catairh Remedy. lottle of aDr.new 1 can't tnakk ieel like kind advice and the guud yonr for your enough uedteiue has done iue. tafciu 1 n yt Dr. Pierce's Common Sense MedicaJ Adviser, paper bound, is sent free ou to jiay receipt of 21 one-cestumps expense of mailing only.Y. g V-- lierce, Buffalo, N. ut iknia Wmu V'i The autboritU of Allegany county are looking for persona who manufactured a skeleton out pf bones of domestic snimals. which frightened Mary Oldfield, of Ksrrdale, near Rochester, Miss . to death the other night- X. Oldfield, accompanied by two friends, was returning from a Halloween party, where they had listened to grewsoms stories until their hair stood ou end. Whep about to enter the woods a rattling of bones was heard overhead and looking up the trio were overcome with horror to see a skeleton pf gigantic proportions sweeping down ou them frops above. With a cry of terror Msry dropped in her tracks. A searching the party found a wire leading fromskelthe ground to a tree fop to eton was attached by a pulley. Y-- NI1W VOL. 3. NO. 20 1901. OGDEN, WEBER COUNTY, UTAH- - AUGUST 31, VOL. 11, BUGLER SUCCESSOR. DEAD ZINA YOUNG Young Passes Away. TO OS? . nonpartisan? The Salt La A Tribunes Another Wife of Brigham UNCONSCIOUS PARTISAN THE END. announces Ogden department 15T. Hula-nis- ki that Captain mav be the neft mayor of Ogden, provided WR'-il- accept the nomination. lit is stated by the writer ofiithe , above that the captains pliant work as. secretary of theRepublican committee carried Weber county for the Republican party-las-t -- l honest and well meaning. Worse men that lie have filled the office of mayor of this city, and as we said before. Mayor Browning has made a record. The Democrats' themselves must decree whether that record has been such as to en- title him lo a renomination at their hands. We decline to dis- -. cuss the matter now. .We may never be called upon to do so. In any event, we shall always be fair and honorable in our that and party fall, treatment of Mayor Brownythe Noted . Utah Woman Expires at large wants tofSWard him ing. in the Presence of Her this." Without Questioning .But Mr. Browning is not for ' iu least the ability, integ- the only Democrat in Ogden. the Loved Ones. Hula-nis-ki or rity, fitness of Captain .There are others. We take for any office o which he it that there are several gentlewhich men of Democratic proclivihimself mav Mrs. Zina Diantha Huntington his believehe ties in this political friend city who are emiYoung, a wife of the late Brigham is qualified tplillwth honor nently," qualified ,in .every? reYuung, died at her home Wednes- and satisfaction to tWpuklf' spect to fill lhe office of maVor entfroin onanYi other day morning, surrounded by near- we do nevertheless muuifcpaloftice, ' The end the opinion that ly all her loved ones. came peacefully, ae she parsed Into vice performed for.fliRep . ficial records of Whdfm?y any othenpolitical iierhot',feelashamel, and eternity like a child falling asleep. lican or She never regained consciousness party should entitle anyone to candidates of this: character for mawf of Og- should from the time of her attack, but be nominated besought after by both the If den Rqniblicans City. could move in her bed pp to the political parties. Each canthe to desire domination give of either payty should didate, time of her death. The cause of to as a rc lie of,' Hulanik.t Captain by and for the people; death was a general wearing out of ward service , if faithful paiiv for possible, those who have the system. She had not had that is their own affair. Wc faithfully served the people, apoplexy nor paralysis, hut her ae not greatly interested in instead of corporations whose general condition caused heart what the Republican party may interests are purely selfish and failure attended with no buffering. do or neglect to do locally', at antagonistic to the peoples inMrs. Young was taken danger- least. Captain Hulaniski is terests. But if neither party peremtarL shall nominate such candidates, ously ill at Gardston, Canada, on understood to have honor declined the sought to then what? Then the indeThursday of last week, and, having ly h him: be thrust upon citizens of Ogden will always expressed a wish that she be out of place pendent not It may lie was she right up against it, or the might die in her home, when, local afat time, this question will be up to them hurried to the city, which she fairs are very generally and being r" they- will be compelled lo reached on Sunday last. discussed, to state that the act in their own defense. They Zina Diantha Huntington Young names of quite &' number of will have to run a nonpartisan was 'born at Watertown, N. Y., citizens have been mentioned municipal ticket and elect it, January 31, 1821. She wan des- in connection with'the nomina- for the citys salvation depends cended from Keuolutionary slock, tion for mayor by. the Kepfib-lican- s, led hereaftupon being-contrthem among and her father, one of the first prominent er- by the people themselves. of Heber H. Thomtnat New being in now at that is Hampshire, physicians of the city coun- Ogdenwhere right as, president When 1812. war in ef is the it absolutely nefought point not the stated is that cil. It 15 years of age, Zina Huntington that those who may nomination is wanted by his cessary fill the various offices hereafter embraced the gospel of the Latter-da- y Thomas as a shall be Mr. for friends representatives and Saints, and soon after went to reward for party services perservants of the people, instead Kirkland, Ohio, with her fathers formed by-thIn of human gentleman. creatures. who 1hw family. Later she moved loNauvon, fact, if any reason have been to power and position where she married he.. shfoikl repieve only inui turned Henry Jacobs, but this not proving the nomination as a rewariTTbT wealth. a happy union, the was divorced anything, we have not heard For the. municipal In 1811 she them mentioned. We assume, election we coming from her husband. iu favor of are was sealed to the Prophet J.meph of course, that reasons do ex- nonpartisan nominations. We for time and eternity. . After, tlie ist why Mr,' Thomas should hope the opportunity will be be so highly honored by his afforded to support candidates martyrdom of Joseph Smithy? she if sc, who shall have but friends, partisan received their was united lor time to' Brigham have them up nominations from a convention probably they . Young, becoming hie twentieth their sleeves awaiting a favorinstead of from wife, and with the Stnttileft able opportunity to spring of the people controlled Nauvoo in the month otFebiuery, them upon an' uninformed and partisan conventions private corporations. The H. H. by crossing the Mississippi oh the unsuspecting public. Utah State Journal, In May. 1848, began to Thomas's reputation as a first-cla- Now is Your Opportunity We have on our Bargain Tables a larg iine of MtiiV, Iioys and Childrens clothing at prices so cheap that it will make your pocketbooks pl-iee- laugh and you and your boys happy. Thess suits are first class and styles up to date. Call at once aud make your selections. v ' 4 - House ' eo .r: .,iV 2345 WASH. AVE. . . : - ' ol : ' i e . .i ' ' . - - ss journey to Utah, arriving here in September of that year. When the Belief society was reorganized in Utah by President Youug. Mrs. Young was one of the first identified with that work, being made treasurer of ihe society. Later she became first counselor to Mrs. Eliza R. Snow,S nith, and upon her death ...became the p resident of the Relief societies She was aleo in all the world instrumental in making sericulture successful in Utah, and was a physician of no mean skill. In fact, in all departments of women's labor Mrs. Young had always been found at her post, doing her share of active work in the best manner possible. Her children are Zebnlun and Chariton Jacobs and Mrs. 'Zina Y. Card. Her stepchildren are Mrs. M. Y. Dougall, Mrs. Phoebe Beatie and Col. Willard Young. These three lost their mother in their childhood and Aunt Zina took them lo her own home and was to them a mother at all times, and they were perfectly devnlpd to her. She was a most affectionate woman in her home cirele and made friends wherever she went because of her lovely characteristics. She was a second coqsio to the Collis P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pacific railroad. The death of Zina 13. II. Young leaves the following as the surviving wives of Brigham Young: Eliza B. Young, Lucy B. Young, Sarah B. Youns, Margaret P. Young, Naamah Twiss Young and Amelia F. Young. photographer is estabTill; last act in the celelished beyond any question. It' is possible that his friends will brated faiva comedy entitled seek the nomination for him on Ogden City vs. Oregon Water the strength of his "reputation Corporation will be played by for making faces. Possibly the city council one week from not. The Some of Bill Glasmanns next Monday evening. friends (?) are making them- die has already been cast and selves very fresh in the use. of it is as well known now as it his name in. connection with, ever will be that the people the mayoralty, but such use is lose and the corporation and alleged to beHnauthQrifced ftud the Standard win the game, exceedingly distasteful to Bill, if not tlie public applause. whose ambition is to serve the Seriously, there is very little, the if any, cause for congratulation party of Mark Hanna inconof house lower (or upper) over the termination of this on candidate the Bills gress. remarkable contest between will ticket presum- the people and Hie water Republican be appears monopolists, There has never ably to have the strongest pull heen a time since the present with tfie pqxyep that ' be. city council assumed control of Eber butch appears to be the business affairs of the that one just now. But some- city when the corporation did thing may occur (o change the not hold the whip hand when programme. it was unable to dictate how Since the above was written the farce should be played and Bill has let the cat out of the decide how it should terminate. bag. He says that Mr. Thom- - And what a farce it has been as will probably be nominated and is! A city council and a unanimously. From which it water corporation snipe huntwould appear that he will be and the water together, ing to both Bill the and acceptable consumers holding an empty water company, a combination sack is the outcome of it all which may not be entirely acapparent! 3. Well may the to the peoplegenceptable winners the city council, the and the the erally. water And what of the Democrats? Eveningcompany Air Hot rejoice in Vill they ghy their castor into their over the great victory the ring and place candidates helpless people of Ogden and in the field for mayor and oth-e- r the perpetuation of their lease municipal offices? jgitien and license lo continue their We violate no consabe? and bleeding process, fidence when we say that the cupping world without end. Amen. friends of Matt Browning, the The Utah State Journal. present mayor of Ogden City, are desirous of rewarding, him street car The Twenty-fifta renomination. Whether of Mcone by Wed erday ran into Mr, Browning desires to go Donald A Co.s delivery wajronr. before the pepplp on Ids record it and throwing out and make the race we do not dein..lisling Chains McCarthy, the-one-tha- t - h i The funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Sunday at the Assembly hall. He has been in tiie know PYSPEPSIAoAN BE CURED BY USING public eye for nearly two jears County Reporter Daniel Hamer Is and has made a record which Buffering from a badly sprained ankle, Ackera Urnpepala Tablet. Qif UttHf received while engaged in a scuffle with will glva immediate relief or money, refunded vye, at prestenti will not critigome friends while camped in Ogden Sold iu taendtomc tin boaea at 25 eta. For uk cise. Mr. Browning is an by Wallace Drug Co. and B. G. Knoih. canyon. The sprain la a serious cue ' amiable gentleman, 'and he is and may lay him up fog some weeks. - .- the driver, Z For Travelers of Moderate The through ears which leave Salt Lake City every Wednesday and Friday for Omaha, Chicago, Kansas City, and St. Louis, niv just the thing for travelers of moderate means. They are clean and comfortable, and the berth rates are less thati half those charged in standard sleepers. For example: The cost of a berth, Salt Lake to Chicago or St, Louis, is only S4 tourist-sleepin- g mu? !iiliirtii:iliuii Tii-l- ; your loi-a- l lii-kn- i ui'i-nl- - Salt Lake Office, - . r at tliis office; or, are 79 West Second South Street. . II. T NKrjfgCX. Atrcnt. r Wasatch r .. No ionic, Record 2 :27J. Son of Wrodnut, 2:10$. As a sire, probably nostallion in Utah as has as man' fast colts WHsatch. They may be found in all parts of tbertate and nr not only fast but command the highest prices. Wasatch will be. at North-Ogdeuntil April 15tb; when lie will stand at the Ogden Driving lark. Mares sent to who fell III front of the car, but of the pulled out bv a plunge North Ogden will have h'lnf carp, Service fee $15. horse, before being run over and I. F. Campbell, North Ogden, Utah, crushed. H was badly cut and bruised. i n |