Logansport Pharos-Tribune from Logansport, Indiana • Page 1

LOGANSPORT. INDIANA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. OUR VERY SUCCESSFUL A BLOT ON TEXAS. The Ontufc-red Savage "Not In It" in Point of Barbarism. Started on Thursday last Will Be Continued THIS ENTIRE WEEK.

To make this Sale still more successful we have added a New Line of Imported Marseille Bed Spreads, loo doz. 5-8 and 3-4 Napkins, loo doz. Fine Damask Towels All at Reduced Prices. are cordially invited to call at the A Lone Star State Mob Captures a Murderer, Tortures Him, and Burns Him Alive. 20 per cent.

Discount on Cloaks and Furs. SEE MY LINE OF for the Holidays The finest goods and latest designs; also an elegant stock of diamonds, watches and jewelry of every description. All goods engraved free of charge J. D. TAYLOR, 309 4th, Street.

HERE YOU ARE The new year and new resolutions. Ono our resolves will interest the public. We are determined to sell more poods than ever. The last year went beyond our expectations and we are thankful for the favors shown. You will gtill find us at the old stand with the largest line of Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Spectacles in Logansport.

I am sole agent for the V. C. watches; also the Star Light Silver Polish. It prevents tarnish from and complicated watch work a specialty, at D. A HADK, The Jeweler and Optician.

410 Broadway, J. F.MOHNSON. Prosldent. A POCrUE, Vice President. J.

HEITBBINK, Cashier State National Bank, LOGANSPORT, IND. BOY AND SELL GOVERNMENT BONDS. loan Money on Personal Security and Co laterals Issu Certificates of Deposit bearing 3 per cent, when left for one year; 2 per cent per annum when -deposited 6 months. Boxes Safety Deposit Vaults of this Bank for the of Deeds, Insurance Policies, Mortgages and valuables, rented at from to $15 per year. A STOHY OF AWFUL CRUELTY.

PAMS, Feb. Smith, the negro who killed 4-year-old Myrtle Vance, has expiated in part his awful crime by death at the stake. Ever since the perpetration of his awful crime this city and the entire surrounding country has been in a wild frenzy of excitement. When the news came that Smith had been captured and that he would be brought here upon "the 13 o'clock train the people came by train, in wag-ons, on horse and afoot to see the meting- out of punishment. Whisky shops were closed until the mobs were dispersed: schools were dismissed by a proclamation from the mayor, and everything was done in a businesa-like manner.

Officers saw the futility of any effort to quell the crowd, so the law was laid aside and the citizens took into their own hands the beast and burned him at the stake. So horrible was the crime that the punishment, so severe, seemed to the people to be influitesi- mally small in comparison. Bin Crime. The history of the crime is this: Thursday last Henry Smith, a big and burly negro, picked up little Myrtle Vance, aged years, near her father's, Policeman Henry Vance's residence, and giving her candy to allay her fears carried her through the central portion of the city to Gibbon's pasture just within the corporate limits. Thwn he murdered her, covered the body with leaves and brush, and ran away.

The cause of the crime was that when Henry Vance was a deputy policeman in course of duty he was called to arrest Smith for being drunk and disorderly. The negro was unruly and Vance was forced to use his club. The negro swore vengeance and several times assaulted Vance. The father is almost prostrated with grief and the mother now lies at death's door, but she has lived to see" the slayer of her innocent babe suffer the most horrible death that could be conceived. The Brnte'u Capture.

About 5 o'clock Friday morning Smith went to the house of his wife and forced her to cook him some breakfast. After eating- he left and was not seen again until his capture. At 2 o'clock Friday a mass meeting was called at the courthouse and captains were appointed to search for the child. She was found mangled beyond recognition and covered with leaves and brush. As soon as the crime was learned the whole town turned out in the chase.

The railroads put up bulletins offering free transportation to those who would join in the search. Smith was tracked to his old home In Hempstead county, and Tuesday captured at Clow, about 20 miles north of Hope. Upon being questioned he denied everything, but later on confessed the crime. A Mob Mentu Him. Wednesday morning he was brought through Texarkana, where 5,000 people awaited the train anxious to see a man who should receive the fate of Ed Coy.

Speeches were made by prominent Paris citizens, who asked that the prisoner be not molested by Texarkana people, but that they be allowed to deliver him up to the outraged and indignant citizens of Paris. On the road the people crowded upon platforms and steps of the coaches anxious to see the lynching and the negro. Arriving here at 12 o'clock the train was met by a mass of humanity 10,000 strong-. Bocced to Be Shot. The negro for a long-time after starting on the journey to Paris did not realize his plight.

At last when he was told he must die by slow torture he begged for protection. What protection could he get with thousands of people from Hope to Paris demanding his life? He was willing to be shot and wanted Marshal Shanklin, of Paris, to shoot "him. He pleaded and writhed in bodily and mental pain in anticipation. Tlie Torture. Scarcely had the train reached Paris than this torture commenced.

His clothes were torn off piecemeal and scattered in the crowd, people catching the shreds and putting them away as mementoes. The child's father, her brother and twc uncles then gathered about the negro as he lay fastened to the torture platform and thrust the hot irons into his quivering fiesh. Cheered Wlion He Every groan from the fiend, every contortion of his body, was cheered by the thickly-packed crowd- of 10,000 people. After burning the feet -and legs the hot irons were rolled up and down Smith's stomach, back and arms. Then the eyes were burned out and irons were thrust down his throat.

The men of the Vance family having wrecked vengeance, the crowd piled all kinds of combustible stuff around the scaffold, poured oil on it and set it afire. The negro rolled and wrig-gled and tossed Jut of the mass, only to be pushed back Sy the people nearest him. He tossed'I crai again ana was ropeu ana puiiea back. Hundreds of people turned away, but the vast crowd still looked calmly on. Kejoiclncr at the Evcut.

People were here from every part of this section. They eiime from Dallas, Fort Worth, Sherman, Denison, Bonham, Texarkana, Fort Smith, and a party came from Hempstead county, Ark, where he was captured. Every train that came in was loaded to its utmost capacity, and there were demands at many points for special trains te bring people hare to see the punishment of a fiend for un unparalleled crime, and when the news of the burning went over the country like wildfire at every country town anvil-; ed forth the announcement, Gov. Huge: May Action. NEW ORI.KANS, Feb.

Times- Democrat's Austin special says: Gov. Hogg- telegraphed the officials at Latnar to protect the negro, Henry Smith, from mob violence, and after hearing of Smith's fate wired them to take the names of the parties principally concerned in the affair for iirose- cution. ANTI-OPTION IN THE HOUSE. Opponents of the BUI will Flg-ht itli All Allowable! Weapons, WASHINGTON, Feb. opponents of the anti-option bill got their'heads together and determined to fight the bill by every method in the house.

Taylor Eoutner and Curn- ming-s were selected as a special committee to lead the filibustering fight as soon as an effort was made to take the bill from the sneaker's table. They began a dilatory fight by demanding that the bill be considered in committee of the whole. Taylor savs the opponents of the bill find themselves much stronger in the house than when the bill passed, and they do not believe the bill can get a two- thirds vote. They will fight it by every method known to parliamentary law'. THEIE MISSION.

Why the Hawaiian Commissioners Visit Washington, Would Like to Be Annexed and Given a Form of Government Similar to That of English Colonies. HOOSIER HAPPENING Information of Especial Interest to Indianians. HAWAIIAN'S INTERVIEWED. OMAHA, Feb. commissioners of the provisional government of Hawaii passed throug-h Omaha Wednesday evening- on their way to Washing-ton to present the claims of the islands for admission to the United States in some form or other.

They will leave '-Chicago at 10 o'clock today on the Pennsylvania limited for Washington, where they will present their claims to the secretary of state. The commissioners have a sealed letter from John L. Stevens, the American minister to Hawaii, tr Secretary of State Foster. The letter is supposed to contain the credentials of the o-entlemen from the provisional RAN INTO A FREIGHT. Fort Enst-JJOnnd Limited In a Collision at Loudoiivtlle.

O. PITTSBURGH, Feb. eastbound limited passenger on the Fort Wayne road, while going- at great speed, ran into a freight train at Lon- donville, 0., at 3 o'clock a. m. Three people were dang-eously injured, while the passeng-ers were thrown from their berths and badly shaken up.

The injured are: Eii- frineer John Kopparri, of Crestline, Fireman Richard Stinsberg-er, Crestline, .0.:, George BelVSew York, electrician of the road. The freight pulled out from the side track without orders and the passenger train crashed into the rear cars. COMMISSIOXEE THURSTOJf. Phoclon Is Dead, DAJTVH.LE, 111., Feb. veteran newspaper correspondent.

Phocion Howard, died very suddenly at 5:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon of heart failure. He bad not been in sound health since last September. Phocion Howard, whose' true name was Jamee William Boil Howard, was born in Eising- Sun, July 4, 1S33. He leaves a wife and seven children. He had been elected reading clerk of the Illinois senate for this session of the legislature.

Assigned. CHICAGO, Fib. Chicago Milk Shippers association filed an assignment Wednesday, making C. F. Mori-ill assignee.

The assets are claimed to be an offset to the liabilities, which are placed at SlOO.OOO. The association has about 2,200 members, consisting- of milk shippers from all points within 50 miles of Chicago. It became involved in litigation with members and was compelled to make an assignment in consequence, Tho Public Debt. government of Hawaii to the secretary of state. In case the secretary of state refuses to acknowledge the credentials of the provisional government the commissioners are somewhat up the stump to know just what action they will take, but will not hesitate to use every expedient to have th'eir claims promptly considered.

An appeal will be made to the president to have him send a message to congress on the subject. What They Want. Mr. Thurston said: "Of course, our admission as a state is out of the question. Our admission under the laws ffovernlng territories would ue equally unsaus- factory to the United States and the repre- sentativos of the provisional government.

position is a peculiar one. Popular government Is out of the Question, ana stil! popular government In some modlfled form is the only thing that will satisfy our people. We want the protection of the United States and some form of government that will be satisfactory and pro.1 table to both countries. Tho territorial form of government -would not be liberal enough for the government of the Islands, and a government jji that or one of the states of the union would not be practicable. Tho most of ns arc agreed that we -would get the best results from a government similar to that which England Rives her colonies." Continuing lie he had no means of telling what were the feelings of the masses toward the new order of things.

He judged, however, from petitions which were presented to the com- Favor Anncrlujj Hawaii. INDIASAPOLIS, Feb. resolution introduced in the house Wednesday urges representatives in to use their best efforts looking toward the establishment of American supremacy in Hawaii either by means of a protectorate or 'by annexation at as early a day as pos; sible and upon such terms and conditions as will secure to its people permanent peace and prosperity. The' ways and means committee voted report against the bill appropriating- 850,000 to help entertain the G. A.

R. encampment next September, the democratic members voting- against the bill and the republicans for it. The house passed a bill making- the railroad receiving- a. I shipment responsible for it all the way through, and the senate spent the day discussing a bill to license druggists. upoa which no action was taken, JUnmacen.

WABASII, Feb. Abbott, a prominent resident of North Manchester, this county, has filed suit for S10.000 damages against Henry Ulery, a well-to-do farmer, for alienating the affections of his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Abbott have been married Since 1875, and Abbott claims to have cqme into possession of evidence showing that improper relations existed between Mrs.

Aubott and Dlery for four years. He asserts that at this time his wife is away from home, having- told him that she was going to visit, although she has not appeared at the place where she said she was going, and the plaintiff believes she is now with Ulery. All Torn Up. LAFAYETTE, Feb. grand jiry is still engaged in an effort to ferret out the perpetrators of the assault upon George P.

Rudolph, an ex-Catho- tic priest, at the opera house last- Thursday evening. At least 200 witnesses will be examined and it is doubtful if the jury will complete its work this week. Never in the history of Lafayette has there been as much excitement as prevails here now, as a result of the occurrence of last Thursday night. Criticisms are flying in every direction. Splits are threatened, politically, religiously and com- mereially.

Dpi-lslng iu a Workhouse. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. well- planned uprising at the Indianapolis- workhouse broke out at noon Wednesday, and came near liberating the 175 inmates of that institution. The guards were taken by surprise. The prisoners caught up knives and forks and began to slash and stab right and left in their mad rush to get at the officers.

The outer guards rushed in with clubs, and it was not until the leaders of the rebels were lying unconscious on the floor that the other prisoners were beaten back. Feb. public debt statement issued on the 1st showed that the interest and non-interest bearing- debt increased £3,105,901 during-the month of January. The cash in" the treasury $20,000,000. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to 5338,537,005.

Since March 1SS9, the beginning of the present administration, the bonded indebtedness of the country has decreased $250.072,360. Combine Mttkes Threats. YOP.K, Feb. bill introduced in the legislature for the state to fix the price of anthracite coal is denounced by the Officers of the Reading- railroad and the other companies forming- the combine. The opinion prevails among- them that the bill will never become a law.

If it should, one of the officers stated, the companies would not brine: any coal into New Yorkstat at all. OAIAHA, Feb. Bee's Lincoln special says C. W. Mosher, president of the Capital national bank! was released on 810,000 bail.

A petition is in circulation among- depositors of the bank asking the. court to punish Mosher by Sne only, on condition of his immediately putting-up 540,000 to pay off of needy depositors and 5150,000 to the bank assets. Remains to JBe Removed. RICHMOND, Feb. has been determined to.

remove the remains of Jefferson Davis from New Orleans to Richmond for interment May 30, confederate memorial day. Lee Camp Confederate Veterans was given charge of the arrangements for the occasion. MEflSTEP. STKVENS. missioners just before their for the United States, from native merchants, that they were satis fied with its outcome.

These petitions. were all couched in the warmest terms of praise for the government of the United States, and were to the effect that annexation is preferable to the past state of affairs. The population of the islands is about 95,000, divided as follows: Europeans, natives, mixed blood, Chinese, 15,000, and Japanese, 20,000. American interests are by far the most important on the islands, representing 824,000,000 capital out of 533,000,000 invested. Americans control all the shipping interests between the islands, as well as three-fourths of the islands themselves.

Liabilities Will AcrC'-csmte a Million. EKIE, Feb. failure of the Erie Car Works company has shaken business circles here, although EO other institution is likely to be disastrously involved. It is estimated that the liabilities, including a $233,000 mortgage in favor of William A. Galbraith and Col.

H. B. Plumer, will aggregate more than 51,000,000. umoii witn ouatla. WASHINGTON, Feb.

the house Mr. Cumraings (N. introduced a bill to pro-ride for and facilitate a commercial and political union between the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada. To Be Selected by Ballot. GREEXSBURG, Feb.

seven candidates for the local post office agreed on Wednesday to submit their causes to the people, and an election will be held on. February 2S for the purpose of determining who is who. Only democratic patrons of the office will be permitted to vote. The action, is taken on the part of the candidates at the request of Congressman Holmau. Indiana 1'rlson So mil Cuse.

JEFFEKSOXVH.LE, Feb. from examining convicts as to the ptm- ishment inflicted upon them for infraction of the rules of the Indiana prison, south no developments of a sensational nature were adduced in the prison cases Wednesday. The prosecution, however, is attempting to make a bitter fight on Warden Patten and his management. Smallpox Ht Columbus. COLUMBUS, Feb.

well- defined cases of varioloid in the family of ELtner Redfitt, just east of Franklin, has caused a smallpox scare here. The city board of health has ordered all school children not heretofore vaccinated, within seven years to be re- vaccinated. A Residence JSurnod. FRO. 3 o'clock Wednesday morning fire broke out in the large two-story residence belonging to the Leonard Hyman estate and occupied by Dr.

W. E. Bullard. Tho flames spread rapidly and the building and most of the contents were destroyed. insurance, 31- SOO.

Died from Heart Disease. Feb. Grundy, ex-vice president of the District Amalgamated association of Iron and Steel Workers, is dead, aged GO years. He died of heart disease. Dynamite Kxploslon.

RICHMOND, Feb. dynamite explosion here Wednesday injured John Snyder so that he will die. B. C. Smith, was seriously hurt.

juaa jrire ka small Town. CHIYKNKE, Feb. almost wiped out the town of Gillette, on the Barling-toa road in Carbon county, Sunday night. All the business houses in the town were destroyed. about $100,000, with, no insurance.

It was a railroad boom town..