HANGED THE NEGRO AND WILLIAM OSBORNE BARNARD

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, August 28, 1897.

HANGED THE NEGRO.

Convict Assaulted a Clerk With an Ax—He Confessed.

   MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 28.—A special from Camden, Ala., says:

   Jack Pharr, a negro convict, working on a farm near Claiborne, Monroe county, murderously assaulted a clerk in a store on the place.

   Pharr was robbing a safe when the clerk appeared, and to escape the negro hit him on the head with an ax. Pharr was arrested and confessed. An officer started to the county jail with him, but a mob interfered and hanged the negro.

Lynched In Texas.

   BELLEVILLE, Aug. 28.—A mob of 300 men took a young negro named Bonner from jail, where he was held charged with criminal assault upon Mrs. Zachos, an aged white woman, near Milheim, and lynched him in the woods half a mile from town. The negro confessed his crime.

Just a Coon and a Rope

   ROSEBUD, Tex., Aug. 28.—News reached here by telephone from Mooreville, 80 miles from here, that Wiley Johnson, a negro, was hanged there by a mob for attempting criminal assault on Mrs. Clunty, a white woman.

NEGRO FIEND CAPTURED.

Six-Year-Old Victim's Condition Critical.

NARROWLY ESCAPED LYNCHING.

After the Attack the Brute Fled—Later He Attacked Another Young Girl And an Elderly Woman

—Cement Miners Wild With Rage.

   KINGSTON, N . Y., Aug. 28 —James Depew, the negro who brutally assaulted the 6-year-old daughter of Michael Doody at Hickory Bush, several miles distant from this city, has been captured and is now in jail.

   He was taken by Special Officer James E. Bradley of Rosendale in the Greenkill woods, where he was hiding. Depew made a fierce fight for liberty, and it was only after a desperate struggle that he was finally overpowered and handcuffed.

   Alone the officer took his prisoner to Rosendale and arraigned him before Police Justice Brown, who committed him to jail.

   The news of the negro's arrest spread quickly and, as the officer emerged from the village courtroom with his prisoner, an angry mob had gathered outside and threats of lynching were heard on all sides.

   A hoarse murmur arose from the crowd as the negro and his captor started for the depot, and the crowd which had been joined by many parties of armed cement miners, surged about the two men with shouts of exultation that the negro had been found.

   The officer drew his revolver and shouted that he would shoot the man that dared lay hands on his prisoner. The crowd followed them to the depot quietly. Arriving at the depot there was a rush made by the crowd in an endeavor to gain possession of the negro, but unsuccessfully, Bradley frustrating the attempt by getting inside the depot, where he remained with his prisoner until the train moved in, when he brought him to jail here.

   Mamie Doody, the 6-year-old child who was the victim of the negro's lust, is delirious and, although her death is not apprehended at present, serious results are feared, as the child was terribly frightened.

   It was about 10 o'clock that the child, in company with her older sister, was wandering about the hills back of her home searching for berries. The negro, who was in the hills, saw the girls and ran toward them.

   The older girl escaped, but her little sister was caught by the negro. He seized her slender throat with his hands as she screamed and, choked her until she was nearly insensible.

   The older girl hearing her sister's screams retraced her steps and then it was with his hands about the girl's throat that the negro tried to induce her to give herself up to him, saying that he would then let her little sister go.

   After assaulting the younger girl, the negro fled leaving his unconscious victim lying on the ground. Her sister bore her to her home.

   When the news of the outrage was circulated in the community hundreds of cement miners left their work and arming themselves, started out after the negro, declaring that if they caught him they would hang him.

   Through the hills about Hickory Bush the searching party scattered, and the woods for several miles were thoroughly searched, but the negro was not found.

   After his escape, the negro made his way across the hills to Rock Lock, a little settlement on the Delaware and Hudson canal, back of the cement kilns. There he discovered a party of children engaged in picking up firewood and running towards them the negro tried to seize one of them, managing to secure the smallest girl, Nellie Callens, when he threw her to the ground, notwithstanding her screams, and attempted to assault her, but unsuccessfully, as the child's companions made such an outcry that the negro feared detection and fled.

   A short distance away down by a spring was Mrs. Owen Murray, and the negro when he reached the spring also attempted to assault her, but the woman defended herself so well that he could not.

   The husband of Mrs. Murray tried to shoot the negro after his arrest, but was disarmed by the officer.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

America Feeding Europe.

   Probably the most authentic information concerning the crops of Europe for this year is that obtained by the Orange Judd syndicate of agricultural journals. It has made exhaustive inquiry about the conditions that obtain in the old world, and its mail advices up to yesterday, supplemented by cable dispatches indicate that the situation is exceedingly grave. The most conservative estimates the syndicate has received indicate that Europe will need to import from 300,000,000 to 400,000,000 bushels of wheat. The average wheat crop of Europe for the past four years has been about 1,500,000,000. In 1891, which is called the famine year, the product was only 1,200,000,000, and it is apparent that the yield for 1897 will fall below that figure, showing unmistakably that the continent, including England, must now not only import the usual supply, but at least 300,000,000 bushels in addition.

   But wheat is not the only short crop. The rye crop of the principal continental countries, Russia, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Roumania, Italy, the low countries and Switzerland, is at least 400,000,000 bushels less than the yearly average, and rye is the bread grain of the masses. And again it is estimated that the yield of potatoes is to be notably meager. In the countries above named there will be a shortage of some 1,000,000,000 bushels of potatoes. It is evident that America must feed Europe. She has no potatoes to export, her product being at least 25 per cent less that last year, but if prices go high enough she can spare 240,000,000 bushels of wheat, 300,000,000 bushels of corn, 100,000,000 bushels of oats and 10,000,000 bushels of rye, a total of 650,000,000 bushels; and this will be the biggest export ever made of American grain.

   There is no reason to fear that prices will not conform to the European need. It is said that no part of the world has any considerable surplus of cereals except the United States and Canada. The statistics of the famine year being cited, it is shown that in the year ending June 30, 1892, Europe bought from the United States flour and wheat amounting to 225,000,000 bushels, at an average export price considerably above $1 a bushel, of corn 177,000,000 bushels at over 55 cents a bushel, and of rye more than 12,000,000 bushels, at an average of 95 cents. It is not extravagant to conclude that the prices of American cereals will reach, if they do not exceed, those of 1891, especially in view of the fact that supplies from South America, Australasia and Africa, then available, are not so now those countries being importers, instead of exporters, this year.

   We are fully justified, therefore, in saying that such reaction as has occurred in the wheat market is not permanent. It was caused by sales to realize profits or sales for the short account. It is not probable that wheat will stop at the dollar mark. Philip D. Armour is right when he says that the farmer ought to receive $1 a bushel for his wheat this year. The price reached and to be reached is not speculative. It is substantial and legitimate. And as we have seen, other cereals must sympathize with wheat in the upward movement. It is indeed, a jubilee year for the American farmer.

   ◘ There is much X-ray foolishness floating about. The latest piece of it is developed in a murder case in northern New York. One fellow shot another, the bullet penetrating his brain. Surgeons used the X-ray apparatus to locate the bullet. After lingering more than a month the man who was shot died and the one who fired the bullet was held for murder. The defense is one worthy a nineteenth century lawyer.  It is that it was the X-rays upon his brain that killed the man, not the bullet in it.

Sager & Jennings, corner Clinton and Main, Cortland, N. Y.

WILLIAM OSBORNE BARNARD.

A Former Resident of Cortland Died in Chicago.

   News has been received in Cortland of the death upon Thursday, Aug. 26, of Mr. William O. Barnard, a former resident of this place, who passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Linda Allyn Barnard, at The Vermont in Chicago, Ill. The remains will be brought to Cortland on the 8:48 A. M. train on the D., L. & W. R. R. Monday and burial will follow in the family lot in the Cortland Rural cemetery.

   Mr. Barnard was in his 79th year, having been born in Cooperstown, N. Y.,

March 4, 1819. For a number of years he lived in Cortland and kept a general store on the corner of Main-st. and Clinton-ave. He erected the building now occupied by Sager & Jennings as a drug store, and also built the brick house which was his home just around the corner on Clinton-ave. About 25 years ago with his family he moved to Mason City, Ill., but since the death of his wife, which occurred in September, 1879, and whose remains were brought to Cortland for burial, he has made his home with his children in Chicago. He is survived by one brother, Mr. F. E. Barnard and by one sister, Mrs. S. J. Griswold, both of Greene, N. Y., and by one son and one daughter, Mr. Lewis Barnard and Mrs. Linda Allyn Barnard, both of Chicago. Mrs. Delos Bauder of Cortland is a niece of the deceased.

NO ADVANCE IN BREAD.

Bakers Will Make Less Money But Will Hold the Price.

   A STANDARD man called upon three of the bakers in town to see what the effect of the advance in the price of wheat and flour would have on the price of bread.

   Mr. T. M. Marks said he should not advance the price any at present. He bought 100 barrels of Pillsbury's Best flour just before the price began to advance, and that would last for a while. Perhaps by the time that was used up flour might take a tumble.

   At Hollister's bakery it was stated that there would be no advance in the retail price. They have already advanced the wholesale price one cent per loaf. The bakers will not make as much money at this price of flour, but they will have to stand it and will hold the price.

   At Coon Brothers it was said there would be no advance. They are now paying $5.80 per barrel for flour. If it should come about that flour should go above $6 per barrel they might have to cut two ounces off the weight of each loaf, but the price per loaf would not be advanced and they did not believe the price of flour would go high enough to require the cut in the weight of the loaf.

Farmers Will be Glad.

   A STANDARD man was this morning informed at Harrison Wells' butter store that the market for butter is improving a little. Mr. Wells is now paying 15 cents per pound for butter that a short time ago could command but 12 cents per pound.

   The potato trade too is starting in pretty well. Mr. Wells will begin taking in potatoes on Tuesday and will pay at the outset 45 cents per bushel. The crop is said to be rather short, but of good quality.

A New Patent.

   Mr. George P. Langdon of Blodgett Mills was in town this morning exhibiting his new patent dump box for carrying gravel. The box is an ordinary wagon box with the bottom in two sections, hung on hinges, so that when a lever is pulled the two sections drop, letting the gravel fall beneath the wagon. The box is a very convenient one and is a labor saver as well as a money saver. It was patented June 22, 1897.

A DISASTROUS FIRE.

Large Barn Near Cincinnatus Burned from a Spark from an Engine.

   The large barn on what is known as the Henry Boyd farm in the edge of the town of Taylor about three and one-half miles northeast of the village was burned to the ground at noon yesterday. The threshing of the oats which were stored in the barn was begun in the morning, the power being furnished by a traction engine. About 100 bushels had been threshed when the men stopped for dinner. On going to the barn to resume work after dinner the men were surprised to find the hay and straw on fire in several places in the barn, which was soon enveloped in flames, and nothing could be saved. By desperate efforts the house was saved from burning. There was a strong wind blowing from the direction of the engine toward the barn, and flying sparks from either the smokestack or fire box are what started the fire, and when they once caught in the dry hay the whole thing went up quickly.

   The barn was one of the largest and best in the county, 110 by 60 feet in size, and there were probably eighty tons of hay in it, which was the whole of the season's product except two stacks. All the oats except the 100 bushels threshed are also gone. The farm carries nearly 100 head of cattle, and is owned by Hiram B. Boyd of Cincinnatus. It is occupied by Elmer Oliver. The barn and contents were said to have been insured. The loss is estimated at $15,000.

BREVITIES.

   —Joiners' Business school opens Monday morning for the fall term.

   —Harrison Wells' butter store has been connected with the telephone.

   —Rev. W. H. Pound will preach at the Memorial Baptist church to-morrow evening.

   —There will be a free dance at the park pavilion to-night and McDermott's full orchestra will furnish the music.

   —Mr. Harry M. Butler will play the organ for Miss Carrie D. Halbert at the

Presbyterian church to-morrow.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—A. S. Burgess, the busy corner, page 7; F. H. Cobb & Co., peaches, page 5.

   —The Republican county committee will meet at the office of the secretary, W. C. Crombie, Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock.

   —Dr. Houghton of the First M. E. church has returned from his vacation and will preach in his pulpit Sunday morning.

   —T. M. Marks, the baker, has the contract for furnishing one hundred loaves of bread each morning to the Italians who are employed in building the new railroad.

   —The union services to-morrow evening will be held at the First Methodist Episcopal church, and Rev. J. Barton French of the Memorial Baptist church will preach the sermon.

   —Mrs. E. S. Hyde entertained a number of friends Friday evening, Aug. 27, in honor of her guest, Miss Helena M. Pratte, of Berkshire, N. Y., who has been spending the week in town.

   —While Harry Greenman was experimenting with sulphuric acid yesterday morning at Sager & Jennings' drug store, a drop of the acid flew into his right eye, but serious results were avoided by the prompt application of water.

   —The Republican caucus at Preble last night resulted in the election of the following delegates to the county convention: John Crofoot, William Vandenburg, Joseph Moss, George H, Baldwin, Robert Dorothy and Nicholas Collier. Forty-five ballots were cast, all in favor of the above named gentlemen.

   —Mr. L. Ogden, who lives on the Groton road near Lafayette, received word yesterday of the accidental shooting and death of his son, Mr. W. B. Ogden of Gettysburg, S. D. The accident occurred while hunting. Mr. Ogden was a prominent lumber merchant of that city.

For a New Street.

   Mrs. Julia E. Hyatt, who owns the house and lot at 176 Main-st., has bought twenty-five feet from the north side of the Cornwell property and with twenty-five feet from her own lot has a new building lot between the two houses with a fifty foot frontage.

   Prof. Walter L. Webb is making the survey for the opening of a new street from Main-st. extending south along the north side of Mrs. Hyatt's property. This will give her three fine building lots upon the new street in the rear of the house, 176 Main-st. Ultimately it is expected that the new street will be continued through to Reynolds-ave.