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‘8I.UNDER THE WHEELS.ours**leen uncalled for and unjust. Whitewas a trespass* r in every sense of thePatrick White Met With a Ter word, and although his terrible deathrible Death Thursdayis regretted, no one was to blame for hishorrible fate excepting himself. This isBODY BADLY MANGLED. the opinion of all fair minded citi/.ene.*dThe t 'oroin*r\ litlt;|iiesl ImlieHlluMi**tiit. sK\H t oileI’oinl Io llie Mini IteenifHilled hy Tr»i„ I ol Hie . V *«‘i»Hlor Wu.il* an 1lite*»HKalioiidV. AA ^eriliel ol Accidentalol Them Mailc.ISIlealll Kelin-iMMl l»«*ccn«elt;l l.cavc*t a WASHINGTON, April 29.- The question0Hiiv »imI l iw riiiiiirt n lirink i.hI of whether bunineRS was to be done byIII llih His Ponhioil.I*About 5:30 o’clock Thursday morning, aenate met todav.i •»the senaU* this week was raised today byMr. Pettigrew (S. R., S. 1).) when theJohn Roddy, the dav hostler of the Mr. Pettigrew proposed that the senate• » ie” IWestern New York and Pennsylvania d*rei,t A conference on the Indian appro-•lit . • . .i , priation bill,railroad, when on his wav to the round- ‘18Mr. ('handler (Rep , N. H.), however,■ IV* I * t * . ■ • • F f UV/ff I ,house of the company, met a couple of Lw notjcw that he wonM object to anyVmen bel w Hale’s crossing who informed business being done, because there was ai-him that a mau was lying dead on the general understanding that none shouldrailroad track a shot! distance west of P during the absence of manyothen*.Roildv went to tinspotsenators in New York to attend the ceremonies of dedicating the (irant monumentioned, about 2(H) feet up the track menf. Other senators protested thatfrom ttie crossing of (Yntral avenue and there had been no such agreement made.TvKeiaSIIlt;strto«ltovwhfortuteerlatvetthe railroad, an 1 there found the manThereupon Mr. Quay (Kep , Pa.jsug-bet1gled hotly of Patrick White. Roddy im-gestld that before the Ind an hill wasdisposed »»f there should he an investi-wobin«. . i . . i • | »r \r || uiup /rt vi vi i iii iv ammu i ‘o- tvu » 1i i/u v rmediately repaired to the \\ . N. l. At P. . , , , . ... . .' gation of the leases of the oil lands ofini4iepot, where he notified the operator Seneca Indians of New York,re-Iand then Chief of Police M cl irath.marking that the senate should knowR. F. T'aft, Kstj , acting coroner, wan whether the Indians were being robbedm usummoned and empannelled a jury con- of valuable interests.amsisting of W. T. McKen/ie, John Coots, A message from the President trans- 8WlCaleb Wallace, W. H. McDonald, Charles mitting the report of the commission toliviMcLaughlin ami P. .1. Callahan, who adjust the boundary line between the ^iae after viewing the remains adjourned to Cnited States and Mexico west of thesinmeet at the otlice lt;*f the acting coroner Rio (.ramie was read.waat 10 o’clock.Then Mr. Quay presented a resolutionWitnesses were examined, and after calling ujon the secretary of the interiorpelcelthe facts as they in substance appear be-1easestinlow, were adduced, brought in a verdict of the Seneca oil lands had been made inofof accidental death.the usual manner ami whether there hashr iFrom the position of the body, which been any corruption. It was agreed toliftc lay face downward and lengthwise of without debate.the track midway between the rails, it During the presentation of memorials,cliwas inferred that the dead man hadpoonerseveraltinbeen walking on the line and had been thousand men who work for wages inhastruck and killed by train No, 1, I n- the lumber districts of Wisconsin’’ask- nie 1 gineer Agnew and Conductor Ciibbona, ing for the enactment of flu* lumberdue herefronBuffalo at 1 50 I schedule of the Dingley bill.s -illo’clock Thursday morning. The rightleg had been severed jusi below theThe senate was quite deluged withmiresolutions.ntlt;8 1 knee, both feet ami hands were crushed Mr. V est (Dem.i offered a resolutionsise and the skull ami, in fact, every other for a comprehensive inquiry by the com-T1Y hone of the bodv broken.merce committee of the senate into tin*rmThe severed limb lav about fifty feet causes of and remedies for the Mississippirnwest of the body, and a trail of blood, floods and said he would call it up at thewlfragments lt;f clothing, etc , showed that next meeting of the senate.tlathe unfortunate man had been draggedMr. Pettigrew followed with a lesoluT11or rolled along for about 2(H) feet. Train lion calling on the commissioner of laborll812, due here at 2:01 o’clock a. in., very I for information as to the cost of produc-of the in- ing 1,00() feet !oarlt;! measure) of whitedilikely inflicted somejuries by passing over the dead pine lumber, the answer to include theanbody of poor White, hut from the fact cost of work in the woods and in the8CJthat a piece of hone from the leg was mill, both in the hinted States andinfound imbedded, endways, into the west Canada. Adopted.w iside of one of the railroad ties, it is al-rhen at 12:22 p. in. the senate ad-ofmost an absolute certainty that death lourned till Monday.was caused by train No. I, which at thatI UK HO! SKy«lopoint was running east wardly.The house was in session seven mill*”1Several theories were advanced as to utoe todav. The journal was not read.whow the accident could have occurred, but The objection w as that no quorum w asall of them were at U t problematical, present.ofSuicide was hinted at, but from a eon*1.1 .HIM. % III I IMM'IrS.Wversatiou the deceased had with PoliceDOfficer Roberts Wednesday evening nosuch thought had entered his head at1*0% 4*riior Hustings* I |»|»oi nl turnf ol IoiiiiVm i I a* I nsn m no* i oniliiixsioitrri 'otifirifettHl.Will* that time. White was a member ofsHakhisui k. , Pa., April 2*) — President1tnBranch 1,C. M. B. A , hut had been pf0 Tern. McOarrell presided in theresuspended for nonpayment of dues and senate today. The members had notwassessments. At a meeting of the branch | really got over the effects of their ex-etcarsion trip to New York, ami as a re-! reinstate him upon the payment of the numerous hills were called up out ofPlt;tlamount due by Saturday evening, order and many postponed for the01It was with reference to securing the prepent. Senator Saylor, the chairmantrmoney for liquidating his accounts with ot- tjH, committee to investigate thetllt; *the branch that White had conversation COndition of the miners in the hitumiu-rtwith Officer Roberts, and a meeting he* | ona district, asked that the time for thefctween the two had been arranged for committee to report be extended fromitThursday afternoon.May I until May 15. There was no obitEngineer Agnew, who ran the loco mo- jection and the time of the committeetive of train No 4, was one of the wit- wa8 extended.pi()nessesandtest i tiedthathehadneitherseenWhiteThe governor sent to the senate foritnor confirmation notification of the appointWfelt a jar such as the collision ment 0f James H. Lambert, of Philadel-uwith any object generally imparts, when pbia, to be insurance commissioner foraWhite was struck by his engine, if he term 0f three years. The appointment . . . — .... . . . wtlwas run down by h s train. This, how- waa approved. The senate adjourned atever, can be explained satisfactorily, as ] p mPlocomotive No. 121 ie one of the big mo- The house met at Iff o’clock. C. K.alt;guls used on passenger trains during the summer season, and its great weight would lessen the shock in case of col-Bolles, of Philadelphia, presided in theclabsence of Speaker Boyer, w ho is said totllision.he seriously ill at his home in Phila-fcdelpliia.nWhite had been seen about town until After several reports of committeesnnearly 1 o’clock Thursday morn- }ialt;l been presented, the house took uphingand though he was sober bills on second reading, and among thenearlyintheevening,itis tirst was the Lyon ripper. Mr. Tilbrookbthought probable that he had become a«ked that it he postponed for the pres-intoxicated and was seeking a lodging ent. No member asked why he madehplace in one of the box rare stationed on (be request and the bill went over. Thissithe switches in the vicinity of where he ^aVe out the impression that the bill isPwas killed.4lead. In fact almopt every one believeswThe dead man wa- between 25 and 40 it ja Next week the bill will come upayears of age and is survived by a wife and rive children, three of whom areon second reading and will be actedtitinmates of an orphan asylum at Erieupon.The bill introduced by Charles Simon,dand two ot them make their home providing for the purchase of the fran-ainthiscity.White’s wife chises and property of certain corpora-18 employed at one of the Meadville | tiona by tiie municipal corporation orhotels. The deceasedwas for manyyears a trusted employe of the Standardcorporations within the limits of whichfisuch franchises are exercised, was killedIOil company and until recently held a on second reading. The bill was op-dposition with the company in this city, posed by P. M. Speer, of Oil City, whohIntemperate habits, however, brought spoke of the stealing of valuable franhim into disrepute and caused him chises by street railway and other eorntrouble which resulted in his discharge, porations and the hundreds of thousandssbodytaken to McNett’s un- of dollars that are lost to the municipali-1taking establishment and prepared ties and taxpayers in this way.for burial. White’s father and brothers, On motion of Mr. Keater the house Uresiding in Olean, were notified of the proceeded to the consideration of theaccident, and are expected in the city, ballot reform billon second reading. TheiWhat dispositionleenmotion was voted down.tookFuneral arrangements will he made uponconsultation with the family of the dehorn bill and promptly killed it.The measure w as a supplement to theceased.Although the coroner’s jury failedact of May 19, 1874, relating to electionexonerate the railroad companycontests, providing for a recount ofvotes
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Fri, Apr 30, 1897
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