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BUTLF.iI PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1883 The Murraysville Riot About noon of Monday of last week the residents of Murraysville, We;-t mc-reland county, who for some time had Keen anticipating trouble between the rival companies claiming the big gas well near that town, saw a number of strangers armed with rifles hanging around the town. The men were not exactly a rough-looking lot, for they were "not in the garb of ordinary laborers. Albert Bowser, a country constable for Irwin station, was in charge of the party, numbering 22 in ail, and whom it shortly developed were a posse of men in the employ of Weston & Co. There was no disorder or dis turbance in the place during the time the men were in the town proper About two o'clock in the afternoon the party left by twos and threes and moved off toward the south end of town in the direction of the gas wells. It was precisely 2:30 when Bowser and his men appeared on the edge of the disputed property and advanced to a point within 15 feet of the gas well. At this point a large board pile, low and long, interfered with their progress. The Weston party was about to scatter, and surround the well, where a number of the Penn Fuel Company's men were on guard, when Mr. Obadiah M. Hay maker, one of the original owners of the territory and a stockholder in the Fuel Company, leaped upon the board pile and warned the intruders to stop where they were, and go no farther under penalty of the law. This warning, instead of having a pacific effect, only roused the anger of Bowser, the leader of the Weston gang, and he rushed at Mr. Haymaker with a musket in his hands to which was affixed a bayonet. Mr. Haymaker, in stead of retreating, stood his ground, though unarmed, and as Bowser came upon him again repeated the words of warning. Instead of heeding them Bowser placed his weapon at a "charge bayonets," and before Haymaker could offer any resistance the bayonet was plunged into him and he was borne to the earth. Before he could rise he was stabbed twice in the vitals with the weapon, after which he was shot in the right side. As Bowser made his attack upon Mr Haymaker, the Penn Fuel Company men at the well, who it is claimed were unarmed, frenzied with terror broke and ran from the ground. As they were retreating Bowser and a couple of his men who had gathered around on the first attack on Mr. Haymaker, left their fallen victim, while the form er yelled to his posse : "Shoot down, shoot them down." His orders were implicitly obeyed by the menials in his service. Five or six volleys from tbe repeat ing rifles of the attacking party were sent after their fleeing opponents, in one instance with perhaps fatal effect. Three men were wounded. The at tacking party did not escape injury. As the Penn Fuel men fled from the well one of them, who had a broken pick handle in his hand, hurled it with terrible force and effect into the face of one of bis pursuers. The man dropped in his tracks like a log, and was picked up insensible with his skull crushed in He was removed to a place of safety and a physician summoned, but at midnighthe had not regained conscious ness, and was raving in delirium The attending physician states thai his re covery is impossible. He is a stranger aud his name is not known. After the retreating party bad left the disputed property unguarded the Weston men took possession of it atul at once began to make their claims to possession good. From the board pile where Mr. Haymaker had been killed, they secured lumber for a barricade, arid proceeded to build a stout barri cade around the gas well. Entrenched behind this they proceeded to hold all comers at bay. The news of tbe affair reached the village with the arrival of the first of tbe fleeiuj Fuel Company's men, and friends at onpe proceeded to the place and removed tin; mutilated body of Mr. Haymaker. The utmost indignation was expressed; and for a time it looked as if the entire male por tion of the village would be involved in the affair. Word was at once sent to (Jreens burg to Sheriff Kettering, who sent sent Deputy Sheriffs B. F. Byers and J C. Clarke and a Justice of the Peace Ito Murraysville at once, and on tho [ strength of the reports, p. jceeded M I . ai. e-a posse of men to proceed with him to Murraysville. Citizens of (ireensburg were called upon and re sponded promptly. The Sheriff arriv ed at the scene of the trouble during the evening with a party of -■> armed deputies only to find the Weston party iu possession of the property. He or dered them to surrender* but they re fused. He sent a second sui wooiia, but this was disregarded, and up to au early hour next morniDg the Weston crowd, with their repeating rifles be hind the barricade, held the fort. The latter, numbered twenty-two men, tbe majority of whom were from Irwin Sta tion,though a portion were from (ireens burg, and others from Pittsburgh and Chicago. At fiudnigut Uiat night the gas prop erty in the vieinity of the wells re sembled a gypsy camp. Five canvas tents belonging to Pew, Emerson Co., and occupied by their men, were pitched a short distance from the wells. One tent belonging to the Weston party was pitched near the barric." le, though it is claimed that the former party was una! fiied That night alter tho victorious party had entered into possession of the property, four of their number. Albert Bowser their acknowledged leader, aud three of his men named Sloan, Miller and Mechling made their appearance in Murrysville and were at once placed under arrest. Though late the alleged culprits were taken to the house of Henry Ramaley, where tuey had an examination aud Waived a hearing, giving bail for their appearance ut court. The scene at the house of .Mr. Itamaley was an exciting one. The entire male portion of the village svarrmd aronnd the doors clamoring fur admittance and giving vent to their . eut up indignation in threats against the prisoners. During the time the examination was in progress a coroner's jury had been empanneled, and viewed the remains of .Mr. Haymaker. It was deemed advis able to hold a post mortem examina tion, and to thisend, to allow the physi cians an opportunity to discover the cause of deaib. Mr.'O. M. Haymaker was the original le-see of the gas terri tory He was one of the stockholders in the Pew and Emerson Company, and was at the time of his death super inteeding the operations and managing the affairs of the company at Murrays ville. He was widely known iu West moreland county, especially in the northern part. He leaves a wife and one child. Thursday was a great day for Mur raysville. There was a calmer tone to the prevailing excitement that mani fested itself in the groups of men who hung idly around the sunny corners of the village stores, discussing the events of the previous twenty-four hours. There was no limit to the extent of de nunciations visited upon the heads of the Weston party. While the men denounced them on the streets, their wives cut across back lots and, with eyes red from weeping, from fright and sorrow for Obediah Haymaker's poor wife, held quiet talks on the all-prevail ing topic. Down at the well, where gas leaped and roared as it sprung into flame a hundred feet high, the tents of the rival gang still stood, white but deserted. Out the broad turnpike, at the top of a small hill just east of town, iu front of a little red brick house that stood back from the road, several horses and buggies remained hitched during the morning. People were coining and going constantly, for inside lay the mu tilated body of Obediah M. Haymaker, the victim of the Weston posse. His wife was terribly prostrated, tor her husband died iu her arms without hav ing recognized her. Doctors Cromley, I'ugh and Service made a post mortem examination, which was concluded about noon, and the iuquefct began at 1 o'clock, at the home of Mr Dufiield, 'Squire James Steel conducting it. THE STORY OF EYE WITNESSES. James King, the first witness, told about the arrival of Weston's party, but he did not see their first trouble. They took possession of the derrick, and then began to carry off boards from a pile near by to barricade the derrick. Mr. Duffleld had directed Mr. Haymaker not to allow this to be done, and" he accordingly stepped onthepile and told Bowser to desist. Henry liamalay was with the Weston party, and first gave the order to fire. Abe Bowser, who was standing near the board pile, jerked a gun from the bauds of young Holmes and sprang c.n the board pile. He began prod-1 ding Haymaker with the bayonet, the latter only trying to ward off the blows. Each time Bowser seemed to haw hard work to pull the bayonet out of Haymaker's stomach. He then stepped back and put the gun to his shoulder, poiutiug at Haymaker, and yelled to his men to fire. There were four or fivo shots. Haymaker reeled back and was helped up to the fence. F. 11. Taylor was standing within a few paces of Haymaker on the board pile. He saw Bowser seize the gun and run the bayonet into Mr. Hay maker several times; then be stepped back aud f.rcd at some one—l think at Haymaker. I have no doubt but that each bayonet thrust penetrated Hay maker's stomach. Henry liamalay was the first one to give the order to fire, and then Bowser yelled, "Fire!" Af ter Haymaker reeled back, Harry Tay lor caught him in his arms, and he was helped back until he sank down by the fence. The witness did not hear an v of the Penn Fuel men offering any insults to tbe other party. D.N. M lligan told a story that coin cided with tbe above in the main points. He wa« positive that Haymaker made no attempt to strike Bowser, but had only tried to ward off his bayonet thrusts. The physicians who had made the post mortem examination, through Dr. I'ugh, gave the result of their investi gation. They found eleven the body of Mr. Haymaker. Three of them were from bayonet thrusts in the stomach and abdomen, either one of which would have been sufficient to eause death. The one wound that caused death so suddenly was a bayo net thrust in the lower part of the abdo men, to tbe right of the median line. There was a gunshot wound also be tween the ninth and tenth ribs, on thu right side. This also would have caused d;.atu. 'I he above, with the addition of another bullet wound, were all pene trating would. There were, besides, a number of smaller wounds. After hearing tbe above evidence the jury retired, and after about an hour's deliberation, returned with the follow j iug: VKItbU'T OF We (:nd that O. M. Haymaker came to his death by wounds inflicted with a Spencer rifle, with bayonet fixed in the bauds of one Abe Bowser, of which mortal wounds the aforesaid O M. Haymaker died in about one hour af j terwards. So the said Abe Bowser feloniously killed and murdered the said O. M. Haymaker against the peace and dignity oi the Commonwealth of Peuu ! cylvania ; and the jlirors further say that Henry liamaley and others were feloniously present at the time of the murder, comforting, abetting and aid ing the said Abe Bowser to do and commit the felony and murder afore said. Henry Bamaley, who figures in the above verdict as an accessory to the killing of Haymaker, iy a resident of Murraysville and the owner of the gas territory. He has been opposed to the Haymaker brothers on account of a business transaction involving certain rights and iutereats in the property in question, lie has been friendly to the W eston people ever since they entered the field in competition with the Penn Fuel Company. There is a very bitter feeling against him from his connection with the bloody affair, and his action in ordering the armed posse to fire on the unarmed Haymaker party. The condition of the wounded on Tuesday was somewhat improved. William Lytle who was shot through the hips by a minnie ball, is doing well but is not out of danger. J. T. lla>, who received a scalp wouud, supposed to be from a bullet, is improving. Mr. Watt, the mail carrier, who received a flesh wound in the side, is able to be around. Al. Hefner, the only one of the Weston party hurt, who had his skull fractured by a blow from a pick handle, is in a serious condition and not out of danger. Harry Taylor, the young man into whose arms Obidiah Haymaker fell when wounded by Ab. Bowser, tells the following graphic story : "When Haymaker was attacked by Bowser he did nothing but try to ward off the blows of the bayonet. I yelled to Bowser to stop, for I saw blood on the bayonet. When he fired Haymaker reeled into my arms. I said, 'Obi, you're dying.' 'No, I ain't as bad hurt as you think,'he answered. I started to help him off the place, when Hefner rushed up, drew his re volver and fired square at Haymaker. He then aimed at me, but his revolver missed fire, lie aimed again, and as he raised the weapon I struck him on the head with an ax handle while I held Haymaker up with my right arm. Hefner dropped in his tracks and laid there. When I got Haymaker to the fence I saw be was dying. He grasp ed my hand tightly and said: 'Oh Harry, I am going.' That was the last words he spoke, though he lived for 20 minutes after." On Tuesday morning Abe. Bowser was interviewed by a reporter in the shanty in which he was confined by the Sheriff of Westmoreland county at Murraysville. In answer to the ques tion, "Mr. Bowser, do you really un derstand just how a serious a position iu whicb you have placed yourself?" He replied, "I was instructed by Wes ton and Johnston to come up here and gain possession of their property and not only get possession but retain it. In obedience to that order I came, and gladly too, for there has been on old score between this Haymaker and my-> self that I wished settled and I am glad to say it is settled. He is a stiff and I live. I warned him to leave the grounds and that pile of lumber, which be refused to do. I then went up to force him to leave, and when near him he struck me with a pick handle upon the head and neck. I grabbed a musket that some one pushed at me, and struck him three or four times, but I did not shoot. I heard a shot fired and saw Haymaker double up as if hit in the stomach. 1 hear that the ball did not kill him. If it did not theu it was me that killed him, and I did right. 1 offered to fight him for SIOO t a Bide, and he declined, and I then made up my mind to either drive him from the ground or kill him. 1 did both, aud 1 am here to-night charged with murder. It is not the first time that charge has been made against me. Am I not afraid of being hung - /' No, sir. I killed Haymaker because he would have killed me under the circum stances, and I know it. I said he or I would die and he has died Good night, I must get aouie sleep iu order to go 10 Lrreensburg in the morning. I suppose tb ?y will keep me iu jail awhile, but dou't fret for me. I shall get out." And here Mr. Bowser laughed, and rolling himself up iu a blanket, terminated the interview. The news of the riot occasioned a good deal of excitement iu Pittsburgh. At the office of the Penn Fuel (las Company, in the McCliutoek building, . yrape was hanging in front of the door, j Mr. Pew was in consultation with C. C. Dickey, Esq., his attorney, for sev eral hours, after which the latter said that the company claimed a legal title to the disputed land, and they were de termined to establish the claim through the courts. Several of the officers of the company left for Murraysville dur ing the afternoon to arrange for the funeral of Mr. Haymaker. Colonel Archibald Bluke'ey, Weston's legal ad viser uud a member of the syndicate, was confined iu bed at the St. James Hotel suffering from a sprained ankle. He returned from the scene of the riot on Monday night He declined to make a statement and said that the ut terances attributed to him in several of tbe city papers are all bosh. Before midnight of Tuesday the fol lowing members of the attacking party weye in tail iu (ireensburg: A. M. Bowser, of Irwin, charged with murder; Milton Weston, of Chicago ; William Johnston and William Sloan, Pitts burgh; W. F. Miller, Amos Kiehl, John ilirsh, Cyrus McQuaid and Henry Ernest, (ireensburg; William Long, Sherman Kelso, Frank Ij. MeQnrc, Pittsburgh, and Henry Hemakey, of Murrysvilla, charged with aggravated iiot. I>r. J. Crawford, of (ireensburg, was arrested on a like charge late this afternoon. Bowser is a man well known throughout the county for dar ing and courage, and, although an offi cer of the law, is not noted for always obeying its mandates. A dead open and shut on the weather—A" umbrella. —lt is easier to awaken an echo than to put teething twins to sleep. —ln some parts of Kentucky water is used for drinking purposes. —The University boys now include foot ball in their eurrikickulum. Another leap year is frowning savagely down on. batchejordoui. —The Kev. Mr. Henn is preaching Georgia. He is probably a lay preacher. —An Indianapolis man muzzled his wife with a base ball mask. She couldn't bite, but her tongue could, as he found out to his sorrow. Libel in the Pulpit. The Christian preacher who can con tent himself with denouncing sin in the abstract has nothing to fear from the most sensitive pew-owner. He may evea show up aud rebuke in the hardest terms the transgressions of the ancient Jews, Amalekites, or Philistines, of the Popes (if he is preaching to a Protest ant Congregation) or of Martin Luther aud Ilenrv the Eighth (if he is preach ing to a Roman Catholic one) with perfect safety. The sinners iu the pews iu front of him rather like it than otherwise, and the fiercer and more eloquent he waxes in his denunciation the better thcv are pleased. It is, as the phrase goes, "as good as a play" to them. Their emotions are agreeably titillated, as at the play-house, and they have the same comfortable sense of the unreality of what is going on for their temporary entertainment on the stage—we mean, of course, in the pulpit. What's Hecuba (the ancient Jews, Amalekites, Philistines, Popes, or Reformers aforesaid) to them ; what hare they to do with the matter except to enjoy their talented pastor's oratory and to tell each other afterward what a tine sermon it was. But when the preacher ventures out of abstractions and ancient history, when he comes down from the past to the present and rudely thrusts the pro hibitions of the Decalogue and the Gospel under the nose of the flesh and blood sinner sitting in front of him, and say, as Nathan said to David, "Thou art the man," that is a very different affair. The average sinner of these days is not a David, and doesn't take kindly to this sort of personal admoni tion. In two recent instances he has hauled up the plain-spoken prophet for libel. A Congregational minister at Hebron in Connecticut startled his hearers one Sunday by denouncing from the pulpit one of the leading citizens of the town and pillars of the parish as a polyga mist. He did not "name names" as Mr. Speaker does sometimes: It wasn't necessary. Everybody in the meeting house knew who was meant—no one better than the pillar in question. The minister's statements of what he be lieved to be the facts were more than damaging—it was damning. He spoke of the lawful but divorced wife sitting in one pew and the unlawful wife with the adulterous husband in another, and he expressed his sentiments on the sub ject in very intelligible and vigorous English. The aggrieved parishioner blustered and went to his lawyers and there was the promise of an unusually interesting lawsuit. But the latest news from Hebron is that, upon further reflection, he has decided not to bring his grievances into court. The other case differs from the Hebron one in this respect, that the person denounced from the pulpit was not at the time, as far as appears, a member of the parish. Oberlin, ia the State of Ohio, is, as most of our readers know, the seat of a college which re ceives black students as well as white, girls as well as boys, and subjects them to a pretty rigorous discipline. A good many of the old Puritan notions and manners survive at Oberlin. Church going is obligatory under penalty of loss of social status ; tobacco is frown ed upon; lager beer (and of course all stronger drink} is an abomination. In the "crusade" times a prominent drug gist of the place signed an agreement not to sell liquor in his store. The few lager beer sellers also signed the agree ment, They kept their word,, but the druggist, it is affirmed by the temper ance people of Oberlin, has broken faith with them by nominally turning over his store to a young 1 man from out of town, who is really his partner or em jiloye, and who sells liquor to such customers as desire it and can pay for it. As soon as it was found out that liquor was being sold again, Oberlin tried to 'open the eyes of the young man from out of town to the error of his ways. Committees of business men and praying women labored with him unsuccessfully, lie turned a deaf ear to their expostulations, and there is testimony to the faot that on more thaj one occasion he shocked these visitors by the use of profane language, even going so far as to call one excellent Christian lady a " fool." When Rev. James Brand, pastor of the First Congregational church of Oberlin, call ed upon him on the same errand, this stiff-necked druggist not only refused to discuss the question of the sale of in toxicants in drug stores with his vis itor, but, when the latter persisted, turned his back on him and began whistling. Then the Rev. .James Brand went into his pulpit and de nouncedjthe druggist as an unprincipled person, a user of indecent and profane expressions and a corrupter of youth ; and predicted for him very unpleasant experiences in tho next world. The druggist promptly brought his suit for libel; the ease was tried at Cleveland ; able lawyers harangued the jury, and the jury—disagreed. One of the mem bers told a Cleveland reporter that they had stood nine for the druggist to threa I for the preacher. As a general rule, it is neither prudent nor charitable for a preacher, entrenched iu his pulpit, to single out an individual sinner for personal rebuke and denunciation. But there are sin j ners and sinners, and circumstances a'ter eases. The parson should be per fectly sure he is right before going ahead, and it will be well for him to I take the advice of judicious frieuds. But once satisfied that he is right, he has no choice as a conscientious man ' and minister but to go ahead. —"\ly dear," said a wife to her rich but illiterate husband, "1 want five | hundred dollars." "What fur?" he in quired. "Seal skin fur," she said, and she got it. - During 1882 a Philadelphia whole ! sale clothier, of national repute, gave up $"200,000 for advertising purposes; but it made sl,ooo,oUftfor him in trade, and he still thinks well of the news papers and they of him. Prospect Gleanings. The beaus and belies of Prospect, as sisted by several couples from Mechan icsburg and Centreville, had a social hop at the Prospect House lately. A splendid time and good dancing were the results. Albert brothers furnished excellent music for the occasion. —A. W. Henshaw, our geDerous shoemaker, who is known as one of the best manipulators of leather in this section, is making what he thinks will be the best rifle iu town. A. W., can't do it for it will shoot out of the patch box. —J. W. Heyl is again able to be on the street. He has been bedfast since last August. —E. R. Lenbben, who has been un well for some time, is now not able to be out-doors. Something like fever. —Our teachers that attended the County Institute, say it was the they ever attended. The untiring ef forts of the Superintenent and the hearty co-operation of teachers and in structors made it so. —Jas. Barr has returned from the city where he was purchasing his win ter stock of goods, and those that are in need of anything in his line will do well to give him a call. —Alvey Riddle, who was working at Beaver Falls, in the ax-haudle fac tory, is home again looking well. —J. W. Shaffer and Jas. McGowen made a visit to the cities last week to transact some business. —Dr. Barber, late of Prospect, has moved to Middletown. Success follow you, Dr. —Samuel McCullough and Joseph Moore are quite ill at present. —W. L. Albert has purchased John Stamm's interest in McCalPs saw mill. —C. P. Johnston, merchant tailor, works longer than any other man in town. Not so lon be divided. NO. 4