Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1886 — Page 2

Slje DtinocraticSciitiiitl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J W McEWEN, - - - Publisher

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Joseph Wilkins, formerly agent of the Michigan Central Road at Buffalo, has boon sentenced to five years in the Auburn penitentiary for embezzlement. At Mount Vernon, N Y., a laborer named Thomas Donohue was so firmly grasped by a mad dog that the aid of two mon was required to choke him into relaxing his hold For the last week the imports of merchandise at New York, exclusive of dry goods, were valued at nearly $0,500,000. A fire at Georgetown, Mass., burned thirteen business places and a residence, the losses aggregating SBO,OOO. Two men were killed by falling walls, and five others were injured Mahlon Hulrizer, who went to the war from a Jersey town twenty-one years ago, and has since been mourned as among the dead, returned to his parents on Christmas night. He owns large beds of nitrate in Pera. At the gate of General Grant’s tomb, on Christmas Day, the widow and her son Frederick placed a wreath of flowers. A white-haired veteran from Galena obtained permission to touch it with his lips, but a lady vainly offered the guard $lO for a single flower. Work at the Nanticoke, Pa., colliery, whore the recent accident occurred, burying nearly thirty men, has been abandoned. The company wilt recompense the relatives. The victims are doubtless buried deeply beneath sand, culm, and rock, and can never be found

WESTERN.

Patrick F. Murphy, ex-Mayor of Omaha, died iu that city after a brief illness from some mysterious malady which affected his whole family. Mannix, the assignee of tho Purcell estate of Cincinnati, is charged with a defalcation of $3 JO,OOO. Gov. Hoadly is one of his bondsmen. A criminal prosecution is threatened. A Leavenworth, Kansas, liquor-dealer was enjoined from selling liquor ponding tho hearing of tho case against him under the nuisance provision of the prohibitory law, and his place was closed. The other dealers are packing up and preparing to leave the c.ty. The international billiard tournament m Chicago ended iu the winning of tho championship by Jacob Schaefer. He has boon matched with Vignaux to play six nights in New York, within forty days, for $2,500. In the United States Circuit Court in San Francisco a decision was rendered in the case of Sharon vs. Hill to the effect that the marriage of the parties was invalid on tho ground that the signatures to tho marriage contract had been forged A fresh outbreak occurred in the congregition of St. Albert’s Polish Catholic Church, at Detroit, Mich. Col. Larned, a well-known lawyer, was almost killed by a stone, thrown by one of a mob of 2,000 en - raged Poles, Tho crowd almost completely demolished a grocery, belonging to a man who ■was a member of a faction to which they were hostile. Thomas King, a laborer residing in Cologne street, Chicago, went home to supper on Christmas eve and found his wife intoxicated. The neighbors heard a violent quarrel, and the next day found that King had lied and his wife had been beaten to death. The murderer was arrested and admitted that he struck the woman with a chair. He has served in the British army, and once kept a saloon iu Washington. An infernal machine was found on the doorstep of tho $200,009 mansion of Judgo Lambert Tree, at No. SM Cass street, Chicago. A policeman took the tin can of nitro-glycerine to the Lake Front and exploded it,boring a hole in the earth two feet in diameter. Tho scheme bears evidence that its author was an ignorant crank.

SOUTHERN.

Early Dawn, a mare which won the 5-year-old stake iu Chicago last summer, was poisoned by arsonic in St Louis, and died in Kentucky. She was owned by W. L Simmons, was valued at $25,000, and in tho past two years won purses aggregating $15,C00. A gentleman in Chattanooga desires to find the rightful owner of a cane cut by Andrew Jacksoa and presented by him to a friend named Mullenbrink. The relic was found on the battlefield of Lookout Mountain.

Fire at Artesia, Miss., destroyed every store in the place. Mrs. Lucinda Helm, widow of the late Governor John Helm, of Kentucky, died at Elizabethtown, Ky., aged seventy-six years.

WASHINGTON.

Sam Randall is said to be at work on a new tariff bill which will reduce the revenue $30,000,060. Washington telegram: “Western Senators are receiving letters in great numbers urging them to oppose the confirmation of Land Commissioner Sparks because of his recent rulings. Mr. Sparks was confirmed by the Senate as Commissioner of the General Land Office on the 25th of last March.” The invalid wife of Congressman Owen, of Logansport, Ind, died at Washington of consumption The National Typographic Company, which expects to revolutionize the art of printing by its new type-setting machines, says a Washington telegram, has organized a construction company within the parent organization for the purpose of building the machines. The scheme is said to be that 50 per cent, shall accrue to the senior company and 50 per cent, to the construction company. A Washington dispatch says a bill is to be introduced in Congress to lend the name of the Government to the International Exposition to be held in Chicago in 1893, in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America.

POLITICAL.

A Boston dispatch says that N. W. Bingham, a special agent of the Treasury, has refused to resign. He says that his office is neither political nor partisan, that ho has served faithfully for a long while, and that he has taken no “offensive” stand in recent campaigns. John Bigelow’s resignation of the Sub-Treasurership at New York is believed to be due to an unwillingness to be responsible for so much money. Washington telegram: “Mr. Evarts, in his New York interview, has not chosen to affirm or deny the report that upon the reassembling of the Senate ho will make a speech upon the silver question which will much resemble that of Senator Beck. It is reported here that Senator Evarts is going to charge in his speech that but for the attitude of tlie Arthur administration the Silver Commission to Europe, of which he was a member, could have secured an international agreement which would have solved the silver question and given the Unite ! States all the advantages that such an arrangement can bring.” It is reported tint Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, holds that under the tenure-of-office act the President cannot remove an official without the consent of the Senate, and in case the Senate refuses to confirm nominations made to succeed suspended officia's the latter are restored to office until their successors are confirmed.

MISCELLANEOUS. The City of Paris brought to New York the crews of five vessels wrecked in tho harbor of Aspinwall during the storm of Dec. 2. Small-pox claimed thirty-seven victims at Montreal last week. The American whaling bark Amethyst is supposed to have been lost in the Arctic Ocean. She carried a crew of forty mon. Professor Brooks announces the discovery of a comet in the constellation of Aquita, which in the early evening is low in the southwest. In reply to a dispatch from Secretary Bayard counseling efforts to prevent violence, in relation to the threatened expulsion of the Chinese, Governor Stoneman, of California, sent a dispatch saying that,- as to the proper method of preserving good order in that State, he was capable of performing that duty “withous gratuitous suggestions” from the Chinese Minister to the Secretary of State.

FOREIGN.

The Secretary of the Irish National League sends word over the cable that Mr. Parnell will be unable to attend a convention in Chicago in January. Patrick Egan has therefore ordered a postponement of the gathering until a convenient date can be fixed. The canvass of members of the British Parliament gives Gladstone an assured majority over any possible combination of Whigs and Tories. The Lords threaten to throw out any bill for Ireland distasteful to tho Conservatives. Cholera is raging in Cayenne, the capital of French Guinia. Mr. Pendleton, tho American Minister to Germany, has been notified that it is intended to expel the Germau-Amerieans residing at Schleswig who emigrated to the United States just before becoming liable to military service, and returned after being naturalized. Tho recent expulsion of other Gormau-Ameri-c.ins remains suspended. Marcus GervaAo Beresford, Archbishop i f Armagh, is dead. Sir Ambrose Shea has been appointed Governor of Newfoundland. The Greek Chamber has sanctioned the raising of loans for war purpose-. Efforts to adjust the difficulty between the Cork Steam-Packet Company and the Cattle-Dealers’ Association have failed. In a political riot at Limerick, Ireland, where both sexes used sticks, stones and guns, no less than twenty persons were dangerously wounded. The police failed to restore order uut 1 two hours had elapsed. The prediction is made by the London Economist that the Americans will not permit much gold to bo shipped until tho silver question has been settled. A Berlin banker placed a Russian gold loan of 20,000,000 rubles, for which the subscriptions wore ten times that amount A Chinese railway loan of £35,000,000 is being negotiated by the discount company.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Miss Carrie Boyer, a local belle of Gainestown, Clarke County, Ala., was murdered within sight of her home by a negro named Aleck Reed, who attempted to outrage her. When the mews was made public all the county liastened in pursuit of the murderer. He was discovered in hiding at Tompkinsville by a white man and two negroes, and carried back to Gainestown. He confessed the crime, and declared that he had been guilty of outrag; in Mississippi also. After his confession was he ird he was escorted to the spot where he had murdered Miss Boyer, which was a short distance from town and in a lonely and deserted wood. Here the murderer, screaming and shouting, was tied to a stake, and a fire built around him. He writhed and twisted in it but a few minutes, when death came to his rescue. A numlier of negroes witnessed his burning. Francois P, J. Grevy was re-elected President of the French Republic, at a joint session of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, by a majority of 135. He is now 72 years of age. The salary of the position is GCO,GOO francs per annum, with an allowance of half as much more for household expenses. The cable records the demise of Louis Prosper Gachard, the German historian, and Jules Glazer, the Austrian jurist It is reported that Russia and Austria are secretly arming, and that both these countries have sent order’s to England for heir respective armies. A relief steamer will be sent by the Government in search of the whaler Amethyst, carrying a crew of forty men, supposed to have been cast away in Behrings Sea. Commissioner Sparks, of the General Land Office, in view of the almost universal comment as to his policy, has felt constrained to issue a new series of regulations for registers, receivers, and special agents of the Land Office, which have just been promulgated. They modify in many important particulars his recent sweeping orders. They provide that homestead or pre-emption claimants who have made bona fide settlements upon public lands, and who are living upon, cultivating, and improving th > same in accordance with the law, with the intention of acquiring title thereto, shall be permitted to cut and remove from the portion to be cleared for cultivation so much timber as is actually necessary for that purpose, or for buildings, fences, or other improvements on the land entered. In clearing for cultivation, should there bo a surplus of timber, the entry-men may dispose of such surplus; but it is not allowable to denude the laud of its timber for the purpose of sale and speculation before the title has been conveyed by patent. Chicago elevators contain 14,459,855 bushels of wheat, 1,921,993 bushels of Corn, 252,453 bushels of oats, 299,377 bushels of rye, and 223,220 bushe s of barley; total, 1 bushels of ail kinds of grain, against 15,419,736 bushels a year ago. Amelia Sheehan, of New York, once noted as an oarswoma •>, has been rendered insane by the action of drugs used for the purpose of bleaching her hair. Charles Dickens’ daughter Mamie relates that she was often in the ro om with her father when he was composing his books, and that he acted his characters in the process of creating them, literally living in his works while writing them, and turning his creations into breathing realities, with whom he wept and with whom he rejoiced. A dangerous counterfeit $5 gold piece, of which hundreds of thousands are said to be in circulation, is supposed to have been made through the rascality of some ex-employes of the New Orleans mint. I t was made with the genuine stamp, is tine gold on the outside, but filled with spilter and platina.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $5.00 @ 7.25 Hogs 3.75 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 1 White 94 @ .95 No. 2 Red @ .93 Corn—No. 2 49 @ .50 Oats—White 37 @ .42 Pork—Mess 9.75 @10.25 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 5.25 @ G.OO Good Shipping 4.25 @ 5.09 Common.... 3.25 @4.0) Hogs ’. 3.50 @ 40) Flour —Extra Spring 4.75 @5.59 Choice Winter 4.50 @ 5.0) Wheat —No. 2 Spring 84 @ .Sl'g Corn—No. 2 37 & .37y> Oats—No. 2 27 @ .28 * Rye—No. 2 59 @ .CO Barley—No. 2 64 @ .6(5 Butter —Choice Creamery 30 @ .33 Fine Dairy 20 @. .23 Cheese—Full Cream, new ... .10J£ Skimmed Flats 06 @ .07 Eggs—Fresh ...............21 @ .22 Potatoes—Choice, per bu 55 @ .58 Pork—Mess 9.00 & 9.25 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 82 @ .84 Corn—No. 2 37 @ ,37’£ Oats—No. 2 27 @ Rye—No. 1 59 @ JO Pork—New Mess 9.75 @IO.OO TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 92 3 .93 Corn—No. 2 37 @ .38 Oats—No. 2 29 @ .31 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 92 @ .93 Corn—Mixed .32 @ .33 Oats—Mixed 26 & .28 Pork—New Mess 9.75 @10.25 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 91 & .93 Corn—No. 2. 341615 .36 Oats—No. 2 30 @ .32 Pork—Mess 9.75 @10.25 Live Hogs.. 3.50 @4.00 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 3.50 @ 52> Hogs 300 @3.75 £heep 2.00 @ 3.50 Wheat—No. 1 White 8) @ .91 Corn—No. 2. 35 @ .37 Oats—No. 2 ' .29 @ .31 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Rod 91 @ .92 Corn—New.. 32 @ .33 Oats—No. 2 28 @ 29 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best. 5.00 @ 5.50 Fair 4.50 @4.75 Common .... 4.00 @4 25 J loos 3.75 @ 4.00 "HEEP 2.50 @ 3.50 _ „ BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 98 @ 1.00 Cobn—Yellow 42 @ .43 Cattle 5.00 @ 6.00

CRIMINAL RECORD.

JANUARY. Geo. Travis hanged at Wellsboro, Pa., for the murder of Martha Slyvia ; Travis cremated the corpse to conceal the crime. Wright Leroy swing off at San Francisco for the murder of Nicholas Skerrett, and Wm. F. Henry served in like manner at Alton, Ill., for the murder of two colored friends. Thomas J. Chapman, a farm hand, hanged at Charleston, Ill., for the murder of Nicholas Hubbart, a farmer, in September, 1884. Chas. J. Rogers, penitentiary warden, hanged at Portland, Oregon, for the murder of another prison official. Lafayette Melton, who four years before was captain of a band of Ku Klux that murdered Franklin Hale for betraying their secrets, paid the penalty on the gallows at Corning, Ark. FEBRUARY. Elijah Wease, aged 75, arrested in Hardy County, West Virginia, confessed that he murdered twelve persons prior to or during the war; he was the leader of a band of robbers who ravaged that section. John L. Jack and Carter B Page fought a duel in a street at Portsmouth, Va.; nine shots exchanged, Page being mortally wounded and Jack escaping in.ury; meeting occasioned by alleged Lreach of social courtesy. Three men confined in the jail at Audubon, lowa, charged with murdering an old man named Hiram Jellerson, were lynched by a me j ; two cf the men were shot in their colls, and the remaining one, who was a son of the murdered man, was hanged. Ben Hawkins, a colored murderer, taken from jail and riddled vith bullets by a mob at Franklin, Texas. Wayne Powers and Go rge Gibson, who killed William Gibson for sl2 and a suit of clothes, hangt d at Estillville, Va. A butcher at Gibraltar, Spain, believed to be in ane, murders the Vicar General of the does ein the cathedral. Toomas Morris, a n gro, charged with assaulting a lit. le girl cf 13, was left dangling to a tree at Schulenbir.i, Tex. A Georgia negro attempt d o poison an entire family, gi .ing as an excuse that "dere was too many whit? folks in de world, and dat it was time to get shut of some of dem.” Kamsdorf and Kuechler, ananhis B, who attempted the life of the G< rman Emperor and otter royal personages at ‘h > Niederwald celebiat on, beheaded at Halle. Lige Parker and Rush Johnson, negroes, were h am ed at Little Boek for the murder cf John C. Wall, a white man. Bishard Trenke at Philadelphia, for the murder of Augusta Zimm, his paramour. Dr. L. N. Beach hanged at Hollidaysburg Pa; uxoricide. James W. Murray suffered death at Portland, Ore., for ths mu'.der of Alfred Yenke. George Schneider convicted of murder in the first degree at Hamilton, 0., for killin!’ and robbing his own mother. Sanford J-iickson hinged at Selma, Ala., for the murder of Rufus Gill; both negroes. Franklin J. Moses, of South Carolina, on being sentenced to the Boston House of Correction, argued that the petty n ture of his crime showed his mind had give n way under his troubles. Bob Johnson, a negro boy, assassinat ?d a citteen at Princeton, W. Va., and v as tied to a tree and riddled with bullets. Babe Ellison, colored, was hanged by a mob at Shelbyville, Tenn,, for assaulting a ■white lady. Mrs. Mack, who was once sentenced to the Wisconsin Stato Prison for life for murd ring her husband in Rock County, in whose case the jury d isagreed on a second trial, checkmated the prosecution by marrying its chief witness, and was released on her own bond. In the District Court. Chicago, after a trial lasting fifteen days, J. C. Mackin, W. J. Gallagher, and Arthur Gleason we re convicted for perpetrating election frauds, and Henry Biehl was acquitted; mo ions for new trials were entered, and the first-named two were held in $20,000 each— Gleason in SIO,OOO. r lhree unsuccessful attempts were made at Exeter, England, to hang John Lee, who killed a woman near Torquay because she refused to marry him; the machinery of the gallows was swollen from moisture, and the trap refused to work ; the execution was postponed. The cases against Frank James, the Missouri bandit, were dismissed at Booneville, on motion of the Prosecuting Attorney. Minnesota adopted a new penal code restoring the death penalty for murder iu the first degree.

MARCH. Dr. Albert G. F. Goerson, who poisoned his wife five years before, was hanged at Philadelphia. Loe Slatter (colored) was taken from jail at Monroe, N. C., by a mob and hanged. Fifty citizens of Fairfield, Neb., captured and hanged Mrs. Taylor and her brother to a bridge on suspicion of complicity in the murder of a farmer named Roberts. Win. Neal, the third and last of the gang who murdered two girls and a boy and burned their bodies at Ashland, Ky., in 1681, was hanged at Grayson, Kv. George Rouse, a negro, outraged a farmer’s wife near Vienna, Ga., and then cut her throat; he was captured, mutilated by a mob, and hanged naked to a tree. APRIL. Nelson Edwards, a New York dentist, spent two days in killing himself with a razor; his throat and body were horribly gashed. Richard Fraser was hanged at Charleston, S. C., for the murder of Jack Gethers, and Columbus Cranford was swung off at Yorkville, in the same State, for tak.n ' the life of Ellison Sanders ; all four were people of color. Geo. A. Mills, a wifemurderer, expiated his crime in the jail-yard at Brooklyn, N. Y. An extremely sensational murder excited St. Louis ; crowded into a trunk in the Southern Hotel was found the partially decomposed corpse of a man known as Arthur Preller, of London. Eng., with a note placed on the body reading: “So perish all traitors to the great causeon the breast of the dead mariwas a cross cut with a knife; Preller was believed to have been chloroformed and murdered by a companion named H. Lenox Maxwell, M. D.; both parties were dandified Englishmen. The people of Union City, Tenn., took from the Sheriff and hanged a negro boy named Pierson, and Ward, a white man, members of a desperate band of robbers. At a farm-house in Holt Ceunty, Missouri, Wm. Clark shot Mrs. Harding and her son and daughter on account of a bastardy suit, and then killed himself. A party of lynchers from Blunt and Harold, Dakota, forced the jail at Pierre, and hanged James H. Bell, the murderer of Forest G. Small, to the flag-staff of the Court House ; Bell and Small were rival lawyers. Thos. Samon, who two years previously murdered Mrs. Ford, his landlady, and a man and a child, was hanged at Laconia, N. H. Near Lewiston, Idaho, the bodies of Peter Brazil and James Flynn, stock ranchers; were found near each other, with pistols and clubs by their sides. The Abbe Gannahut was guillotined at Paris for the murder of Mme. Ballerich. A shocking tragedy was reported from Concordia, O. ; a German named Adolph Hess beheaded his child with an ax, beat his wife to death with the same weapon, and then hanged himself. MAY. George Mack, a colored murderer, was taken from officers near South Bend, Kan., and, with a rope about his neck, was dragged by a galloping horse into town, where he was suspended to an awning in front of a billiard saloon, the jeene of the murder. A passenger train on the L., N. A. & C. R. R. stopped for water at Harrodsburg, Ind., where it was boarded by an unknown man, armed with a hickory club; he entered the baggage-car, fractured the skull of the express messenger, snatched a revolver from him, and then compelled the baggageman to open the safe, from which he took about $3,000: then he shot the baggageman in the head, and escaped from the train as it slacked up at Bloomington. W. H. L. Maxwell, the murderer of C. A. Preller at the Southern Hotel. St. Louis, was arrested at Auckland, New Zealand, on landing at that port. At Benito, New Mexico. Martin Nelson, an insane man, killed Dr. Wm. H. Flynn and then shot dead M. S. Mayburry, his wife and three children, and also a neighbor; a guard of citizens surrounded the house, but were surprised by Nelson, who shot one of the party, and was then himself dispatched. Six thousand people flocked to Morganfield, Ky., to witness the execution of Moses Caton, who had beaten his wife unmercifully and then hanged her; Caton’s crime, for inhuman and diabolical cruelty, surpassed anything ever heard of in the criminal history of Kentucky. In a dispute over cards at Walthourville, Ga., five negroes were killed and four wounded*; a flat-car standing on a side-track was thg scene of the tragedy; t e juries were mill h n Is, end had jus been p. d < ff. Mrs. Pf■ at:, of Le it •, Pa., t o< her live 0 ildren to a p n l , and a ter kiss ng them thre.v them into h> water; the-r sjreims brought help, and tinei of them were rescued, but the nw.i.er and twooth rs were drowned. Andrew J. Jobnion, a not<d out aw of Bell Countv, Keitr.ck/. lay in wait beDtod a building in Piner i le hi d ki 1 id Thomas N pier and Josiah Hoski; s am, h’s dan"!.ter as they were returning f o n cnurch. Ch si >v Chambers was arrest d at B oomington,!; d., n I identified as the p rson who robbed <h ■ eepress caron the night of April 27, and shot Baggugemaster Webber and Express Agent Davis Charles Henry Rugg, a ngero, wbomurderod Mrs. Lydia Maybee and her daughter Annie at Oyster Bay, L. L, two years previously, was hanged at Hunter’s Point. Goodwin Jackson (colored) suffered the death penalty at Clarendon, Ark., for the murder of

Sandy Redmond with a fence-rail; Jackson pr» tested that he was unlawfuUy executed, as he did not mean to kiH Redmond. JUNE. A deadly feud in Knott County, Ky., between ■ two rival families named Jones and Hall, resultI ed in the kiUing of nine persons within three weeks. Five negroes, one of them a woman, I convicted for outraging and murdering a white woman, were hanged by a mob at Elkhart, Tex. Mrs. Lucille Ysenlt Dudley, who made an unj successful attempt to kill the dynamiter : O’Donovan Roesa, was acquitted by a New York jury on the ground of insanity. Andre J. Dumont (colored), at one time Naval Officer at New Orleans, suicided because of domestic troubles. JULY. Tramps stole the clothing of an unknown man who was bathing in the Missouri River at Omaha; he remained in the water aH day, and when he came out at nightfall he was found to be insane, and died a few hours later. William Matthews eloped with the wife of James Secrist, of Comanche County, Texas, and when he afterward called upon Mr. Secrist for the lady’s personal effects that gentleman shot him dead. Joseph Taylor was hanged at Philadelphia for the murder of a penitentiary keeper; Taylor began his criminal career at the age of 15 years by stabbing a companion, and during the ten years preceding his death had stabbed or shot forty-live persons. Thomas K. Brantly, of Bainbridge, Ga., arres’el for brutally ill-treat-ing his wife, was taken from jail by his neighbors and hanged to a tree. In Anderson County, Kentucky, three brothers named Hawkins were shot by Horace Mullins, whom they had called to account for alleged slander of their Bister; two of the brothers were killed; oue was badly hurt; Mullins escaped unhurt. Valentine Wagner was the first criminal hanged under the new law in Ohio, by which execution! are to take place in the penitentiary before sunrise, in presence of but few witnesses; Wagner killed big brother-in-law two years previously. , AUGUST. A triple execution occurred at Fayetteville, N. C., two white and one colored man being hanged. Maxwell, the alleged murderer of C. Arthur Preller, whose body was found in a trunk at a St. Louis hotel in April last, arrived at San Francisco from New Zealand in the custody of officers. Pedro Prcstan, the leader of the revolutionists of Panama, who sei oral months before fired and destroyed the city of Aspinwall, having been duly tried and convicted, was hanged Aug. 18. Al Lockie who murdered eight persons and then attempted to commit suicide, was taken from jail at Blanco, Tex., and hanged by a mob ; Lockie made a confession, saying that he would have killed more people had his ammunition not given out. SEPTEMBER. Chinese miners who had been imi.orted by the Union Pacific Railway Company were driven from the pits at Rock Springs, Wyoming, by a force of armed white men. the Chinese fleeing to the hills for safety: fifteen of the fugitives were shot dead by the mob, and many wounded; thirty-four bodies were recovered, besides many more buried in the debris of burned houses. A mob visited the Pike County Jail at Murfreesboro, Ark., and made an attempt to shootthe two Polk boys, confined for murder, but not being able to get within range hauled a load of wood to the jail, piled it around the iron cell, saturated the wood with coal oil, and roasted both prisoners alive, nothing standing but the bride walls; the Polks murdered a peddler in 1881, and had several trials. Near Cainsville, Texas, detectives surprised and killed the two Lee brothers, who were regarded as the most daring roadmen that had ever infested Indian Territory, and for whose capture, dead or alive, a reward of $7,000 had been offered ; perhaps no band of outlaws in the United States over did such bloody work in so brief a period as the Lee gang; witliin two years from May 1, 1885, forty-two human lives were taken by this bloody band of cattle and horse thieves. Nicholas Snowden, colored, confined in jail at Ellicott City, Md., on a charge of assaulting a child, was taken out and hanged by men of his own race. A remarkable tragedy occurred at Hilltown, Pa.; Mrs. Thomas V. Thompson, indignant because her husband would not accede to hor request to turn his aged parents into the street, murdered him and subsequently killed herself. It was estimated that over twenty-four thousand Christians were murdered in the outbreaks near Anam. Four negroes, one of them a woman, who were accused of several murders, were taken from jail and hanged by a mob in Chatham County, North Carolina. OCTOBER.

After murdering his mistress, a retired British artilleryman living at Tangier, Morocco, ran amuck in the streets, stabbing many persons, two of them fatally; he was finally captured and lodged in jail. During the execution of John W. Coffee, a double murderer, at Crawfordsville, Ind., the rope broke twice, but on the third endeavor the victim was “worked off” satisfactorily. Frederick Grenier was hanged at Columbus, 0., for the murder of his sweetdeart; he stepped on the scaffold with a smile, arrayed as if attending an evening party, and smoking a cigar. At Indianapolis the brother of a white girl, who hod been criminally assaulted by a negro, shot the assailant in the court rcom. A mob at Murfreesboro, Ark., set fire to the wooden jail in which one Churchill, a murderer, was confined; he appeared at a grated window, and piteously begged the mob to shoot him, but the flames soon reduced the victim and the building toashes. Near Starrucca, Pa., John Howell, a fanner, shot his four children, varying in age from three to eleven years, and then killed himself. A man named Brandt, at Waco, Neb., becoming irritated by a lad of 13, flung him intoa thrashing machine, where his head was instantly torn from his body. George Miller was the first murderer legally hanged in Dakota; he was suspended at Grand Folks, and lite was not. pronounced extinct until after the expiration of 23’6 minutes; he had killed the wife and son of Rev. C. H. Snell, on a farm near Inkster. Ferdinand Ward, the financial sharp of the late firm of Grant & Ward, was convicted of larceny and sentenced to ten years in the State prison at hard labor. NOVEMBER. A colored lad at Bluffton, Ga., was tried by a lynch court for stealing a pair of bootshaving been convicted he was given one hundred lashes, his step-father swinging the whip. Cyrus W. Yandes, of St. Paul, Minn., committed suicide partly because he dreaded the responsibility of settling up an estate giving him half a million. A party of four girls and two boys went, into the woods of Webster County, Kentucky, togather nuts; they were assaulted by tramps, who nearly killed the lads and bore the young ladies to a thicket and murdered them all; citizens who turned out in search identified and killed two of the tramps. At Fannin, Clay County, Texas, a lad of thirteen years, named Valentine Sanford, killed his mother with a rifle; he confessed having intended to murder his father, sell the plantations and organize a band of stage robbers. In the Criminal Court at London a verdict of criminal assault upon Eliza Armstrong was rendered against Thomas Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, and he was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. In the Criminal Court at Ottawa, Ontario, a gang of five ruffians were sentenced to imprisonment for life for a brutal assault on Miss Truman, a lady of good family,, who wae promenading with her lover when seized by the villains. Fred Townsend, aged 13,. killed Willi# McCallister, aged 5, at Troy, N. Y., by burying him up to the neck in a bank of soft white clay, where the child lingered twenty hours before death relieved him. Tnree Italians were hanged at Chicago for the murger of a fellow-countryman; the victim was getting a. free shave at the room of one of the culprits, and while his face was covered with lather a. rope was passed over his head; the guilty triopulled the cord, while an accessory guarded the door; $l3O was.the incentive. Eight of the Indians who were concerned in Riel's Canadian rebellion were hanged at Battleford, NorthwestTerritory. The hangman at Norwich, England, severed the head from the body of Robert Goodale as though it had been done with a razor; many spectators sickened at the sight; the drop was six feet, and the weight used was fifteen stone. DECEMBER. William Stevans, of Detroit, confessed the murder of his affianced, Bertha Duckwitz, saying that he drew a razor across her throat only in a playful spirit. Joseph O. Roles, a noted Democratic politician of Boston, killed himself because of disappointment in regard to a deputy revenue collet torship. The College of the Propaganda at Rome" announced that up to November 1, in Cochin China, 24,009 Christians were massacred, 10 convents destroyed, and 225 churches burned. Sam Wilson, a negro, murdered Celia Perryman and her two children at Laurel, Miss., and attempted to burn the bodies by firing the dwelling ; he was speedily captured and lynched. A family named Enoch at Detroit, consisting of husband, wife, and twochildren, murdered and cremated.