Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Reeord of the Week. EASTERN. “DoeP Wilson now declares himself a son of the barb-wire millionaire Moen, which fact the latter concealed until 1870, when he experienced religion and made the confession. Since then “Doc” has received some money from Moen, but the Wilson family got more for keeping silence. Wilson’s story was told in the presence of four reputable citizens of Providence, RL: His story, says a Providence dispatch, is that he is the son of AJoen’s first wife, and that he •was born a few months after the marriage. Moen, being a deacon and a professedly hightoned Christian, did not wish tofo.ce the scandal of such an early birth for his first-born, so a baa-gain was made with Jonas Wilson, of Danielsonville, Ct., a stage driver, by which tho babe was transferred to tho latter’s care and brought up as a Wilson. The boy lived and toiled in tho humble sphere to which he says Moen consigned him, and it was not until he was a young man grown that he learned the secret of his birth. For that secret he was indebted to religious remorse of his supposed father, Wilson, who. being on his death-bed, and not caring to pass the portals with a burden on his soul, drew the lad toward him and told him who he was. After Wilson died the young fellow set off for Worcester to meet his father face to face. Their first meeting, Wilson says, was exactly ,as has been described. He did meet Moen that morning, and after observing the signs of wealth and luxury that abounded, he demanded of Moen some reparation for the wrong done one who should be the heir to all. - Moen at first refused to acknowledge the lad, and would have driven him forth, but the boy faced his millionaire parent defiantly, upbraiding him for the wrong done his mother and himself. He said: “I will force you to acknowledge me, and the world shall know you for what you are." According to Wilson’s story, the Wilsons, who knew the secret of his parentage, seeing “Doc" had money and knowing it came from Moen, began to urge their claims upon him. Their demands increased, and to satisfy them he had to apply to Moen for money ; arid in that way much of the sum received from the banker was spent. Wilson says these demands upon him grew so exorbitant that ho became almost impoverished by them. Regarding “Doc” Wilson’s story that be is the non of P. L. Moen, the records at Oxford, Mass., show that he was bora there Dec. 1, 1853, eleven months after the death of Mi'b. Moen. The glne factory of William Raeder A Co. at Ayer, Mass., valued at $150,000, was burned. At Hartford, Ct., the proprietors of eight second-rate hotels and restaurants have been arrested for putting oleomargarine on their tables without displaying tho tag that it was not butter. A jury at Boston gave the Managers of the National Soldiers’ Home a verdict for #16,537.50 against General B. F. Butler. Jennie Smith, residing at Mount Yernon, N. J., who for live years has suffered from Bpinal disease, reports that she has been miraculously cured by faith and prayer. Herman Falkenberg, charged with trying to “fix” the jury in the trial of the boodle Alderman, McQuadc, in New York City, has been held iu #I,OOO for trial. Mrs. Lyman Porter, aged GB, mother of “Doc.” Wilson, says that she is Wilson’s mother, that Jonas Wilson was his father, and that she never saw or heard of Philip L. Moen until recently. The will of Chester A. Arthur, which has just been offered for probate in New York, covers #150,010 worth of property. The son is to receive one-half the estate when 30 years of age; the daughter one-half at the age of 23, Mrs. McElrov being her guardian. The Mayor of New York has ordered the police to see that stores are kept closed on Sunday.