Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1888 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERS' STATES. The story of a mysterious murder in Maine fourteen yean ago has just been told by Charles F. Stain, who states that his father and two other men killed a Mr. Messenger at his house, fint torturing him in the effort to make him disclose the hiding-place of his money, and then going away and leaving him to die.

The Commissioners of Immigration at New York have aroused a feeling of indignation and sympathy by their action m preventing the landing of Mrs. Magnussen, a Swedish woman, and her two children, who recently came to Castle Garden. The woman, who was en route to Minneapolis to join her husband, showed symptoms of mental derangement, and she was sent to the insane asylum at Ward’s Island, where, being separated from her friends, she has become hopelessly demented. As the poor woman’s husband claims to be an American citizen, and as one of her children was born in this country, it would seem that the authorities had strained the law unmercifully in her case. William G. Webber A Co., dry-goods dealers of Salem, Mass., have assigned, with liabilities of SIOO,OOO. The nominal assets are $135,000. A spark from a pipe dropped into a keg of powder at James Findlay’s stone quarry, near Reading, Pa. Louis Roeder had both arms blown off and was fatally injured. James Heusinger lost an eye and sustained frightful cuts about the face and body. Patrick Reilly had his breast crushed in and will die. Three others were also hurt

By the explosion of the boiler of a locomotive on the New York and New Haven Railroad the fireman was killed and the engineer fatally wounded. In the proceedings of the contest of the will of the late Vice President Wheeler, at Malone, N. Y., brought by relatives because $35,000 was left to charity and only SIO,OOO to them, Miss Fanny H. Wood and Betsy Chambers, the witnesses of the will, both testified that Mr. Wheeler was of sound mind and under no restraint at the time the testament was made.