Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1889 — A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. [ARTICLE]

A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.

An American Divine and His Family Murdered in Honduras. [New York telegram.] News has been received from Costa Rica of a terrible tragedy which occurred on the island of Ruatan, which is off the north, coast of HondurasThe Rev. Mr. Hobbs, a Baptist minister from the United States, had been living at Floras bay with his wife and his little daughter. He was preparing to leave the island and had sold his property,, receiving for it si<)o in gold. Shortly before his intended departure a neighbor called to bid him farewell. He knocked at the door, and receiving ro answer entered the house, the door being un ocked. A Finding no one in the hall or parlor he called again. There was no response. Alarmed, he searched the horse, and, opening the 1 edroom door, a sickening spectacle met his eyes. Mr. Hobbs, his wi e, and child were dead, with their skulls smashed, their heads being nearly severed, and their bodies covered with wounds. They had evidently been murdered in their slesp. Tee bodies were cold, the blood which was spattered about the room was dry and clottid. The murder must have been commuted two days before. Themney had disappeared. A shipwrecked sailor, a Jamaican named Burrell, who had been lakeninoutof charity and cared for by the family, also disappeared about the same time and was arrested just as he was about leaving the island on a fishing smack three days after the discovery of the murder. He obstinately declared his innocence, but a portion of the missing coin was found upon his person, and he bus been committed for trial, The fifteenth annual convention of the National Journeymen Horseshoers' Association met at St. Paul, Minn., forty of the sixty-four subordinate organize, tions being represented.