Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1890 — Page 3

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EYEKTB AND INCIDENTS THAT HATH LATELY OCCURRED. 4n Interesting; Summary of the More Important Doing* of Our Neighbors—ffnl. clings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and Geueral News Notea i Land Suit That Will Tost tlie legality of Marriage Between Slaves. Back of the simple title of a case filed as Thomas vb. Thomas, in the Dtmess Circuit Court, which will come up for trial at Washington soon, lies an interesting and romantic history. Joseph and Pleasant Thomas have brought suit against Sylvia Thomas, their stepmother, to quiet the title of a tract of land near that city. The plaintiffs aver \ that they are the only legitimate heirs of John M. Thomas, deceased, being the sons of his first wife. The defendant claims that they are not legitimate children, but that she is the legal owner of the.land because of her being his widow. All parties involved are prominent colored people. The plaintiffs are the sons of a colored woman whom their father married in slavery in South Carolina fifty years ago. Shortly after the children were born the owner of John M, Thomas moved to Mississippi, tearing the father from his children and wife, who were owned by a neighbor slave-owner named Major James Thompson. Shortly afterward Thomas escaped and returned to his family, but was captured and returned to Mississippi. He escaped again and came to Ihdiana, where he married the defendant in this case, believing his first wife to be dead. After the war wife No. 1 heard of her husband and came to Daviess County to see him. He refused to reeogniza her as his wife, although he provided for her comfort until she died, three years after leaving his Southern home. The question to be decided in court is as to the legality of marriage in slavery. The best legal talent in the country is employed on either side, and the attorneys are now in South Carolina taking depositions to be used in the trial.

Census of Manufactures. The following are the cities and towns in this State by supervisors’ districts in which statistics of manufactures will be collected by special agents of the census: First District—Evansville, Mt. Vernon, Vincennes. Second District—Aurora, Columbus, Jeffersonville, Lawrenceburg, Madison, New Albany, Seymour. Third District—Connersville, Indianapolis,- Muncie, Richmond, Shelbyville. Fourth District Lafayette, Terre Haute. Fifth District Kokomo, Laporte, Logansport, Michigan City, Peru, South Bend. Sixth District—Elkhart, Fort Wayne, Goshen, Huntington, Wabash. Minor Sla'e Items. —A school-house near Connersville was dismantled by vandals. —The endowment fund of Wabash College is now over $200,000. —Albert Slatter, a bov of 12 years, was killed by a train at Huntington. —Henry Meirs, employed in a freighthouse at Vincennes, was caught between bumpers and badly crushed. —William T. Dunbar, a druggist of Colfax, was kicked in the face and seriously injured by a Texas pony. —John Peterson, an aged citizen of Jackson Township, Allen County, was run down and killed by a train. —lt is the intention of the Trustees of Wabash College to erect a large building, this next summer, for the library. —August Lamkes, a resident of Holmesville, LaPorte County, was run down and killed by the Lake Shore fast mail. —George J. Staiger, sr., of Michigan City, fell down the basement-stairs at his home while half asleep, and was killed. —The Thirtieth Indiana will hold its seventh annual reunion at Albion, April 3. An excellent program has been prepared. —Andrew Lehman’s back was broken by a fall of slate in the Unity coal mine, near Evansville, and John Hall internally injured. —A horse show will be held at Crawfordsville, on April 4 and 5, under the auspices of the Business Men’s Association of that place. —Capt. James Blake, of New Albany, aged 33, eloped with Miss Artie Thompson, aged 28.* Blake is a wealthy widower with live children. —Daniel Weatherwax, jr., a young man living at Klinger Lake, near Elkhart, was instantly killed by a tree, which he was chopping down, falling upon him. —At Shelbyville Oscar McNeely, who forged the names of several men to checks on some of which he secured money, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. —The Coroner of Knox County, in his verdict on the engineer and fireman killed bn the Evansville and Terra Haute at Snapp’s Creek, holds the railway company resppnsible. —The charred remains of an unknown tramp were found in the ruins of a barn belonging to A. C. Dixon, of Seymour, destroyed by fire. Three horses and two cows also perished. Loss on barn and -contents, $5,000.

—Mrs. William Scott, of Zanesville, was accidentally shot in the thigh by her son, while handling a revolver. —The Franklin City Council baa granted a water-works franchise to John Maxwell, of St. Louis, work to begin in thirty days. The city will pay $3,000 per year for sixty hydrants. —Mrs. AbagailMcGlure, ofCrawfordsville, while going home from church, fell down an open cellar in the business part of the city. She fell headlong and was seriously injured, as the distance was about eight feet. —Michael Smith, jr., a young barber of Decatur, while attending a trial in City Hall, accidentally fell backward over a banister to the stairway below, a distance of ten feet, fracturing l)is skull at the base of the brain. Smith is seriously, if not fatally injured. —The wife of Albert Constant and his two children werja poisoned at Mill Grove, Blackford County, by eating bologna sausage. The doctor saved their lives by using a stomach pump. The bologna will be analyzed to determine if it was diseased or poisoned. —Several cars of a freight train on the Alum Cave branch of the Evansville and Terre Haute road left the track on a trestle, and fell fifty feet into a creek. The train was backing, and the engine was stopped before it reached the trestle. A brakeman jumped from one I of the cars fifty feet, but was not injured. —A business men’s association has been organized at Waveland, with fortytwo members and the following officers' President, A. J. Wolfe; Vice President, J. 0. McCormick; Secretary, Charles Scott; Treasurer, R. N. Oldshue; Directors. John Spruhan, L. E. Acker, G. M. Cowan, George Seybold, and John Canine. —William Watson and Sam Davis were arrested at Coiambus whilst in the act of robbing a farmer named Lowe, who it was thought had his pension money with him. Ihe police appeared on the scene and put the men in jail. Watson has just finished a term in the pen, and Davis does not bear a very good reputation. —A stranger Sick with the measles, stopped off at Union Mills, Laporte I County, a short time ago, and before hie ailment became known he had spread the disease broadcast over the village. There are now about fifty-six well-de-veloped cases of measles reported, and the public schools have been closed in consequence. Michael DeCamp, a Sullivan blacksmith, sold his shop the other day, left his family, bade his brother good-bye. went to Terre Haute and cut his throat in three places. He had larrieaded the door of his hotel room, but repented i after using the razor, and opening the door called for help. His wounds were dressed and he will recover. —Robert C. Stine, a well-known character, commonly known as “Bok Denuy,” was killed in Wilson & Co.’e mine, near Washington. He was mining a tight shot, and the coal, becoming loose, fell down upon him. One huge lump pinned his head against a prop in the mine and crushed it in a jelly. He died shortly after being found.

—The Madison County Commissioners have granted the petition of the Anderson Common Council to annex a large amount of territory adjacent to the present corporate limits of the city, and it is probable that this addition, which includes a number of the new additions to the city, will give Anderson a population of at least twelve thousand. —The two experts chosen from Clinton and Boone Counties to make an examination of ex-Treasurer Henry Kleinmeyer’s books have completed their work and submitted their report to theCommissioner. The shortage is $935.50, which will be made good by his bondsmen. The investigation will cost the taxpayers of the county not less than $1,200. —Thomas Hutsel was killed in the old McCoy grist mill near Warren recently. In putting the belt on the wheel which turns the bolter his coat was caught by the shaft and wound up until he was choked to death. He was dead when found a few minutes afterward. He formerly lived at Rochester, and was an old miller by trade. A wife and eight children are left. —A very singular accident occurred on the J., M. & I. south-bound freight at Peters’s switch, near Columbus. Engine No. 509, hauling a heavy train, was just pulling out of the siding at that place, and running at the rate of about eighteen miles per hour, when one of the large drive-wheels broke an axle, left the track, and run down an embankment into an open field. No damage was done. —There is a genuine curiosity at the livery-stable of Walter Brothers in Crawfordsville, and hundreds of people are going to see it daily. It is a 3-year-old horse that has a thick, curly growth of hair all over the body. The hair is brown, and resembles the wool on a sheep, and the hair is very fine and glossy. It was bought by a man named Charles Spitzer, who obtained the animal near O’Dell Corner, the price paid being S6O. Now he is being offered large sums of money. A dime-museum man is trying to buy the animal, and a telegram has been received from Barnum’s agent at Bridgeport, Conn., making an offer for the animal. The sKin of the horse is white, and even the hoofs are covered with wool.

MR. TAULBER IS DEAD.

CORRESPONDENT KINCAID'S VICTIM EXPIRES IN WASHINGTON. 0 Arre«t of the Murtlere • An Old Grudge the Causa of the Deed The Immediate Circumstances Leading to the Shooting Detailed Taulbee’s Record. Washington dispatch: Ex-Congress-man Taulbee, who was shot by Correspondent Kincaid, died on the 11th inst. He had been unconsc ous several hours before death and did not regain consciousness passing quietly away. As soon as his death was announced at police headquarters an officer was scßt to Kincaid’s room and he was rearrested. Ex-Congressman Taulbee received the bullet in his head that caused his death Feb. 28 last. The shooting took place in one of the corridors of the Capitol near the southeast entrance, and was the result of an old quarrel which originated about a year and a half ago by the publication in the Louisville Times' Washington correspondence of matter reflecting on Mr. Taulbee in his relations with a certain female clerk in the patent office. A call of the House had just been ordered shortly after noon. Kincaid had sent in his eard'to sec a Kentucky member of Congress and was waiting at the east door leading in to the floor of the Homo. It js from this door that the cards of all ladies arc sent in to the Home, the ladies’ reception room being acre as the corridor. There is always a large crowd of people about the corridor. Taulbee. who had a business engagement with Congressman McCreary of Kentucky and several others, canto out of the House while Kincaid was standing in the outer doorway, and walking up to him said a few words in an undertone, indistinguishable to the doorkeeper, only two or three feet away. It is said that the lie was passed. Tito doorkeeper, who was in the act of closing the doors, as is customary on a call of the House, then noticed Taulbee, who was large-framed and muscular, grab Kincaid by the lapel of the coat and with a strong grasp held him while lie said: “Kincaid, come out into the corridor witli me.” The reports which flew about the Capitol were to the effect that the exCongressman had pulled the correspondent’s nose or ear; but the doorkeeper standing there disputes this. Kincaid is small, slightly built man, suffering from illness and some nervous ailment. His reply to Taulbee’s invitation to come 1 out into the corridor was: “I am in no condition for a physical contest with you. lam unarmed.” Taulbee responded that he was also unarmed, and the men were separated by friends, Kincaid calling upon an ac-, quaintance from Kentucky named Sam Walton to bear witness to what had occurred. Walton evidently did not desire to become involved in the troub’o between the two men, and he replied that lie coulcl be a witness to nothing. He only knew that some words had been exchanged. All this time the doorkeeper was vainly endeavoring to get the men out of the way so that the doors might be closed, but was prevented by Taulbee, who declared that lie bad a right *o enter. Taulbee and Kincaid went their ways,the former into the House and the latter, it is supposed, after a pistol. The quarrel was not generally known even to the intimate friends of the two men when at about 1:30 o’clock members and friends dining in the restaurant were startled by the sharp report of a pistol fired very near the private room adjoining the restaurant. They rushed out breathlessly, while other persons came tumbling down the stairway, and soon there was an excited crowd surrounding a man holding his head, from which the blood was gushing in a steady stream, while another man was exclaiming: “I did the shooting.” The bullet was fired at a range not the length of a man’s arm. William Preston Taulbee represented the Tenth district of his State in the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses. He was eminent in debate for his fluency and vocal power, gifts which were aided in their effect by his superior stature. Mr. Taulbce l s home was at Saylersville, Ky. He was born in Morgan county, that State, Oct. 22, 1851, and was educated in private country schools. The three years between 1875 and 1878 were spent by him in preparation for the ministry; during the next three years he read law. lie was elected clerk to Maguffln county court in 1873 and reelected in 1882. His first election to Congress was in 1884.

CROOKED POSTMASTERS.

Two Men Arrested for Getting the Best of the Government. Denver dispatch: PostoiTice Inspector W. W. Patterson, in charge ot the Rocky Mountain district, has succeeded in running down two*derelict postmasters. J. J. Thurman, late of Genoa, lowa, left that town nearly one month ago without stating to his wife and three children or his deputy where he was going. An investigation of his accounts showed a shortage of 82,000 in government funds. He came to Denver two weeks ago, and when arrested made a full confession. The other postmaster is Horace Greeley Stewart, alias Ed Dunham, who while in charge of the mails at Dallas, Colo., appropriated $l,lOO belonging to the money order fund and fled. He was traced all over Nevada and the territories, until finally he was located in Eureka, a small Utah mining camp some distance from a railroad, whore he was arrested on. Saturday. Stewart is thirty-one years of age, the son of Hiram Stewart well known throughout Kansas. He was educated at the Law University at Ann Arbor, and is a fluent talker and capable lawyer. Michaei. Morgan, a merchant of Kansas City, fell down-stairs in the absence of his family, and when his wife returned she found his corpse at the foot of the stairway.

STREET MASHING IN GOTHAM.

The Perils tliet Beset Young Women.

hensible system of street mashing, but certain it is that ladies while walking are now exposed to more rudeness than ever before. Several mashers have been complained of to the police lately, and a few arrests have been made. It is a fact that those arrested have all been foreigners. A very shrewd girl was disposed to rate hes own sex for the increase of the petty depravity. “I believe," said she, “that this city has its fall share of good and dignified men and women, but I also know that there are thousands of women who influence badly the habits of the street. As our careless men go out they find at every turn some woman who encourages them to be insalting. The light-weights among them gradually grow to consider the entire female sex from one point of view, and end by being impudent to any woman that at all attracts their fancies. And that is why you see men sidle up alongside of a pretty girl when she stops to look in at a shop window, or crowd unnecessarily close to her in a street car. She may despise tbeir advances, but she is compelled to suffer nn infliction reared by her own sex. Those insulting men have on more than one occasion been met with encouragement, and, not being philosophers, have taken the contemptible smile? of unworthy women as signs of the best feminino preference. I certainl ■■ do blame my own sex for the increase of masculine brutality. Theie will surely be wholly admirable men in a city like New York, but beastliness must have something to feed upon, and can do no more than exist in a passive state if it finds no means of sustenance.” I found considerable truth in these words when next day my attention was attracted to a truly royal example of the female sex walking alone on Fifth avenue. She was a young, tall, goldenh died girl, a perieot beauty, and her featQies were as delicate and high-bred as those of an ideal princess. As she moved grandly along, a man with black, ugly eyes, a short, pointed beard, and an air of inexpressible conceit, came up swiftly from behind and passed her. As he did so he deliberately turned and stared at her face, for an instant merely, but protractedly and insolently, iu the unmistakable manner of the professional masher. The lovely girl was an honor to her sex at that moment. She held her head at the same angle as before, gazed proudly straight ahead, and never gave the slightest sign that the staring brute was in the world. Within a half minute the masher dropped behind and gave up the-game. It was easy to see then that if all yonng women were as safe in their own pride as that fair girl, itreet mashing would be a starvation employment in very shoit order. A bean took a letter from his pocket iu order to read something from it to a fair cousin who sat by his side. “Ah! she mailed you a kiss,” the girl remarked. “Not that I know of,” was the fellow’s reply. Look there,” and she d ointed to a crinkled place, down at the corner of the sheet, such as a.damp spot might have left. “Haven’t you learned the latest sentimental thiDg? A girl presses the paper to her lips, leaving a mark like that, and so incloses a kiss without writing a word of confession. That’s what Jennie did, and you, goose that you are, never noticed it. The next thing the stationers tarn out may be ready-kissed paper, with a faint tint of red lips and a delicious scent oi fragrant breath pertaining thereto. Art is ever quick to beat nature.

Hadn't Ridden the Goat.

“My wife told me a good story recently,” said a prominent Mason to me. “My next-door neighbor, who is a big, good-natured fellow, full of fun and taking life easy, was to take the first degree in our lodge one evening, and his wife knew both of his intention and the evening set for its execution, and, for pure love of him and fear for his safety, was awfully opposed to his joining. He wanted clean underwear that evening, and the bureau drawers being locked and keys missing, asked her for it. He might as well have asked for his life; so he had to buy a suit. “Next morning she was in to see my wife—they’re great friends—and curiosity had taken the place of anger. “ ‘ Ton my word, Mrs. 8.,’ said she, excitedly, ‘I can’t find a markon them. I’ve searched his drawers and shirt all over, and there’s no breaks in ’em, or patch on ’em! I’m sure he has not ridden the goat yet.’” —New York Star.

It Was Charity.

Mr. Isaacstein—l sells you dot coat, my front, for sayventeen shilling; you dake him along. Customer I thought, Isaacstein, that you didn’t do business on Saturday. Isn’t this your Sunday ? Mr. Isaacstein (in a low reverent tone of voice) —My frent, to sell a coat like dot for sayventeen shilling vas not peesness, dot vas shanty. —London Pick-Me- Up.

WELL women of New York are just nowdißcass ngthe question whether it is not more dangerous for a pretty woman to goon the streets alone during the day time kthan at night. ■From personal obIservations, one ■matron declared r that the time will come ere long when New York parents will adopt the rule of the French, and never permit a young woman to go on the street atone without nn attendant. I do not know whether the advent of so many foreigners here has brought about the present repre-

JENNIE DEAN.

BLOODY BATTLE IN PERU

FRIENDS OK POLITICAL CANDIDATES INDULGE IN A RIOT. Terrible Slaughter of the Contending Forces—A Horrible Butchery by Indians Maddened by Liquor—Score* of Inhabitants Sacrificed in Their Drunken Fury. Lima cable: The antagonism ex isting between the two candidates for the Presidential nomination has resulted in a battle in the streets of Huanta between the two parties and many on both sides were killed, among them being Senor Lazona. deputy of Congress and head of the revolution, and I)r. Urbina, chief of tho Rosas party. Dr. Urbina, having seen five members of his family fall at his side during the eight hours of the combat, left with tho remaining members to seek refuge at the Matrise church. There he found a number of women, children, and old people. The priest before tho horrlblo tragedy took place, exhorted tho Indians to desist, In tho name of humanity, from their horrible mode of procedure, but when the Indians are drunk they are most furious and incapable of reasoning. As they drew near tho church, threatening to burn it, Dr. Urbina, under terrible emotion, knowing that he had been the only cause for such action on the part of the Indians, and wishing to.save the lives of tho many innocent persons who had taken refuge in the church, resolved without losing timo to sacrifice himself and terminate tho anguish of his friends. Leaving the church lie nddresed his enemies iu the following manner: “I am Urbina, for whom you aro looking. Kill me If you like but tho persons in tho church aro not my accomplices. Do not injure them.” Tho priest, to whom ho aunouucod his determination, gave him Ills benediction and accompanied him to tho door of the church, opening a wicket and bidding him good-by, sobbing as ho did so. The priest intended to return and close the church, but as ho arrived at tho porch he became deprived of reason. A few moments afterward the head of this victim of tho implacable hatred and barbarity of his countrymen was to bo seen on tho Plaza do Huanta. The guerrillas, in their drunken fury, not being satisfied with the murder of Dr. Urbina, continued to slaughter the inhabitants and to sack and burn the town for many hours afterward. Over *OO lives were sacrificed to the old rancor existing between tho families of L'azona and Urbina.

UNDER LIBERTY'S SHADE.

Why Bedloe’s Island l» a Good Point to Receive Immigrant*. Washington dispatch: At tho first joint meeting of the Senate and House committees on Immigration Secretary Windom and Solicitor Hepburn, of the Treasury department, were present, and the first named gave a statement of the reasons tiiat had Induced him to take charge of the landing of immigrants at New York. In the course of this statement it was developed that, tho Ford committee of the last Congress in their report recommended that tho national government take charge of tills matter. Tho reports of tho manner in, which operations at Castle Garden were conducted and of the condition of affairs there, the Secretary said, also seemed to warrant, if not demand, a change. The Secretary was asked why ho had selected Bedloe’s island as tho landing place for immigrants under the new arrangement. He answered that Governor's Island would have suited him just as well; in fact was examined by him with a view to locating the landing station there; but the military authorities objected to giving up control of the Island and he was compelled to look elsewhere. Tho Treasury Department had a foothold on Bedloo's island, and it was in addition deemed to bo tho proper place to land immigrants, under the shade of tho statue of Liberty. The island contained thirteen acres; five of them are devoted to the park surrounding the statue, and the remainder may be utilized for the necessary buildings for tho accommodatiod of immigrants and tho transaction of business. These buildings will be erected on the west side of the island.

SAW A MIRAGE.

Large City Suspended In the Air Near Ashland, Pa.—Visible for Some Time. A remarkable instance of a mirage was witnessed at Ashland, Ohio, the other day. It presented a picture of a clear and well defined city, full sized, though of course inverted, and appearing like a large city suspended in the air or falling through it, as the ground on which it stood was not reflected. Church steeples and walls of houses were slightly inclined. The phenomenon seemed be only a few hundred yards above the earth and was visible for nearly three-quarters ot an hour. The day was clear and calm with a cloudless sky. Many spectators claimed that tho city reflected was Mansfield, thirty miles distant; others say it was Sanduskv, eighty-five miles away, and each party professed to recognize buildings in those places.

PACIFIC RAILROAD DEBT.

Differences of Opinion as to How to Treat 1 the Subject. Washington dispatch: The House committee on Pacific railroads is still considering the question as to whether it should reitfirt a single bill for a settlement of the indebtedness of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads (as was done by the Senate committee) or separate bills. There is a marked difference of opinion, and the discussion did not result in an agreement. The published statement that the Secretary of the Treasury lias invested moneys to the credit of the companies in their first mortgage bonds was also discussed and a resolution adopted asking for information on the subject from the department.