Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — NEWBY DENIED A NEW TRIAL. [ARTICLE]

NEWBY DENIED A NEW TRIAL.

The Cate Will Go to the Nupreme Court of the United Mtatei. At Springfield, 111., Judge Allen overruled the motion for a now trial made by the defense in tho celebrated Newby case. A motion for arrest of judgment was likewlso overruled, and the court then sentenced the convicted man to two years ut hard labor in the Chester penitentiary. An appeal was allowed, and the caso will thus go to tho United States Supremo Court. Ex-Attorney Gonoral McCartney has been engaged to carry the case up. Pending the appeal the defendant will go to prison. Ho takes tho outcome indifferently. Grand Army men are taking a deep interest in tho case, and Department Commander Blodgett has authorized Post to appeal to other posts for aid in raising a fund defend Newby. Steal a llnat of Clover Seeil. Sunday night thieves stolo a canal boat on tho Miumi and Erio canal, which was tied up about thirty miles south of Toledo, Ohio. They next caught a horse in a neighboring pasture, hitched him to the boat and hauled it to Defiance. Here the thieves broke into J. B. Woieenberg’s elevator and stole about $660 worth of olovor seed. This they loaded into tho boat, and a start was then made for Toledo. After getting through three locks tho robbers ran the boat into tho Maumoe River, hoping the current would carry them down. By this time tho alarm had been given, and the men, being closely pursued, ran the boat into the bank, then escaped into Wood Countt. Tho police have no clew to the robbers. Scandal at the Fair. There is a-scandal in awards matters at the World’s Fair, and involved therein are no less personages than tho National Commissioners from Oklahoma and Wyoming—Beeson and Mercer. Mrs. I. E. Harmon approached the superintendent of the Russian wine and liquor exhibit and offered to secure a gold medal for $15,000, reducing the amount to SIO,OOO later. She brought to the superintendent, as men who would vouch for her, the two national commissioners named, who went under the names of “Brice" and “Oregon,” The woman has been arrested, and Mercer and Beeson are making statements. t Overflow of New*. Carlos R. Wiley, Auditor of Noble County, Indiana, died at Columbus, Ohio. J. C. Crimmins, of Oakland, Cal., was shot and killed by his wife, with whom he was quarreling. Southern members of the Epworth League threaten to secede unless thdir Northern brethren bar the negroes. . M. Jaggerson, from lowa, went on the Cherokee strip to cut hay. His body was found with a bullet wound in the head. Robert Hardwick shot and killed. W. H. Averill at Stanton, Ky., and was in turn killed by Asa Petit, a friend of Hardwick. At Valparaiso, Ind., burglars carted Sargeant & Scofield’s safe, containing $2,000, a quarter of a mile, when, being shot at, they fled. R. S. Heath, of Fresno, Cal., charged with the murder of McWhirtey, on whose first trial the jury disagreed, has been released on bail of $150,000. ( Burglars broke open the safe in H. Kraus & Co.’s store at Akron, Ohio, securing several hundred dollars, then setting fire to the store. Loss, $30,000.