Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 27. 1889.

SHE AVENGED HER WRONG.

A KENTUCKY BELLE'S FATAL SHOTS. Stephen B. Pettus, One of New York' Big Business Men, Sliot Down in the Street By m Woman He Had Outraged Sensatioual History of. toe Case. mr York, Nor. 22. Stepben Pettas, secretary and treasurer of the Brooklyn elevated railroad, commi.ion merchant and member of the cotton exchange, was shot down in Fulton-, this morning about 10 o'clock by Hannah Sonthworth, who emptied the five chambers of a 33-caliber revolver into Pettus' head and body. Fulton-st. was full of people, whose number was swelled by the crowd just coming from the Fulton ferry-boats. A man who saw the shooting said that he had noticed the woman acting strangely on the boat, as though laboring under great excitement. As Pettus was walking np Fulton-st. ehe suddenly epranpr forward until close behind bim, so near hat she might have struck him with her hand. Then ehe fired five phota from a new silver-plated revolver, each shot taking effect. Pettas stacjrered and tried to run into the nearest doorway. But the self-cocking pistol of the infuriated woman Mas too quirk for him. Covered with blood, he fell s2-ainst the door, which swung open with his wei?bL The dying man ran inside, rushed behind the counter, out ajain and fell dead in a bloody heap at the foot of the stairway leading to the next floor. Officer Goodwin made a rush for the woman, who stood motionless, making no attempt towape. She alternated between great sxciteuient and perio'ls of uttr coolness, frhe was taien to the Old Slip stationhouse. The body was taken to the station end laid on the floor. A wrap of coarse sacking covered the dead man's face. On raisins it, one could see- a frightful little hole over the left eye. The features were ritorted and clotted with blood. Lilting the left h;ind, a bullet hole appeared in the left wn.t. The dead roan's watch was broken and an indentation in the case seemed to have been made by a ball which had passed clean through the body. Amonz the papers found on the person of the dead man was a letter without an envelope. It began: "My dear friend," and expressed great gratitude for services rendered the writer. In conclurlon, it said: "I cannot tell you how fond and grateful I am for the little home you have given me. The flat is perfect and I Lope vou will come down on Tuesday." The letter was signed ßimply 'C." The handwriting was evidently a woman's. Pettus' slayer is an attractive looking woman, and" was considered respectable br many persons in Brooklyn. Within Bn hour after reaching the police station a lawyer called and was conducted to the captain's room, where she eat. lie told her that he represented Howe & Ilummell, the criminal lawyers. "Oh, then, tell 31 r. Hammed not to be angry with me," the vcrcan cried; "tell him "not to desert me row." She was very much excited and r jrzed for a little chloroform. "Only a little," she said ; "my doctor lets me have it to quiet my nerves. Ltt me have some now. Her request was not granted. "When the lawyer rose to leave, she said: Don't go; don't leave me alone with that policeman. Don't! You don't know what barm he may do to me." She was greatly aaoved and her brain seemed hanging ou ihe brink of lunacy. When Mrs. Southworth appeared in the commissioners office in the afternoon rhe was affected to a decree that was fearful to witness, her mind wing apparently in no condition to think nr comprehend what was going on about ber. She was very well dressed and is Tcry pretty. She wore a dark and light brown dress, with a cloak of sealskin, trimmed with a darker fur, and a pair of brown over-gaiters covering her shoes. Jler hair is of a reddish brown and her yes large and liquid. She looked about h'erasif she was expecting something to happen to her, and panted as if she could not catch her breath. Coroner Levy asked her name and she gave it as Hannah B. Southworth in a low voice. When she was asked where she lived she shook her head and said: "Mr. Ilummell Jcnows." Mr. Steinhart, who represented Howe & Hummel, answered for her tbtot she could not remember her residence, that it was not intentional, but that she was incapable of thought. "I suppose you have no statement to make, Coroner Levy a.-,ked. "She is in no condition to make one," Mr. Steinhart answered. "I see that," said the coroner kindly. "Tell him," began the pri.-oner, leaning over and touching Steinhart on the shoulder, "tell him " "Hush ; don't say anything," whispered the lawyer. "Tell him," she persisted, "what he did to me." "Hush; not now," whispered the lawyer. If Mrs. Southworth was acting, it was very good and painful acting. She stood up suddenly as if she was entirely alone and began" to pace up and down the room with her arms folded behind her. Officer Goodwin, who arrested her, tame over and placed his burly form in front of the open window, but the young woman did not notice him do it. Some one brought her a glass of water, and she was snoken to tw ice before she looked at it. Xfien she shook her head. When the roroner said he would commit her to the rity prison nntil Tuesday at 10 o'clock, when she should le given a hearin-z, she leaned over to her lawyer and whispered. He said : "Oh, yes, they'll be kind to you." Then he called Goodwin over and Mrs. Southworth looked at him and aid: "That is the same man, I remember, he was kind to me, I'm ' glad it is that man." She allowed them to lead her down stairs without any words or any show of feeling, and was driven to prison. When in pris-on Mrs. Southworth wp.s very nervous and worked herself into a high state of excitement. She was given an anodyne for relief. She stated that a lady, a warm personal friend of hers in former years, had befriended Pettus when he was in straitened circumstances. He took advantage of this woman's kindness by seducing her. Then, under threat of txposing her ruin, he obtained the aid of this woman in accomplishing Mrs. Southworth's ruin. Mrs. Soothworih nd Hr Story. Mrs. Hannah Southworth is a native of Louisville. Her father's name was Martin, and, during the war, being a member cf a family of active southern sympathy, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the government; but after some trouble with the provost marshal he came North instead of going South. During the war he operated as a gold broker in Wall-st. in New York City! At the time the fam ily left IvOnisviUe Mr. Southworth waa a little girl, and is now arx.ut thirty-five years old. She is d s f nded, on her mother's side, from u raci of women long remarkable for e.t erne beauty, her raother, Mrs. Martin, and her aunt, the late Mrs. s. II, lorrev. being ladies especially noted in this particular in their youth. Indeed, Mrs. Southworth's mother is at the present time a very handsome middle-aged woman. Mrs. Southworth has herself grown up conspicuous likewise for her personal beautv, and

in her girlhood waa tso conscious of her

personal appearance as to attract universal attention wherever she was seen. In 1874 or 1S75, w hen she was just emerging from her teens, during a visit to the family of her uncle, the late Judge Torrey. at Geneva, X. Y., she met Mr. Frederick Southworth, a banker of that place, and some two years later they were married. Mr. Southworth died within a year or so after the wedding, and his widow returned to Louisville, where her father and mother were again living. A few years after, her father having died in the meantime, Mrs. Southworth and her mother removed to Brooklyn, where she has two brothers living now and doing business. It was soon after this that Mrs. Southworth wa9 intro

duced by a mutual friend to Mr. Pettus. She was at this time living at the Fierrepont house. The cause of the tragedy, as stated by an acquaintance of Mrs. Southworth who has known the particulars of the trouble between them for some vears, dates back to an outraze committed v Pettus upon the lady, which had been concealed from all except a verv few of her most intimate friends for a long time. It appears, as is alleged, that the acquaintance with Mr. Pettus developed into friendship on account of the intimacy of Mrs. Southworth's woman friend with him. The story goes that this lady was in the habit of attending theaters and taking lunches with Mr. Pettus, and upon these expeditions was in the habit of taking Mrs. Southworth with her from time to time. The natural result of this kind of association led to an invitation at the close of a matinee one afternoon in New York City, on the part of Mr. Pettus to Mrs. Southworth, to call at a certain residence near by, upon the pretext of seeing a friend of his. As the house was in the neighborhood and in a respectable part of the city, after some explanations on the part of Mr. Pettus calculated to quiet the lady' apprehensions as to the 6trict propriety of the proceedings, Mrs. Southworth consented. They were ushered into a parlor, where, to Mrs. Southworth's consternation, they were met by a colored man, with the air of a waiter, from whom Mr. Pettus ordered a lottle of wine. Mrs. Southworth, being frightened at her surroundings, demanded an explanation, and was reassured by Mr. Pettus that everything was all right. In the meantime she was urged to take a glass of champairne, which she did, having been nccustoraed from childhood to the use of wine upon proper occasions. In a few moments she lost consciousness, and knew nothing more of her surroundings until the following morning, when she woke up, finding herself in bed in this strange house, with no one about her, with no one within call whom she had ever known. She soon discovered that she had been wronged while unconscious, and 6he had been abandoned to make her way home upon recovering consciousness as best she could. Overwhelmed with shame, she returned home, and, giving some excuse as best she could to her family for her absence, she attempted to conceal her disgrace by keeping it secret. In the course of a few weeks, however, to her consternation, she discovered that some one must be taken into her confidence, and that absolute secrecy would soon become an impossibility. In her extremity she appealed to Pettus to assist her, and still save her good name from being sullied in public estimation. In time she decided, at the instance of Pettus in order to protect the name of her widowed mother, to consent to malpractice. She was sent to an interior city in this state where, at a hotel, ainone utter stranger;!, she was attended by a physician under w hose care for weeks she lay hovering between life and death. She was at length restored to a shadow of ber former self, covered with shame, her lifo wrecked and her physical health irretrievably broken. In order to avoid an exposure at the time of the outrage, Pettus, it is alleged, ma le the most profuse promises of substantial provision for her. Knowing that he was amply able to do what he said he would, being a very wealthy man, Mrs. Southworth fully believed that he would keep his word and provide for her in such a way that she could live in retirement and avoid at least further trouble and disgrace. Upon her recovery, after the lapse of nearly a year, be met her reminders of his obligation with nothing except derision. Tho effect upon the temper of a hL'h-strung Kentucky woman may be imagined. She was driven to desperation. Pettus, at length. being wearied by her importunities to fulfill his promises, adopted a novel method of ridding himself of what he considered an incubus. He is said to have circulated reports among their mutual friends to the effect that Mrs. Southworth was a discarded mistress of his, of whom he had ired, and who was pursuing him for the purpose of blackmailing him. Mrs. Southworth's years of suffering and self-immolation in order to Iirotect her family name appeared now to iave gone for naught. In a frame of mind which was the climax of her wrongs.she attacked Mr. Pettus in a horsewhipping scene. On Friday, March 23, this year, the crowd about the Brooklyn elevated road near Thirty-first-st. and S-st. saw a tall, willow blonde woman in a green taitor-made suit, attack two gentlemen with an umbrella. The men were Stephen Pettus and his brother-in-law. Joseph Elliott. Afterward Mr. Elliott said that the attack w made upon him alone. But the woman, who was Mrs. Hannah Southworth. declared she had no acquaintance with Elliott "Mr. Fettus struck me when I called on him recently and I intended to give him an opportunity to repeat his assault. As for carrying a pistol," said Mrs. Southworth afterward, "rest assured, if I had had one, It would have been used more effectively than an umbrella. The trouble is a combination of personal and business matters. They are trying to persecute and destroy a woman's character," she added at the "time. Mrs. Southworth and her troubles were again before the public on May 16. On that day she was arrested on identically the spot of the first assault. Detective Kearney, who ir.ad? the arrest, had noted for several days a prepossessing blonde person waiting about the vicinity. Arraigned before Justice Walsh, she was bound over in the sum of S-ö to keep the peace. "Stephen Pettus has treated me grossly, and will spend $-'0,0(10 to hound" me down," she said. Again on Sunday the neighborhood about Mr. TettuV house was startled by a woman's crirs: "I've got you now; I've got you now!" The timely intervention of the mounted police is said to have saved Pettus' life on this occasion. Many times since Mrs. Southworth has been B'-en in the vicinity of Pettus' house and office. Inasmuch as secrecy was no longer to be maintained she appealed to Messrs. Howe & Ilummell, the criminal lawyers, not to obtain money damage, but that the truth might be exploited and the infamy of her persecutor exposed. She found to her dismay that the statute of limitations, owing to the time which bad now elapsed, protected Mr. Pettus from prosecution for the original outrage, and she, therefore, changed her tactics and began a suit for slander and defamation of character, with the same object in view. That was the legal status of the matter up to to-dav. when the trneedy occurred. New York, Nov. -.1. Mrs. Hannah B. Southworth, who killed Stephen L. Pettus yesterday, spent a very restless night in her cell. This morning there waa a Blight improvement in h r condition. The city physician has given orders that Mrs. Southworth be kept as quiet as possible, and in consequence the prison w arden has issued peremptory orders that no one outside of the woman's counsel and relatives be permitted to see her. The warden stated that it was expected that Mrs. Southworth would be much Quieter by to

morrow and might then be inclined to talk about the tragedy. Counsel for the murderess called at the prison earlv today and talked with his client for a long time. When questioned as to the line of defense, if any, which had been determined upon, he replied that the defense undoubtedly would be insanity, There- was no doubt, the counsel said, that Mrs. Southworth was insane. His client was incoherent in her statements, the result of the great shock her nervous system had sustained, but in a day or two she would be more ratioual. As matters stand, Mrs. Southworth's statement of her many wrongs is quite clear enough to enable counsel to grapple with the case. Mr. W. B. Martin, the woman's brother, was amorm her early callers. . It was with this brother that Mrs. Southworth lived. The scene between brother and sifter is described as of the most affecting character. She seemed to forget her position, as almost all her inquiries were made concerning her mother. Numbers of curious persons visited the Tombs court this morning, thinking Mrs. Southworth would be taken there. They were disappointed. 2sext Thursday she will be at the inquest. WOOD ARRESTED.

The Fact In th Ballot Box Contract For. gry Likely to Couie Out. Cincinnati, Nov. 22. A startling arrest was made here to-night no less than that of ß. G. Wood, who recently obtained national notoriety by his alleged connection with the famous ballot-box contract forgery, in w hich the names of ten prominent statesmen, including those of James K. Campbell, democratic covernor-elect of Ohio, Senator Sherman and Congressman ren Putterworth, are mentioned. It is believed here that Gov.-elect Campboll, Senator Sherman and Congressman Butterworth are pushing this prosecution of Wood. Atty. Harry H. Probasco, a relative by marriage of Senator Sherman, swore out the warrant before Judge Ermston of the police court. Wood disappeared from the city about the time of the exposure of the forgery and returned only two or three days ago. The affidavit of Mr. Probaseo charges Jl. G. Wood with perpetrating a libel on or about Sept. 7, 1SS:, against William McKinley, James E. Campbell, B' ti Butterworth, John Sherman, S. S. Cox, W. B. S. Breckenridge, Charles McAdoo, J. P. McPherson, J. li. "Whiting and F. Ii. Stockbridge all members or ex-members of the house or senate of the United States in that he counterfeited their names to a forged contract a wholly fictitious document and which forgery "Wood committed with malicious intent to disgrace these men and damage them in the eyes of the nation by leading the people to believe they were in a corrupt scheme to make money by violating the laws of the United States by being pecuniary interested in the passage of the ballot-box bill pending before congress. The affidavit furthermore alleces that Wood crusd this forgery to be published by delivering it, directly or indirec tly, to Gov. J. B. Foraker and to others unknown to affiant. Mr. Wood's bail bond was fixed at Sl.OOO. He tried for two hours while under arrest to obtain bail, but failed. He protested his innocence. There is treat interest in the matter here, not only in and of its; If, but in view of possible developments during the trial CixcixxATr, Nov. 23. The cae of B. G. Wood, charged with executing and causing the publication of the celebrated ballot-box contract forgery, was called in the police court to-day. Wood was represented byAttys. Chambers and Stephan, while four distinguished attorneys who will aid in the prosecution, were present. At the request of Wood's attorneys Judge Ermston fixed Dec. 2 for the preliminary hearing of the case. Meantime Wood, failing to obtain bondsmen, was remanded to jail. A private meeting was held this afternoon for consultation on Wood's case. Those present were Messrs. Probasco and Richards, representing Senator Sherman and Congressman Butterworth; Messrs. Jordan and Harmon, representing Gov.-elect James E. Campbell, the Hon. James E. Campbell himself and the Hon. William S. Groesltcck. It is understood that these gentlemen have resolved to prosecute Wood to tho full extent of tho law. MURDERED HIS BABES. A Dying lather and Inserted Husband Commits an Awful Crltn. New York, Nov. 22. Driven desperate by disease and the cruel treatment of his wife, James Smith, a letter-carrier attached io station D., this afternoon tried to kill himself and two pretty babies in the Lawrence flats. He almost made a complete success of his work. One child is dead and the other dying. A button on his trousers was the only thing that prevented Smith from taking his own life. A woman is at the bottom of it, as is usually tho case. Two weeks ago Smith's wife left him for the second time, without any warning or cause. He is suffering with consumption, contracted during the blizzard. The doctor told him he could not live later than next spring. With his wife gono and his own death in view, Smith decided that his children would be better off dead than alive. His life was wrapped up in the two little ones and life would be empty without them. He decided to take his own life at the same time, and thus end all the misery at once. Ho Jeft the children with a Mrs. Bauer, a dressmaker in the house, asking her to care for them until he returned. They are girls, one two years and the other eleven months old. "lie went out and bought an old-fashioned 38-caliber revolver and a box of cartridges. Beturning he said nothing of his desperate resolve, but at once took the children back into his own rooms. There he placed the pretty blue-eyed bale in its little chair and took the cider one on bis knee. There was one shot und the infant screamed. Blood began to trickle from its left breast, just above the heart. A second thot and tho larger girl, Elizabeth, cried out, "Oh, papa," putting her hand to her stomach, where the bullet had entered. Smith next placed the glistening barrel against bis own stomac h and pulled the trigger. He felt the shock of tho bullet and thought he would die in a few moments. The bullet had struck a button on his trousers, glanced off and inflicted a flesh wound only. Neighbors heard the shooting and ran for the police. They found Smith in his rear room frantically kissing the oldest child and calling it bv endearing names. It was dead. Blood trickled down its breast. Mary, the baby, was feeblv crying. An ambulance was at once summoned and the baby taken to Bellevue hospital. The father's wound was dressed and he was locked up. The other child lies in a baby carriage now, awaiting the coroner. When asked why he committed the terrible deed. Smith told the police that ho thought thev would all be far better off if they were dead. "What could I do?" he askeL "My wife left me, and I could not take care of my children. Let me die here,' he pleaded. "Life has no charms for me." Smith was married three years a?o, and was a sober, reliable man. Ilia wife was twenty-three years old, pretty and fond of male companions. The two children were remarkably pretty. Children Cry for

ARE MORMONS DISLOYAL?

MORE TESTIMONY AT SALT LAKE CITY Prlets of the Chnrctt Preached Treason Tb American Flag: Trailed in the Ilust The Wife of the 31 ordered Green Tells Her Story. Salt Lake 'City, Utah, Nov. 22. The investigation being held to determine whether alien mormons are eligible to naturalization was resumed before Judge Anderson this morning. Henry W. Lawrence, who was ou the stand when the court adjourned last evening, was recalled for cross examination. He testified that excommunication from the church meant ostracism in every w ay by the mormon people. He had heard many sermons preached which were disloyal, and the general tendency of the teachings of the church during all the years he belonged to it was to alienate the feelings of the people from the government. He reiterated the statement that the church was the present literal kingdom of Go(L Mr. Lawrence stated that he believed the mormon people would become loyal if their leaders did not teach disloval doctrines. Extracts from the sermons delivered by Brigham Young, lieber C. Kimball and other leaders were then read and show conclusively that the priesthood claimed the right to dictate to the people in all things temporal a3 well as spiritual. A number of witnessed testified that in May, 1S7S), there was a big demonstration in this city in honor of the release of Daniel M. We!la from the penitentiary, where ho had been committed for contempt of court in refusing to answer questions regarding the endowment house ceremonies. At the polygamy trial they testified that the procession eonpisted of many thousau mormons, who went up the main street trailing the American flag in the dust, and in parsing the federal court-house they saw Judgo Emerson, who committed Wells, standing on the balcony and yelled and hooted at him. In the afternoon many witnesses testified in regard to the mormons half-masting the flngs of this city on July 4, lSSö. The defense called Joseph Follett to refute the testimony given by Witness Wardwell in regard to the killing of Green for ajostasy in 18f2. The witness testified that he never heard of the affair before. The prosecution then offered in evidence a paper served on a member of the mormon church by Bishop Hisward, citing him to appear in the bishop's court to-night and be tried for obtaining a judgment in the U. S. court against other members of the church for the failure to perform a contract. This course fully demonstrates the charge made that the church does dictate and control the temporal affairs. The attorneys for the prosecution read many revelations alleged to have rief-n received from Joseph Smith in which God commanded certain mormons to be burnt. They also read from a sermon by John Taylor which said if the government attempted to rut out the mormon ulcer as had heen proposed in congress, then the United States will be cut off from being a nation and its star would set in a sea of blood. The question of polygamy was then taken up, and the reo-.ut editorials from the church organ, announcing that it was a fixed and unalterable iaw of God, was offered in evidence and it was shown in this connection that convictions for the violation oi the Edmunds law had been more numerous since January, 1SS0, than for my similar period in the history of the territory. The attorneys lor the church denied that the polygamous marriages are now being solemnised, but when questioned, admitted that no records of such marriages were kept and that they had no means of knowing if they were being solemnized or not. A MORMON MURDER. Slain Heran ITe It-lnseI Lnugfr to Be. Ioiijj to the Chui rh. Franklin', Fa., Nov. 22. The Associated Press dispatches of Tuesday last contained an account of the killing of a man named Green by the mormons of Salt Lake City for revealing the secrets of the endowment .house. Mr. Wardwell, in his testimony before the naturalization court in Salt Lake City, testified that ho had seen Green killed. The latter's wife now resides in this city in a hut near Bellstone quarries, and says there is no doubt that the man killed was her husband. Mr. Green and his family w ere mormons ami resided in Utah and she was well acquainted with Mr. Wardwell. Five or six years ago. she and her husband determined to leave the mormon church, and, in order to do so, quietly disposed of all their goods and chattels to gentile neighbors. By some means the mormons discovered their intentions and deliberate-ly robbed them of their all. Green was sent into the mountains on some mission, while she was Bent East, arriving in this city in a destitute condition. Up to five months ago, she frequently received word from her husband, but all communication between them suddenly ceased and she is now certain that her husband was murdered by the mormons as he frequently told her that ho was a marked man and that his death by violence might be looked for. Green was very poor, not over intelligent and his fear of the mormon rulers was so great that he was their slave and feared to break awav from them lest ho would be discovered and killed. Mrs. Greeu has a large family of children and is in poor circumstances, but her friemls have taken eteps to have the U. S. authorities investigate her husband's death and interesting developments are looked for. Chicago, Nov. 23. In response to a telegram from the Associated Press asking for his statement concerning the investigation now in progress in Salt Lake City, Wilford Woodruff, prcsidi-nt of the mormon church, sends the following dispatch: S.VI.T LAKE, Nov. 2.1. This is the periodical nnti-mornion sensation which we are accus tomcd to expect in November. Congress meets in December and it is presumed that the usual efforts will he made to secure legislation against the mormon. Of course this can not be accomplished unless the public mind Is prepared for it. In addition to this 1 might explain that we are on the eve of an important municipal election here, in which the anti-mormon party, by preventing the naturalization of tuornious and in other improper ways, hope to be successful. 1 can truthfully say th.it there is absolutely nothing in the mormon religion that is not consistent with the most patriotic devotion to the government of the United States. The revelations and commnndments to the church require that the constitution and laws of the land shall be upheld. It is also a part of our belief that a time will come when this country will be distracted by departures from the spirit and letter of the constitution, and when general lawlessness will prevail, and when that condition t-hall arrive the mormon people will step forward and take an active part in rescuing the nation from ruin. As a people, the rnormous have the highest veneration for the institutions of the republic. There sre among ourcommumiiy quite a number of decemlants from the revolutionary fathers, who fought and bled to establish our popular gov. eminent. In regard to the claim that the priesthood or chief Authorities of the church assert or usurp the right to control the mormon people in all their temporal, including political, affairs, I would sar I am tho present head of the church, aod I do not make any such claim. It would be impossible to exercise it if I did. The mormon people would not tolerate any such absolutism. The charge of undue interference is Pitcher's Castorla.

absurd. The elections are conducted under a strictly secret ballot system, so that no roan knows how his neighbor votes. All the management of elections down to the smallest details is in the hands cf the officers of the U. S. government and their appointees. True, the mormons f re, to a considerable degree, united in their political affairs. This is largely due to their being constantly and vindictively assailed by a small minority in Utah who have sought to wrest the control of public attairs from the hands of the majority. They have thus been driven together by a common interest and compelled to distinguish their friends from their enemies. A good deal is being made of a form of prayer based upon two verses of the sixth chapter of the Revelations of St. John as contained in the Aew testament. It relates to praying that God might avenge the blood of the prophets. An attempt has, I see, been made to connect this with avenging the death of Joseph and Hiram Smith and to have reference to this nation. It can have no such application, as the endowments were given long before the death of Joseph and Hiram Smith, and have not been changed. This nation or government has never been charged by the rrormon people with the assassination of Joseph and Hiram Smith, as it is well known the murder was the act of a local mob disguised.

Concerning the cry about blood atonement, there is this: The foundation of our religious faith is belief in the atoning blood of Christ, through which the resurrection will be brought about. We believe in the scripture doctrine, "whoso shedeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed," but we also believe that all executions for murder should be under the law of the land and by its officers only.' State, merits made by two or three apostate mormon witnesses, to the effect that the endowment cermonics involved the death penalty upon those who leave the church and disobey the priesthood, are simply untrue. The cause of the present agitation is purely political. There are two local parties. The people's pnrty is composed !argely of onr people, although a number of non-mormons sympathize with it. The self-styled liberal party is composed almost entirely of anti-mormons and they are but a small minority ic the territory. There will be a municipal election next February. The present proceedings have been instituted by the anti-mormons as a means to enable theru to carry the election. Doubtless the agitators have also in view the approaching cession of congress. The Investtsntion. Salt Lake, Utah, Nov. 23. The investigation in regard to the endow ment house oaths and teachings of the mormon church was resumed in the district court this morning. Further evidence was adduced in regard to the ovation tendered by the mormon people to I). II. Wells in 1878 urxm bis release from the penitentiary. James E. Talmage, principal of the mormon college in this city, was then called by the defense, lie testified that the pupils of the schools wero taught that the revelation in regard to plural marriage was from Gal; that the constitution when properly administered did not interfere with any revelations of God. The witness said he believed polygamy was right and the law against it unconstitutional, notwithstanding the decision of the supreme court of the United States. All pupils were taught to obev the revelation of celestial marriage. The witness thought that about one in thirty of his friends were polygamists. lie believed the president of "the church was divinely ealled and would obey him. MARRIED TOO SOON. A Wire Who Thought Her Hiuband Dead Is Now a ISigamiNt. Minneapolis, Nov. 22. In February last. George Knowlton of this city w ent to Leseur, Minn., on business, and from that time until yesterday nothing was heard of hira. His wife exhausted every means to obtain a clew to his whereabouts, but finally gave him up as dead. Yesterday afternoon, to the surprise of his friends, Knowlton reappeared. He says he remembers nothing from the time he left Leseur until April, when he awoke in a farm-house near Mank3to, Minn. The people of the house told him he had wandered there in a delirious condition. His young wife, despairing of ever seeing her husband alive aeain, accepted the pronosal of a young mechanic, and was married two weeks Ago. The couple now reside in Chicago. NINE LIVES LOST. That is Trobably the Itecord of the Manhattan ColliKion. Xew York, Nov. 23. It is generally believed that there were nine lives lost through the collision and sinking of the old Dominion steamer Manhattan, which ran into the schooner Agnes Manning Thursday night. Those supposed to have been lost depended upon life preservers for their safetv. Their names were : FRANK McKENNA, fireman. KK'HAUD ISINGHAM, fireman. JOHN PETERSEN, fireman. HENRY ROM ER, fireman. . JAMES REID, colored waiter. JOSEPH DAVIS, colored waiter. WILLIAM VAUGIIAN. JAMES C. TO DIN. WILLIAM WALKER. The three last mentioned were steerage passengers. A COMMUNITY SHOCKED. Mrs. Matthews of Princeton Charges Her flush ml With An Ontrngfooi Crime. Vincennks, Nov. 23. Special. Mrs. Elsie Anna Matthews created a sensation to-day by going before Mayor Murphy and swearing out a warrant against her husband, John Calvin Matthews, charging him with incest. The victim is alleged to be his twenty-year-old step-daughter, Lillie May Morris, and the fruit of his illicit relations a bright-eyed boy of tighteen months wasbrouzht before the court. On being arraigned Matthews pleaded guilty to the crime, but the girl protested her innocence. lkth, however, were sent to iail. in default of bail, to await the action of the circuit court. The family heretofore w as considered highly respectable, HARRIET BEECHER STOWE MAD. Ilrr Dementia Is Harmlcn, But None the Less 1'itiable. Hartford, Conn., Nov. 19. Mrs. Harriet fteecher Stowe is mildly demented. The fires of genius are dead, and the once brilliant mind is choked with their ashes. The heart, once filled with bright dreams and sunshine, is now haunted by ghosts and shadows. She has become again a child, and day by day she wanders around under the bare boughs of the autumn trees, gathering their dead leaves. She is quite harmless, and, in fact, so insidious baa been the approach of the disease that not over two hundred people in Hartford are aware of her condition. Two generations ajro she wrung tears from the eyes of the civilized world with the magic of her pen. Only last week she wandered out into the street alone, an old, white-hnired woman, bent with the weight of years, but simple and harmless as a child. A shawl which hnnir from her shoulders draeced on the ground and her cray hair was in disorder, he smiled, and talked to herself as she tottered weakly along, and finally a crowd of rough street boys were following her. They laughed and ieered at the pitiful sight, not knowing who she was. "Only a little way," she said, as she reached the corner, irresolute as to which way to turn. At this moment a centleman came along who had known her in happier years. Tears spraug into his eyes at the sight. He dispersed the boys, and with some difficulty induced the aged woman to return home. The foregoing was related by an eye-witness. Mrs. Stowe is provided with a nurse, but is allowed freely to go about the house. She is perfectly quiet and has no violent fancies. Her trouble seems to be a gradual wearing- away of all the faculties. Boils, carbuncles, and other skin eruptions indicate that the system is endeavoring to reject poisonous acids, and that Ayers Sarsapar ilia is imperatively needed. It is the most reliable of all blood medicines. Ask your drugcist for it. and take do other.

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PROPOSED BY INDIANA ODD FELLOWS. Meeting of the Grand Lodge In This City Wednesday A Testimonial To Grand Secretary Foster Reports of tho Officers For the Tear. Wednesday morning a crowd of young and old men wearing gold badges, a shepherd's tent and crook symbol filed into the Odd Fellows' halt and opened up the first session of the annual meeting of the grand lodge of Indiana. After the delegates' credentials had been passed upon the reports of the officers were sent to committees. The grand master's report showed a noble work done by the lodges in this state. They sent over $2,200 through their respective lodges to the Johnstown flood sufferers. The grand secretary, B. F. Foster, one of the oldest odd fellows in the state, submitted his report. There had been 1,0.10 new members ad.led to the rolls in the last year. For the relief of 1,912 memters there had been expended $40,7P.27, and $2,040.98 for the relief of the 13o families of deceased memlers. The other expenditures include $110.24 for the education of orphans: Sil, 131. 15 for burying tho dead, and 5,671.73 for other charitable work. There is $13,lC0..r2 left in the treasury. Ten new lodges of the ladies degree of Kebekah and three subordinate lodg-s have been organized. There are r0,S'.t2 members now in the Btate divided among 5-38 lodges. The sovereign grand lodge representatives reported the total members in the world at 1,311,''7!. When the grand lodge reconvened in the afternoon the committee on grievances and appeals made its report. A memorial tribute to William Y. Monroe was passed. A number of important mat- I ters, including proposed changes in J the laws, were laid over until ! to-day. The committee that was ap- I pointed to prepare plans for establishing a home for aged odd fellows made a report favoring the project. The venerable secretary, Mr. T. F. Foster, was presented with a" beautiful ritual jewel in appreciation of his past services to the order. The grand encampment of odd fellows held its annual session in Odd Fellows' hall last week. The morning session was taken up almost entirely in bear'n? the reports of the officers. The grand patriarch, A. C. Daily, reviewed the past year's work and the condition of the order, all of which was most satisfactory and flattering. Grand Scribe B. F. Foster reported that since the last meeting of the body one encampment had been added and X9 members. The condition of this branch of the order is excellent. The amount of money paid out for relief and charity during the year was 412,384.55. The report of Grand Treasurer Theo. P. Ilaughev showed the financial condition to be tnost flattering. In the afternoon the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Grand Eatriarch, Lawrence Gates of Angola; grand igh priest, S. P. Stroup of tYaldron; grand" senior warden, J. V". Cooper of Kokoiao; grand junior wtrden, J. B. Cockrum cf Boonville; grand 6cnbe, B. F. Foster of Indianapolis; grand treasurer. Theo. P. Hauchey of Indianapolis; representative to the Sovereign lodge, A. C. Pailey of Lebanon ; grand sentinel, Joseph S. Watson; deputy grand sentinel, D. Kuhn of Camden. During the afternoon a memorial to W. Y. Monroe, past grand representative who died Oct. 1.1, was read. Mr. Monroe was one of the oldest baptist ministers in the state, and was foryears the grand chaplain of the order in the state. Komi Furc-hnnes. Washington, Nov. 23. The following is a statement of U. S. bonds purchased from Aug, S, to date: Amount purchased, fours, $1)8,158,600; of fours ad a half, $125,504,CCötotal, $223,662,(550; cost, fours. $T25.f,?t33i; fours and a half. $135.559,800 total, $201.1 70,151; cost at maturity, fours, $171,23'. 4oVi ; fours and a half, $1 12,ltO,45r-total, 313,410,P:i Ssvine, fours, $45.fi47,('$2 ; fours and a half, $0,593,650 total, $52,240,741. Dr. Ball's Conga Syrup is the most popular expectorant we are selling. Hadley Bkos., 317 Indiana-ave., Indianapolis, Ind. All bnmors of the scalp, tetter sores and dandruff cured, and falling hair checked; hence, baldness prevented by using Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Kenewtr. News About Town. It is the current report about town that Kemp's Balsam for the throat and lungs is making some remarkable cures with people who are troubled with i-oujrhs, sore throat, asthma bronchitis and consumption. Any druceist will give you a trial bottle free of cost. It is guaranteed to relieve and cure. The laree bottles are 50 cents and $1. Short Hand. Here is a pood chance for any boy or girl to get a good lesson-book without cash. You will be expected to distribute some cards among your friends. The exercises you prepare will be corrected free. Send for information to the Moran Short-hand company, SL Louis, Mo. The best and surest dye to color the beard brown or black, as may be desired, is Buckingham's dye for the whiskers. It never fails. Impure water, the . cause of so mach 111hesJtn, made harmless by adding a little Angostura Bitters. Manufactured by Dr. J. G. B. Eiegert fe Sons. For a disordered liver try Beecham's Pills. AGENTS WANTED. AGENTS $10 A DAY. MEDICATED ELECTRICITY. Sam. 2öc Cat. free. . Ii. brewster, Holly, Mich. 4-6-ji T ANTEDENERGETIC MEN AND LADIES IN W cities and country to handle fino splf-sel'ing articles to lorcs, bakers and privat hou. You run make from Sä to f'O per day. Mo experience needed; send cents for cuts or si for samples; they will bring- the money when through or cheap for votir o n . Chtef Mlg. Co., 87 to 103 t. Van 6ureu-t,, Chicago, 111. 11 FOlt SALK Inarms" all si zes. fi6i sSTper" aTrk"v p(rood, black, unimproved lunJsaUMO, f 12.50 end $15. Houses, lots ami plotting round at bocm.nt cily; nttlln, gfxxls, etc; b.g lint free. Alex. I.pküc, Washington, Ind. K-itaiili AGENTS end larmrrt with no experience nniUe -.50 an hoar ciurinif npare time. A. 1). BTf. IS4 W.Koooirts Ave., t'oviugton, Ky., ui.le ftai n- l.r. 's! snr wes-U. !o ran yt.u. I'root nml nilloyue free. J. E. M(ii'AKi) & Co., CincitiDuii, u. THE FOCXET PRINTES 25? ft ftjph ttt f msu ru j tm. Tps sWlr, lwtl IN. ,-imt'.K at)4 durruonm tm tesl . W iti art tap u; aaxae ejiw , a b chanf!1 I. ti-B. for fwu.u, rani mask -c. mkp I? mr ftrvtiv . tr Jit thin rttwau r 11 aatataeta anl acni trrww vHli aarh. 4 4,$ L UmiU Uro, ii rvitoaU Jk.V.lU srwiimnrs rott rFtcForrtMC r la brutlfij tTTM Sit Drink Li nttsi IM, M w um y lit. Mfd Hm rar ittv. w tun, wa ar . I, gi, .rite. mm iiwtiim vlt ruu wlen br ' Ua&UUalngWMll Una, tallaa bw S.1. V.ij. The Most Riuisu Foon For Infonts & Invalids. Aij Meiji'iu but a rpecially prepared !, adapted to the weakest atoinach. i eizenesna. I'ainph'etiree. Wmlri A & ci. (on very 1 abclX ralmer, X an. With tiuvm MnmlM Ml MB firwaa xpeaaes. . iiiU CO., Ill B. KwUms St., iaioaw. liZ tana. AptvS wanted. smd 10 to umi-Kiii-T

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icago, Ecci Islam! & Pacific Ey. Including IJnes iet and T7est cf th Iffiseotr! River. Tho Direct Koute to end from CHICAGO, ItOCK ISLAKD. DAVF-NTOBT. DKS MOrNXS. COTTXCII. BLUrra, 'WATkBTOWJf. 6I0UX FALL?, MINNEAPOLIS. ST. FAUL, ST. JOSEPH. ATCHItJON. LEAVIKWOKTH. KANSAS CITY. TOPE K. A, DENVEB, COLOBADO SFNOS and PUEBLO. Tree ileclirirj Chair Cera to and from CHICAGO, CALDWELL. HUTCHIN50M and DODGE CITY, and Palace SWtn Cera between CHICAGO, WICHITA and HUTCHINSONS SOUS VEST23ULE EXPRESSTRAINS of TbrourA Cocches. Pleepers. Free Reclining Ctieir Car and (Eant of Ko. Kiver Dinln? Cars) doily betwwi CXilCAOO. CIS IWCrMtS. COUNCIL I5LUITFS lad 02IAHA, witti FHE Eecliaia? Chair Or ta IJOÄTil PLATTE fFeb.). and between CHICAGO tied DENVER. COLOHADO &PRIT03 and Ptjr.BID. via Bt. Joserh. or Kansas CitT ncd Topcka. 6jiendid Dining Hotels west cf Bt. Joseph and Kar eoa City. Excursion dniiv. with Choice of Eoutcs to end from Bait Iake. Portland. la VLcpoie on3 San Francisco, in Direct Lir.e to ord J rem Pike' Feait, MarütDU, Oardea of the Oods, the Saultanuas, and Bcouic GranSeirs cf Colorado, Via The Albert Lea Route. Eolid Express Trains rtai'.y bctwn Ctlcawo and Minneapolis and Bt. Pnul, with. Ti"-BOUCa Ueclimr Chnir Cars (FIILE) to and fron taesa points and HansqaCity. Tiirourb Chair Car and Siecper between Poorift. Spirit lalie and Sioux FrUs via Kock Inland. T-e r.ivorite Line to Vptrtowa, Sioux J'alis, tJie Summer Usorts and Huntiae aad Fisiig Crcucda cf lie KcrtiwcÄ The Snort X.ine via. 6?neca nd KaskVcs oftti f&riiitie3 to travel to ixid from Irt(Äiäcapolis. ClAcinnati tn3 tiier SouUiera points. Fcr Tickets. Haps. ro'.der3, or 6 -sired iiiforaa tion. apply at r-ny Coupon Ticket CZici, or address C.ST.JOHK, JOHH SEBASTIAM, fa'l Jlinaccr. Cetfl TA & 2Pa3. Av CHICAGO. ILL. SALE OF STATE LANDS. STATE OF INDIANA, Office k Arrnroit of state. Notice i liercbr tirec. tlist in p'irusnce to tha provisions of an : of the o-ncrr.l Asmtlr of the Si; tc if Indiana, eutltit-d "An -t anth rizOB the saif and conveyRiicc of oer'.ain lauds f,f the State of Indian-), dls(.oineof th fTOCds thereof, and provi.i;n.r for the rev.very of the -ow-ssion of any lands of the stat unlawfully lield, and for the rent of any of the lauds of tl; st.ite until S'ld, repealing all laws iu c v.ti'i l there th, and lec'srn:? an emerj-ncr," approved March 9. I-:, I siiM otkT for saie to the highest bidder at th .liiee of the Auditor of Mate, in the citr ot lndana;oli, at from 10 a. tu. to 4 p. ni., on Monday, Ieoetiiber V, 19, the foüowiut; described real estate, situate in I'otct county, belonging to the State of Iudiana and authorized' to bo (Id by said act: The'e of the s e fr qr section 21. township I south, ran te IS vvl. Apt.rsiseiueat, 5125. The w of the e fr qr section township I south, ranee IS west. Apprai-wment. ?15. )aid tracts of hn1 al-ov d.-fcerihed. wt!l first 1 ofiert'd it.r cash. I! no bid for .h is received, said, tracts of land wi'.l iruineriiau-ly lie re-otleri-d for i-ale on a credit not to exre-d five years, internst being paynhle aacuilly in a Ivaaoe, at tb rate of mx rs-r cent, per annum. No bid for I-s than the anpri'spd ralua wi.l be retired. EUL' V. CA KB, Auditor of ."tat. Indianapolis, Ind., November 1 1, 1-f?. 13-3t GRATEFUL COMFORTriQ. EPPS'S COCOA. BREAKFAST. "Fy a thorough. inowM.," of ths natural Iai which corern thu oneratiom of di jetioo aal n itn tion, au J by a careful a;pücioa of tas nne proferUes cf wetl-ielectod Cocoa, Mr. üpp aas prondsl cur breakfast uhies ith a deUcatclr flavored beverage which mr.r sro us many hoary "doctors' bills. Li ltb.T the judicioua use of sucli axurla of dit fast m Constitution may be srrvlualiy built up uotU atroaf ioni;hU resist every tendency to d. 394 vs. ii jaorad of subile maladies an floating around vsrealy to WacK wherever tilers is weal piint. We may escape many a fr.ial saait by k?eplnir ourselre wed lortilied wiih pure biood aal a properly njarubsl trasie." Civil &erviC3 iarett. Made eirapiy wiia boilinx water or miilc. Soli enly in hal!-iKand tins, r Grocers, labelled th; J AM La t-FFa a CO., liomttopaih c Chemists, Loaion. Kuj.aai. w .xV t?3rfSX-PSl HAV-prafoM 50 cts. m& GOLD-HEAD GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 187& W. BAKER & CO.'S vA t i r m. n ! - liPnoiTnnT nnna : r - E r ill i.ri t n . lll.lt rl No Chemicals are used io !! prr paration. It bta tun than tkrt timet Ike ttrengtk of Cor mixed with fiarch. Amsrruu or Sugar, and ia thrrrf.ire far mere economical, coifing I than ea cent ej. It it &iciui, noirihii, tmifthi ninr, EASILY Pioestco, aod aiimirab'7 adapted for Uv;.i! a well as pence ia health. Sold hj Grocers everywhere. "W. BAUES & CO., Dorctester, Mas. NOTICE. To Whom It Mav Concern: Notice is hcr.'hy riven that the Board of Trustees of the Tou or UrUhtwood will ni'xt in Brfchtwood t their reeular rdaee of nteetina Monday mizht, i iv. 2S, 19, to boar any aud all riesanre and all other waiters pertaining to said improvement oi Foun Iry ftrccJ, on which Jtnproi e n nt nnal rpp"ri bits boeii made to the It.ard of Trustees of the Town of I'.rifr'.itwood, which final report i now on file with, tho derk of said Tnwn of Prii.-lilw.MHl fr eiaiulnati.'ti and i:if p"ti' n. Pv order of the board. JOHN li. WISK.NOVi'. JONN U. AT:. Town Ctirk. lTcridcnt o. itard. JOTICK OF A FTOIN TM TNT, NO. 1,H Notice is hereby pivon tbRt the undersigned hss duly fji'aiif.ed as ai'.iiiicis'.r.itor of the -rt f 1 lianiel Mi-Ornth. ho cied intestate In ik'"'Vj couniy, Indiana, June l", und that 1 wis a i poiiiini to slid trit bv the Mirinn Orcn't ronrt October 31. l."Vj. JSaid estate is supposed to be solr. eat. JAM I S K1.MII AN, A irur. Will F. A. IVrnhauicr, Ationity, M lia-t tourt-st., Indianapolis. 13-3t Win. E. Melean, 1st First I. p-itr Commissioner and acting ( omml!oTier of Tensions. Jos. V. fci-hol,lat l-aw lerk, I'ostotlice lepartm'i, Win. t. Meli. Claim Attorney. Mrl.l.AN NU HoU Attorneys at Law, Looms 31, s; and .'!4, Atlantic Building, " Washington, I'. C. Attention to Pensions, rtiits and Halms before the rostoti.ee Pepurtineut ai.d in the Executive Departments. SHORT-HAND. The "R -porttne Style." by F.ldon Moran. is the name of thelet book for ll-instruction ever published. IMinan systetii. Pric,it.5. Mmplepages free. lessons by mail. Ad inns THE MORAN SHORT-HAND COMPANY. OliTe-ft, it. Louis, Mo. CHICHESTEFVS CNGUCH PEHrtYROYAL FILLS. Hod Cross liatmnl itravud. The .nlT rcll.tlc rill for iw'n. f ! aar, ladles ask ' Um Dia. noes Iteano, is red Bina.i it heirs. ax4 Ith .urttca. TakCBOMhee. sb14 (tunr) for parttcuiu-a Keller mt Lailira.n tm -er. br mamil. Aim CUchciler Cltmlcai Ca auou! tu,, i'Miaaa, 1

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