Pike County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 49, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 April 1884 — Page 1

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVEBY THURSDAY. JOYsmCUCRION: for one year ..j.. *110 Tor six months... 75 Tor three months.....gg INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. AnVERTISINC BATES: One square (9 lines), cne insertion. Tat'h additional insertion.... n 00 pid'for'in advanre!'1 ^ ^ments must be Ofite ever City Drag Store, center Bain and lighth1 VOLUME PETERSBURG, INDIANA; THURSDAY, NUMBER-4!

NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. ' CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Is the Senate on the 7th the education bill was taken np and Mr. Hoar's amendment making; the amount to be expendei $71,000,000 was adopted 38 to 12. Also, amendments providing that equal opportunities for education •hall be griven to all children; that the appropriations shall be used only forpublic schools, not sectarian in character. Several other amendments were adopted and the bill passed by a vote of SI to II.In the House a bill passed directing tho Secretary of the Interior to deliver to the .Cincinnati law library certain court reports and other public documents. Numerous bills were introduced. A motion making bills for erection of public buildings a special order for Aprils was agreed to. Mr. Converse moved, to suspend tne rules and pass the bill restoring the duty of 1881 on wool. After long debate the motion was defeated—119 to 128. A resolution declaring it unwise to abolish or reduce the tax on spirits Was adopted. In the Senate on the 8t h a bill was introduced providing for deposits in the Treasury of the receipts of the money order system. Bills passed to bridge the Rio Grande at Eagle Ta« and Laredo; The Naval appropriation bill was taken up and Mr. Hale gave notice of amendments appropriating $1,751,000 for plant for oi-dnance foundries. Mr. Vest opposed giving money to be expended by the present Set rotary of the NavyNo action was reached.... In the House the bill to appoint a commission to tix the boundary between Texas and the Indian Territory passed. Also, bill regulating Territorial courts. The bill requiring the Governor of a Territory to have resided two years therein before hits appointment was discussed without action.

xm me senate on tne :r-n uie original dui to establish a post il telegraph system was reported favorably. The naval bill was taken up, the discussion being mainly confined to Secretary Chandler's fitness to have charge of the department while contracts for new ►flips were letting....In the House a resolution to investigate the system of live stock transportation was referred to the Committee on Commerce. The House went into committee of the whole on public building bills. There was much opposition and progress was slow. The bill for a 130,000 building at Keokuk, la, was discussed and laid over for favorable recommendation. The bill for a gWQ.OOO building at Waeo, Tex., was next discussed. Both bills were reported to the House and recess til the 10th was taken without action. lit the Senate on the 10th a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury was ' read recommending an appropriation of $175,0)0. for a new revenue cutter for Alaskan waters. The bill to bridge the Mississippi at St. Louis was reported favorably. Consideration of the naval bill was resumed and an amendment adopted increasing to f500,000 the appropriation for guns for the new cruisers. Objection was made to the committee .amendment providing for the construction of additional cruisers «m the ground that a separate bill for that purpose had already passed the Senate. Adjourned till Monday_In the House a substitute was reported for the bill relating to the elect on of President and Vice-President After some skirmishing the House again went ii to committee on bills for erection of public build!rigs. New Albany, lnd., Chattanooga, Team, and Augusta, Mrs, were th r favored localities, favorable recommendations being made tor buddings therein. Th* Senate was not In session on the 11th... .In the House the hill passed authorizing the offer cf $25,101 reward fer information of or rescue of the Greely expedition. The jesrlutioTi declaring the charges against General Boynton not sustained by the evidence was adopted. The bill to limit the time for beginning prosecutions under the intern it revenue laws and the bill to forfeit the Northern Pacific land grant were reported favorat ly. The House went into eommitteewjf the wnole on the pension appropriation bill. The amount appropriated is fSK.sW.pjo. Gf which $flti,000.000 is an unexpended balance from last year. Several amendments were discussed, but no action taken. The estimate of the Chief of Ordnance for sea coast armament was submitted and referred- Its calls for $1,500,000. A night session was held lor consideration of * pension bills.

PERSONAL AJH> JPOIJTIGAZm At Jackson, Mich., Judd Crouch and Dan. S. Holcomb, who were held for the Crouch murder, hare been admitted to bail in $10,000 each. On the 7th ex-Congressman' Dezendorf favored the Danville Committee with some testimony on the election riots. He lays? the blame on Mahone. A Polish merchant mimed Charles Rice, who is also agent of a steamboat company at Shenandoah, Pa., and whose tenements are occupied by Hungarian emigran's, has been notified to leave town or die. Dr. Collins was before the Jeannette investigation committee on the 8th and told his story. Morgan Cammack has been captured again. — It is supposed that the lady who recently committed suicide at the Laclede Hotel, St. Louis, Mo., was Mrs. A. M. Rogers, of Fills City, Neb. On the 8th Cincinnati elected a Democratic city ticket. Throughout the State party gains varied with the local issues involved in the election. President Arthur and Cabinet attended the funeral of the late Minister Hunt at Washington, D. C., on the 8:h. ! The will of Mrs. Ottendorfer, wife of the editor of the New York /Staats Zeitnng disposes of an estate worth 83,000,000 and leaves many bequests to benevolent objects. i Crow King, one of’the most prominent of the Sioux Indian chiefs, died of quick consumption at Standing Rock Agency, D. T., pn the 5th. Superintendent or Police Walling of New York is seriously ill from nervous prostration. Over-won-k arid the recent Legislative investigations are assigned as causes. . i Order!) have been sent by the British Government to General Gordon to withdraw from Khartoum with the garrison.. • Assistant General Manager H. C. Atkins, of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Road, has been stricken with paralysis. I Governor Sherman of Iowa has been enjoined from conveying to the Federal Government certain Sioux. City and St. Paul lands in accordance with a recent act of the Legislature. An order has been issued placing Colonel Mott abd Lieutenant-Colonel Phillips of the Fourth Regiment Ohio militia under arrest, and they will be tried by court-martial for failing to obey orders at the Cincinnati riot. i In the Sharon divorce case matters have reached each a state oil’ tension that the Judge requires a policeman at the door to search every one for concealed weapons on entering the Court-room. On the 9th Miss Elizabeth Abbott, aged twenty-one, committed suicide at Corry, Pa., with strychnine. Disap[ointment in love whs the cause. The Swiss authorities hare expelled Ruiz Zorilla from the Republic. • Comptroller Knox is about; to resign to go into the banking busi ness. Proposal* have been made to Osman Digna for an understanding with the British. ; The Russian Consul nit Now York, M. Weletzki, has been transferred, to London. ‘ j Secretary Frelingbuysen has asked for a commission to ca nvass trade relations with Central and South America. I The New Hampshire Democrats will hold their convention to choose delegates to Chicago on May 1. . The English novelist, Charles Reade, died on the 11th. j Oe tite 9th LieutenaiV -Colonel Miguel Castillo, a veteran Mex ican soldier, who fought in the war of Independence, the war with France and also in that with the United States, died at V ira Cruz, : A Cuban named Anrelio M troll, just arrived at Key West, Fla. has been arrested on the charge of conspiring to assassinate the Cuban Governor-Gen eral. I General Badeau has resigned! his position as Consul-General at Havana, Cuba. On Good Friday President Arthur attended scrr fro «t St. Qb*i^

L. R. Redhono, a'convic »d moonshiner, has been transferred froo the Auburn, (N. Y.) State Pr ison to the Penitentiary at Colombia, 8. CL, on the reqaest of Senator Butler. Special Postal Af.ent Tfoodward continued his Star-route reve atious on the 11th. Jules Ferry, the French Premier, is not satisfied with the decision reached by the Franco-American Indemnit y Commission. Dn. Norvin Gieeh think ; if the Government is going into the telegraphNbusiness it ought to buy tl e er isting 'lines. \ Chiefs Chicote and Spiecbee kaVe agreed to abide by the de cision of the Inferior Department ' and the Cieek troubleaare regarded as settled, \. The man Winkleback, who is supposed, to have butchered an old couple at Bardin, 111., was hustled about from one jail to another, on the 11th, by the officers for the purpose of dodging lynchers. Or the night of the llti Dr. James M. Ramsey, a distinguished physician and writer, died at Knoxville, Tenn. He was for many years President of the Tennessee Historial Society,. Alfred L. Hill, nival cadet from Illinois, has resigned. Major Moors, of the Salvation Army in New York, has been arrested on a charge of etealing 1(800 of the funds of the organization. . Governor Me Lam: of Maryland has appointed a preruin »nt Hebrew of Baltimore, Benjamin F. If 3 lima n, an aide on his military staff with tie rank of Colonel.

CBIMTS AND BACSIIAI.TTES. A Conflagration on the 7th at Gerugan, Moravia, burned fifty hor ses. A woman and two children peiished in the flames. Five more French missionaries are said to have been assassinated in Tonquin. By a railway collision near Dublin on the 9th, thirty-five persons wei a injured. An attempt was made by dynamiters on the 8th, to blow up a British fortress near Inverness, Scotland. A large portion ot the city of Mandalay, Bormah, was recently destroyed by fire. The place has a popu lation of 91,000. A Hartford (Conn.) saloon-keeper named Lejris Tracey, shot and killed George Ethier or. the 9th \ ith a pistol he did not know was loaded | On the 10th a party of surveyors were fired on by squatters near Charleston, W. Va., and one of them was r ounded. On the 10th H» P. Baefcley, of Whitewater, Wis., was found ; iurdered in an alley at Leadville, Col. On the 10th the body of J. R. Stevens, a [hotel keeper at Jewell Junction. Ia., was found at that place lying on the railroad track with the head severed Murder was suspected. ’ • At Greencamp, O., the calaboose burned the night of the 9:h,au4 with it James Kenyon, aged fifty-five, vho was confined for drunkenness. While stealing a., ride on a Wabash train, on the 10th, a tramp fell between the cars at Delphi, Ind., and was mangled beyond recognition. By an explosion of dynamite in a stone quarry, near Franklinton, IS, C.,on the 10th Doc Hobinson and Edward Strong were killed, and four other men wounded. On the 10th Jessie Gordon, aged six years, was suffocated in a corn bin at Hastings, Neb. The Detroit (Mich.) Daily Time* office was burned out on the 10th. On the Hth two me n were killed by a fall of earth in a brick-yard at Pittsburgh, Pa. On the 11th the body of Mrs. Celia Bnsh, a miserly recluse, was found in a thicket near her home at Federalsburg, Md., with her throat cut. H er t ome had been robbed.

MISCJCt.1 ANEI'DS. The convention of Stock-Growers at Cheyenne, Wy. T., insists on an improvement in the construction of: stock-cars and reform in stock yards management. On the 8th in the gas-well riot cases at Greensburg, Pa., a continuance to the May term was granted, the Judge having been subpoened as a witness for the defense. The attempt ol the French to cnt ofj the retreat of the Chinesjy^om Bac Ninh was a dismal failure.. It is rej>orted that one of Colonel Sudeikin’s assassins has seen arrested at Moscow. The authorities of Spanish Honduras have made application for 12,000 feet of space in the mair. building of the World’s Exposition at New Orleans. On the evening Of the Sth, the committee of ex-Confederatc soldiers and Grand Army of the Republic representatives met in New York and nude final preparations for a mass meetiug in Ciioper Union to aid in collecting funds 'or the establishment of the Soldiers’ Hone i 1 Richmond, Va. On the 9th two todies were recovered from the wreck ol tha Steinmann. It is reported that the Hovas and French have again broker: oil negotiations in Madagascar, and more troops are to be sent there. On the night of the 9.H a vigilant watchman prevented safe aurglars from robbing the Adams Expi-es: i office in Allegheny City, Pa. Some days ago ;he agent of the PanHandle Road at Mingo Junction disappeared, and his accounts show a deficit of 113,000. Aguebo, the filibuster, .is reported to .have gathered a force of 225 men and destroyed several plan tations in Cuba. ON the 9th troops were called out to suppress the riot at Kid derminster, England. The supplementary Jeannette investigation continues to bring out testimony showing a scandalous state of strife and wrangling among the mom tiers of the expedition. On the 9th a special Grand Jury made np of prominent business men was impanelled at Cincinnati to investigate the riot and its causes. , A truce has been arranged between Chili and Bolivia. Chili will hang on to the Bolivian territory occupied by her troops and trade between the two countries will ' be free. A resolution has lieen adopted by a subcommittee of the H raw Judiciary Committee for a const:tut ionel amendment declaring that Cong-ess shall not have power to declare anything.lot gold and silver le-gal-tender, except in case of rebellion or invasion. At its meeting cat he 9th the Pennsylvania Democratic Convention declared for tariff for revenue, abolition of the internal revenue system, rtsta action of contract importation of pauper labor, legislative regulation of corporati on! and economy in expenditures. A resolution indorsing Randall for President was adopted. At the opening of the Senate on the 9th, the Chaplain prayed to just one solitary member beside the Sjiealnr. Dispatches front Kh» -toum, under the date of March 39, showed Gordon's position to be extremely ciitical and his troops mutinous. He had repelled several advances of the rebels. The Governor ot Washington Territory has commuted to imprisonment for life the sentence of death- tnheve been executed upon E. M. Gronini, a Swiss, on the 15th. There were grave doubts as to his sanity. Oh the 9th, Baltimore, ltd., had the heaviest fall of snow oiithsweater. Inportions of Pennsylvania i •ail way travel was' seriously impeded. On the9;h entrances tc the Pocahontas mine were opened end fans weye to be put in operation end da e ffort made to secure tbe remains of the den*. !»i»ws,_ — *

_ The increased valuation of railroad property in Iowa over1883, is about $1,150,000. r. The Court authorities at Indianapolis, Ind., are taking cognizance of rerent events in Cincinnati, and are purging the jury business of many abases that have crept in. Pbospectoks have discovered another geyser basin I in the Upper Yellowstone Volley. England is to have a beet sugar factory with capacity! of 11,000 tons. In France the stinking colliers have demanded that their wages be paid daring the time lost by the strike. Affairs in Cuba are verging on anarchy, owing to the heavy taxation and reduced prices of sugar products. The Legislature of Nova Scotia has extended the franchise in the municipal elections to unmarried women. The forces under Agnero, the filibuster, have compelled several bodies of Cuban troops to retire, and there is great excitement in Havana. A Dutch fleet is blockading the Achenese coast to compel the release of the ship's crew captured, some time ago. The Governments of France, Italy, Germany, England and the United States, have demanded largi sums from Hayti for damages sustained by their citizens daring the riots.

Returns of the Department of Agriculture indicate that the winter wheat area this year will exceed that of 1880 by 2,000,000 acres. The employes of the Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis Road, with the exception of conductors acid engineers, have struck because of unpaid wages. The Osage; Indian delegation now in Washington have persuaded the Secretary of the Interior to recommend that their tribe be excepted from the bill to allot Indian lands in Severalty. Oh the 10th the Senate in executive session, passed u resolution authorizing the President to recogn do the International Association as the ruling power in the Congo region.: Oh the evening of the 9th, two brothers-in-law at Niagara Fails went over to Goat Island and thence below to Lnna Island. One has been found shot through the head, and the other Is sup posed to have jumped in the river and went over the falls. Smaix-pox is reported as epidemic in Ballard County, Ky.. Oh the 9th three hundred and eighteen Mormon emigrants left Liverpool on the steamship Nevada. Coal, mining in the anthracite region is to be suspened this week. The Grand .lory at Buffalo, N. Y., are investigating the gamblers. Our Michigan neighbors expect a good apple crop, but only half acropof peaches, this year. Recent henyy ruins and waterspouts caused bad washouts along the Southern Pacific Railroad in California. At Berber the situation grows more menacing and the rebels threaten to lay siege to the place. ! A Combination has been formed of seven teen stove manufacturers to control prices and production. By reason of a coal-heavers* strike Harper’s Rolling Mill at Newport, Ky., has been forced tc* shat dawn. Drains the iseven days ending the 11th there were 175 business failures in the United States and thirty-nine in Canada. At St. Catherines, Canada, a bloody riot occurred on the 11th between Irish and Italian railroad laborers. Four members of the Chinese Privy Council have ; been degraded by the Empress for the) lax manner in which they have dealt with the Tonqnin troubles. The circulation of a Geneva Anarchist journal has been prohibited by the French Government.; Oh the 11th Two dynamiters with a stock of explosives were seized by the Birmingham (England) police. It is thought a clew has been obtained which will probably lead to the arrest of the miscreant who caused the fatal wreck on the Pan-Handle Road. The postal -revenue, the Third Assistant Postmaster-Gjenernl estimates, will be $2,. 210,240 less than last year. Tub markets of Cuba ore in a state ol panic. Bandits are roving about the country, and) large bodies of troop3 are gathered about Havana. The disquiet is; heightened by rumors that the Government has effected another large loan at a ruin ons rate of interest.. Oh the 11th; upwards of 1,001,000 feet of Jogs were released by the break-up of tho ice in the Penobscot River at Bangor, Me.

LATE HEWS ITEMS. Ik the House of Representatives on tho Utli, a number of bills were reported, among them one for acceptance by tho United States of the Illinois and Michigan' Canal. Eulogies were pronounced on the late Thomas H. Herndon of Alabama. It is reported that the Black Flags evacuated Hung Hoa after setting fire to tho city. Thirteen men have entered for the sixday walk at Madison Square Garden, Nevr York. Messrs. Ghislin, brokers, of Antwerp, have tailed for 16,001,COO francs. The two .dynamiters arrested in England, on the* 11th, have been remanded for trial. Eenrys’s Bank, at Mineral Point, Wis., closed on the 12th with heavy liabilities. At the close of business on the 12th tho New York bonks held a balance of $3,617,0J0 in excess of legal requirements. Sunday base ball playing is being made the subject of investigation by the Fort Wayne (lud-)Grand Jury. The United: States dispatch boat Dolphin: was launched on the 12th at the' yard ol John Roach. Dr. John Hunter, a physician of some prominence, i tnd wide reputation as a forger ar t! swindler, has been indicted at Boston for forgery. Lawrence Barrett scored a decided success in London the night of the 12th in “Yorick’s Lo re.” Bismarck las recalled Ton Eisendecker, German Minister at Washington. Nine buildings in one of the principal business blocks of San Francisco, Cal., burned on tho 13tli. Loss, $175,OJO; insurance, $65,000. A rumor was current in London on the 13.h that Khartoum had fallen and that General Gordon was a prisoner. The Pope if said to be preparing a strong encyclical letter against the order of Free Masons and other secret societies. Byron, the dramatist, died in London on the 13tb. Marquis Tskeo hag been summoned home to Pekin to:confer with the Supreme Council. Earl Granviij.e is preparing a circular to the powers declaring that England is desirous of renewing definite understanding1 in regard to Egypt, find of establishing future relations on an international basis. S , •• Owing to a belief that another Cuban fil1 ibnster expedition had been organised at - Key West, FIs., the United States steamer Tennessee Is watching that harbor, ready to pounce upon any suspicious looking craft. A prise-fight near Buffalo, N. Y.,pnth« 12th, between two Pennsylvania pugs', war broken up by the police in the seven# round.

A IIXSTEKIOUS TJkiWEDY. Two Brolhen-lft-Lav of Prominent Kiag. an Falls Families Knaet a Tragedy on Irnaa Inland—The Body 6T One Found Shot to Death-Tin Other Supposed to Bare Gom Oror the Fans. i Niagara Falls, N. Y„ April 11. A startling double tragedy was enacted Thursday night on Luna Island at the brink of the American Falls. A wealthy and influential citizen of Suspension Br^ige shot and killed his brother-in-law and then walked off the icy bank into the cataract. It appears, however, that the men had family troubles, and the most reasonable way of accounting for the tragedy is that they went to the island to settle their difliculties, and one killed the other and then himself. Luna Island Is much below Goat Island and is leached by walking down a long flight of steps and crossing a bridge. The surface is covered with'snow and hail melted ice, the protecting railings at the edge being nearly buried in the snow. The icy spray blowing over on to the stnnted trees freezes as it falls. Altogether it is not the place where men go for amusement, or to have a friendly talk about their troubles.

-ine i: icts as garnered by your correspondent are that Thomas Vedder, the wealthiest man in the place, and his brother-in-law, Van R. Pearson, went out to drive at five o’clock in the afternoon. Pearson did not seem disposed to go and Vedder urged him to accompany him. They drove from Suspension Bridge to Niagara Palls, and at six o’clock went to Goat Island. The gate-keeper who leak them through is the last man who saw them alive and he noticed nothing nnu-' sual about either of the two men. Vedder promised to be home for supper at six o’clock, and as he was punctual in his habits, his absence excited some comment. At about ten o’clock his brother, James Vedder, with whom he lived, and Howard Pearson, son of Vedder’s companion, became much alarmed and scoured the village of Niagara Pails for the missing men. Toward midnight they ascertained that the two had gone on to Goat Island. The gate was closed at seven o’clock, but they aroused the gate keeper and ascertained that they had not returned. Policeman Burns and Boland were then summoned and began a search of the is-' land. Lighting their dark lanterns they traversed the muddy roads until they reached the northern promontory, where Vedder’s horse was found tied to a tree and coated with ice. The spray had fallen for hours on the animal and when he was released he could hardly move. The policemen, closely followed by the other sea rchers, went down on to Luna Island, and close to the brink saw two dark objects in the snow. The first was Pearson’s body. The head was covered with blood which had flown from two ugly pistol wounds. Burns felt of oae of the cold hands and shouted back: “I’ve found him; here’s Vedder!” Howard Pierson came running up, and looking at the ghastly face revealed by tJiaw’ light of the dark-lantern, burst into tears as he cried, “No, it’s father!” He tried to throw himself on the dead body, but was led away by the policemen. Vedder’s brother came up just then, but was not allowed to see the corpse. The policemen resumed the search, anti near the body found Vedder’s overcoat, undercoat and scarf, neatly piled up, with the vest beneath them and his hat on top. Tracks led from the clothes into the river at the edge of the cataract. There were no return foot-prints, and it was plain that after Vedder had killed Pearson he had walked deliberately into the falls. Whether he was seized by remorse, or. made insane by the events of the night and weird surroundings of the roar of the waters, can never be known. There was no robbery, for Pearsou’s wa tch and money were in his pockets, and there was money in Vedder’s vest. No indications of a struggle were visible. Pearson’# face wore a peaceful expression. Ilis arms were thrown back natural!}'. His hands were not clenched, and the physicians say that death must have been instantaneous. The revolver was not found, and as one of the shots could never have been fired by Pearson, there is no basts for the theory that lie killed himself. Pearson was married to Vedder’s sister. His first wife was also Vedder’s sister. He leaves a wife and four children. They live on Main street next door to Vedder’s house, which is one of the largest and finest in the place. Pearson was cashier of the New York Central Railroad, a position he has heidfortwenty-sixyears —ever since the road was started. He came here from Albany. He lias been very quarrelsome for the last few weeks. He drank hard, and was suspended by the, railroad company, but last week his friends secured his reinstatement. Pearson was proud and refused to return to work. His friends contemplated sending him to an asylum for the insane. Yesterday before the fatal drive Vedder and Pearson' s wife were seen driving at Suspension Bridger .'Pearson was about for-ty-eight years old, of medium height, andwore a full black beard. Thomas Vedder was unmarried, and was worth *250,000. He had been a partner of his brother James a score of years in the wholesale grocery business. They lived together in an elegant residence on Lockport street, Suspension Bridge. An unmarried sister, Catherine, and their mother, live in the same house. Vedder was tall, as straight as an arrow, and of dark complexion. He wore a full black beard, tinged with gray. He was about fifty-two years old. People who. knew Vedder say they do not think he would ha rm any one. The body of Vedder has not been found. It is probably beneath the Cave ol Winds, which cannot now be reached on account of ice, except by a rope, and none of the guides were willing to make the venture. The Condition of Affairs in Cohn. London, April 10. A correspondent of the Times writing from Madrid speaks as follows: “Signs of the approach of a serious economical crisis in Cuba are daily increasing. The continuous fall in sugar is bringing ruin ami disaster, and unless radical measures for relief are speedily adopted, the long suffering Cubans will be driven to courses disastrous for all. If Cuba is to be saved, the cost of living must be reduced, the system of administration and taxation improved, and freer markets obtained for her products.” A* Aliased Dynamite Pie*. Ottawa, Ont., April 10. A few weeks since a man from Chicago, stying himself Dr. Cosse, wrote to Sir John Macdonald, informing him that he knew of a plot being matured in the United States to Wow up the Parliament buildings with dynamite. Sir John Macdonald gave him permission to go ahead wiiih his detective business and refused to gbre him any remuneration until events proved the truth of his story and he accomplished what he promised. Dr. Cosse, since his arrival here, has been staying an the principal hotel, and seems well provided with money.

THE AN-HANDLE WRECK. 4 T'-ain Load of Passenger. Placed la Jeopardy to Gratify a Personal Grudge Against the Rood. Datum, a, April 12. There can now be no reasonable doubt that the recent Fan-Handle wreck was the work of a miscreant who had a grudge against the road. Detective John Murphy, of Columbus, who Is here to.day, was mat by your correspondent and stated that every indication points to this conclusion. The rail which wrecked the train was loosened by the spikes being drawn from the outside. It was evidently done by an experienced railroad man. Yesterday a clew to the man was discovered, who is described as about thirty-five years old, heavy set and wearing a dark mustache, who was seen about the place of the wreck a short time before it occurred. He broke into the tool-house near the bridge, and with the implements secured there toosened the rail. The tools were found in the woods, MO yards from the scene of the wreck, to-day, covered with leaves, etc. It is supposed that he came to this city. There is an intimation that the wreck is .the work of Narrow-Gauge strikers in' this city, but there is so proof to indicate the truth of

KATE TOWNSEND’S WEALTH. A Claimant for the Fortune Left by Trotsmno Syke*’ Victim in the Person of an ' ' Aliegeii Brother, Who Disowned Bits Sis. tiirin Kir Fall Bnt to Willing to Accept the Price of Her Shame. Chicago, In., April IS. Mr. Anstin A. Cana van,tht attorney employed by Andrew Cunningham, of this city, to prosecute the latter’s claims to the estate of Kate Townsend, the murdered New Orleans cvprian, was seen yesterday in relation to Cunningham’s prospects of success. Mr. Cunningham is not at pres- ’ ent in the city, but it is understood that he firmly believes that the Townsend woman was his sister. She was murdered by her alleged hnsband, Troisville Sykes, a few months ago, and Sykes;, who was made sole heir to her fortune of about #250,000, was acquitted. .He lias been prevented, however, from obtaining .possession of the property, by legal process, and it is now tied up in the court*;. The fact has already been pc blished that Cunningham instituted suit to secure the property, as one of the woman’s nearest, living relatives, and the circumstances which induced him to this course are somewhat peculiar. The story as told by Mr. Canavan is as follows: From proofs and other reliable information now in the possession of Cunningham it would seem that he and his two brothers here have at least a good claim to the estate. Air. Cunningham discovered his relationship with the woman in i. singular manner. ’At the i time of her death lengthy reports of the tragedy were printed in the local press. He read the first telegraphic report of the homicide, and, experiencing a peculiar and altogether irresistible interest in the matter, followed the case np. His interest seemed to cease after the last report had chronicled the interment of Kate Townsend and the holding of Sykes for trial. It was several weeks later when on a Sunday forenoon he purchased a local morning paper. He had not been reading the paper long whefi his eyes rested on a reprinted interview between a New Orleans reporter and Mrs. Anna Hournboose, the woman who had done Kate Townsend’s washing for twenty years. In that article it Vas stated by Mrs. HoUrn boose, who lives on Kochebiane, near Palmyra street, New Orleans, that Kate once told her in the course of confidential conversation that she had relatives living in America, and that her real name was Cunningham. She continued that instead of Kate her Sven name was Bridget, and that her >me was in Waterford, County Cork, Ireland,, Like a dash the startling intelligence passed through the man’s mind, and he remembered that he, too, had a sister whose name was Bridget Cunningham, and that she was born at the home of her parents, who had lived in Waterford, Ireland. He felt almost certain that the (lead woman was bis own sister, but he feared to associate his good name with that of the dead cyprian, who hae been the most notorious woman of her kind in the South. He did not rest the matter, and opened a correspondence with friends- living^ at New Orleans. It was ascertained by him in that mgnner that Kate Townsend must hare been his. sister. He also remembered that his sister Bridget had goue South twenty-three or twenty-five years before, and that because she gave herself up to a life of shame he and his brothers had broken off ail communication wirii her, and finally lost track of her entirely. Since the matter has baeu given to Mr. Cauavan valuable Information has been received from various police officials and Catholic priests >of the Crescent City. The information is of such a character its to leave scarcely a doubt that Kate Townsend was mine other than Bridget Conningham. Further developments are expected within a few days, also the result of the in vestigation by l)r. Lemonuier, Coroner of New Orleans. Air. Cunningham is a widower forty-two years of age, and lives with his son-in-law, of a similar name, at the comer of Forest avenue and Thirty- , sixth streets. , He has not worked for several years, and is supported by hit children. His family consists of two se ns and four girls, ail of whom reside in this city. Ope of his brothers is a labor* ing man and lives at Madison, Wis., and th e other is believed to be in Amsterdam, whither he went about five years ago. Mr. Canavan feels confident that his client is the rightful heir to. the estate, but declined to ditulge just what other information he had in his possession. TroysvUle Bytes, better known as “Bill” Sykes, the legatee of Kate Townsend’s will, was her lover for years, and was believed to hive been her seducer. He lived with her, at her house of infante, No. tO Basin street, and never did any work, existing entirely off her bounty; The Star-Route Business. Washington, D. C., April 11. Post-office Inspector Woodward was cross-examined this morning by the Springer Committee. He said Colonel Cook urged President Garfield to grant irnmnnity to Senator Horsey because of his great political services. The President listened attentively, but didn’t indicate what he would do. Witness entered at; length into the manner in which routes were expedited, and thought Congressmen and Senators who signed petitions for expeditions did so without investigation into the matter. Arrested for Child Murder. Westminster, Mb, April 11. „ Samuel Hall and his wife, have been arrested for the murder of Elmer Robertson, aged four years, son of Hall by Alice Robertson, a former mistress. When he married Mrs. Hall took intense dislike tci the child and treated it most brutally. Two days ago it died and was buried, yesterday Alice Robertson, its mother, suspected foul play and had the body disinterred and a post-mortem held, which at once showed that death was the result of poison. The guilty pair were at once arrested. The body was terribly scarred and blistered, shewing horrible Ul-usaga (luring life.

AN EXCITING EPISODE* A Break In the Usual Monotonous Routine Yf the National Treasury Department--A Masher Mashed. Washixc.tos, D. C., April E. An interesting episode took place in tilt Treasury Department yesterday. A wellbuilt, gentlemanly-looking man by the name of Kisden entered the building and, Inquiring for the Fourth Auditor’s office was shown to that official’s bureau. Arriving there he sent for a clerk named Creamer, who is a quite handsome feHow, and imagines himself a good deal ot a “masher.” Creamer responded, and on putting in an appearance in the hall §ras met by a sudden and most vigorous application of MroRisden’s fist immediately between the eyes, which was followed by another, and another, is quick succession, until Creamer imagined the Treasury building was tumbling down. A crowd of curious and excited clerks soon gathered witness the affray, the watchman near by. blew his whistle for an officer, and in the space of a few minutes time Kisden had reduced Creamer to the appearance of a worsted prize-tighter. The officer came and arrested him. He promptly presented his card and signified his willingness to go to the station-house at once, saying that he had fiuished his business with Creamer. He subsequently explained to the officer that Creamer^Ayhose reputation had been none too good in the past, had written an insulting letter to his (Kisden’s) sister-in-law.

THE FLEETWOOD MURDER. -Jf - g The Offieers of the Law, With the Allege* Murderer iu Charge, Dodging an lufvrlated Populace—Winkleback and Enna lleetwoml Interviewed. Matcoon, Iu,., April n. The brutal butchery of Mr. and Mrs. Fleetwood Wednesday night is still the allabsorbing topic of interest. Janies Winkleback, the man accused of the murder, was lodged in jail at Charleston, as was telegraphed. He had not been in the Charleston jail twenty minutes when your reporter arrived at the Court-house and asked Deputy Sheriff Hamilton to permit him to interview the prisoner. This was at two o’clock in the morning, but the officer thought it was no time for such matters. Around the jail were abont a score of the friends of the Sheriff, and all felt anxious lest the mob from the Fleetwood neighborhood shocld miss their man and come to Charleston and attack the jail. A hurried consultation was held, and it was soon determined that the safety of the prisoner demanded his speedy removal to Mattoon, twelve miles distant. A lively team was ordered to stand in readiness on a back street. The deputy, yonr reporter and the friends in the jail went to the cell and told Winkleback to dress himself for a ride. J’ was found cowering on the floor of his cell, trembling with fear. No sleep had come to his restless body. He was handcuffed and conducted to the waiting carriage, into which he stepped, followed, by Deputy Sheriff John Hamilton, the Mattoon. Chief of Police and the reporters The ride to Mattoon occupied three hours, over a rough route, and during the ride u*f effort was mace to get something out of the prisoner, but it was an up-hifi task. He was shrewd'' enough to understand the importance of keeping his mouth shut. He said, however, that he was innocent. “AU I ask is that 1 may be brought to trial.” “How do you account for the empty chambers of yonr revolver?” he was asked. “I emptied one or two shooting sometime ago. I don’t remember just how many.” “What do yon think of the girl’s testi-* mony?” “Well, she did not tell the same story on the stand that she did to the neighbors.” “If you did not commit the deed, what is yonr theory of who did it?” “I have none; it is a mystery to me.” “Well, we have’got the right man, all the same,” said the policeman. To this remark Winkleback deigned no reply. “What are yonr relations to the girl?” “Well, if l,get out of this scrape I will marry her inside of two weeks.” “Do you fear the mob now?” “No; . I am under obligations to the. Sheriff and attorney for aiding me in escaping. I felt pretty well scared, but gness I’m out of harm’s way now.” At four o’clock he was safely deposited in the Mattoon prison. Your correspondent sought and obtained an interview with Emma Fleetwood.

■ were vuu «uu »» uuaeuaca ' was asked her. “No,” she replied; “he never roads any offers to me, and 1 have always treated him as the hired man should be trciitod ^ “Do yon believe Winkieback killed your father and mother?” “Yes, it is my solemn opinion that James Winkieback is the man that committed the cHine.” The daughter gave her testimony before the coroner in a straightforward manner, out singularly, did not show signs of strongemotion. The nearest approach to grief was a refrain, “Me!, me! me!” with which she closed many sentences. George Fleetwood, the son of the murdered man, said that Winkieback had always entertained the kindest feelings for the old couple, and he could give no reason why Winkieback should have done the deed, yet he felt sure that he was the gniity man. Winkieback had a treacherd is position. It was the design that the people ol Mattoon should not know that the murderer was in their midst, but the matter leaked out, and wild reports of a coming mob gave the officers some concern. They deemed it expedient to move their man again, so at noon he was driven from the city in a close carriage accompanied by the Sheriff’s deputies. Their destination was unknown. Moved to a Wanner Clime. Washington, D. C.. April U. The Attorney-General has ordered the transfer of the convict, L. R. Redmond, from the State Penitentiary at AuburnN. Y., to the Sonth Carolina Penl, tentiary at Columbia. This was done at the request of Senator Bntler and the District Attorney. Redmond was a notorious moonshiner and killed several men who attempted to arrest him. He was finally surrounded by a posse and literally shot to pieces. He is crippled and unable to work and carries seven bullets in his body. His general health is rapidly foiling. -«•»- A Salooaist’s Snleidn. Louisiana, Mo., April it Frank Mach, this morning went to Fiegle’s hardware kstore as soon as it was opened, at pbout seven o’clock, and bought a 38-caliber revolver, with which he blew out his brains a few momocts later. On his person was found a tetter addressed to his wife. Mach kept a beer saloon and restaurant, which did a flourishing business, and it is supposed that his financial affairs were in good shape. He was a member of the church and was generally respected. Poor health, causing temporary insanity, is supposed V have been the arose ol his suicide

Bill Arp’s Opinion of lt'< Well, nobody has keen to see 1 about this Presidential busines I’m suffering for taTy, but you < elgraph to the New York Herat Bill Arp- is for Tilden and that j say in Sunday’s Constitution t U wants him nominated by acclan and elected by the Nation for salvation. For the truth Is, if don’t unite on reform in the I ment, the great American Natitj go to the dogs. I’m for Mr. Til ‘ cause he has got reform on He cleaned out the augean New Fork, and knows how to He fought corruption single handd whipped the tight. . I He never talks about/the tariff I Morrisons, or Bismarck, or the m Chinese, but he talks about intq^ high places, and corruption, and 1 and plunderers. He is the ma swindled out of the Presidency 1 they were afraid of him. And i nominated _aga:n they will spent] ions to defeat him! for the same j Mr. Tilden said when he ran that; the Federal Government administered safely and Well half it was then costing, and 1 pledge himself to do it if sustain Congress. That is what the want. They want reform. WhI cording to the committee’s repoa whole blessed Yankee Nation is? pension list, and the pensioner quit dying and are just living < forever. In fact they get more I more denser every year. I traveled with a man the otfa and as he looked out of the car 1 at a merchant mill on a river; 1 Why don’t you people put appropriation for falls like tl build up a big manufacturing Then he explained how the p Minneapolis got their member < grass to put tneir river on the roll for a hundred thousand d clean it oat and make it navigable as it was impossible to do t‘ * spent the money in making nnnav gable, for they built a dan it at St. Anthony's Falls and 1 boarded the river at an angle of fortyfive degrees, and then built up their b g flouring-milts alongside, and ever since they got the river on the roll they have been drawing fifty thousand dollars a year to open it up to navigation, and the money is spent in working on the dam and fixing up for more big mills, and now they have got more mills than any city in the world and turn out thirty thousand barrels at flour every day, except Sunday, and are going to do it Sunday when Bob Ingersoll gets elected President. That is the way they do things up North, said he, and you folks down South are behind the age. But the like of that is nothing. It only shows the common idea, and that is plunder, and now when our folks want a little pension money for the Mexican veterans they raise a helabaioo all over the North and say: “Lookout, them' fellers down South are tryiDg to get their pairs in the Treasury.” I want Mr. Tilden because he don’t hanker after the office and wont make any bargains to get it. Most all our statesmen nowadays are intriguers, and they form their syndicates for office just like railroad men do for systems and lines that are to break down other lines, and it is all on the idea that you can’t accomplish anything by an open, square straight up and down policy. \Y hen Uncle Sammy gets in I’ll bet he makes his own Cabinet, and nobdfty «jae will have a band in if. I want him Because he will give dignity to the office and to the American Nation and the Government. He wouldn’t approve any such fool resolution as Tom Ochiltree got through on the sly about Lasker. I"m on Bismarck’s side about that and think he did exactly right. I want Mr. Tilden because he is entitled to it by courtesy, and I would five it to him if I thought he would ie in two weeks after he was inaugurated. I expect he will die before his term is out, atnd I want a first-class man put on the ticket with him. None of ybnr apeidencies like we have bad. In fact, the Ylce-Presi lent’s offiee is looming np, for the Presidents most all die nowadays, or get killed. Since I can rememb ?r four have died soon after they got in’, and another never got in at all. When the convent on meets, they ought fo look into the V. P.’s office mighty close and give us the best man in the party if they know him. It won’t do to holler for Tilden all the time. It won’t do to act like he was the only man that was fitten, for we have got several and are proud of ’em. We have got faith in ’em, :tod faith is a good thing. When James K. Polk v»s nominated, my'friend, Omberg, met me on the street in a crowd and heard the news, and he threw up his hat and said, “ he is the very man— the very best man. Hurrah for-” and then he stopped and said: “What did you say his name was?” and _ when I tolii him.;he shouted: “Hurrah for Tames Kaypn k—he is der man.” This is the kind of faith to have, and if every Democrat had it, we could elect Mr. Tilden like a daisy, and keep him alive in the bargain. His time is most out according to nature, but then they say he is from a long lived family, and that he still notices pretty women with alacrity, and brightens up smartly when they come about. That's a good sign. At least it is a sign that he'is willing to live-—Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.

A Republican Wail. A melancholy wail goes np from the Republican press of the country over the defeat of Mr. Pendleton in the Ohio Senatorial contest He is pointed out as a Democratic sacrifice to the glorious principles of Civil Service Reform. The select ion of Payne is ascribed to corruption and the power of monopoly. One or two Republican organs have gone as far as to express a donbt of the ability of the American Repub- ; lie to survive such a blow. We find these sad words in the Troy Times: The ctioice of Mr. Payne as Senator from Ohio is one of the urea test scandals ever developed in the political history of the country, but H stands in accurate line with the [ spirit of the political organization to which he | belongs. When Ingalls defeated Old Pomeroy j for the Senate out in K«psas there was talk oi the use of money, but the Republican press repressed its agony. When Sabin bought the seat in the Senate that Windom held; there was no howl of despair. Neither did the Republican press lose faith in humanity when Jones and Sharon purchased a Rest in the Senate; likewise Bowen and j Tabor. The Republican press stified its j sorrow when the Credit Mobilier rascalities came out, and it turned its back to the wall and wept in silence when Belknap tripped and felL Recently when Huntington’s letters were published, detailing a great Republican Money King's methods of dealing with Congress, the Republican press saw no reason to lose faith in the popular system of government We have an idea that even our depressed r # %

IP i exercise of functions whose guide is to be found in the written text of the fundsmentnl law. In the management of the foreign relations of this country a President can be materially a:ded by an able and accomplished Secretary of State. But eren m foreign relations it must be remembered that a Secretary of State is but the adviser and instrument of the President, and that the President himself is the functionary who has to decide everything; so that along with a thorough Knowledge of the constitutional scope of the treaty-making power, the : President should possess learning that is peculiar to the province of international law, diplomatic usage and the diplomatic history of this country. This kind of knowledge is not to be acquired ; in a day, or to be put into a man by any process of “cramming.” But in the administration of the internal affairs of this government a President who does not possess an intimate acquaintance with the principles of the Constitution, its, limitations of power, its relations to the States and the people, however good ar poHriefaiThe may be in .party tactics, will hot answer the demands of the present exigency. Perhaps we have never had a President who came nearer to filling all the qualifications for the office than did Mr. Jefferson. He was not only a highly accomplished general statesman, but he was a sound constitutional jurist; and. although he had no direct hand in making the Constitution, ha not only understood it thoroughly, [ but as soon as he understood it. and ever afterward, he interpreted it | with that degrde of strictness which *m. necessary to preserve it in harmony with the reserved rights 'of the States, and the people. Above all. Jefferson was a believer in popular government and genera] suffrage. His Democracy was of that genuine tvpe which holds to the exercise of popular power through the appropriate-department of a government of laws, and the defined restraints which a people have imposed on their servants and on themselves. We have reached a stage of things in which there are numerous men in the Hepublican party who do not believe iu popular government or in general suffrage, who would gladly embrace any pretext for transforming our Government into something very different from what it is, and we must not lose sight of the extreme faeilitv with which a kind of revolution could be accomplished, by which we might lose the Constitution and its popular government almost without *eing aware that the process was going on. It is a marvel that the Constitution has been preserved to U3 through the turbulent and dangerous period that followed the civil war. It was no intention of many of the men who then had the government of affairs that the Constitution should be restored to its supreme authority. It has been .sayed in spite of them and their machinations, and now. what is needed is that the executive power should be committed to the hands of some man who will make it the gtflde of all his acts, and so complete the work that remains to be done. Other personal qualifications can be easily described, and they do not merely go to make up an ideal President. Ail honest men wilt agree that personal integrity, high intelligence, moral courage, simplicity of manners and of life, power to institute and carry out needed reforms, power to make even party machinery and political domination work for the good of the country, an all-embracing patriotism, an absence of sectional feeling and an inflexible determination to do right, are the qualties; that we need in a President; and while these qualifications make up' the beau ideal of a Chief Magistrate, they are at the same time qualities which may be found in some men and, therefore, they are not mere abstractions. We could name half a dozen men in the Democratic party, any one of whom, we think, wopld answer the requirements with a close approximation at least to the ideal standard. But we shall not name one of them, because we do not propose to institute a “ boom” in |my direction. We shall content ourselves with urging those who are to be charged with the duty of making the selection, to fake care that in following out the principle of availability, they do not lose sight iff the qualifications without which our success in the election would he a victory of doubtful value. We have not only to agree upon a candidate, hot we have to elect a President who would bo a blessing to the country. We. can do. this if we try, and py in the right way. But if the result is to be determined by a scramble for the nomination, or by an exclusive regard for the power of 'this or that individual to cany this or that we must remember that that ■e power of the present administrar will be put forth against us, and unless we have something more to of our candidate than his avatlabila politician, we shall inevitably be beaten.—W&hmglon Exchange. - . h