Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1883 — NEWS AND INCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Our Compilation of the Important Hap* . penings of the Week. INDIANA ITEMS: A bucket shop has commenced operations in New Albany. During the pork-packing season in Wabash, 10,000 hogs were slaughtered. Lebanon isvery proud of the fact that eighteen pairs of twins were born in that town during the past year. Two tramps in the Indianapolis jail were found to have smallpox. They escaped on the way to the pest house. The Jeffersonville car works have practically suspended operations for the time being by the discharge of nearly all the. force imployed, Anthony McDougall, the negro who killed his wife with an ax at Jeffersonville on ths 23d of September last, has been sentenced to death. There were twenty-eight deaths in Wabash during the year 1882. Estimating the population at 5,000, the average is only one to 178 inhabitants. The greater portion of both Charles Shannon’s feet were recently amputated at Otis, which had been terribly frozen one cold day this winter, near Jackson Center. The public schools of Franklin are in a state of demoralization, owing to the misconduct of the pupils and the alleged inefficiency of officers and teachers. Captain John Kirk offers to give the site of the old Mammoth Cave pork house to the Hall Lock and Safe Company if they will locate their factories at Madison. Anthony McDougall, the condemned wife murderer at Jeffersonville, eats his meals regularly and sleeps well He says he wants to die, go to heaven and meet his wife. A post of the Grand Army of the Republic was organized at Princeton, on Saturday evening, by Comrade A.- O Rosencranz and other members of Farragut Post of Evansville. Seymour is experiencing a religious revival. The meetings are held nightly at the M. E. church, and havte resulted in nearly fifty conversions and half as many accessions to the church. While coasting, with his dog hitched to the sled, Johnny Finley, of New Castle, had his leg broken. Some boys set Johnny’s dog after another dog, and in the race Johnny was thrown against a tree. The township trustee of Liberty township, Wabash county, reports 200 sheep killed by dogs during the year 1882, valued at S6OO. This is more than twice the income from the dog-tax. An Indianapolis family nhmed Griffith inherits a fortune of $2,000,000 by the death of an uncle in England. By the many “windfalls” of late one would think that an “uncle in England” is the safest investment of the period. The Right .Rev. Joseph C. Talbott, Episcopal Bishop, died at Indianapolis Monday evening. During his illustrious life he was highly honored by his church and the Christian world, and in his death there will be universal sorrow. The election in the Ninth District, Tuesday, to’fill the unexpired term of the late Congressman Orth, resulted in the election 6f Major-Doxey, Republican, of Anderson, over Warde, Democrat, Congressman-elect to the next Congress. A keg containing $50,000 in gold, shipped by the sub-treasury in New York, l through Wells, Fargo & Co., to the Unityed States fleet on the Pacific, by the Steamer Para, which arrived at Aspinwall on the 29th ult, was stolen after arrival at its destination. On Friday, at Dyer, while Mr. A. Hart was assisting his workmen in excavating a ditch to change the course of a creek, a mass of frozen earth fell on him, killing him instantly. He owned about 17,000 acres of land in that county, and his estate will amount to about SBOO,OOO. He leaves a widow and four children. Last Saturday night a party of men raided the only saloon in the village of Ireland, Dubois county, destroying all the intoxicants, but giving the proprietor his money, tobacco and cigars. They had determined that no whisky should be sold in the town, and the proprietor did not attempt to defend his saloon. The men were not masked, and reports say they are well known, but do not fear prosecution. John Fisher, a DeKalb county farmer, having lost faith in banks, carefully packed away $l5O in an old fruit can and buried it in the dark recesses of a hollow log on his premises, where he thought it perfectly safe both from the robbers and dishonest bank officials. But the rabbithunting season came around, and the industrious boys have been exploring the loghontaining' Fisher’s money, and his bank is “busted.” . Jeffersonville Evening NeVjS: “Dr. Sid McClure is the only man outside the Governors who ever exercised the pardon? ing power. On making un estimate of all prisoners who ever were confined in the Prison South while he was physician

down there, he found one name on the book to which no one inside the walls laid claim. He concluded the convict who was on record but could not be found ought to be z pardoned and marked so on the book. The convict, however, had skipped. McDougall, the condemned wife murderer, at Jeffersonville, says that the jury which sentenced him did just right, and according to law. He wants Sheriff Davis to hang him “that he may go to heaven to meet his wife.” McDougall talks about the hanging cheerfully. He says he cannot remember when he killed his wife, or why he should have committed the terrible act, but says he is not sorry for the awful crime. McDougall’s only hope now is that he may not be granted a new trial He eats his meals regularly, and sleeps as sound as a man with a clear conscience and in perfect health. About forty years, ago a cattle dealer, who was know to have $30,000 on his person, while going through Madison county suddenly disappeared. No trace of him had been found till a few months ago, when Mr. Solomon Isnogle plowed up a skeleton on the Human farm, near Chesterfield. Detectives went to work on the clew thus furnished, and have demonstrated by certain marks that the skeleton was that of the cattle-dealer, whose name was George Burness, of Cincinnati. He was undoubtedly murdered for his money, but no idea of the men who murdered him can be ascertained.

Senator Plumb was re-elected from Kansas. The Massachusetts Legislature has reelected Senator Hoar, instead of Long as first telegraphed. , The Bricklayer’s National Union recommendunions to vote for eight hours a day regardless of wages. The National Board of Trade has pronounced in favor of the Lowell bankruptcy bill, and will endeavor to secure its passage. The' prospering expedition which went to the upper waters of the Yukon rivei in Alaska, discovered gravel deposits averaging $1,50 to the pan. There wss exported $3,308,120 worth of petroleum in November, and for the eleven months ending Noy. 80, the value of the export was $41,670,160. This shows a falling off for the eleven months of $2,745,512. ! Several Spates are electing their Senators: Maind re-elects Senator Frye; Mr. Harris in Tennessee; John E. Kenna in West Virginis; Mr. Gotland in Arkansas, The withdrawal of Japanese students from this country was occasioned by financial stringency in the old country. Wiliam Goyemeur, mine collector and collector of pustoms at Sitka, Alaska, says the ore deposits in that country are the richest in the world. The heirs of General Count Casimer Pulaski, who, While in command as brig-adier-general of forces fighting for American independence before Savannah,Georgia, October 9,1779, was killed, now ask for the modest smn of $150,000 for the old man’s life. ; 1 THE EAST: While William Denton was coasting at .Brentwood, N. J., Tuesday, both of his legs were They have a leper down in Salem, Mass., and a special building is to be erected for his use. An exhibition of the work of foreign countries will be held in Boston for six months from July 1,1883. Striking ice packers on the Hudson are compelling men all along the banks to quit work and join their ranks. A crazy man got loose at a ball at Hermon, Maine, and before being restrained succeeded in stabbing four persons. The cigar makers of New York are again trying to put down the tenement house system of manufacturing cigars. The mills along the river at Camden, Me., are running on half time for lack of water, something never before known. A general strike is threatened at Fall River and Somerset, Mass., over the reduction of the wages of iron workers. A student of Cornell University named Humphries will join the New York baseball league team after he graduates in Robert E. inaugurated governor of Pennsylvania, and Charles 0. Stockley governor of Delaware, on Tuesday. Six large seizures of cigars were made in New York. Smuggling tobacco has so increased that a special investigation has been ordered. Boston sugar reflneir.who pay the government between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000 annually, petition for a reduction of he tariff on sugar. William Brannegal, of Oil City, was struck and killed afi Harrisburg, Pa, Tuesday, in a successful attempt to save a woman and child who were crossing the track. 'A Wilkesbarre, Pa, dispatch says: “A suspension of three days per week, hn taken in the collieries of this die* trict It is ; thought the. suspension continue until March.

Mrs. Hilgert, wife of Chas. M. Hflgert the sugar refiner who recently absconded from Philadelphia, after committing several forgeries, has died of grief and shame caused by her husband’s disgrace. '* Reeder Moore, of Water.ord, Pa, who killed .himself a few days ago,made a confession before death that his false testimony convicted Charles Stafford eight years ago of rape, for which he is now serving a twenty-years’ term. Jonn L. Beaco, bookkeeper of the broken City Bank of Jersey City, has been arrested on a charge of overdrawing his individual account, SB,OOO. The total sum due depositors is $168,302; total asets, $4,500. Bernardino Casiano has been found guilty of the murder of Salvator Rocco, at Goshen, N. Y. The jury asked the judge what penalty attached to murder in the second degree. The judge refused to tell, and the jufry then returned a verdict in the first degree. A special from New York says that Mrs. Theodore Tilton has been compelled to seek employment as a nurse through financial necessity. She is reported as saying that her confession produced on the famous trial was absolutely true. Mrs. John Wellfoot, at St Johnsbury, Vt, has just given birth to two daughters and one son. Their total weight is six pounds and thirteen ounces. Mrs. Wellfoot has been married before, and had twelve children including two pair of twins. Joseph Sailer, financial editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, was the first man in America to comment on the financial topics in the money columns of a newspaper. He was interested in building the first line of telegraph under the Morse system. He leaves an estate worth $300,000.

Rev. John Dewitt Miller, opening the proceedings of the New Jersey House of Representatives, prayed that no member might be forced to explain to an inquisitive constituency when he returned home that, having come to Trenton poor, he went back rich on a salary of SSOO for the legislative session. At Williamsport, Pa, ex-Oounty Commissioners Daniel Carson and William C. Ebner have been convicted of embezzlement and. taken to the penitentiary. Mrs. Emma Stillwell, the woman who confessed several weeks ago, to murdering most of her family at one time or another, died Tuesday night,at Mt Vernon, Ohio.

THE WEST: Mr. Grosstreck. of Dubuque, has lost his family of five children by diptheria. The Cincinnati Gas Light Co., has increased its capital stock $750,000 making it $5,000,000. The Quincy House, Quincy, HL, burned Friday morning, but fortunately no lives were lost. Fire in Henry Pierce’s dwelling, across the river from Sioux City, lowa, burned his two young children to death. At the Ohio agricultural convention, Thursday, resolutions ‘ were adopted against a reduction of the tariff. The post office at Leamington, Ont., and the store of Bee & Co., were robbed Sunday night of property valued at $4,000. Evidences are increasing of the guilt of Scheller, the saloon-keeper charged with the burning of the Newhall House, Milwaukee. The manager of the Western Union telegraph office at Milwaukee insists that the wires saved some lives and caused the. loss of none during the hotel fire.

Rev. Joel Burlingame, an octogenarian who died recently at Arlington Heights, HL, was the father of Hon. Anson Burlingame, whom the Emperor of China raised to high honors. Indians are quitting the San Carlos reservation in bands to join Ju in the Sierra Madre mountains. Six Apaches attacked a teamster near Tombstone, Arizona, Saturday, but he drove them off. Reports from the northwestern blizzard in Dakota, Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and lowa say a number of people have been frozen to death and lost in the snow storm. Bailroad travel is much impeded. 'A panic was created at St Louis, Sunday morning, by the taking fire of the Planter’s Hotel. Fortunately, however, under the circumstances, only three lives were lost, and the damage to' property will be nominaL * While the divorce case of Josephine Meyer vs, Peter Meyer, for desertion, was in progress Tuesday, at Cincinnati, the defendent from whom nothing 'has been heard for years walked into court. Proceedings were stopped. Suits in the United States Court against distillers, Dickinson, Leach & Co.,'and the Chicago Alcohol Works tor back taxes, amounting to $55,000. and $87,000 respectively, have been compromised by the payment of $4,000. Bill Molack and Mike Nanderburg two East St Louis negroes, quarreled over their respecitve abilities as marks men, and deaided to settle the dispute by

shooting at each other with shot guns, at a distance of twenty paces. Both had their feces arms and breasts filled with shot, and each will lose an eye. The wife of a farmer named Richard Burren, near .New Philadelphia, 0., was killed in the following singular manner: She was in the barnyard milking, when the cow turned suddenly around knocking Mrs. Burrell down and trampling on her breast and. throat Mr. Burrell picked his wife up, but before he could get to the house she.died in his arms.

Peter industrious and poor Dane, of Council Bluffs, la., was in possession of a good-looking wife and two interesting children. A gay Lothario induced the woman to elope with him a few days ago, and take with them the children. Johnson threatened suicide, but his Danish friends raised $75 and in* duced him to hunt up the fugitives. They are now at Kansas City in limbo, and the Governor of lowa has sent a requisition to take them back on a charge of adultery. A horrible cutting affray occurred at Galena, O.; in an altercation between Perry Stephens and Dr. Penn. Both were intoxicated. Stephen held Penn down and cut his throat horribly, so that he will probably die. He also inflicted innumerable other cuts about Penn’s face and body, using a common pocket knife. Several parties who attempted to rescue Penn were also out and driven off by Stephens, who then held the village at bay for several hours. A snow-slide occurred on Mosquito mountains, fifteen miles from Leadville. A body of snow nearly a quarter of a mile long, 1,100 feet wide, and fifteen feet deep swept down the mountain side at great velocity,carrying everything in its course. Two minerßjUnable to escape,were caught in the avalanche and hurled a hundred yards down the mountain side. Though still alive when found, they were frozen in a shocking manner, and their recovery is doubtful.

An old, childless couple, Thoma Thompson and wife, near Ulysses, Neb., years ago adopted a boy and girl from different families. When the children grew to maturity they indulged in undue intimacy and the girl became enciente. When the exposure was made it was suggested that they marry. The old lady grew greatly excited about the unfortunate matter, and finally became insane. Sunday night she prepared tea and put poison in it All partook except the girl. The old man was taken sick and the girl was sent to a neighbor for assistance. When she returned all three were dead.

THE SOUTH: Wiley Harris,of Tarboro, N. 0., refused to marry Nelson Philips’ daughter, and Philips shot and killed Harris instantly. Trichiniasis has made its appearance in the family of Jacob Schriever, at Fredericksburg, Texas, from which three children died. Governor Churchill’s message, delivered to'the Arkansas legislature, says the State is in the best financial condition for twenty years. Clay Sexton, chief of the St. Louis fire department, soundly horsewhipped a “masher’’ o« the streets, Monday, whom he saw insulting ladies in the prosecution of his ♦“profession." President Norvin Green, President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, publicly announces that he intends soon to “plant himself down in Louisville for the remainder of his life.” At San Felipe, Tex.,on Friday morning a Mexican named Jose Morales snatched an infant from his wife’s arms and dashed it on the floor. 'He then drew a revolver and shot his wife twice, killing her instantly. A report has been received that a white man and woman and three children were found frozen to death in the woods near Atlanta. The unfortunate family were clothed in rags, and looked as if pinched from hunger. M. T. Polk, the defaulting treasurer cf Tennessee, has been indicted for embezzlement, and the banks which aided him in making false returns to the Legislature will probably be held financially responsible, while their officers will be prosecuted criminally. After the inauguration of Gov. Bates of Tennessee, Tuesday, a live eagle was set at liberty from Capitol Hill, bearing medal on which was inscribed: “For President, Cleveland of New York; for vice-president, Bates, of Tennessee.” Martha Johnsoq and Charles Anderson, cohabiting at Baltimore, indulged in a jealous fight on Sunday, the woman receiving twelve cuts and the man sixty. Anderson’s wounds were inflicted with a razor, and will prove fatal

FOREIGN: Persons frozen to death are found in the streets of Moscow daily. Trains are transferred across the St Lawrence, at Quebec, on the ice. The Duchess of Connaught was safely delivered of a eon at Windsor CastleJSunday. < A Perth dispatch says that 600 houses in Mohacies are flooded and half have fallen in.

An explosion in a gunpowder manu factory at Minden, Holland, killed forty persons. > . The steamer France, on the paseeg from New York, lost overboard 207 oxen and 107 sheep. \ Numerous destructive fires and earthquakes have occurred in Tokio. The official quarters are destroyed. Two more of the Huddys murderers, Thomas Higgins and Michael Flynn,wore hanged at Galway, Ireland, Wednesday. The relations of China with other powers are becoming unsatisfactory, and war* like preparations are in progress. The Russian authorities have consented to the removal of the bodies of DeLong and comrades by way of Irkutsk. It is reported that the Pope has sent a letter to the Irish bishops advising them to adopt a conciliatory attitude toward the government A serious railway accident occurred at Oamerlata, on the line between Milan and Como, by which many persons were killed and many injured. The Danube has subsided everywhere above Mohairs, on the west arm of that river, but fugitives cannot return to their homes, as the houses are destroyed or filled with ice. The Crown Prince Rudolph has abandoned his journey to the East, and resolved to devote a portion of the sum the trip would have cost to relief of the distress in the flooded Districts. During a performance, Sunday, ata circus in Beerdidalchief, Russian Poland, fire broke out, and before the spectators could escape the whole structure was ablaze. Three hundred persons perished There were eleven shocks of earthquake in the town of Archena, Spain, Thursday, causing the greatest consternation. Maas was said in the fields, it being considered dangerous to occupy the churches. The Correspondence says: “Bismarck is opposed to allowing any facilities for the return of German emigrants after naturalization as American citizens, as they thus obtain exemption from military service.” The Crown Prince and Princess have deelined to receive any presents on the occasion of their silver wedding, and request that the money donors proposed thus using be applied in alleviating the distress caused by the inundations. According to the official reports, 268 persons, including many foreign travelers lost their lives by the burning of the circus in Berdicheff. The circus had inner and outer Walls, and spaces between filled with straw. Miss Alice Livingston, of New York, who sued a merchant named Henry Flaming for breach of promise, was awarded $75,000, Friday. The verdict was. followed by deafening applause, which the court was unable to suppress. It appears that the reports of an attempt to assassinate the Sultan grew out of a riot [between two regiments of the palace guard, one of them composed ol Albanians, and the other of African Arabs, between whom a bitter jealousy exists. About fifty combatants were killec or wounded. There was nothing politic al in the affair. Mr. Davitt gave a piece of his mind tc a mob at Oldham, Saturday night, whe attempted to howl him down and assaulted the platform. He said they were miserable, contemptible, cowardly dogs. When they were sitting in taverns, he said, he was fighting the British government; they were drunken blackguards, and were a disgrace to the mme of nationalists. If Ireland were made up of such she would earn the contempt of the civilized world. The Prince Napoleon thought the French Republic incapable and placarded his opinion on the walls of Paris. He was immediately asrested and cast into prison. If this manifesto is genuine the Prince will be compelled to quit the country. In an interview he declares “everything is going wrong in the Republic: He should like to see the head of the Republic men of the nation, elected by the nation as in the United States.” He denies that he had any personal interest in the matter. The arrest of Prince Plon-Plon by the French government is now considered to be a mistake.

The Land Office has issued a patent to the heirs of “The Beaver’’ for 3,200 acres of valuable.land near Fort Wayne, under a treaty with the Miami, tribe of Indiana The principal owners of the "The Beaver** land, which is locatedPbne mile southwest of Columbia City, are 8. J. Peabody, who owns 400 acres for which he has but recently paid $25,000, and the Nuttie heirs, who own 1,600 acres, equally valuable. The remainder of the 3,200 acres is divided/up into farms of less size, and all embraced the most valuable land in Whitley'county. The law to effect the prompt clearing of sidewalks after a snow storm is being vigorously enforced in Washington. Anffing the distinguished names that appear on the police court roll for failiuok observe it are those of Attorney Grawi. Brewster, Senator Bayard, Gen. Hazen and Green B. Baum.