Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1883 — Page 3

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Our Compflatfon of the Important Happenings of the Week, INDIANA ITEMS: There are 20,000 volumes in the bash .College library. A nervy thief stole three hogs from the New Albany chief of police. Seymour shipped twenty-two oar loads of manufactured goods last Saturday. Nearly 660 matt are employed in the seventeen Coal mines of Daviess county. The Terre Haute barrel and stave factory is about to establish a branch in Des Moines, lowa. Stout, the Montgomery oounty murderer, has been found guilt? and sentenced to death. James Bonewitz, of Knox oounty, has lost 9600 worth of beefjoettle with a disease similar to the pink eye. It is incurable. James Mason and Lyman Barekman, of Knox county, out down a tree a few days ago, in which they captured ten young coons, and the old one got away. A printer named Frank Freidman, who has worked in nearly all the offices in Bichmond, has fallen heir to a snug little fortune by the death of an unde who left the money to his father, who is dead. Cattle are dying in some parts of Knox founty with' a disease unknown to the farmers, which resembles "pink-eye” in many respects. Several farmers are complaining of it, but are unable to avert the fatality of the disease. The finest collections of oil paintings, engravings and statuary in southern Indiana is that of Mr. W. C. Depauw, of New Albany, purchased while on his reoent trip to Europe, Asia and Africa. In paintings he has many rare gems. In a suit for killing a dog, tried a few days ago before a Gibson oounty justice, S. M. Holcomb and Charles O. Erwin the opposing attorneys' had a fight in which chairs were used and pistols produced. The Justice fined them five dollars each., * A miner at DeForeet’s coal mines, on the Air Line, in Dubois oounty, slandered three women, wives of other miners. The injured women caught him Wednesday, poured a bucket of molasses over him, and then coated this with feathers. He has not been seen sinoe. Benjamin T. Price and Harriet J. Lemarrer, of Lexington, Scott oounty, were married on the 11th of January. On the following day Mrs. Price was taken ill, and has sinoe lost her reason and does not recognize any one. She had been afflicted with spasms previous to the marriage.

A persecuted school ma’am in Wayne county has had to give up her school because a foolish fellow persisted in following and admiring her. She cannot escape his pensive gaze, go where she will, and he has been warned by a justice of the peace to cease his persecutions, or he will be placed under bonds. Hattie Ludington, a little ten-year-old girl of Fort Wayne, who died a few days ago, went to an undertaker’s about two we&s before her death, selected her casket, gave directions as to her shroud, and instructed the funeral director as to how she desired to be laid out when she should die. Samuel Jack, a former resident of New Albany, died, a few years ago in Switzerland county, leaving an estate valued at $16,000. Treasurer Isaac Miller, of Floyd county, has received a letter from Switzerland county, making inquiry for John Jack, or any other heirs of Samuel Jack, as it is desired to settle up the estate.

On Sunday, at Rockville, Rev. W. T. Guppy, a Baptist minister, baptized fourteen persons in Big Raccoon Greek, near Holland’s while the thermometer was at or near zero. A hole was cut in the ice for the purpose. It is stated that the work was done in nine minutes. The immersed people were compelled to go nearly a mile in their wet clothing before a honse could be reached. A stock train came into Elkhart Monday evening, among which were twentyone cattle which had been frozen to death on the way. The weather there is extremely cold. Th thermometer registered Monday morning the coldest weather since the oold New Tears, having fallen twenty-four degrees below zero. Business was almost entirely suspended. Charles McKeever, of Biohmond, went hodae on Satnrday night a little drunker than usual, and vented his spleen upon his family. His daughter determined to end it, and calling in a friend, the two overpowered him and tied him to the lounge and then went oat and called a policeman, who arrested him. His fines and costs came to $34, and not being able to liquidate as well as liqnor, he will board it oat at the jaiL At gn early hour Sunday morning, when the thermometer was seventeen degrees below zero, a night patrolman in Fort Wayne pioked up a tipsy shoemaker named George Zoeller, found lying before his own door. He was taken to the hospital. Both of his hands and both, of his feet will have to be amputa-

ted. ZoeUer had lain on the sidewalk Sheriff Boss, of Wabash oounty, has a number of unpaid executions against the Wabash, St Louis A Pacific railway. The company has had amide time to pay, but has refused to giro the matter attention. Thursday evening the sheriff attached the engine of freight train No. 29, bound east Orders were reoeived by the engineer to 'move on, and he did so, breaking the chain placed on the engine by the sheriff. A year or so since the narrow-gauge railroad bridge near Vincennes floated away, and some of the timbers were saved by a man named Chambers. He demanded pay for his servioes, and not receiving it, retained the property. The company had him arrested on charge of stealing. The case has been tried, resulting in the aoquittal of Chambers, and he proposes to bring suit against the company for false imprisonment The thermometer at.Kokomo Colorado, Monday showed 68 degrees below zero; andat Regina, CaL, 58 degrees below. At St Panl it was 30. It is again authoritatively announced that Senator David Davis and Miss A. E Burr iWill be married at the lady’s house, near Fayetteville, N.C., immediately after Congress adjourns. Louis Tjempe, of Sault St Marie, at tempted to cross the Straits of Mackinawon Friday morning, with a team, carrying the mails, and no trace of driver, cart or horses has been seen since. Clans Sprecklee, the sugar king of the Sandwich Islands, talks of starting a refinery in Baltimore. He claims that his presence in Hawaii kept Kalakan from making a treaty with China, by which the island would have been overran with coolies. He prefers that the Americans should be the next race to take possession.

W. F. Carver challenges Bogardus to shoot one hundred birds for SIO,OOO or less at Louisville, February 14, or other date to suit He declines Bogardns’ challenge for a pigeon match for the world's wing championship,on the ground that he is the wing shot champion, and that Bogardns oan only shoot for the champion cap. During the month of December, 1882 25,868 immigrants arrived in the United States, against 37,037 in December 1881. For the six months ending December 31, 1882, 270,479 immigrants came to this oonntry, while for the corresponding period of 1881 immigration amounted to 328,327, Total immigration to the United States for the year ending December 31 1882, was 712,542. and of this number, 472,937 arrived in New York city. THE EAST: ' An ice bridge has formed at Niagara Falla Smallpox has appeared in the Phila delphia Alms House. The ice gorge, at Niagara, is fifty feet in height and two miles in length. The Senators of Delaware have refused to pass the anti-whipping-post bilL The contributions of Philadelphia for the German sufferers aggregate 50,000 marlrHMunioipal woman’s suffrage is favored by the Massachusetts legislative committee. The 500,000 ounces of stiver bullion in the New York sab-treasury will be coined into dimes.

Wm. Brimble, an Englishman and saloon keeper, at Hartford, Connecticut, killed his wife and self on Monday. Senator Frye, of Maine, received a telegram Monday, announcing the total destruction of his residence an dcontents, [and contents], at Lewistown. The Delaware House of Representatives defeated the bill to abolish the whipping of prisoners convicted of murder in the second degree. The Irish wife of a German baker at Newark, New Jersey, captured a sneak thief in her house in spite of his revolver, and kept him a prisoner until the police arrested him. Michael Burns, one of the most daring and fearless surfmen who ever lived on the Atlantic coast, died in Jersey city, on Wednesday. He has had a hand in recovering all the great wrecks for thirty years past. Nayor Powderly, of Scranton, Pa, has resigned the position of Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor of the United States. He will be snooeeded by the Grand Worthy Foreman,Ralph Beaumont, of Elmira Thirty-seven cadets of the Pennsylva nia Military Academy at Chester ran off to a theater Monday night, after being refused permission, and an officer of the institution followed and 1 in the house an order dismissing them to their homea Tuesday evening in Philadelphia a boy snapped a self-looking padlock through the door-handles of Aaron Picard’s jewelry store* looking the clerks on the inside, and two amyhhed in a window, and seizing a tray of valuable gold watches, decamped. Detectives from Massachusetts were

bunting for Kate Jndd, a domestic wh£> has frequently robbed her employers and fired their homes, when they noticed in the dispatches the burning of J. G Weaver’s villa, at Newport They readily found the criminal, and she made a dean breast Of her work. Gebhardt made his appearance at the Union Club in New York City, where be told his cronies that he left St Louis because he found he was getting Mrs. Langtry into trouble An application by a photographer for a sitting was indignantly refused. Gebhardt admits that he does not enjoy the notoriety he ban obtained. An extensive cave - took plaoe Wednesday morning at Wilkesbarre, Penneyvania, in the Delaware A Hudson’s canal company’s mines in this city. On the surface cracks are visible for acres in every direction. A number of houses have settled from six inchefe to two feet, alarming the inmates who fled. No less than twenty acres have gone down. Charles Briody, catcher for the Cleve land base ball nine, now at his home in Lansingbnrgh, New York, asserts that he is the seventh'son of a seventh son, and intends to try to heal the sick, after receiving instructions from Andrew Coran a spikemaker, who has abandoned that business to heal the lame, the blind, the deaf and the dumb, being the seventh son of a seventh son.

THE WEST: The new Panhandle shops at Columbus are to cost $537,010. Northwestern cattle ranges are in good condition in spite of the cold. At Butte, Montana, the spirit thermometer marked 61 below zero, Tuesday. The 800 Pequot Indians in the north of Nevada, are suffering from starvation. Forty Chinamen were killed in a giant powder explosion, Monday, at San Francisco. Bandits murdered five men and robbed the store at Gold Mountain, Nevada, Monday. Frank James has concluded not to give hail, but will remain in jail at Independence, Mo. The Ohio Fish Commission reports that it has now on hand nearly 90,000,0000 of white fish spawn, but no money. Governor Cullom, of Illinois, will resign his office February 1, and be succeeded by Hon. John M. Hamilton, of Bloomington. Miss Mattie Hoblitt,a damsel of fifteen, daughter of a wealthy Logan oounty, Illinois farmer, is believed to have gone off with her papa’s hired hand. The Milwaukee Ladies’ College was partially burned, Friday. Loss SIOO,OOO. Sixty lady inmates were saved by the efforts of the firemen and polioa Bev. Arthur Little, of Chicago, was summoned from his pulpit on Sunday morning on account of the critical condition of his wife, who was dead when he reached her bed-side. Frank James was brought up in court at Kansas City, Tuesday. Two indictments, one for murder and the other for robbery, were dismissed. A third indictment is held. Jim Mace and Slade, the Maori, arrived in Chicago, and after an inspection of the heathen, Harding telegraphed Fox, of the Police Gazette, to make matches for Slade to fight Sullivan. The tow-boat, L N. Phillips, while on her way down the Ohio riverto assist the steamer J. N. Bigely, which was laid up at Dangerous harbor, was struck by a large cake of ice on Sunday evening and sunk. The officers and creW escaped. Mrs. Gruber, a widow of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, deserted her three small children to elope with a fellow named Lancegloz, and the little ones almost perishod with cold before discovered by neighbors. The other night, Frank James, the bandit, in jail at Independence, Mo., was permitted to attend a theatrical performance, by Jail Keeper Holland. For this Holland has been dismissed from office by Judge White. The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce presented Herman. F. Strauss, the hero of the Newhall House fire, a watch arid chain valued at $350, and the ladies whom he rescued will give him a locket with pictures of eleven women and one child. Panl Wiegert, whose name appears among the missing of the steamer Cimbria, resided at Saginaw City, Michigan, and went to Germany in September last to look after a small inheritance. He wrote home that he should sail on the Cimbria. Wilson, the St. Louis faster, who undertook to do without food for fifty days was arrested by Chief of Police Campbell, Wednesday afternoon and taken to the Four Courts, where he was forced to drink warm milk. He is to be placed in the Insane Asylum. John Winkle, a workman at the Dover furnace, New Philadelphia, Ohio, met with a horrible death on Wednesday morning. He was passing nsar a tank of boiling water when his foot slipped and he fell in. When taken out the flesh dropped in large pieces from his body. He died in a few minutes.

It now appears that twelve passengers only were killed in the Southern Pacific railroad accident last week. A theory is advanced that the train was sent flying to destruction and death through an attempt to rob, the sooundrels tampering with the hand hrakeswhieh were properly set by the train bands. At Leadville, Sunday night, two miners, Brennan nnd Sullivan were discussing the Bobk Ei Lee mine. Sullivan said that the mine was solid as Jesus Christ, at which Brennan, who is a strong became terribly enraged, drew a knire and stabbed Sullivan in the neck several times. He cannot live. The Northern Pacific Hospital and Old Colony Deception House, at Brainard, Minn., burned Monday. There were thir-ty-six patients in the building, sixteen of whom were unable to help themselves. All were taken out safely. The weather was bitter cold and the suffering of the patients was terrible. At Shawneetown, HL, on Tuesday morning a mob attempted to enter the jaiHor the purpose, of lynching the colored man, Holmes, who murdered a white man with a hatchet last Saturday. The mob were repressed by the sheriff and jailer. After being refused admission they all came back a second time with a cannon, and placing it in front of the jail, threatened to fire it, but a few shots from the jail, the ringing of the court house bell and gathering of citizens scared them oft.

Dr. Charles Gaylord, of Paris, HI., is in jail at Springfield, charged with the offense of sending obscene matter through the mails. It is in evidence that he first gained the confidence of an innooent young woman, the daughter of a Michigan clergyman, through correspondence with her as a physician, in the employ of a firm of doctors in Detroit, and snbse quently took advantage of the confidence thus established to corrupt her mind, by gradually leading her into a correspondence of the most revolting character. * A terrible crime was discovered at Milwaukee, Tuesday. The wife of John Zimbrick, a laborer, killed her three children; the oldest seven years'of age, the youngest eighteen months, literally cutting them to pieces. The neighbor’s attention was attracted to the scene by the woman’s attempt to hang herself. They cut her down and took her in the house, when the horrible crime was discovered. Mrs. Zimbrick was immediately arrested. She took the arrest very calmly, saying that she had read of the sacrifice of children in the good book. She is doubtless insane. The immense hauls of fish of the coarser kind, such as buffalo, that are Doing taken out of the Hlinois at Pekin, Havanna and other points south of Peoria are wonderful. One haul at Havanna amounted to 70,000 pounds. Another haul at the same point marketed 44,000 pounds, besides which several thousand pounds were trashed. The fish are taken through the ice in nets, and are shipped all over the State. It is said they are unwholesome owing to the nasty condition of the river, which is laden with sewerage from Chicago and Peoria to such an extent that all the game fish have deserted it and are only found in bayous and creeks.

THE SOUTH: Damaging freshets are reported from Virginia and Georgia. United States Senator Coke has been re-elected from Texas. In Opelika, Ala., note have been renewed, and the Montgomery military are under orders. Wilmington, Delaware, reports thirty eases of small-pox, nine of which have proved fatal. <s Anna Brown, of Louisville, colored,and said to be 102 years old, was burned to death, Tuesday. The proMbition amendment to the constitution of West Virginia will pass both houses of the Legislature. ‘Teg leg” Polk, Tennessee’s defaulting State Treasurer,has been admitted to bail in the sum of SIOO,OOO. Near Gretna, La, on Tuesday, Panl Coudier, aged eighteen, shot and killed his father daring a dispute abont a pair of shoes. Governor Bates, of Tennessee* has signed the bill repealing the reoant State debt settlement at 66 cents and six per cent interest At Dallas, Tex., Robert Williams was stabbed and killed by his son, aged sixteen years, while he was sleeping. The boy committed the crime at the instigation of his step-mother. Eleven persons on the oonvict farm at Batesville, Ala., have been poisoned by eating a kind of home-made sauoe. Tom Johnson has died in terrible agony. Others are suffering terribly, but will probably recover. Fifteen persons were killed, sixty-nine ears and three locomotives demolished by an accident near Cumberland, Va., Toes day. A coal train started doqrn a steep grade with an engine in front another in the middle and a third on the rear. The front engine jumped the track, drawing the entire train with it

On Sunday evening an old Indy named' Mary Clark, living at Houston, Texas, .was pronounced in a dying Preparations were made for preparing her shroud. About twelve o’clock her attendant being asleep, the building oaugnt fire, and Mrs. Clark was literally roasted. The female attendant barfely escaped with her life. Frank Rose a river pilot of Louisville, died at Mobile, where his remains were placed in a costly casket and shipped home by express with a a a D. bill of $134, A relative sued out a writ of delivery, armed with which a constable took the corpse from its elaborate reoeptade and gave to friends for burial, leaving the express company to return the "“VM, The Baltimore authorities are saHnijf - war on the gamblers. Maroelhu proprietor of one of the leading gambling been sentenced to jail lor six months by Judge Phelps. Doc Slater,, the principal gambler of the city, has. made arrangements to remove to Washington. All the gambling establishments are closed. A body of disguised men foroibly took from the jail of Bussell county, Va., two white men, named O. F, Ferrall and Evan Griffith, oonfined on the charge of obtaining by false pretenoee about SIB,OOO worth of cattle from graziers of that section, and, as nothing has since been heard from them, it is supposed they have been lynched.

Lizzie Herman, seventeen years of aget. was standing in front of a flie at her residence in Louisville, on Tuesday afternoon, with her baby sister Alice in her arms. Lizzie’s clothes oanght fire, and in attempting to save herself, she accidentally dropped her little sister into the grate. Her shrieks aroused the neighbors, and assistance quickly came. Both were probably fatally burned. FOREIGN: Ex-Empress Eugenie has arrived in London. It is intended to light Canterbury On thedral with the eleotrio light The proposed visit of the Prime of Wales to Canada, in March next meets with gener alapprovaL Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, has arrived at Berlin and visited Prince Bismarck. George Monro, the United States publisher, has endowed three tutorships in Dalhousie College at Halifax. Solliv»n and Coburn have been kept under police surveillance ever sinoe their arrival at Toronto, and their glove fight will probably he prevented. O’Brien, editor of United Ireland, has been elected member of Parliament from Ireland over the Government candidate,. John Nash, by a majority of seventy-two. Prince Gwtehakoff, the Russian statesman who is staying at Nice, is very ill.Owing to his advanced age his condition is considered critical, and excites much' alarm. A portion of Ju’s band of Apaches is committing depredations near Del Bio, 160 miles west of San Antonio, and Indians in large numbers are reported on tiie Mexican side. The king and queen of Italy openede the international exhibition of fine artaat Borne. The opening was attended by an immense assemblage, and the spectacle was a very brilliant one.

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