Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1883 — NEWS AND INCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Ow Compilation of the Important Bap* t i ! peeing* of the Week. INDIANA ITEMS: Montioello ships flour to Atlanta Ga. Kokomo has a female insurance agent Montgomery county has $65,000 of loanable school funds. Graveyard insurance is bong actively prosecuted in Jackson county. John Ben tel, a type-setter erf Jeffersonville, has worked at the case tor 60 years. John R Tomlinson, of Shelby county, lost 85 of fine sheep by the reoent floods. |f The Wabash river contributed its full share to the destruction caused by the reoent flood. The oldest inhabitant all over the State is trying to remember another winter as severe as this. There are fourteen divorce suits on the docket of the Wayne Circuit Court at the preemit session. John Lackey, of Cambridge City, sold six head of horses this week, averaging over S2OO each.

Amos Hendricks, living near Martinsville, was drowned Thursday while trying to rescue some hogs. Dublin, Wayne county, has a citizen who haslived'there years, and has ' never ridden in a railway oar. Peter Cooley, of Chesterton, Porter County,.trapped an otter, a few nights ago, which weighed thirty pounds. A Rockville man skated the other day all the way from, that place to Portland Mill, fourteen miles, on the gravel road* Edward Vail’s jewelery store, at Laporte, was robbed on Sunday night of several thousand dollars worth of diamonds. J. W. Conklin, a Wayne oounty farmer has nine ewes which have given birth to eighteen lambs, two triplets, five twins, and two one each. A bank at Greensburg has put eleven barrels of silver dollars and one barrel of smaller ooins since the “dollar of the daddies" was legitimatized. Montgomery county collected $6,000 taxes unearthed by ferrets, and the parties who paid it will sne to recover, under the reoent Supreme Court decision. A child three years old, daughter of J A. Smith, at Hartford City, died on Wednesday from the effects of swollowing a one-cent piece some three weeks since. A Countryman skated several miles to Grown Point, the other day, carrying a beef s hide on his back. He exchanged it for a sack of flour, and skated home with that

The miners at Shelburn, Sullivan county, are oat on a strike. The operators claim they can pay bat eighty cents per ton for digging, and the men refuse to dig for less than $1 per ton. Architect Scherer, of the State House, says it will cost $1,210,772.06 to complete the building, including $45,893.85 for heating apparatus. The expenditures up to December 1 were $748,581.35. Blaokford County is all astir with religious revivals. It appears to be universal all over the county. At least 600 people have united with the different ohurches, end the good work still goes on. The cataract that threatened to render Gen. W. McKee Dunn totally blind, has been successfully removed at Washington and he is expected to issue from his oonfined in a dark room, fully restored to sight The village of Hammond, Lake County, has a Justice of the Peace who, when litigants or spectators become unruly, adjourns court and pitohes the obstreperous individual out of the window, and resumes as seriously as though nothing had disturbed him. Ode Plummer, tried at Mt Vernon for outraging his 11-year-old step-sister, was found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary for fourteen years. The jury took the case at 11 o’olock, and came in with their verdiot at midnight, Tuesday. A young man of Seymour started for Tennessee Monday night with the avowed intention of marrying an unknown correspondent, to whom he has been writing for some time. He has never even seen a photograph of the lady, but says he loves her for her letters. A young man named Joseph Friend and a woman old enough to be his mother, named Alice Clements, wife of William Clements of Fort Wayne, have been arrested in Dayton, Ohio, by the husband of the woman, and lodged in jail on the charge of adultery. The couple eloped from Fort Wftyne about two years ago. A mare belonging to John Kane, of Fayette county, died the other day aged thirty-seven years. During the twentyseven years that he owned her she raised eighteen colts which were sold an average of $125 each. All the braggadocio displayed by Buck Stout, the Darlington murderer, before and during his trial, has left him since he has been sentenced to death. He is morose and sullen, when not engaged ij& : weeping and bewailing his fate. It„ is presumed that he will utterly break dotvn when the time for the execution arrives.

ineot farmer living east of Liberty, died On Sunday night from trichinmais, one U bis daughters having died a few days gjaee. Other members of the family are afflicted with the same disease. Thorough examination made by the medical profession leave no doubt as to the nature of the malady. ' A man representing himself as John W. Godfrey, a physician and missionary, enticed a woman away from her home in ML Carmel, to Rising Son and kept her whwfined in a room at the latter plaoe, under the preteuse that she was his wife, subject to fitnof insanity, until a sheriff accidently learned the truth. Here is anothsr trick of the sharpers that needs attention. A fanner receives a circular through the mails stating that a new and improved variety of winter wheat has been discovered, and that seed will be furnished him free of charge until a fnU crop is raised, on condition that he sends $1 to pay for postage and packing. After the farmer sends his dollar he hears nothing further from the money or wheat.

Mr. J. F. Studebaker, of South Bend, has purchased a big stock ranch in Colorado, embracing a range fifteen by thirty milaa in extent, on which there are now running Ls3s head of grade N orman horses and mares. The range is. situated sixty miles northeast of Denver, and is among the finest in the west Mr. Studebaker intends to import twenty-five Norman stallions with a view to breeding a high grade of draft horses. Mis. Marietta Richards was arrested at Fi Wayne and lodged in jail for stealing $385 from James P..Gass, of Laporte She is known to be worth SII,OOO, and is by profession a fortune teller. She is a widow over sixty years of age. The robbery was accomplished, it is alleged, while Cass was in her room, by the use of compounds, which she mixes to gain power over her viotims. Her brother is a wealthy business man, but would not go on her bail, and she is now in jail awaiting trial. Cook k Speaker are stove manufacturers, and do business at Wabash. One day a stranger sauntered carelessly into the foundry and after looking around and examining all the articles closely, approached one of the proprietors and said: “Where did you get the pattern for those stoves?" The proprietor replied that he bought it in Cincinnati “And did you bay the patent?” inquired the stranger. “Don't need any patent,” said the proprietor. “Well, I’ll see about that. That is my patent, and you can settle for it here or go with it and settle it in the courts.” The man proved his assertions, and the firm compromised by paying him S3OO for the use' of the patenL

Blaine is writing a history to be entitled “Twenty Years of Congress.’ Two boys twelve years of age, have been arrested in Massachusetts for robbing the mails. The police of New Brunswick, N. J., are looking for a gypsy band who fed a dead baby to a bear. The organized and unorganized militia force of the oountry numbers 6,800,000 men available for military duty. A dangerous gang of thieves and burglars known as the “Molly Macks," has been oaptured at Washington. The detective connected the band with, twelve burglaries and recovered much stolen property. The annual report of the Commissioner of Patents shows: Total receipts, $1,009,219; expenditures, $682,867; balance in the treasury on account of patent fund, $2,205,471; total number of applications requiring action, 36,114; total patents granted, 20,517. _ The Pacific roads will charge Knights Templar and their female relatives going to the conclave $75 each from the Mis souri river to San Francisco and return by one route, or SIOO each for the round trip going one way and returning the other. Members of the Grand Oommandery traveling alone will be taken for SSO by one line, with $75 if accompanied by a lady. The Secretary of the Navy has reported to Congress a formidable list of casualties to the Navy, it being a list of fortythree vessels whose names have been stricken from the navy list by recommendation of examining boards under authority, of the act of August 6, last.. It is recommended that four of these be retained for various purposes, nine be broken up in the stocks, and thirty-one be sold at public auction. This makes a heavy reduction in the apparent strength of the United States Navy. t THE EAST: The first Florida strawberries have reached New York. There were 2,818 deaths in New York City during the month of January. Eight hundred men have resumed ■gork on tfctftawuoaj-itol at Albany, N. Y ' Robert J Smith, a jealous husband o Lowell, Mass., killed his wife and himself Tuesday. ‘ v -'if*" The Brooklyn postoffice

was robbed Wednesday afternoon, -■ o t by a'sneak thief. The emigrant tax law of New York is decided unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States. Vermont is distressed by the drought, and actual suffering is predicted should it continue a fortnight longer. The body of a German immigrant, which was interred in the potter’s field at Weohakm, N. J„ was exhumed. and $2,000 was oonoealed in his undershirt The new Jersey Senate has passed a bill to prohibit themanufacture or sale of any alcoholio or intoxicating liquors. Sergeant Vanderburg, of New York, lost five blue blooded bantams. He val ues them so highly that he has offered S3OO for their reoovery. In a large fancy-goods house in New York, a lady was arrested on tbeojiarge of being a for aspy rival firm, visiting the store to note styles and prices. Walcott the New York quail-eater finished his sixty birds in thirty days on Monday, and maintains that he can eat three each day for sixty days. Amanuel Ojola,wife and son have been arrested in Jersey City for making counterfeit coins, by a new process, which does away with the use of molds or steel dies.

Harvey McHenry, a nitro-glyoerine shooter, was literally tom to pieces by a premature explosion, at Allqntown, Pa., Monday. The remains will not fill a cigar box. The Chinese-American was issued for the firs 4 time in New York, on Saturday. It is edited by Wong Chin Foo, and is written in Chinese characters and multiplied by lithography. On the Cooper tract, near Oil a tank of 35,000 barrels capacity, containing 20,000 barrels of oil, burst. The oil took fire, and two men, a woman and a .child, in a house near by, were burned to death.

The estate of Rev. Dr. Mercer, of Newport, R. L, soon after hia. death, was estimated at $200,000, but is now found to amount to over $1,000,000. It has been taxed for SIO,OOO. There is great surprise at this revelation. ; The Rev. Dr. Webber, pastor of the foremost Presbyterian church at Troy, N. Y., has resigned because he no longer believes in the existence of hell. His congregation refused to follow him in his belief. He was formerly a professor in Middlebury college. |3ome of the timbers in the costly New York residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt have become so offensive from having been saturated with heavy oils to prevent dry rot that workmen are engaged in replacing them with new timber, the residence has only been occupied a few weeks. Mrs. Mary Young, of Fall River, Mass., offers to erect in memory of her son, Bradford Matthew Chalmers Durfee, a high school, and present the same with the lot to the city; also, to provide the apparatus and give the city in trust $50,000. The whole gift is valued at $40^,000. A terrible accident occurred near Hinsdale, Pa., Monday, to a passenger train, the trestle of a bridge giving way, and precipitating the engine and baggage oar into the water, covering them up entirely, landing the smoking car on end, and shaking up the passengers in the day coach. Two persons were drowned. The water was within two feet of the rails of the track.

THE WEST: The whisky in bond at Chicago amounts to 880,000 gallons. The gross receipts of the Cincinnati festival are estimated at $130,000. The city of Santa Fe., New Mexico,will celebrate next July its third oentennary. The contending bands of Creek Indians in the Territory will probably resume hostilities. Great damage was done to fruit trees in Central and Southern Illinois, by the recent sleet storm. Six desperadoes were hanged and one shot by a vigilance committee in Montana Teritory last week. It is reported that nearly 3,000 carloads of corn are snow bound in the West, on the way to Chicago. Illinois has 1,985 lunatics ip the four asylnms, 1,232 m the County Almshouse and 1,917 under private treatment. Governor Crosby; of Montana, vigorosly opposes the project to lease Yellowstone park to Rufus Hatch. Five men were killed, Monday, near Sidney, 0., by a railroad collision. Orders had been misunderstood. The Indians in Indian Territory are greatly excited over the threatened invasion by Payne and his colonists. A 14-year-old boy at Milwaukee, Wis., barricaded himself in his parents’ home, and attempted to kill his step-mother and fi policeman. It is estimated at Sandusky that $20,000 has reoently been sent from that city to the grain swindlers in Chicago lately debarred from using the mails. The saloon keepers of Chicago have petitioned the legislature of Illinois to defeat the pending license law, which adyqpces the license fee to S3OO.

unknown man, with his wife and child, attempted to croea a swollen creek, in a buggy, and all ware drowned. John F. Coed, an extensive oat tie owner of Wyoming, states that there will be no lose of stock by the &ow storm, as the herds can stand a siege of twenty days. The attorneys of Scheller, charged with firing the Newhall House, hint that they will produce the missing hotel books and point out as the inoendiary a trusted employe. The lowa prohibitionists have asked Governor Sherman to call a special session ot the legislature to re-enact the prohibition amendment to the state constitution. The Eagle hotel at Grand Rapids,Mieh., took fire early Mon ’ay morning, with fifty guests and twenty-five employee in their beds. The building was destroyed, but no lives were lost A Detroit dispatch says that the liabilities of Ferry of Grand Haven will amount to $750,000, with assets of about $30,000. The failure is said to have been caused by having too many irons in the fire.

On Sunday afternoon an old German woman named Zilmendorf was found by a granddaughter suspended from a garret rafter in the family residence at Milwaukee. The age of the suicide was eightyone years and six months. The Chicago common council has resolved to require all hotels to be provided with ropes in their rooms fronting on streets, for eeoape in case of fire, also to require every hotel to provide itself with a Chinese gong. The authorities of Minnesota have asked for Frank James, to answer to the charge of robbing the Northfield bank, but Governor Crittenden states that he cannot deliver the prisoner to any other state until the disposal of the indictments pending in Missouri. , It has been discovered that a coffeehouse in Chicago regularly takes the commonest grades and by a chemical process converts them into an imitation of old government Java, at a profit of five cents per pound. It is said of Council Bluffs, la, that safe-rifling is so oommon that the merchants leave their safes unlocked. One of the leading mills has the combination pasted up above the safe, with instructions to use it and do no injury to the safe. Captain Payne, the Oklahoma boomer, has bden arrested south of the Cimarron river by Lieutenant Stevens. The party was on its way to Oklahoma, outfitted with 100 wagons. Captain Carroll, commanding the troops in the Oklahoma country, will take the entire party to Fort Reno.

It is believed that Ferry’s chahces for re-election as Senator from Michigan are hopeless. His representatives at Lansing were served with process, Saturday night in a suit for an unpaid bill of for rooms.and board for the month of January, at a hotel there. The Senator has been absent from Lansing for a week, seeking to tide over his financial chfficultiee, but their extent is unknown. * By a cave in the Esmeralda mine at Deadwood, on Monday morning, Joseph Griffin, R. S. Ely and James MoPhee were killed. A shift of thirty men were warned of danger by the cracking timbers, and all withdrew but the three named, who returned for their coats, when the roof fell, forcing the air through the tunnel with great force, dashing the men against rooks as though fired from a can non. At a few minutes before noon, Monday, John Parker, a prisoner on trial on the charge of murder, while sitting in the jury room of the court at St. Louis, in company with hts wife and friends, drew a pistol and shot his wife through the head, k : lling her instantly. Then before the officers and others, who rushed to the scene from the court room, could prevent, he sent snother ball into his own head, causing a wound from which he died in fifty minutes. Parker was a young man of thiny-three years, and had been married six years. When sober he was hard-working and industrious, but in drink was attend. His wife, who had borne him two boys—one of whom, aged twenty months survives— was a singu larly pretty woman of twenty-four years, who had been most devoted to him since his incarceration eighteen months ago on a charge of murdering Michael Payton in a Christy avenue saloon. The husband and wife were despondent at the bad outlook for their child. when the wife that if she were dead, the child would get SI,OOO insurance from the Garfiqld lodge Ladies Knights of Honor, and she gave her consent to her husbands shooting and became a martyr for her boy. THE SOUTH: A spn accidentally shot his father,Monday, in Carroll county, Kentucky. Kentucky distillers are exporting whisky to escape the payment of the tax. A Louisville German him committed

arid* by drinking a quantity ofoonoentr&tea jye. □The loss to stockmen throughout Texas by the reoent cold weather will not exceed 5 per oe&i 1 ’ General Gordon, of Georgia, recently purchased nearly 200,000 acres ot delta land in Mississippi It is claimed that a sand-bar of large proportions has formed across the North end of the Mississippi jetties. The court house and records of Little River oounty, Ark., at Richmond, were destroyed by fire last Friday night Jack Goenell, a famous moonshiner of South Carolina, waa captured in the Talnda mountains by a party ot revenue raiders. General Bob Toombs is Mind in one eye and the other is almost out An Atlanta oculist is to operate on him nextweek. The poetoffioe at Birmingham, Ala., has been robbed of money and stamps amounting to $6,600 or $7,000 and a fine diamond ring. Miss Lotto Galloways highly educated methodist young lady of Baltimore, hae renounced the Christian religion and embraced the Hebrew faith, taking a new name. ... An inoendiary fire at Decatur, Texas, destroyed a number of stables, in whioh were fourteen hors< s, also several small business buildings. Losses $10,000; in. sured for $4,900. Neal and Craft, the Ashland murderers, have arrived at Grayson, Ky., for trial, accompanied by 400 state troops. The prisoners and part of the soldiers are quartered at the jail, and the othera in a train of nine cars. The Texas State Treasurer has asked for an investigation of his books on account of cash balance by the legislature which will begin next week. As there is nearly $2,000,000 ip the vault, tha count is not expected to be much fun. The Annapolis mutiny has been suppressed, the offending Cadets reduced to the ranks, and offioers from the lower classes appointed to their places. This is the most bitter punishment, short of expulsion, that could be devised.

FOREIGN: Madagascar will ask the protection ot England. Anthony Trollope’s will devises property valued at $125,000. It is intended to light Canterbury Oas thedral with the electric light. Many people are said to he starving death in county Galway, Ireland. Judah P. Benjamine, the Queen’s ooun, sel, has retired from practice at London, It is rumored that the Vaticau has decided to appoint another American car* Several women were killed by a train accident, on an English coal road, Monday. Prince Napoleon has been removed to an asy.um near AnteuiL He is much dejected. A Dublin official says the agrarian outrages in Ireland during January numbered ninety. h- t The Emperor William has written a letter of thanks for foreign contributions to aid the flood sufferers. Prince Jerome will be sent before court for indictment for an attempt to overthrow the present regime. The Czar has issued a manifesto, announcing the coronation oeremony to take place May 27, next The forty thousand slaves not emancipated in Cuba by their owners in 187(V are to be treated henceforth as freedmen It is rumored in Montreal that Isaac H. Vincent the defaulting Treasurer of Alabama, is in that city under an astmmed name. Yorke House, England, formerly the residence of Comte de Paris, is being prepared to receive members of the Orleans family. Herr Most and Leo Hartman, the Rue sian nihilist, unite in expressing the be-, lief that the Czar of Russia will neyer be crowned. fr. The attitude of China toward Japan is. becoming unpleasant if not actually hostile, the cause ot the ill feeling being the still unsettled Loo Chooquestion. In the trials in Dublin, Kavanaugh has been unequivocally identified as the driver of the oar containing the Phoenix Park assassins, and it is believed he w&L turn informer. Davitt Healey and Quinn, arrested some time ago for making inflammatory speeches, have refused to give bail, and Saturday were lodged in Kilmainhan jail for a term of six months. A panic was caused in London, Monday, by the sudden flight of Earl Spencer to London. Dublin was full of rumors, and his sudden departure is believed to be due to the discovery of a plot to as-' sassinate him. The survivors of the disaster of the steamer Kenmure Castle, which foundered in the Bay of Biscay, existed three day*, by chewing a flannel vest The ticer became starving mad and jumped overboard, but was rescued. >sf iM