Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1883 — NEWS AND. INCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND. INCIDENT.

Our Compilation of the Week. INDIANA ITEMS: James Smith, of Hagerstown, dreaded the prospect of getting married so much that he committed suicide. An English setter belonging to James H. Jordan, of Richmond, took the first prize at the Pittsburg dog show. A. A. Hargrave, of Rockville, has been appointed by the'Presbyterian board of foreign missions superintendent of their printing house at Oroomiah, Persia. Oscar M. Goodwin, the defaulting Logansport cashier, is ’ a ‘waiter at the Northern Prison dining room. Eliza Henderson, a colored woman of Rockport, acknowledges that she has killed five of her children directly after the babes were bom. A Chicago man proposes if he gets assurance of 200 acres of the sorghum plant to work up in the neighborhood to build a sorghum sugar and molasses factory at Laporte. A Valparaiso young man named C. D. Ames, has got himself into serious trouble by fraudulently obtaining from the Valparaiso postoffice mail directed to Miss Allie Detmore. The Adams Chilled Plow Works at Plymouth, have failed. Assets nearly sufficient to meet liabilities. The cause of the failure was in the small per cent age of stockholders meeting the expense of assessments. The Stewart Paper company of Brookville, purchased last week of the Western Union Telegraph company 9,000 pounds of old and undelivered telegrams which were converted into pulp in the presence of a special agent -of, the telegraph company. The new schedules of the salaries of postmasters shows that in all the leading cities of the State the rateshave been reduced SIOO to SSOO, except Indianapolis which has been raised S2OO and Richmond SIOO, while Lafayette, South Bend and Union City remain undhanged. Henry McLaughlan, the train wrecker tried at Vincennes, has received two years in the penitentiary. This was on his second trial. He was put off an Evansville and Terre Haute train in November and tried to get even by placing obstructions on the track. Michigan City Dispatch: “The drive well patentees who threatened to commence suit against all parties using the wells, if the $lO royalty was not paid by the 17th, have so far failed to do so. The first man sued will be defended by the association, and the case will be carried from one court to another.” Lightning-rod agents have been swindling the farmers in Handcock county by their contract method. Ex-Commission*, er John Adams eigne ’ a contract for rods to his house at $lB, but was confronted with a bill for S3OO. The farmers in the eastern part of the county suffer most and Moore and Rrookaw the agents have departed, as the fanners threatened to tar and feather them. Andy Williams, colored, aged 19 years was hanged by a mob, Monday evening, in sight of the J. M. & L railroad, near the town of Sellersburg, Clarke county. Williams brutally assaulted and attempted to outrage Mrs. Joseph Taylor in the absence of her husband; knocking her down, gouging her eyes, and attempted to stun her, but was unsuccessful in his purposes. She was finally rescued from the villain. Afterwards a mob overcame the officers and swung him up withou ceremony. A five-year-old Shelbyville boy named Carrollton a grandson of Job Tindall, has suddenly developed into a wonderful medium exhibiting great power, such as raising tables occupied by two or more persons, and receiving messages from dead friends, which are by him written on a slate in a beautiful hand. When not under the spirit power it is said he can not write at all. A singular statement comes from Ko komo: Four months ago a man named Louder, who resided in Miami County near the line of Howard, sold his six-year-old boy to one Stevens, of Kokomo, the consideration being sl. The little fellow was brought to Kokomo, where he remained until two weeks ago, when he disappeared. Inquiry elicited the fact that he had been taken back home by his On Monday Stevens called on an attorney and wanted to bring a replevin suit to obtain possession of the boy, but learned that nothing of the kind could be donfe. So the boy remains at home. At Greensburg, ’'Wednesday, Michael Murray was found guilty of burglary with intent to commit an outrage, with a penalty of two years in the penitentiary. A few years ago his father w s killed on the railroad; subsequently a brother was ■hot and killed by a woman in the night time, into whose house heforoed his way with evil intent. A brother who is deaf and dumb is now the only support of his widowed mother. LieutenaniCom mander Gorringe’e rqgj gnation from navy theh as been accepted?

The late Trenor W.Park, of Bennntgon left no will His estate is estimated at $3,600,000. .. . ' The House deficiency, bill this year will be only 82,000,000, as againfet $18,000,000 last year. • > j . , > By the burning of the steamer “Glhmeron” from Liverpool io Boston, seven lives were lost Senator David Davis .will vacate the chair in the Senate before the expiration of the present session, and allow the election of a new president pro tern. Susan B. Anthony has sailed for Livi pool, President Green,of the Western Union, is going to Europe. He says that Jay Gould owns $13,000,000 of Western Union stock. Last week 500,000 of the new nickel pieces were coined at the Philadelphia mint; also, 710,000 pennies and 210,000 dimes. The demand for the new fivecent piece is very heavy. The Department of State has received an application from the British Government for the extradition of P. J. Sheridan, suspected of complicity in the Phcenix Park murders. Michael A. Doyle, of St. Louis, brother of the wife of General McAdaris, who .is suspected of being “No. 1,” of the Irish Invincibles. and concerned in the Phcenix Park murders, denies generally and specifically that the General could have been connected with the events mentioned. He says, to his knowledge, McAdaris has not been connected with any Irsh societies since the Fenial movement fiasco in 1865. The Washington police found a large and dangerous infernal machine on Pennsylvania avenue, Wednesday, and are (investigating its origin. It was a large hollow rubber ball, filled with dynamite and other explosives, with a brass tube and quick fuse protruding, the tube being capped. The machine was powerful enough to demolish an entire block of buildings. THE EAST: The Philadelphia gas frauds amount to $167,000. The Pennsylvania civil service bill has been defeated in the house. The Maine Senate has passed a prohibitory constitutional amendment. Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, has appointed fast day for Thursday, April 5. The Maine Senate has passed a bill allowing women to vote on school matters. Gail Hamilton has been offered the trusteeship of the Massachusetts workou se. All temperance and prohibition measures were killed by the New Jersey House of Representatives. The auctioneer is about to dispose of Horace Greeley’s farm in Westchester county, New York, known as Chappaqua. Duncah Karns, at one time a well known oil operator in Pittsburg, worth $2,000,000, has been murdered in Colorado. He lost all his money in 1875. Donald Smith Peddie, a Scotch absconder, who swindled orphan asylums and other societies out of $130,000, was buried Thursday in the potter’s field a Philadelphia. Thirty Dartmouth students were suspended on Thursday for giving Professor Laird a tin-horn serenade and demolishing the fence ir. front of his re idence. The Rev. Edward Ellis, the Baptist local preacher from Maine, who was sentenced to one years imprisonment for adultery at St John’s, N. 8.. has had his sentence quashed because the marriage laws of Maine were not proved on his trial The burning of a school house in New York, Tuesday, created a panic among the scholars, of whom there were 500. In the struggle for egress fifteen little ones were killed. The building is now denounced as a death trap. A tenement at Providence, R. 1., occupied by William Hanly, was burned Saturday, and an infant suffocated. Five children were dropped from the third story to a man below and saved. A novel injunction was granted al New Haven, Friday, which forced Irwin Bronson, on account of his extreme cruelty to his wife, to leave his house at 6 o’clock Saturday afternoon with his personal property, pending the result of divorce proceedings by hi? wife. The injunction permits him to see his child only one hour each day.' Bertha*the daughter of Horace H. Stevens, a wealthy banker and broker of Boston, was married at midnight, Monday,by Rev. Minot J. Savage to Theodore Aide. She was not expected to live, and the marriage has created an immense amount so talk. Miss Stevens is believed to have been the victim of a passion which her parents sought to stifle, and only succeeded in making her miserable, for since the wedding she has improved. THE WEST: | The removal of the capitol of Dakota from Yankton is being agitated. Chicago will try the experiment of un-der-ground conducts for electric wires. James Noonan, a miner, fell 140 feet in the Gilt Edge mine, near Leadville, and v was instantly killed.

Cleveland has gained 8,458 in popula-d tian since Jau,1,1882, and now contains 194,309 inhabitants. > k - The Braidwood mint disaster is increasing in its hoffoip. The drowned may reach W* in number. Sam Mtdtll of the Chicago Tribune, died white rejoicing over a “scoop” which his paper had obtained. A militia company in Mexico captured three cattle-thieves at LB Mesa,and killed a fourth, a noted,desperado. Frank James Was arraigned at Gallatin, Mo., Tuesday, on thrce indictments for murder. He pleaded “pot guilty” • A* singular and fatal disease among swine has appeared in wmoda county, Minnesota, where it has swept off over 300. -I John Kadisch and his wife have been found guilty at Watertown, Wis., of the willful murder of Kadisch a aged mother in December last. About 500 feet of the track of the Chi-, cago & Evanston railroad were tom up Thursday night by a txiob of Swede and Polish laborers. Revivalist Harrison, is arranging to spend a month in St Louis. His stay of twelve weeks in Decatur yielded thirteen hundred converts. . A jury in the United States court, in Milwaukee, decided that an insurance company is liable for the payment of a policy on the life of a suicide. John F. Coad, an extensive cattle owner of Wyoming, states that there will be no loss of stock by the snow storm, as the herds can /stand a siege of twenty days. The number of hogs killed by Chicago packers since Nov. 1 to date is 2,431,000. against 2,330,000 tot the corresponding period a year ago. Three young men, George Wilson, Carter Moore and George Lyman, of Williamston, Hl., were drowned Friday afternoon, while attempting to cross Bear Creek in a boat Manuel Lenhart, in jail at Newaygo, Mich., charged with murder, died of fright Preparations for a ball near the prison he took to be the noise of a mob organizing to lynch him. The Diamond coal mine at Braidwood, HL, was flooded Friday afternoon, and i is known that sixty-three men and .boys ar A drowned. The Diamond mine is one of the most extensive in Illinois. Mrs. Eldridge, the centenarian who celbrated the 102 d anniversary of her birth, on the Bth of January last died at Gilman, (Ill.) on Wednesday. She came from England to this country in 1796. Dr. Glenn, the largest landowner in California, was murdered by a discharged employe named Miller. The only cause assigned for the deed was that Miller did not give satisfaction and was discharged. The number of lives lost in the recent Braidwood, (Ill.) coal mine disaster is eighty-one. The number of widows is fifty, and the number of children rendered fatherless is about 100. The theory is now advanced that the Newhall house fire, Milwaukee, was caused by tramps in the cellar. A body s ipposed to be that of a tramp was discovered in the ruins, Saturday. Mrs. Patrick Casey, living five miles north of Roeemond, Minn., cut the throat of her child, four years ol ’, and then her own. When found, the child was dead and the mother died soon after. The woman was insane. An apochryphal story comes from East Tawas, Mich., to the effect that at a lumber camp near there, a teamster severed another’s head from his body with an ax, and that in the riot which ensued seven men were killed. After repeated attempts, the saloonkeepers of Cincinnati have incorporated at Columbus a mutual aid association. Nash, the Republican Attorney General, has heretofore decided against granting such charters. Gen. J. 8. Brisbyx lectured at Billings, Montana, Saturday night, and in the course of his remarks said that if Ouster had obeyed Gen. Terry’s orders he and his command would probably be alive today. Thisf statement produced a sensation. Harrison, the evangelist, has stirred up the good brethren of Decatur, HL, who pay him SIOO a week, Saturdays off, by conducting services in neighboring towns in his spare time. They complain that this is in spirit a violation of his agreement; besides, it detracts from the interest in the services at Decatur. A section of McLean avenue,at Cincinnati, seventy-five feet long, slipped into the water at Court street, Thursday morning, letting down the Southern railroad track and cutting off communication with both passenger and freight depots. The accident happened shortly before the arrival of an incoming train. Miss Jennie C. Klaine, a young lady who has been making her home in Bloomington, 111., has fallen heir to a large amount of money and a large landed estate near Paris, France, by the recent death of her grandfather. About one year ago Miss Klain was also left a large sum of money by the death of a maiden aunt jn Paris. 1 Aparty of five lowa Indians, on thfijr

sway to the Sac and Fox agency in the Indian Territory, became intoxicated, when six miles below Arkansas City, Kam, and got into a quarrel, when one stabbed another to the heart. , This enraged the others, whp sat upon tiie assassin and cut him with knives so that he died soon after. Michael Flath, president of the board of trustees of the First Luthei an Church of Dayton, 0., and a well-known business man of considerable wealth, was arrested on Saturday, charged with outraging the person of Mrs. Ida Schneider, a young married lady, recently from Germany,and also a member of the church. The outrage is said to have been committed some months since. The lady made notes of the details of the crime, and revealed part of the affair to her husband and communicated all the facts to her pastor. A committee was appointed by the church, and Flath’s resignation demanded. He was held in SI,OOO bail. • i, * 4 W .■ THE SOUTH: Smallpox is steadily abating 'in Baltimore. The ship canal charter has been passed by the Florida assembly. The Tennessee House of Representatives has ordered an investigation as to ex-Treasurer Polk. The Charleston News and Courier says Senator Wade Hampton will retire from political life at the close of his present term. . It is said upon good authority that John C. Carlisle, of Kentucky, has 100 votes pledged to him for the next Speakership. In the shooting match at Louisville, Thursday, for the championship, Carver defeated Borgadus by one bird ont of one hundred. Miss Holly, of Orangeburg, 8. C., (was burned to death the other night, her dress catching fire from the grate. She was to have been married the next day. A Tennessee magistrate confided the warrant for the arrest of a desperado to the latter’s avowed enemy,who served his warrant and then coolly shot his victim. Craft, one of the Ashland, Ky., murderers, who has been on trial at Grayson for the past two weeks, was found guilty Friday, and the jury fixed his punish ment at death. Polk, the Tennessee defaulter, is likely to die soon if kept in prison. He cannot speak above a whisper. An attempt will be made to compromise his shortage of 8300,000. The steamer Jay Gould, which left St. Louis, Saturday, for New Orleans, with a cargo of bulk grain for export, had on board 179,000 bushels of corn and 5,000 bushels of wheat. Craft, convicted of the murder of the Gibbons children at Ashland, Ky., has been sentenced to hang May 25. The soldiers have left Grayson, taking the prisoner with them. Five inmates of the Virginia Western Lunatic Asylum, at Staunton, are dead and two are dying. They were poisoned. A patient is supposed to have tampered with the medicines. The emigration of negroes from North Carolina to Arkansas has grown to such proportions that the Legislature of the former State has been urged to apply remedial measures. The prisoners in the Missouri State Penitentary. mutinied, Friday, and set fire to the building. The convicts then attempted to escape, but were overcome and placed in dungeons. The loss by the fire to stxjk and buildings will aggregate $300,000. S. L. Shaw, a swindler, representing himself to be a theatrical manager, beat John Erickson, a Swede, of Redfield, Ark. out of S7OO, and finding it impossible to recover his money, Erickson committed suicide. Shaw is under arrest in Cincinnati. David Ferguson, in his two offices of back-tax collector and receiver of city taxes, had made way with about $140,000 of the money of Louisville. Over $200,000 has been stolen in the last three years by the city hall swindlers. While Rev. James McCormick, a colored preacher at Whiteville, N. 0., was assisting in tearing down a log church, some of the timbers gave way and he was caught by the neck between two logs and chocked to death. The other men escaped without fatal injuries. Three brothers of Warsaw, Mo., William, Henry and Silas Boatright, aged sixteen, eignteen and twenty years, respectively, became engaged in a deadly quarrel, Monday, and fought with knives. The two latter were killed outright and the former mortally wounded. The father is a wealthy man. The Arkansas convicts, working on the levee three miles below Helena, attacked their guards Saturday and attempted to .escape. J. H. Grant the contractor coming upon the scene was shot and instantly killed. Seventeen of the convicts escaped across the river and compelled negroes to exchange clothes with them. A posse of men were organized and in persuit FOREIGN: Booth was crowned with a silver laurel wreath at Hamburg.

Subscriptions have been opened at Berlin for sufferers by the floods in* America. No constitution nor amnesty will be granted on the occasion of the Czar’s coronation. Twenty-two persons were drowned on Thursday, by the wreck of a steamer in the Bosphorus. A German colonial society intends to colonize Fernanda Po an island on the West cost of Africa, with Germans. The first through freight train on the Canadian Pacific road, from Montreal to Manitoba, was dispatched Thursday. The police guarding Mr. Gladstone at Cannes, have been doubted, gad, a strict watch is kept over the premises at night. Hamburg merchants fear retaliation by the United States owing to the prohibition of the importation of Americanpork. Owing to disclosures, 136 Socialists were arrested at Andalusia, Spain, and special judges were appointed to make uninvestigation. The heart andvital parts of (the lat Pope Pius IX., have been removed from the crypt, where they had been deposited since death, and placed permanently in a marble urn near the tomb of Stuarts. Societies to destroy the rights of property and exterminate bourgeoise landowners have been discovered in Andalusia. The bpanish government is resolved to suppress the societies. They number a thousand members, and include persona of social standing. Louis Fernandez and Carmen Lira, lovers, aged sixteen, of Matamoras, Mex., because forbidden to marry, tied themselves together and drowned themselves in the Yara river on Friday. The bodies were recovered, and at the sight the girl’s mother also jumped in and drowned herself. It is stated that letters have been received bv the St Petersburg authorities conveying threats to blow up the Kremlin at Moscow when the Czar is to be crowned. Search has been made, but nothing indicating preparations tor the destruction of the palace was revealed. China and Japan are constantly growing mpre hostile toward each other, und China is making warlike preparations. It is stated in some high quarters that the news of American acceptance of the Uorean treaty will probably prove the most important obstacle to a warlike demonstration from China, because that treaty places the United States in the same position as Japan with respect to a recognition of Corean independence, which is the point of Chinese contention.