Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1883 — NEWS AND INCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Oar Compilation of the Important Hap* petting* of the Wook. INDIANA ITEMS: Allison, a Crawfordsville blacksmith, pounded one Shuler’s head into a jelly with a hammer Saturday afternoon in a row. -•> Yankee Robinson, who has been temporarily sojourning in Edinburg, talks of making that town the winter quarters for his show. The one bad case of small-pox and the prevalent measles at Anderson, have al most caused the public schools to suspend for want of pupils. The high waters floated out the records of Jeffersonville prior to 1848, which had been lost for a long time behind some old boxes in the court room, and they were reclaimed. The recent freshet caused a fire at the Mishawaka paper mill The water forced its way into the lime-house and “slacked’ a quantity of lime, the heat from which ignited the building. A aawlog was hauled to a mill in Wabash county which measured fifty-one inches across the end, and the scalea, Which have a capacity of twelve tons, wsuld not weigh it. The boiler in Patten’s box factory at Westville, ten miles south of Laporte, exploded Thursday morning, killing A. O. Patten, the proprietor, and Henry Patten, and demolishing the building. At Laurel, twelve miles south of Connersville, John Coulter, one of the most desperate men in Franklin county, a onearmed man, blew off his only hand with a dynamite cartridge while trying to kill fish.

A few days ago a little girl, about nine years of aje, was seen wallowing in the middle of one of the streets of Connersville in a beastly state of intoxication. She had been sent for a bottle of whisky and had helped herself. » Two counterfeiters, named Waters and Welch, were arrested at Springfield, HL, Tuesday, the 27th. They had about SB,OOO in counterfeit money upon their persons when arrested. They claim that they live at Evansville, and are engaged in the commission business in that city. John Michelson, while making a chick en coup braped himself against a tyoard ito hold it, then reached over and nailed from the other side. By so doing he drove the nail through the board and through an excellent hunting case solid gold watch, ruining it entirely. This at Liberty. Frank and Alexander Moore, of Indian .creek township, Lawrence-county, were splitting rails a few days ago on their father’s farm, when Alex, made a misliok with his ax and cut Frank’s hand off. He came near bleeding to death before medical aid coul be had. At the reception given after the marriage ceremony of Mr. Clarence Bruner and Miss Nellie Pettit, at Wabash, last Friday night, some of the food is supposed to have contained poison, as the next day about 100 of the guests were seized with violent crampings of the stomach, some being quite sick., * A flouring mill on the Salamonie river near Lagro, has fallen into the river. The stream had washed the supports of the structure s<Ahat all the machinery, valued at $3,000, was removed three weeks ago, and the mill has been expected to topple over at any time. The building was valued at $5,000. James Rink, a wealthy farmer of Daviess county, was arrested on a writ of ns exeat just as he was about boarding a train for Missouri. Some months ago he was caught in a compromising situation with the wife of Willis Mcßae, and settled it by giving his note for $275, which Mcßae sold to a neighbor, and then sent his wife away. It is claimed that Rink had sold his place and was leaving for the West to avoid payment of the notes. He was taken to jail, refusing to give bail Three Evansville negro boys, Frank Downey, Willie Crump and Jim Lefts, aged thirteen, twelve and nine years respectfully, stole a top from Willie Garraty, a white boy, aged ten years. They refused to give it back. Garraty said he would tell a policeman about it, when Downey said: “I will kill you before you shall tell on me.” The negroes then attacked Garraty with a club and bricks, killing him almost instantly. Officer Cahill arrested the negroes and slated them on the charge of murder. Sarah E, Deckard, daughter of a monroe county farmer, has brought suit against Marion Eads, Jackson H. Clementines, Jackson Foddrille, and John N. Kirk, asking damages in $2,000 each, or $12,000 in all, The complaint recites that the defendants restrained Miss Deckard of her liberty, bruised and beat her, and shaved her head, thereby depriving her of a crop of beautiful hair, and causing hes much pain and humiliation. Five persons of one family were killed by a negro named Ed. Cooper, four miles from Evansville, Tuesday morning. Cooper’s wife is a white woman. She was

I ffffluissrs >iawir m fuMrUw *-> I staying ax ovauaoerrj s naying ootainea I a divorce from (looper. Some of the men employed at the same place were too intimate with the woman, which enraged Cooper. Tuesday he took a skiff, went to the house, and caught his wife in the arms of another man. He picked up an ax in the house ard made after the man, who drew a revolver and shot at Cooper, slightly wounding him. Cooper afterwards killed all the inmates of the house except a man named Reichert, who jumped into Cooper’s skiff went to Evansville and gave the information to Chief Prickett, Detective Newitt and others, who left for the scene. The survivors of the Jeannette crew reached St Petersburg, Saturday. Ex-President Dias, of Mexico, has arrived on a visit to the United States. The President appointed 200 postmasters in February, twenty of whom were ladies. . Senator Tabor, the thirty-day bonanza Senator from Colorado, was married in great style in Washington, Thursday evening, to Miss McCort, of Chicago. The public debt statement shows a reduction of $7,630,678.54 during the past month, and a reduction ot $104,638,346.29 since'June 30,1882. The debt less cash in the treasury March 1,1883, is $1,586,276,114.48. The cash in the treasury is $306,256,748,78. The total interest debt, March 1, was $1,354,805,750.

THE EAST: Rhode Island was badly “shook" up by an earthquake, Wednesday. At Bennington, VL,by runaway horses, one man was killed and eight injured. The wire drawers of New Haven are striking, against a reduction of wages. JA wild story comes from Boston that Jennie Cramer has been found there alive. The late Trenor W.Park, of Bennntgon est no will. His estate is estimated at $3,600,000. i The report that winter wheat throughout Central Illinois has been winter killed, is denied. The Land League treasurer at Waterbury, Conn., has forwaraed $2,634 to the Irish famine sufferers. At the Philadelphia mint 6,265,440 pieces were coined during February, their total value being $1,100,360. Mrs. Nellie Welsh shot b New York burglar through the neck as he was plundering her wardrobe Tuesday night. The wife of W. H. Burdick, who was drowned in the Southern depot disaster, at Cincinnati, has become insane through grief. A billiard match on which $40,000 was wagered, was played in New York, Davie Johnson beating Charles F. Davis by 200 to 196 points. The closing of the parochial schools in Lawrence, Mass., maintaine j by the Augustinian Society, will result in sending 1,200 children to the public schools. J. M Portland, of New Haven,who had been arrested for theft, voted while disabilities were existing, for which he was sentenced to eighteen months in jail. A fire occurred in the Dunlap elevator, Albany, N. Y., Saturday morning. Several persons were severely burned. The total loss will reach nearly $275,000. The New York brewers have secured the arrest of a driver and cooper on a Charge of selling their barrels to out-of town brewers. Fifty thousand barrels are thus annually sold. There has been a reduction from 80 to 75 cents for mining coal in the Hocking Valley. The miners are willing to submit to ths reduction provided the “free turn” question is settled before the 15th inst. A heavy robbery occurred at Philadelphia, Friday, An adroit thief entered the office of the Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Cd. and purloined $70,000 in bonds of the People’s Pasaenger Railway Co. No due. A Pittsburg dispatch says that great depression exists in the glass trade, especially lamp chimneys. One factory,the Excelsior Glass Co.,has given notice that it will shut down for an indefinite period Saturday, and it is thought that others will soon follow. Prices have fallen off 25 per cent, since the beginning of the season. THE WEST: Smallpox has dosed the public schools in Leadville. of fifteen families left Shelbyville, (Ill.) Saturday, for Dakota. J. C. Kaholt’s jewelry store, Springfield, HL, was robbed of $20,000 worth of goods Saturday. , Thos. W. Palmer was elected Senator from Michigan to succeed Ferry. Eightyone ballots were taken. Dr. Carver again defeated Bogardus at Chicago, Saturday, killing eighty-two birds out of 109 to the Captain’s seventynine. Twenty-five young men, Mormon missionaries to the South, arrived Sunday at St Louis under the charge of Elder John Morgan. , t i There have been thirty-five cases of smallpox at Berlin, Wis., five of which

proved ratai,givuig nse to tne most alarming falseho-xls. ‘ x A Salt Lai.e letter says the Mormons are looking to Mexico as a place of refuge in case they are crowded out of this country. . The five men who recently robbed a Central Pacific train pleaded guilty at Elko, Nev., and were sentenced to twelve and fourteen years in the penitentiary. Two valuable seams of coal, 100 and 300 feet respectively, were found Saturday on the farm o* Captain Morton near Lamars, lowa. The Crow and Creek licbs i tigned the treaty with the government commissioners Wednesday night by which 400,000 acres of choice land at Chamberlain, D. T., is thrown open for settlement Certain Chicago ladies have fallen in love with the decorations on the tattooed lady on exhibition there, and propose to duplicate the beauties on their own persons.* At San Francisco, Sing Lum, tne Chinese murderer, who was to have been hanged Friday, hanged himself in his cell in the morning during the temporary absence of the guard. It is estimated that a thorough search for human bodies supposed to be buried under the debris of the Southern Railroad depot at Cincinnati, will cost SIO,OOO. The Chamber of Commerce relief committee has refused to appropriate money to carry on the search. The residence of Samuel Bixler, an old farmer, about five miles north of Zoar, Tuscarawas county, 0., was entered Monday night by two masked robbers who overpowered Bixler and his daughter and stole nearly $1,200 in gold and silver from a chest in the house. Jim Elliott, the pugilist, was shot dead in a Chicago eating house, Thursday, by Jerry Dunn, another character—ex bunko and confidence man. Trouble had arisen between the men, and they commenced shooting on sight, a fusilade of revolver shots following in a crowd of twenty-five people. An examination of the records in St. Louis show that Senator Tabor, of Colo., and Miss Elizabeth McCourt, of Oshkosh, Wis., were privately married on the 30th of last September in the law office of CoL D. P. Dyer, who is an intimate friend of the Senator, by John M. Young, a justice of the peace, and witnessed by a brother of Miss McCourt. A mysterious murder has been un earthed near Riverside, Cat A married woman named O’Brien, of Los Angelos, went riding with Mr. McDowell and wife Jan. 31. Sunday the body of Mrs. O’Brien was found partially buried, bearing marks of violence. McDonald was arrested. It is reported that Mrs. McDonald told of the crime,which was committed through some motives of jealousy.

THE SOUTH: Polk, the Tennessee defaulter, has been released on $20,000 bonds. Colored people are emigrating from Mississippi to Arkansas. Virginia has sent a military force against illegal oyster dredgers. It is estimated that 80,000 northern people are in Florida this winter. The cost of the Neal and Craft trials at Grayson, Ky., is estimated at $25,000. Governor Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, died at an early hour Sunday morning. The steamer Tazoo on the Mississippi new New Orleans struck a snag, Sunday and Sunk. 25 lives were lost. The insubordination at the naval academy, at Annapolis, has been settled; Oa dets Woodruff, Gross and McGrath are dropped from the rolls. And now comes Arkansas-with a shortage in its State Treasury of $294,000. The deficiency was caused during the administration of Treasurer Churchill Suit will be brought to recover. West Virginia has 810,000 square miles of timber land, containing 990,000,000 feet of merchantable lumber. Last year's crop was of the value of $2,481,857. E. Samuels, a prominent dry goods merchant, of Paris, Tex., was shot and killed by B. W. Gumper. The same shot killed a boot black,and wounded a drummer named Hoffman. Mrs. Caldwell, of Louisville, was lately converted through the efforts of Rev. Geo. O. Barnes. As a result she has named her twins after the Savior and the “Mountain Evangelists.” Lawrence C. Best, and his nephew, Mr. Allen, of Allendale, 8. C., engaged in a duel with knives, and S. H. Dupies, marshal, interfered. Best turned on the officer and was dubbed to death. The English colony at Rugby, Tenn., have borrowed through the Board of Aid, $125,000 of Mr. Henry Kimber of London. A first mortgage on the Rugby tract of 25,000 acres was given as security. 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 stick and buildingei\will aggregate SBOO,OOO. Ex-Treasurer Polk was able to - appear

y W v Vllv -A *7 l * 4UI vvWl** i committee and deny the accuracy , of the report of the condition of his accounts. He says he hopes to pay the State all he owes. Fritz Waite, who is to be hanged at Franklin, Tex., March 14, has executed a written conveyance of his body to Robertson county physicirns for $25, and is said to be now enjoying the blood money. Six of the escaped Arkansas convicts have been captured. The others have succeeded in reaching the hills of Crowly’s ridge, and are reported as traveling northward. Davis, the murderer of Major Gant,is not among the prisoners. ■Hon. T. Williams, a brother of the late Governor “Blue Jeans” Williams, of Indiana, died at Jacksboro, Tex., on Thursday night,aged seventy-three years. He had been a resident of Texas many years, served as Judge of Jacks county and filled other positions ot trust and honor. He has been insane for the past six months. At this term of the Worth county, Ga., Superior Court, are to be tried seventeen men, citizens of that county, for the murder about twenty years ago of an old gentleman named George Kerce and his little boy, and the long standing of the case, the fiendishness of the murder, together with the standing of a number of the accused will invest the occasion of the trial with the greatest interest. A farmer named Perry, in Chesterfield county, 8. C.,a few days since perpetrated a horrible crime, his wife being the victim. Heuadnot been married a year before he fell in love with another woman, and though his wife was all that love and devotion could be,he determined to brake himself a free man. As the law will not grant a divorce, he purchased a box of “Rough on Rats,” mixed it with whisky, and gave his unsuspecting wife a drink at night, and the next morning the neighbors found her corpse in bed and Perry missing. ■ • I FOREIGN: The Prince of Wales will not attend the coronation of the Ozar. A popular riot is threatened in Sicily over the tariff question. The assassins of Prof. Palmer were hanged at Tantah, Egypt, Wednesday. Colonel Ochiltree proposes to make a thorough revision of the Government appointments in Texas. It is believed in Dublin that the Uni ed States Government will refuse the demand for the extradition of Sheridan. The Governor of Virginia has returned to Fortress Monroe with five oyster vessels as prizes and forty men as prisoners. Suicides among the officers in the German army are of almost daily ocourenoe. Financial difficulty is generally the cause. An alibi is being prepared for Frank Byone, accused by Carey, of complicity in the Phoenix Park murders. He was in London that day. Among the prisoners arrested for the Phoenix conspiracy is a German named Hohnebien, who claims to haue been naturalized as an American citizen at Wyandotte, Kas.,in 1866. A dispatch from San Antonio, Tex.,says a party of ranchmen surprised an Indian camp at Chihuahua, Mex., a few days ago, captured twenty-five squaws and killed ten bucks. An Irishman who gave the name of Highland, but whose real name is John Walsh, was arrested at Havre, Friday. The newspapers say he has avowed his complicity in the Phoenix Park murders. Baron Nordenskjold, the Swedish explorer, has notified the Dutch minister at Stockholm that he intends to claim the reward of 25,000 guilders offered in 1596 for the discovery of the northeast pa laage. Letters seized at Walsh’s lodgings Rochdale revealed the fact that 6,000 men are enrolled in a secret society be had been organizing in the north of England, and are amply supplied with funds and revolvers. Additional agrarian outrages have occurred in Andalusir. Eleven anarchists, in jail at Eeperia, declared that they and 228 others were pledged to murder landlords and commit robbery and arson at the bidding of their leaders. It is expected that Brennan and Ragan, and several of Parnell’s followers in Commons, will accompany the latter to America. It is their intention to give a full account to the Irish in America of the way in which the funds of League were disposed ot Anderson, a telegraph operator at Ottawa, Ontario, was recently gazetted as heir to a Scotch estate worth $9,000,000. He purchased on credit a summer residence at Brookville, valued at $39,000, but has now been arrested for obtaining SIOO by false pretenses. The government of Chili remains firm in its determination to appoint its own ecclesiastical dignitaries, and the Pope’s legate has left the country. Congress is expected to vote salaries only to priests the government named. Church dis-es-tablishment is becoming a national question. 1

Accounts frdm the district of Geevw dore, County Donegal, in the north-west-ern portion of Ireland, indicate that the condition of the people is very distreseing. The medical officer of the district reports the children are much emaciated in consequence of the scarcity of food and the general use of seaweed aa the principal diet There are sick persons in almost every house. /