Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1883 — NEWS AND INCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Our Coino* •□i < >orT>rt Happenings ot the Week. THE EPISCOPAL BISHOPBIC. The Diocesan Convention held at Indianapolis to elect a Bishop to, succeed the late Bishop Talbott, resulted in the election of Bev. Isaac L. Nicholson, 8 T. D., of Philadelphia. He is forty-two years old, married, and has two children. He is a native of Baltimore. It is believed that his administration of the Diocese will be marked by a broad and liberal spirit. STAB BOUTE TBIALS. The government has concluded its evidence in the star route cases, and the defense begun their testimony. Congress man Belford testified regarding the check Rerdell swore Belford received. He insisted on stating that he had not received a cent, after the court refused to allow him to make the statement, and he was fined SIOO for contempt A HOBBIBLE MUBDEB.

An aged lady named Lucinda Forman and her daughter, were found murdered in their unprotected home, Friday evening, 14 miles north of Indianapolis. The only clue to the perpetrators of the deed is an imperfect description ot two men who made an attempt the previous week to break and rob the house. The murderers horribly mutilated their victims, an ax penetrating the brain of the daughter. The deei was committed some time before the bodies were discovered. INDIANA ITEMS: The Methodists ot Plainfield are conducting a successful revival. A limb from a tailing tree completely scalped Jasper Neise, a Gibson county armer. Policeman Chrisman, of Richmond, has been exonerated of all blame for the killing of Joe Walters. * The German Lutheran church and parsonage at Logansport, burned early Wednesday morning. Loss $30,000. Recently a large quantity of bogus gold coin—sß.Bo, $8 and $lO pieces—has been put in circulation in Southern Indiana A county farmers’ institute will beheld at Crawfordsville on March 23, under the auspices of the Montgomery County Agricultural Society. Miss Minnie Wedekind, of Richmond who was arrested on a charge of setting fire to her millinery store, has been acquitted, Samuel L. Brengle has been selected to represent Asbury at the state oratorial contest in April, with J. W. Jones as alternate. It is said that Engineer A. T. Shaw, of AndrewsJs the owner of a Cremona violin over 200 years-old, and for which he was recently offered $l5O. Sunday afternoon the wife of George Huftou, of Columbus, gave birth to a boy weighing eleven pounds, and Monday afternoon gave birth to a girl i*.by weigh* ing nine pounds. William Fauoett, a soldier under the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo, died at his home, seven miles east of Hagerstown, Tuesday night. He was ninety years of age. Hop Biggs and a man named Hulgan, well-known citizens of Jennings township, Fayette county, were both seriously hurt a few days since by a mule, which kicked them simultaneously. William Thornton is in jail at Princeton in default of S2OO bail, for cutting out the tongue of his horse, while in | a rage, because the animal could not pull a heavy load out of a mud hole. From a hill m the neighborhood of Hagerstown, one can see the farms where seven suicides have been committedfour by cutting the throat and three by hanging. All were supposed to be crazed by trouble.

Wabash county harbors a brute of the name of William Robinson, who stole the liquor provided for his sick child. He was drunk when the child died, drunk at the funeral, and drank as long as the liquor lasted. Miss Minnie Wedekin, a milliner doing business under the Huntington House at Richmond, was arrested Monday for trying to bum her store, A servant girl claims to nave seen her light the fire. She was placed under fl,ooo bonds to appear for trial. ' David Kneubuehler, aged sixty years, committed suicide,a't Tell City, Thursday, by shooting himself through the head with a pistol. He committed the act on account of the opposition of his children to his third which occurred about one year ago. Miss Minnie Freeman, daughter of Benjamin Freeman, of New Palestine, had a leg broken by jumping from a buggy during a runaway at Greenfield, Monday. Samuel QeWitte, Who wdPt for,, a doctor to attend Miss Freeman, was thrown from his buggy and hhd bis disJudge J. F. Kirby, of Richmond, has been sutlering with something like neuralgia pain* in various j/arte of hi&'anatomy, and recently something like a varooee vein developed, r eeling something • . X ’ i *« J * . ■, \ . ,'.i 4

I catch on his clothing, he made an examination and found a needle protruding. The needle and the neuralgia were removed at the same time. Farmer Hunt, who lives on the White Water river, a few miles above Lawrenceburg, lost forty acres ot land, and his neighbor, Fred Newhouse, had a barren and rocky millsite converted into ten acres ot as rich land as the fertile valley' affords by the recent flood. The soil was washed away from Hunt’s land leaving only rocks and gravel. At a late hour Saturday night, Mr, Wm. Conrad and Miss Mary K. Sauer came to Jeffersonville from Louisville, procured a license and were linked in matrimony by ’Squire Eph Keigwin. The romatic part of the matter is that Conrad had been engaged to Miss Sauer’s mother but seeing her daughter, liked her better and left the old lady in the lurch. The young lady was of the opinion that, as her mother had been married three times before, she ought to be satisfied. Joe Walters, the desperado, shot by Policeman Chrisman, at Richmond, died Wednesday morning. He made an ante mortem statement to the effect that he was in the penitentiary when the Anderson depot burned. He professed repentance, sent for Chrisman, and wanted to be forgiven, but died before the officer arrived. His mother was preeent,and there was rather a dramatic scene. After his death Chrisman was arrested for murder, and gave bail to appear on Saturday. On November 11,1881, Douglass Hopper was found guilty of arson in the Vincennes circuit court, and got a sentence of six years in the penitentiary and a fine of SSOO. He was granted a new trial, and in a few days a second jury deduced the sentence to five years. He was charged with burning the saw-mill of John Hargis, near Edwardsport, in June of that year, and admitted the burning to eight people, whose testimony put him where he is. It now turns out that he is such a liar that he can’t be believed on oath, and that the fire was accidental Hopper has served out nearly half his term, and is contented with his lot in prison, but steps will be taken to have him pardoned.

The “flood sufferer ’ fraud has made his appearance at several points. Assistant Treasurer Wyman will probably succeed Treasurer Gilfillan. The expenses of the tariff commission thus far audited amount to $69,000. The colored colony sent out from this country to Monrovie is doing well. The employes of the Senate sergeant at arms gave David Davis a silver punchbowL Mr. Janies P. Voorhees, son of the Senator, has made 8 very creditable life-size bust of Senator Don Cameron. A Washington telegram to the Chicago Times says that Mr. Foster, of Indiana, will decline the mission to Madrid. J. R. Dodge, statistician of the Agricultural Department, says no reports of damage to the growing wheat have been received by him. He says future disasters alone can injure the crop. A Washington report, says that Judge William Lilley, assaulted by S. W. Dorsey, at the latter’s residence several days ago, is dangerously injured. It is understood that Senator Edmunds will only retain the office of president of the senate until next December, when he will give way for Senator Anthony. A sensation is said to have been caused in the Star Route trials, Tuesday, by the identification of Dorsey’s and Brady’s handwriting in the memorandas. Among the new chairman of the senate committees made by the elevation of Edmunds to the presidency, are Logan, udioiary; Harrison, military affairs; and Miller., foreign relations.

Judge Lilley/father of the sixth auditor, called at S. W. Dorsey’s residence, the other day, and conducted himself so unseemly that Dorsey- slapped his face and threw him out doors. The Secretary of the Interior signed a new lease with the Rufus Hatch Yellowstone Park company for a small tract of land to build a park hotel upon. The new law puts a ten-acre limitation on leases for the purpose indicated. The committee on celebration of the centennial of Methodism has reported in favor of taking the Centennial conference in 1884, to meet in Baltimore, to endow Dickinson college and Centennial Biblical Institution pt Baltimore, and for the appointment of a committee to make all necessary arrangements. A statement of receipts and expendi tures of the Postoffice Department' for the third quarter of the calendar year ended Sept. 80, 1882, shows receipts of $10,545,932; expenditures, $10,6 surplus, $356,968. During the same quarter in 1881, the receipts were $9,490,706; expenditures, $9,686,810; excess of expenditures over receipts, $196,104. The printing of the list of pensioners under Senator Beck’s resolution will be completed by the first of July next, it is expected, at a cost of $60,000. The names, postoffice addresses, etc., of 295,000 pensioners will appear in the compilation, filling* eight volumes of about 800 page’s each. Ope thousand nine hundred copies will be printed.

. Commirononer Dudley has issued circu- * lar instructions carrying into effect the act of congress increasing to S3O per month the pensions of disabled soldiers and to $24 for the lose of a hand or foot or corresponding disability. No formal application will be necessary only the sending in of their pension certificates by beneficiaries. Attorneys will not be recognized. It is said that Father Chappelle, the priest who officiated at the Tabor marriage ceremony, has sent back to the groom the fee of S2OO for performing the ceremony, which the reverend father now declares was no marriage ceremony at all. Tabor denies the St Louis report that he and Mrs. McCourt were married by a justice of the peace, in that city,some some weeks ago. THE EAST: Dr. Garcelon, ex-Governor of Maine, has been elected mayor of Lewiston. A New York “bum” has just made a wager that he can kill 250 rats in 40 minutes. Charles A. Doolittle, Democrat, was elected mayor of Utica, N. Y., by 600 majority. The Main Senate, 15 to 9, has passed a bill making the punishment of murder death. The late Trenor W.Park, of Bennntgon left no will. His estate is estimated at $3,600,000. The thermometer at Fort Fairfield, Maine, Tuesday registered 40 degrees below zero. McGloin and Majone, the latter a double murderer, were hanged at New York Friday. The moulders employed by the Beading, Pa., Hardware Company have had their wages increased 10 per cent Experiments will soon be made with a view of introducing electricity as a motive power on the New York elevated roads. On the stage of the Brooklyn Museum on Wednesday evening, R. H. Huzza three feet six inches, and Ida H. Hosmer, three feet were married. t Ex-Governor William bprague of Rhode Island, was married Thursday night so Stawnton, to Mrs. Dora Inez Calvert of Greenbrier county, W. Va. Colonel Theodore Hyatt principal of the Pennsylvania military academy, has been indicted by the Chester grand jury for beating and imprisoning a pupil. A scow having on board thirty laborers, was struck near the Washington street gap, Jersey City, and sunk early Friday morning. It is believed that seven of the men were drowned.

The late Robert Asa Parker, President of the New York and Pennsylvania railroad company,willed a half of his fortune less $50,000 amounting to probably $20,000,000 to the Lehigh University at Bethlehem, Pa. George Carson, alias Heywood, a notorious bank sneak thief, has been arrested charged with the robbery of $70,000 worth of railroad bonds from the office of cne Guarantee Safe deposit company Philadelphia. The verdict of the coroner’s jury in the case of the sixteen children killed in the panic in the Fourth street parochial school in New York, does not lay the blame upon any one, but urges the more thorough inspection of school houses,and the training of pupils to what are denominated as fire exercises. Herr Most lectured to 400 people in Naw York, Friday night His subject was “Anarchism,” and he was vituperative and,bitterly aggressive, sparing America, where he is a stranger, no more than he did England, where he is at home, or his fatherland, Germany, from which he is an exile. Wednesday evening, Mary Broshahan a young girl of Erie, Pa., was horribly scalded by a caldron of boiling water fallng upon her. Her ignorant parents, neglecting to call a physician, commenced to rub the parboiled body with oil from their kerosene lamp. Next morning when they removed her clothes the flesh came away from the bones; and she died in horrible agony.

At the assembly inquiry into the management of the charitable institutions of New York state, Miss Clarissa C. Lathrop, of Rochester, testified regarding abuses in the Utica insane asylum. The doctors in the asylum were guilty of grossly immoral conduct toward female patients; she cited several cases told her by victims. , . •<; THE WEST: ~ A cremation society has been organized in Chicago, with SIOO,OOO capital John Lewis ran 150 yards at St Louis, Sunday, in fourteen and one haff seconds. The present high price of wheat has caused a cessation of grinding by Milwaukee millers. Eleven men lost their lives Sunday, at Deadwood, D. T., by the burning of a death-trap, a one-story lodging house. John Jacobs and an “unloaded ” shot gun are responsible for the death of Oath arine Edwards, a young lady, at OaseyviUe, lU. < Two valuable seams of coal, 100 and 300 feet respectively, were found Satur-

day on the farm of Captain Morton near Lemare, lowa. Elg-'n, BL, is greatly excited over the elopement of a millionaire of that city H. I'® 6 Borden, with a young woman, leaving his wife. There is a quarrel between Protestants and Catholics in Milwaukee as to the fund collected for a monument to the victims of the Newhall house fire. Between 500 and 600 men employed in the Springfield, HL, iron works, have quit work because non-union men were engaged. All departments, save the plate mill, are shut down. A Miss Garratt, 14 yeais old, was burned to death at Ellsworth, Ohio, Sat-, urday night, by her clothes taking fire while she was sleeping off a drunken debauch. The striking of the employes of the Centralia, HL, iron mills, which has been in progress since the first of the year, has been settled in favor of the workmen, and work is to be resumed at once. At Lawrence, Ohio, a son and a daughter of Azariah Williams, aged four and two respectively, went into a hay mow with matches, and the boy set the mow on fire. The girl was burned up; the boy escaped, but died of his injuries. A dispatch from Central Illinois, denies the recent report that the iron works there yielded to the demands of the strikers, and states that the works resumed on the terms dictated by the operators. After serving twenty-eight years under a life sentence for murder, Samuel Ullman has been pardoned out of the Michigan penitentiary, his innocence of the charge against him having been fully established. Rev. Ferd. Iglebart, pastor of the First Methodist Church, cf Bloomington, 111., formerly of Evansville, Ind., assisted by a lay member of his congregation, is conducting one of the most remarkable revivals of religion ever known in Hlinois. Frank Hunter's dead body was found in a railway water tank near Massilon, Ohio, Monday, apd his wife, stepdaughter, fathsr-in-law, and a young man said to be the paramour of both the womenr have been held to await the verdict of the coroner’s jury. The search for the human bodies which are supposed to be buried under the debris of the wrecked Southern railway depot, at Cincinnati, was begun Monday. There are fifty men engaged in the work. About two acres of ground will have to be dug over, in some places to a depth of many feet.

Two sons of James Anderson, a New York merchant who failed in 1856, who were placed in Michigan homes by the Childrens’ Aid Society, by the death of Michael Root, in 1881, in Edinburg, Scotland, fell heirs to an estate worth several million dollars. One of them is a lawyer and the other a farmer in Michigan. A dispatch from San Francisco, Saturday says: No signs of the storm on the Pacific coast. Wiggins’s prophecy frightened some persons. A German resident has built a small ark and placed it on his roof, ready for the tidal wave announced to sweep through the Golden Gate. The Spanish residents of Livermore Valley, in southern California, are this month expecting a flood predicted 100 years ago by Padre Anselmo, a mission priest at San Jose. Their expectancy is promoted by the fact that the good father foretold the flood of 1838, in Livermore Valley, at the time he prophesied the disaster now looked for.

Late advices from the Indian Territory are that General Porter, chief millitary officer of the Creek nation, recently captured Sleeping Rabbit second in command and influence of the rebel faction backed by Spiechec,and some halfdo-zen other leaders of the same party, and now nas them, in confinement. This will probably break the backbone of the rebellion. The Ohio house of representatives have adopted a substitution for the Kinney resolution providing for constitutional amendments. The first proposition provides for regulating, restraining and specially taxing the traffic, and repeals the anti-license clause in the constitution. The second clause provides for prohibition. The Inter-Ocean shows that since Jan. 1,1881, there have been sixty-nine murders committed in Chicago. The following disposition has been made of the guilty parties: imprisoned, 16; hanged, 1; discharged on trial, 1; sent to insane asylum, 1; not indicted, 17; stricken from docket, 1; nolle pros, entered, 5; never captured, 7; awaiting trial, 15; murderers suicided or died of injuries, 7. Nancy Waldon, a pretty-featured German gii' and August Cannon, a coalblack negro, were arrested at Dayton. 0., Wednesday, on suspicion, when it was learned that they were an eloping couple from Greenfield, O. They were well dressed and wore jewels worth considerable money. The young lady is so deeply infatuated with her Ethopian lover that she leaves a home of luxury to marry him. They made no secret of their intentions. They were held until evening, when it Was learned both were of age, when they were released. They left for Indiana. The young lady is of a wealthy ■ family.

lAfrijutfcl <uc:lent o'WirraJ at Tantrum’s Station, near Wsyncstowp, Monday afternoon. As the hack was crossing the I. B. & W‘ track it was struck by a passenger train and the the driver and two passengers were were -instantly killed—death resulting from the concussion, not a particle of blood could be found. The carelessness of the driver is given as the cause of the accident. THE SOUTH: Governor Stephens’ funeraL Thursday, was attended by 75,000 people. Polk, the Tennessee defaulter, has been released on $20,000 bonds. A house was overturned at Helena Ark., Sunday and four children drowned The Mississipi is overflowing near Helena, Ark., and causing great destruction. The Texas state treasury contains $2,441,000 in cash and nearly $500,000 in bonds. Governor Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, died at an early hour Bunday morning. The Northwest Texas Stockmen’s association is in session at Ft. Worth. Capi tai represented $30,000,000. The special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death es Gov. Stephens, of Georgia, will be held April 24th. The steamer Tazooon the Mismssippnew New Orleans struck a snag, Sunday and sunk. 25 lives were lost. A party of Miners got into a general affray at Toddy, Tenn., on Wednesday, and three men, named Posey, Wells and Davis were fatally stabbed. A bill has passed the Arkansas Senate changing the name of Dorsey county to De Soto. It was named for ex-Senator Dorsey during the reconstruction'era. Allen Gentry, only sixteen years of age, eloped from Stone county, Missouri, with Mrs. Joseph Payne, who had just been divorced. The parties are all wealthy, and the lady, of course, beautiful. The steamer Navarre, bound from Copenhagen to Leith, foundered during the dale, Thursday. There were eighty-one 'persons, mostly emigrants, on board, only sixteen of whom were saved, An attempt was made to rob the train on the Little Rock k Ft. Smith railroad, Wednesday night, but was unsuccessful The conductor was fatally shot and a brakeman seriously wounded. A shooting affray oocured near Somerset, Ky., Tuesday, between three men, two of whom were killed. Their m mes are Thompson and Goff The affray was caused by the many basons of Peter Goff’s wife.

FOREIGN: The Nova Scotia Assembly has passed a bill abolishing imprisonment for debt. l. The Prince of Wales has been created a field marshal of the German empire. Trevelyan, chief Secretary of Ireland denies that the people there are starving. Gortchakoff, the Russian atAtewnandied Sunday. A suspicion is prevalent that he was poisoned. A Dublin dispatch says the police have abundant, evidence that Sheridan was an inciter of crime. A million dollars in gold has been shipped from England to the United States the past few days. Abdel Kadir Pasha, has arrived at Senaar, after severely defeating the False Prophet, who lost 2,000 men. Dr. McGowan,an American missionary, reports a strong probability that Corea will produce kerosene in large quantities. Emperor William has subscribed BJMJO marks from his private purse for the relief of German sufferers by the floods in America.

The prevailing opinion among the Dub? lin detectives is that the mysterious “No. 1” connected with the Phoenix Park murders is am vth Tripp’s electrical tramoar ran a successful trip in London, Saturday, fulfilling the requirements of the board of trade. The Dublin authorities are not a little chagrined by the fight of Egan, evidence of whose direct complicity in numerous crimes is rapidly accumulating. The heaviest storm in thirty years occurred at Tokio and vicinity on Feb. 8. Railroad traffic was suspended for several hours, the tracks being flooded to an average depth of three feet It is stated that Prince Gortschakofi’s illness is due to a recfcnt attempt to poison him. After severe vomiting, last week, the doctors discovered traces of phosphorus. The police are making an investigation. It has been ascertained that there is no foundation whatever, for the statement that Parnell intends to resign his seat in Palihment and proceed to America in event of his land-reform bill being rejected. Patrick Egan eluded the vigilance of the police by shamming sickness, and Dr. Kenny maintained the deception by visiting Egan, who, it is believed, left the dtp disguised da a priest Parnd! states that he does not know where Patrick Egan is, but the balance of the Land League fund, £25,000, is quite safe.