Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1883 — NEWS AND INCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

One Comp-mtioa o* “*• important Happemngs ot the Week. WT PERIEK CE ALONG A KADuBOAD. on the Carolina Central is about forty miles fiom Charlotte. When the train leaning Lauringtarg arrived at Monroe, Tuesday, a big crowd about the depot showed that something was the matter, A.party of young ladies had been waiting for the train. They were under the escort of Mr. E. C. Edgeworth. One of them, Miss Rebecca ’West, happened to get hold of a pistol which she supposed was unloaded. It went off and the ball struck Mr. Edgeworth and piroed his brain. The unfortunate man fell as the train stopped. A physician was on the train but could do no good. The train started again, and twenty miles lower down the road, at the next station, twenty minutes before it arrived, James Price, a lad of twelve years, accidentally shot Henry Percer, a colored man, in the thigh. Again the medical passenger was called from the train, and binding up the wound, resumed his journey to Charlotte. At Rockingham, thirty miles from Laurinburg, the passengers found everybody talking about the affray between Chas. McDonald and James Manage. The former had his abdomen cut open, making a wound from which the entrails protruded. The man was dying when the train left At Wadebcro the train hands were paid off and a ball was in progress before the train arrived. Two men Algernon Mobjack and Silas Selyin, quarreled as to whom the next set with a '-pretty girl belonged. Selyin was shot by his rival through the thigh, and was lying in the grass when Dr. Huntly stepped from the train. The train reached this place twenty minutes after, and the conductor said in a service of twenty years he and his train had never had such experience.

INHUMAN MONSTERS. History does not give a more horrifying account of double-distilled crime than is called out by the Tewksbury almshouse investigation. Wednesday, Mary E. Bowen, formerly an inmate, said she could not eat the food furnished, but lived upon that bought with money furnished her. She never saw any of the Marsh family while there. Thirty or more women were bathed in the same water, many patients having skin diseases and many infected with vermin. When there was time carbolic acid was poured on the heads of such patients. Vermin were all over the place, rats being so abundant that patients would call the nurses to drive them away. One consumptive woman was unable to call for help and her feet were badly bitten. This happened every the woman died. Clothes and everything were filthy but when visitors were expected things were cleaned. APPALLING DISASTER. Dispatches from New Orleans, Monday give the particulars of the fearful destruction wrought by a cyclone in Mississippi Beauregard, a town of 500 souls,was completely swept .away, killing twenty-three persons and wounding ninety others. Wesson, a town of 1,500 inhabitants, was also destroyed. Thirteen persons were killed and sixty wounded. The town of Tillman was destroyed,and great destruction resulted at'Lawrence. The greatest suffering resulted. The rain poured down in torrents, and the people were shelterless. Several of the dead lay out in the storm for hours. New Orleans sent physicians and assistance at the earliest moment possible. The storm visited other portions of the South, but doing less damage.

INDIANA ITEMS: „ Work has been commenced on.the new street railway in Logansport. The first sheriff of Clinton county, Solbmon Young, died last Saturday. Mayor Bennett and the editor of the Item had a street fight at Richmond, Tuesday. Dick Stevenson, the Warren county murderer, is seventy* five years old and partially demented. His victim was nearly ninety. One of the four boys who ran away from Richmond a few days ago and started west to fight the Indians,came home Saturday night and the others are on the way. A Bend m'" 1 has four perfectly formed kittens, except that they are joined one to another by a ban ’ of flesh off the side near the hips. So says the Tribune. Mr. and Mrs. John Callahan, of Lawrenceburg, quietly celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage. They have lived in the same house for forty-eight years. A police judge of St Joseph remarked in dismissing a case: *1 shall dismiss every case of woman insulting where it can be shown that tbe woman first flirted with the accused.” While the VanAmbnrg show was par- ' rading the streets in Connersville a lion

in one of the cages became enraged, and seized his keeper by the leg, inflirting serious injuries. . 7 Henan Negly, aged twenty-two, of Millersville, took a dose of morphine on Friday afternoon because his mother loaned his horse against his will to his brother. A stomach pump saved his life. Peter Deardoff had a portion of his face and tongue torn off by a circular saw at his mill, at Hagerstown, Tuesday night. It is not known how the accident occured, as he was alcne at the time. Drafts from the short horn herds of Rinhard Gibson, of Hderton, Ind., and Rigdon, Houston & Son, of Blandinsville, HL, were sold at Chicago Thursday. Thirty-five head were disposed of tor $37,000. The Hamiliton County Medical Asocial ion has expelled Dr. W. H. Cyrus. The charge made against him was knowingly, persistently and intentionally violating the code of the medical ethics in consulting with Mrs. Dr. J. F. Hobson of the Eclectic School of Medicine. Lee O. Harris, of the Greenfield Republican, whose house was robbed by burglars the other night, remarkes: The only thing of value taken was a rubber coat which we had borrowed from a friend and had in temporary possession. To him we tender our sincere condolence. Some scamp is traveling through the state representing to ex-soldiers that they are entitled to 160 acres of laud, and filing claims for them in the land office at Washington, probably pocketing considerable fees. The claims go into the waste basket at the department, being entirely worthless.

Bert and Fred Shigley of Elkhart respectively nine and thirteen years of age, were Friday arrested at the instigation of the postmaster, so robbing the mails. They ha been accustomed to call for the mail for different parties, then stealing what was valuable and throwing the rest away They confess and implicate others. As William Simeon was crossing what is known as the upper bride, across Bichland creek, a mile east of Bloomfield Friday evening, the sills of the midle pier gave way and precipitated his four-horse team and a load of lumber into the creek, a distance of about twenty feet. The strangest thing is that not a horse was hurt, Mr. Simpson was terribly bruised about the chest and shoulders. Bishop Dwenger has issued a circular, letter to the clergy of his diocese, stating that he will make a pilgrimage to Borne leaving Fort Wayne on the 24th inst In his letter he says: “We can give our holy father, the chief pastor of the church a consoling account of the diocese of Fort Wayne. Since 1872, forty nine churches have been built, and thirty-seven of these were the first churches in new missions; one orphan asylum, three hospitals, and quite a large number of schools; moreover, in nearly every place the debt of the congregations have been largely reduced.” A spiritualist by the name of Colby, in a lecture at Spirit Hair, Michigan City, got a message purporting to be from the late Maggie Shield,in which she said that her death was' caused by malpractice. Dr. A. J. Mullen, who treated Miss 8.. hearing of the statement called at the home of Samuel Eddy, where Colby was stopping, and representing that he wanted a sitting with the spiiitualist,obtained akmittance to his room. After makings few inquiries about his dead relatives,the doctor grasped Colby by the collar, and, drawing a horsewhip,, applied the lash vigorously to Colby’s face, lacerating the flesh considerably. Colby afterward reiterated the statement, and the end is not yet,

THE EAST: The formal opening of the Brooklyn bridge will occur May 2. Patti and Nilsson sailed from New York for Europe, Monday. There are 487 vessels fitting out in Chicago harbor. To man these crafts 4,000 seamen will be required. ‘ A large party of Norwegian wood-chop-pers have arrived at Philadelphia, under contract with a Minneapolis firm. The Potts Colliery Company, of Ashland, Pa., is about to make a determined effort to extinguish the fires burning now for several years, and extending into the workings. The Campbell Manufacturing Company, of Philadelphia, offer the striking weavers 5 per cent, advance. The cigar manufacturers have voluntarily advanced wages $1 per thousand. Secretary Teller has made a formal and written demand upon Sidney Dillofl, president of the Union Pacific railroad, for the payment of $1,036,824,88, due the United States on December 81,1882. Sixty-one Mormon missionaries will shortly leave New York for Europe. Thirty two of the elders will be sent to Great Britain, twenty three to the Sean dinavian peninsula, and four to Switzerland. A mob at Dover, DeL, dissatisfied with the performance of O’Brien’s circus, Sun-

day night, attacked the attaches after the i show, fatally wounding Charles Henderson, a proprietor, and injuring ten others. No arrests were made. The Union Pacific rai'road company ate in debt to the government to the amount ot $1,036,000, and there is some talk of requiring payment before any more dividends are declared, but secretary Teller does not seem to be in sympathy with the plan. Bishop Doane, of Albany, has made a plan to build a grand cathedral in the city and he has collected $44,000 with which to begin the work. Thesite has been selected and the ground has been paid for. The cathedral is to seat 2,000 people, and will have cost when completed about SBOO,OOO. Alice Flagg White, a beautiful young lady of twenty-six, daughter of the wealthiest farmer in Boylston, Mass.,and r graduate ot the famous Oreid Institute at Worcester, has, after a three years* clandestine courtship, married George Hazzard, colored, a former farm laborer of her father’s. A public reception is to De tendered the couple. A Hartford father, whose daughter, aged sixteen, died shortly before Christmas, refuses to allow the body to be buried. An undertaker goes to the house occasionally to apply preservatives. The ather sits up with the body every night from midnight till daylight The explanation of the strange affair is that when the girl was on her dying-bed she expressed a dread of bein£ put in the ground, and the father told her that she should not be. The entomologist of the Smithsonian Institution has reported that there is no sign of phylloxera discoverable upon the vine cuttings from Madeca submitted by the New York customs officers, and adds that it is extremely doubtful whether phylloxera could be discovered upon any of the cuttings now held at New York, and the chances of the introduction of the pest by these cuttings is so slight as not to be worth considering. A dispatch from Uniontown. Penn., says: Thursday afternoon, as Miss Lizzie Nut and her younger sister, Annie, were walking down Main street, Dukes was going up the opposite side. When the young ladies were just opposite him Miss Annie ran out into the street and picked up a cobble stone, which she threw with indifferent aim at Dukes’ head missing him, Dukes turned around, saw whence the stone came, and quickened his pace toward his hotel, where he remained the rest of the afternoon.

THE WEST: Prairie fires are doing considerable damage in Nebraska. The Canadian Parliament house at Qeubec, burned Thursday. There are now $700,000 in silver its the Texas State Treasury. Scheller, the Milwaukee saloonkeeper on trial for firing the Newhall House, has been acquitted. The “drive” of cattle out of Texas this season will not exceed 240,000, against 350,000 last year. Six persons were killed and eleven injured at Sacramento. Friday, by the fall of a burning building. An unnatural father was arrested at Monticello, HL, Saturday. His daughter was but thirteen years of age. Delhi, India, had an extensive conflagration Thursday. Two • thousand houses were burned. One of the features of the next Cincinnati Exposition will be a full exhibit of the minerals and ore of the west. There has been a marked improvement in the appearance of the winter wheat fields of Illinois and Ohio since the first of ApriL The Ohio Democratic State Central Committee has decided to hold the next State convention at Columbus on June 21st. At Youngstown, 0., Edward Nock, the first man in the United States to puddle iron, died Friday afternoon of paralysis gsdeietgh y-one. At Columbus, Ohio, the Scott bill became a law Tuesday, taxing each liquor dealer S2OO per year, and those selling only beer and wine SIOO. James G. Parkinson, a deaf and dumb lawyer of Cincinnati, has been admitted to practice law before the supreme court the first case of the kind on record. The reported fall of a meteor at William's ranch, Texas, related Monday, is now said to be one of Joe Mulhatton's lies. He is the fellow who sold Mammoth Cave for transportation to England. ’ Another great storm visited the west, Sunday. A Oolorado railroad train was blown from the track, but no one was badly hurt. The blizzard extended over Kansas and Wyoming, doing considerable damage. A Springfield (HL) special says that the body of Lincoln has not been in tbs saroaphsous there since the attempt made in November, 1878, to steal the remains. The place where they are deposited is not known to more than half a a dozen people.

A Fond Du Lac, Win, dispatch says that contrary to what was previously expressed, the winter wheat at present promises to be the heaviest crop of the coming season. The grain is all nicely rooted, and not winter killed only in a very few places where water rested dur-, ing the early spring months. The Coleman county court house, at Coleman City, Tex., was broken into Friday night All the criminal indictments were destroyed, and the district and county records for several years were oar tied away. No clew to the perpetrators. The cowboys, now on a strike in the “Panhandle” district, are becoming more violent. One hundred well armed are encamped at Las Cosa, Oldham county, under the leadership of one Harris, and make open threats of violence against all who may come to take their places. The Malagassy envoys were met in London by reports that there are alarming stories current at home ot efforts upon their part to use British influence to overthrow their queen and futher their own ambition. These reports have been spread by their enemies of the opposition party. . The envoys have written in haste to their friends in Madagascar to ascertain the extent to which t.ho accusations are believed. They are in doubt whether it will be safe for them to return home. • From various reliable sources an ap proximate estimate has been made as to the probable wheat acreage in Minnesota and Dakota this year as compared with 1882. 'ln the former State the loss in acreage is noted by land being given up to daiiying, but new land broken nearly offsets this. While the total acreage in Minnesota in 1882 was 2,572,000,this year it is estimated it will be fully 2,500,000. In Dakota last year the acreage was 850,000, which this yer r will be swelled to 1,600,000, and it is estimated this will swell the total crop to 24,000,000 bushels as compared with 12,000,000 bushels in 1882. A Davenport special says: “A gentleman connected with milling interests has just returned from a trip through southern lowa, and says thatwinterwheatis in fair condition acreage is smalL Most ot the spring wheat is sown and some is beginning to appear above ground, and the acreage is larger than usual Rye is in good condition, and a large acreage of oats is being sown. Farmers are preparing to put in a greater area of com than last year. From travel through Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska the same gentleman reports 50 per cent of the old crop of com still in the farmer’s hands.” •

THE SOUTH: Two Frenchmen, subjected to indignities by General Butler at New Orleans during the war, have recovered, respectively, SIO,OOO and $4,000 from the United States as a balm for their wounded sen- | sibilities. In Douglassville, Ga., about a year ago the sheriff of the county, an ex-member of the Legislature, and several other prominent and enlightened citizens attacked a poor Italian image , vender; spat upon bin, rolled him on the floor and them sat upon singing ribald songs and relating rude jokes. Denied a hearing by the grand jury, the Italian brought suit in the United States Court, and secured a verdict for 81,250 damages on Wednesday. Two weeks ago a child died in tfif family of a man named Westbrook, in Graysville, Georgia. Soon thereafter ochermembers of the family were stricken down with a singular disease, Sunday the mother and four children, and Monday two more children died, making seven members of one family lying dead at the same time. Only one member is left, the father, who is crazed with mingled fear an 1 grief. It is not known of what disease they died. FOREIGN: Smuggling is being extensively practiced on the Bio Grande. Serious rioting attends the work among the laborers on the Panama oanaL Curley, another of the Phoenix Park assassins, has been sentenced to be hanged. Moody and Sankey and their sailed from Liverpool for this country cn the 19th. The workingmen of Germany are reorganizing for a general strike for an increase of wages. Having discovered that a certain area in Asia is suitable for. the production of cotton, the Orenburg Russians are preparing to make the experiment. Over 20,000 Canadians returned to the Dominion from the United States last year. The Manitoba craze carried them back, and took with them thous nds of Americans. Indue time the Americans will be returning to their own native land followed by a stream of Canucks. A report has been received by the national board of health saying thatjcholera which prevailed to an alarming extent in China, Japan and India some time ago, has disappeared. The report has also

been received that smallpox is raging in Bio deJcueiro. Rev. Dr. Thomas B. Wood, formerly a rasidcntol Stat e, is visiting in Jeffersonville. He is the superintendent of the Methodist Mission in South America. He is at Roaarie, in the Argentine Confederation, and has been made superintendent of public instruct! m of the entire oounThis announcement is good for this day and date, per cable: The Russian Emperor and Empress will reach Moscow on the 21st of May and the coronation will take place May 27. The festivities include eigh grand balls to be prolonged until Junes. The state entry into St Petersburg will be made on June 10th. At Antwerp, the authorities refused to grant a concession to a company wishing to erect grain elevators for unloading grain. Previous to the announcement of the decision a mob attacked the town hall, smashing windows and injuring several persons. The police charged on the crowd, and made a number of arrests The coronation of the czar has been again and unexpertly postponed, and while the announcement is reticent as to the cause of the postponement, there is no doubt that it is due solely to the recent increased activity of the Nihilist agitators, and was probably caused directly by the discovery of the Kremlin plot. The new date fixed is June 10. Consul Lewis, of Sierre Leone, writes to the Department of State that importers of leaf tobacco from the United States complainthat it is dishonestly packed that hogsheads, on being opened, are found to contain a great deal of refuse tobacco; that from 25 to 50 per cent, of the imports is not according to samples, and that this is particularly the case with Kentucky tobacco. Owing to the difficulties of inspection, the inferior charater of the tobacco, according to Consul Lewis, is rarely discovered until it has found its way to the retailers’ shops, and the importer is obliged to make an allowance to the consumer, which in oases averages £2 per hogshead on the cargo. He advocates a more careful inspection tcobaooo before shipment!