Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. A SYNDICATE is being formed' in New York to excavate the Atlantic and Mexican Gulf Canal, on the survey mado by Gen. Q. A. Gillmore. The cut is to commence al the mouth of St. Man’ s River, on the dividing line between Georgia and Florida, run to St. Mark's, on the Gulf of Mexico, and thence to New Orleans by the existing line of waterways, saving 1,200 miles oi dangerous navigation. “Doc" Wilson now declares himself a •on of the barb-wire . millionaire Moen, which fact the latter concealed until 1870, when he experienced religion and made the confession. Since then "Doc” lias received •ome money from Moen, but the Wilson family got more for keeping silence. Wilson’s story was told in the presence of four reputable citizens of Providence, R. 1.: H» stery, »> > n r.‘V.Jv:uS dispatch, it that tie ts the soil of .v i.rst .wife, nnd that ha waa bom a few in n.tln utter the marnnge Moen, bi inc ade icon mid h protea«-dlv hiihtou«l Christian <1 <1 not wish to face the scandal Of such ui early birth for his tir-t-l, th, iu a bargain wu nuule with Jonas Wilson, o! I>nnMsonville, Ct, a stage driver, by which the babe *a« transit rre 1 to the lattor’a care and brought up as a Wilson, ’the boy lived end toiled in the iiniublo sphere to which be says Moen consigned him, and it was not until he was a young man grown that he learned the secret of, his birth. For that secret he was indebted to religious remoigo of his supposed father, Jonas Wilson, who. being on hie death-tied, and nt caring to pass the pirtals with a harden on his aoi.l. drew the lad toward him and told him who be was. After Wilson died the young follow set off for Worcester to meet his father fare to face. Their first meeting. Wilson »bvi. was exactly aa has been described. He did meet Moen that morning, and alter observing the Signe of wealth and luxury that abounded, he demanded 01 MOen •nine reparation tor the wrong done one who should be the heir to all. M<en at first refused to acknowledge th i lad, and would have driven him forth, but the bov faced bis millionaire parent defiantly, upbraiding him for the wrong done his mother and himself. He said: "I will force you to acknowledge me. and the world shall know you for w hat you are. ” According to Wilson’s story, the Wilsons, who knew the secret of his parentage, seeing •’Poe" had money and knowing it came from Moen, began to urge their claims u]>on him Their ■demands increased, and to satisfy them he had to apply to Moen for money ; and in that way much of the sum received from the banker was ■pent. Wilson snys these demands upon him grew so exorbitant that he became almost impoverished by them. ’ Advices from the coke regions of Pennsylvania are to the effect that 10,(MM) cokers are preparing to strike at the end of the month if the operators do not concede the demands made some time ago... .The proEietors of eight hotels or restaurants in artford were arrested for using oleomargarine on their tables without displaying the placard required by the law of Connecticut Kegarding “Doc” Wilson's story that he is the son of P. L. Moen, the records at Oxford, Mass., show that he was born there Dec. 1. 1853, eleven, months after the death of Mrs. Moen. .... Mrs. George M. Rice, sister of "Doc” 'Wilson, and seventeen years older than the latter, contradicts Doc's'storv that he is the •on of Philip L. Moen. She positively avers that he is her brother, and that he was named after their uncle, Levi Fessenden.... Herman Falkenburg, a tailor in New York, has been held in SI,OOO for tamperin ? with a juror engaged in the case of ex-Alderman McQuade, one of the boodle gang: In the case of the National Soldiers’ Home against Gen. B. F. Butler, the jury nt Bo ton found a verdict for $16,537 against the defendant. Michael J. Hess, a laborer, jumped from the Brooklyn bridge to win a paltry wager of $25. His body struck the water with a splash, which threw it ten feet in the air. When picked up he was conscious, and, sifter Retting well loaded up with whisky, walked home in his wet clothes. . . The will of the late ex-President Arthur, which has just been probated at New York, divides the estate equally between his two children. The estate is estimated at $150,OOO.and is chiefly in stocks, bonds, and other personal property.