Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1887 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. G. E. MARSHALL. - - Prm.Tsnr.u

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

[ Till: HAST. Eliza Weatherhuy Goodwin, wife of the noted comedian, N. C. Goodwin, died at New York from the effects of a surgical operation. She had been ill for three Tears, much of the time confined to her bed, and for several months past she had been failing. At a trial of Lieutenant Zalinsky’s pneumatic dynamite gun at Fort Lafayette, n shell containing fifty pounds of dynamite was fired a distance of two and a quarter miles.. . ..Cornelius Vanderbilt was the purchaser of ltosa Bonheur’swork. “The Horse Fair,” at the Stewart sale, s.'>l,ooo, and has already presented it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art... .Gambling utensils valued at $2A.000. captured by the police of New York in the raids of the post two years, were consigned to the flami's,... James Kearnev, on attornev of New York, has fled with rromsso,ntib to sloo.om> in cash.

THE WEST.

Mb. John McGovern has been called to Omaha to conduct the editorial columns of the Evening lice in (Eat city. He has been identified for many years with the newspapers of Chicago, having filled and held with fine ability responsible positions on the daily press, but it was perhaps as editor of the Current and as the author of several popular books that he became best known to the literary world. The Chicago Daily AY irs says: “We doubt not that Mr. McGovern will he cordially welcomed by . his professional brethren in Omaha—he certainly carries with him to his new field of labor the best wishes of the many Chicagoans who recognize his personal worth no less than his intellectual attainments and abilities. ” Mayor CARTER H. H ujulson positively declined the Democratic nomination for Mayor of Chicago. Five fine steamships are under construction in the ship-yards at Detroit and vicinity. ...Mrs. Joseph Matteson, of New York Mills, Minn., murdered her infant daughter and then committed suicide.... The Court House at YoTkville, 111., was burned, but the records were saved.... Constable Fierce, at Des Moines, refuses to surrender to the United States on Federal writs of replevin, the liquors seized in the drug store of Hurlbut, Hess &■ Co. .... Some person unknown bought a draft for $4,995 at St. Joseph. Mo,, and forwarded it to the Secretary of the Treasury to be placed to the credit of an unknown debtor. . .Jackson Marion, who killed John Cameron fifteen years ago, was hanged at Beatrice, Neb. Ho addressed the spectators in a firm voice, and exhibited unusual firmness on the scaffold.. Thomas H. Ilardiag was hanged at Dillon, M. T.. for the muider of William Ferguson, a young stage-driver, while driving bis stage from Melrose to Glendale, May 29, 1886.. . .A freight train ran into -a standing passenger train on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, near Leetonia, Ohio, telescoping two cars. The engineer of the passenger train was killed, and several other itersons were injured. Arguments in a case involving $15,000.000, which is virtually a contest of the will of Francis Palms, were begun last week at Detroit. The special point involved is 'a clause which, it is alleged, violates the statute of perpetuity. The Grand Jury at Chicago on Saturday returned indictments against the following persons for malfeasance in office ana conspiracy to defraud the county: Daniel J. Wren, County Commissioner; Adam Ochs, ex-County Commissioner, Chairman of the board in 18S4-’8o; John E. Van Pelt, ex-County Commissioner; Harry Yarnell, Warden of the Insane Asylum; William J. McGarigle. Warden of the County Hospital; Charles Frey, Warden of the Infirmary; Elisha A- Robinson,.grocer, furnisher of*county supplies. The parties were arrested and gave bail. Joel W. Kellogg, a prominent politician of Elkhart, lud., has been sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for embezzling SII,OOO from a building association... .Judge S. H. Treat died last •week at Springfield, 111., at the age of 75. from Bright’s disease. He was appointed to the Federal bench by President Pierce. ....The great trotting race between Oliver K. and Harry Wilkes, which was arranged to take place, id-. San Francisco April 2, is declared off. as Oliver K. has strained a tendon in his foreleg The Commissioners of State Contracts at Springfield, IIL have passed an order refusing to pay out any more money on the printing contracts pending the investigation of the printing “combine.” ...Canvassing is about to commence in Cincinnati for the guarantee fund of $1,000,000 required to insure the success of the Ohio, centennial, to be held next year. The exposition is to ,be located in Washington or Eden Park, and will last one hundred days....W. Irving Bishop gave some interesting specimens of mind reading at the Palmer House in. Chicago, and, blindfolded, drove a carriage and pair throngh the streets and found a scarf-pin which had been secreted in an overcoat in Kerrigan's law office in the Howland Block.

WASHINGTON.

The President has appointed the following Interstate Commissioners: Thomas M. Cooley of Michigan, for the term of six years; William R. Morrison of Illinois, for the term of five years: Augustus Schooumaker of New York, for the term of four years 1 Aldace F. Walker of Vermont, for the term of three years; Walter L. Bragg of Alabama, for thy term of two yours. Cooley and Walker are Republicans, the others are Democrats.... "The President has appointed the following Collectors of Internal Revenue: Whitfield jV Walker, for the District of Florida; find, ley W. Stewart, fer the Second District of lowa. Also these Postmasters. Illinois John McNamee, Bement; James Keagy, Cambridge; W. J. Furlong, Rochelle. Ohio—James W. Kerr. Washington Court House. Wisconsin—Wm. M. Underhill, Oconto. Minnesota—D. K. S'acy. Albert Lea; Christian Johnson. Austin; Frank E. .lowa —Wm. C, Swigart, Maquoketa.... JL Washington telegram says: “Representative Townshend says he expects an extra session of Congress to be called in October. He does not think there is any need for Congress to meet before then, but there are many reasons why it should meet at that time. The deficiency bill and the river and harbor bill, be thinks, will need to be acted on before Congress meets in December, and besides that it is important that the House should be organized and prepared for work soon enough to get

through with the business before political discussions begin to take up the time.” The Commissiofier of the General Land Office has rejected the application of the heirs of John E. Bonligny for the issue of prize land scrip to the extent of 70,000 ncres. This claim dates lrom the year 1717, and is based upon an alleged grant by the Government of Franco covering a portion of the then French colony of Louisiana. The Land Office decided against the claim in 1838, but in 1808 the heirs succeeded in securing the passage of an act by Congress affirming their title, which was suspended by Congress within thirty days, it having been learned that the Supreme Court had decided against the claimants, and that under the law governing grants only 2,50 ft acres could be granted. The matter was then again brought before the Land Office, the claimants alleging that the act was in the nature of o 3 contract, which could not be annulled by Congress. The question will probably be taken to |he Supreme Court. The President has appointed Oscar S. Straus, of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Turkey; Harold Marsh Bewail, of Maine, Consul General at Apia, and N. J. George, of Tennessee, Consul at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Jacob F. Grove has been appointed Postmaster nt Burnside, lIL. and Thomas B. Dunkirk, of Ia» dinnn, has been aj pointed Special "intern aT Revenue Agent. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, ismientioned for a place on the Pacific Railway Commission. A hitch has occurred between the Secretary of Mar and (ha Lieutenant General over some of the appointments of the regimental staff, the Secretary having intimated that Gen. Sheridan exceeded his authority. All the saloons nt Washington were closed last Sunday owing to a decision of the District Commissioners to enforce the statute revoking licenses upon a second conviction of violating the Sunday 1aw.... James F. Benedict, a bank cashier at Greeley, Colo, has been appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for that district.

THE SOUTH.

A FREIGHT train on the Norfolk ami Western Road went through Otter River Bridge, nine miles from Liberty, Ya. The biidgo was in process of repair, and eight or nine workmen were killed. Several others were . wounded. The engine and several ears-erossed the bridge safely before it gnve way. San Antonio (Texas) special: “Reliable reports from the grazing districts, of the Rio Grande show that the winter just closing was very severe on sheep. Owing to the long drought last fall the grass was very scarce, and many thousand sheep perished from starvation. One firm alone is reported to have lost 30,000 ! each Good rains have recently fallen along the llio Grande.”... .Amos Johnson, colored, aged 40, was hanged at Marion, Crittenden County. Arkansas, for assaulting a white child only 8 years old, who had been left iu his charge bv her parents.' He eon--fesSedpQuul made a long harangue from the scatrotd. Fully fifteen hundred people, mostly colored, witnessed the execution. In plowing in-a field about three miles from Atlanta, Gn., $l,lOO was plowed up in $5 gold pieces. The treasure is supposed to have been buried there before the war, by some person who has since died. ... A Cincihnuti syndicate, headed" By Er Zimmerman, has invested $1,000,000 in the Soddy mines, near Chattanooga, and intends to spend $500,000 in improvements.

POLITICAL.

A resolution has passed the Rhode Island House providing for a constitutional convention every ten years, beginning in April, 1889 The New Jersey House unanimously passed the bill giving women the right to vote for school trustees... .The New York Assembly has passed the Crosby high-license hilt. The Democrats of Chicago have nominated Carter H. Harrison for Mayor, John H. McAvoy for Treasurer, C. F. M. Allen for Attorney, and Henry Stuckert for Clerk. Senator Sherman, on the invitation of the Republican members of the Legislature of Tennessee, delivered a political address at Nashville. . . .The State officers pf Indiana rejected a proposition by a New York hou6e to loan $300,000 at per cent. ... .The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill prohibiting municipal subscriptions to railroad stocks.... The Democrats of Cincinnati have made the following nominations: For Mayor, teaac B. Matson; Judge of the Superior Court, J. R. Saylor; Judge of the Police Court, J. AY. Fitzgerald; City Treasurer,,, Yaleutine Nicholas; City Solicitor, Alfred M. Cohen. A bill has been introduced in the New York Assembly to charter an aqueduct, company, with a capital of $00,000,000, to furnish water from the Adirondack region to the Hudson River valley and New York city. ■?. H. C. Parsons, the most prominent Blaine Republican in -Virginia,' and the intimate associate of Stephen B. Elkins and William Walter Phelps, says that Blaine alone can answer whether he will lead the next campaign. If he should consent the contest was over, for it was impossible, with the present temper, to convene a representative body of Republicans which would not nominate him... .Senator Sherman visited the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and made a brief speech, dwelling on the marvelous development of the resources of the Soffth.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

i The nail factory, pljde mill, and cooper shop of the Bay View i Wis.) iron works will, it is r. ported, be. closed for au indefinite period. A Chicago dispatch says that “John Jarrett of Pittsburg. William H. Muldoon of District Assembly No. 57, Mr. O. W. Potter of the North Chicago rolling mills, and Alderman O. D. Wetherell, who acte.d as umpire, were in s. ssion for the las'l few days and agreed upon a new scale of wages demanded by the men. The wages of the men were advanced about 9 per cent. The company will pay them for time and a half while engaged in certain lines of work dangerous to-their health, and will engage extra men to relieve those who desire not to work Sundays. The agreement has effect in the mills at Iron dale. Sooth Chicago, North Chicago. Bridgeport, Joliet, Hammond. and Milwaukee, and dates from January 1.” At a meet'ng of wrought iron pipe manufacturers at Pittsburgh, last year's prices were reaffirmed. Business reported as in a favorable condition _i_ Wobk on a new iron mine near Marquette, Mich., has begun, and great results are anticipated... .The Pittsburgh master painters refuse to sign the scale presented

by the journeymen or to recognize the union men as a body of Knight* of Lalx>r. At a meeting of tli*i coal managers in New York it was decided to restrict the production of anthracite for the month of April to 2,251),000 tons. In the coal combination caie at Harrisburg, Pa., being an action to enjoin the companies from combining in the matter of output, all of the evidence has been heard, anil the court reserves its decision. The Pittsburgh coal operators met and declared they will not,accept the railroad eonl rates to the lakes, which hive been raised from 85 to 95 cents a ton.

THE RAILWAYS.

' The President of the Ohio and Mississippi Road states that only its interstate passes have been called in... .Robert Garrett has informed the Mayor of Baltimore that the details of the mammoth iailroal deal will soon be given to the public. The pass agent of the Wisconsin Central Railroad has given notice that members of the Wisconsin Legislature will bo asked to ' return their passes, but that the company will issue free transportation to the members and elective Stale officers. It. is said that the St.' Paul, North'.' estein, Omaha„Luke Shore, Milwaukee and North"CTfl, and Yhs'ffSiHin CThfKit TlBTe "enterecTj into an agreement not to issue any more passes,;.. .The lease of the Passumpsic ■ Road by the Boston and Lowell makes j Boston the seaport terminus of the j Canadian Pacific system, and gives to the Boston and Maine • Road con- i trol of two thousand miles of track.... j The new freight tariff from Pittsburg to ! Chicago shows a reduction of 7£ cents per hundred pounds in first-class rates, and 2i cents in three other classes, ( cal rates are unchanged.... The sale of the New York, Rutland anil Montreal Railway, to lift $350,000 in certificates issued by the receiver, has been ordered by Judge Wallai c, of Syracuse.,.. The Secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association of Chicago has mailed a letter to the General Managers of twenty-six different railroads asking if it were the railroad managers’ ultimatum that the price of commercial travelers’ 1,000niile tickets be fixed at $25 instead of S2O, as at present, and that fr o baggage be limited to 150 pounds on each ticket. Secretary H.W, K. Cutter saysif an amicable settlement cannot be reached there will he a bitter fight. low \ railroad properly has just been ! assessed at $38,000,000 for pnrposes of taxation, an ircrease of $4,000,000 over last year's valuation.

GENERAL.

In connection with the difficulty between Lawrence Barrett and the American Exchange in Europe, the actor has instructed his counsel. Col. Ingersoll, to commence suit for $50,000 for malicious prosecutiou against the President of the Exchange, the Hon. James R, Hawley, and its Directors and General Manager. Commandek-ix-Chief Fairchild of the Grand Army of (he Republic has issued a general oilier appointing the Grant Memorial Committee, which consists of one member for each department. ' That charming and popular liitle actress, Theater, Chicago, this week, in her old favorite character “M’liss” and in her new . and suceessfuLplav, “The Deacon’s Daughter." The divorce ease of'Vice President Hopkins, of the Missouri Pacific, has been settled. The conditions are that the chnrga of infidelity is to be withdrawn against him, he is "to give his wife $300,000, and the decree is to be taken) for desertion.... Professor McGee, of, the Geological Survey, says tho Charleston earthquake covered au area of 1,250,000 square miles, and extended from the Mississippi to the mudas... .President Fitzgerald, of the Irish National League, has issued an appeal for .financial help for the people of Ireland in the fight against English oppression.

FOREIGN.

Russian Constitutionalists have issued a manifesto in which, after repudiating any connection with the recent attempt on the Czar’s life, the party creed is laid down, the three chief points of which are: That a consultative chamber be summoned, the Czar retaining the right to decide with the majority or the minority, as he pleases; that the -press be granted freedom of speech; and that political prisoners be amnestied. Berlin was decorated with flags and flowers on the 22d of March, in honor of =] the Emperor’s ninetieth birthday, and at noon a royal salute of 101 guns was fired. The student’s procession' passed the imperial palace required several hundred carriages. Banquets were given in each con-tinental-capital by the German Ambassador. Russia has officially protested against the action of Turkey in Bulgaria.... Six persons who were captured in connection w ith the recent plot to assassinate the Czar, were hanged. De Gaieff, the man who murdered Lieut. Col. Sudeikim, the Russian Chief of Police, three years ago, and who was suspected of having planned this plot against the Czar's life, is said to be one of the 5ix...... The police of St. Petersburg have discovered stores of dynamite and apparatus for the manufacture of bombs in several villas in the 1 suburbs of the Russian capital. Germany has refused to participate in the Paris International Exhibition of 1889. ....French experiments with the "selfsteering torpedo' have resulted in failure. ....Advices from China say that over 300 tramps appeared in the village of Hsia-Shib-Chen and greatly irritated the inhabitants. who inveigled them into the temple, and during the.pight set fire to it. Only forty of the tramps escaped, the remainder being burned to death.;. .Eighty-five men were entombed by an explosion in a eollery near Sydney, New South Wales. The birthday presents received by Emperor William are sufficient to till five fnmitnre vans. . . The Bulgarian Prime Minister is making a tour of the country openly advocating independence. The ocean yacht-race Was won by the Coronet, which arrived off Queenstown about noon on .Sunday. The distance is 9,949 miles. Her apparent time was just inside of- fifteen days. Her shortest day's run was 38.8 miles; her longest 29 Lo miles. The weather, was uncommonly stormy. She carried twenty-nine persons The an. nual boat-race between the Oxford and Cambridge University crews resulted in a victory for the Cambride men by three lengths. ' Th# Oxford crew unfortunately broke an oar at Barnes’ Bridge and was thus badly handicapped.... Feeling is now somewhat doubtful as to whether France and Germany propose to. adjust their differences and live at peace. The warmth of the Kaiser’s birthday greetings and the honeyed words of M. de Lesseps Lave produced a state of calm that has not been known for many months.

! The feeling of distrust on the Berlin ! bouise, however, continues unabated, and but liitle confidence is expressed, in the maintenance of i Lace. Russia keeps up her preparations for all possible contingencies. Eighty-seven lotpedo vessels belonging to the Baltic fleet have been ordered placed in a state of constant readiness for 1 service.. .'.Eighty-five persons lost their lives by the explosion in the Bulli colliery at Lidney, England. .. .The French Chamber of Deputies has raised the import duty on oxem to 38 francs, and, placed a duty of 29 francs on cows, 8 francs on calves, 5 francs on sheep, and 12 francs on fresh meat.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The President has made the following appointments: Charles W. Irish, of ’lowa City, lowa, to be Surveyor General of Nevada; William C. Hull, of Salt Lake City, to be Secretary of Utah Territory; Janies R. Jordan, of Virginia, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Virginia; and these postmasters: Illinois— Allison M, Cavan, Ei Paso; Wisconsin— Francis 11. Reuschlein, Burlington; Dakota—John H, Firey, Aberdeen; Charles W. Hastings, Brookings; H. C. Rasmussen, Devil's Lake; Ezra AY. Foucht, Redtuld. W. J, Bennett arrived in Chicago from England the oilier morning. He got shaved in a shop on Canal street, handed the barber a SIOO bill, and waited vainly for his change until midnight, when he left for Kansae City... .Chicago elevators and vessels contain 12,712,788 bushels of wheat, 9,407,558 bushels of corn, 1,080,497 bushels of oats, 158,419 bushe.sof rve, and 150,157 bushels of barley; total, 23,509,419 bushels o't all kinds, of grain, against 18,270,910 bushels a year ago. Pall Tllane, who made a vast fortune in New Orleans and gave $1,500,000 to the university, bearing his name, died last week in his native city, Princeton, N. J., at the nge of 87. Railway postal clerks on the Union Pacific begiu their runs each alternate week at Council Bluff's, but their homes are scattered from Omaha to Ogden. They have received semi-official nouucaiion that they will hereafter Be required to pay faro wLeu not actually performing duty. They have decided to appeal to the Postoffice Department. The Federal Supreme Court has reversed the judgment of the' Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia in .case of William L. lioyali, whoso Tender of State tax coupons in payment of a lawyer's license was wrongfully refused... .A statement prepared at the office of the Commissioner of Internal Reventie shows that there are thirty-seven factories engaged in the manufacture of artificial butter now in operation in the United States, as follows: Eleven in Chicago; two in Denver, Col,; one in Kokomo, Ind.; one in Kansas City; one in Armourdale, Kan.; one in Ashland, Wis.; three in Hurley, Mrs.; one in Ean Ciaire, Wis.; tone in Chippewa, Wis. There are 3,537 retail dealers in oleomargarine in the United States who paid special taxes as such in the months of November, and December, 188(5, and January and February, 1887. The number of wholesale dealers is 2,G0. The quantity of oleomargarine manufactured and removed for eonsuigptkm or sale, at 2 cents )>er jmr.nd, during the past four months is as follows: November, 1880, 4,742,509 pounds; December, 1880, 2,780,278; January; 1887, 2,501,114; February, 1887, 2; 015,7 rJ; total, 12,045,740. The quantity exported from the United States is: November, 1880, 3,247,, pounds: December, 1880, 58,089; January, 1887, 52,701; February, 1887, 38,100; total, 152,797. ' EmpeloL William has sent a friendly message to the Pope... In a panic in a church at Mentone, France, many persons were injured... .Prince Ferdinand of SaxeCoburg desires the nomination lor the Bui, garian ihrone. .. .Tner; will be held in Milan, Italy, in the month of May and June, an international exhibition of Hourmilling machinery and apparatus connected with bread-making, Italian paste-mak-ing, rice-dressing, and similar industries, to which American manufacturers are requested to send exhibits. The yacht Dauntless passed the finishing line at Queenstown- at 0:45 o’clock Monday evening, -March 28, her actual time on passage being 10 days,-! hour, 45 minutes, 13 seconds. All on board were well, and the yacht was in as good shape as when she left New York. A London dispatch says: “The officers of the Coronet and other yachtsmen are greatly pleased with the result of the race, and say it has served to show admirable qualities in both yachts. Considering the difference in the tonnage, the length of the two yachts, and the extraordinarily heavy weather which prevailed during the voyage, the Dauntless is thought to have done as well us her competitor.” “ •

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $4.50 & 6.00 Hogs.. 5:75 & 6.25 Wheat —No. 1 White. '.9o}*,s .91 )s• No. 2 Ked .91 (St .92 Corn—No. 2 48)4 .50 Oats—White 38 4$ .42 Eohk—New Mess.... 16.25 @16.75 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.25 (® 5.75 Good Shipping........ 4.50 5.00 C0mm0n..... ..... 4.00 @4.50 Hogs—Shipping Grade 5......... 5.50 @6.00 Flock—Red Winter 3.75 @4.00 Wheat —No. 2 Spring. . 78 @ .79 Corn—No. 2. .................. .368i@ .37'.j Oats —No. 2 25*.j <# .26's Bcttew—Choice Creamery 28 @ .30 Fine Dairy “22 @ .25 Cheese—Full Cream, Cheddar,. ,13t£ .1344 Full Cream, now. 13J4 « .Ti'H Eggs—Fresh.... ii -A ffij Potatoes—Choice, per bu .oO @ .55 Poke—Mess 20.50 @20.75 MILWAUKEE. ' Wheat—Ca5h...;.......8....... .74 @ .74'a Ccmß—No. 3.... ~7.v...... ......' ;37 @ .31> 2 Oats—No. 2 White .31 @ .34^ Kye—No. 1 55 @ .56 Pork—Mess.,. 16.25 @10.75 TOLEDO. Wheat —Cash. 81 @ .82 Coßn—Cash. .39 0 .40 Oats —N 0.2.... ...... .30 @ .31 DETROIT. Beep Cattle 4.03 @ 5.25 Hogs .- 4.25 @5.75 5heep............ 4.23 @5.50 Wheat—Michigan Ked 82 @ .83 Corn—No. 2 39 @, .40 Oats—Whit j 32 @ .Hh ST. LOUIS. ■Wsbkai—No, "oCKß—Mixed ........ .35 i''t» .36 OATi —Mixed . ' .2TM@ ugftfr Pork—Mess 17.25 @,17.75 CINC ‘INATI. Wheat —No. 2 Red .82 @—S2l&_ "Corn—No. 2 .39 @ .40 Oats—No. 2 -.....30fg Pork—Mess 17.25 @17.75 Live Hogs 5.25 @ 5,75 BUFF'ADO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard ■ 791 @ .94 Corn— No, 2 Ye110w.... .45 @ ,46 Cattle 4.00 @ 4.75 INDIANAPOLIS. Beep Cattle 3.75 & a. 35 Hogs. 4-<» @ 6 -®? Khkbp 5-45 <5 4-75 Wheat—No. a Hod 80 C.rn—No. 2 37 @ .37^ n.” .38 @ .28* • EASTIiBERTY. - Cattle— Best 5.00 @ 5.4» Fair 4.50 @ 4,<j Common. 4.00 ft 4.25 Hogs 6°° @ 6 -® s£te;...:: @5.50

THE HADDOCK MURDER.

Opening of a Celebrated Criminal Trial at Sidux City, * lowa * The Council and the Jury—Betting Men Offering Odds on a Disagreement. [SIOUX CITY CORRESPONDENCE.] On a dark and rainy night, in the month of August, 1880, Rev. George C. Haddock, a minister of the Methodist Church and a stalwart Prohibitionist, was assassinated in one of Sioux City’s public streets. The murder created a profound sensation in the community. There was universal condemnation of the deed, and an almost passionate demand that the perpetrators .be hunted down. Meetings in scores of places in lowa and other States were held. Religious, temperance and other organizations passed resolutions denouncing the crime, and expressing sympathy for the widow of the murdered man. Contributions came in from every direction and a handsome sum was thus provided for her. and smaller sums were sent to aid in closing the saloons and discovering the murderers. The day of the murder Gov. Larrabee offered a reward of SSOO, the Emit allowed by law, for the apprehension of the guilty parties. The City Council also offered a reward. Later the

REV. GEORGE C. HADDOCK.

Methodist ministers offered a reward of SI,OOO. On the day following the murder the Coroner’s inquest began taking evidence, and after two days the evidence showing the fact that valuable clews were likely to be developed, the investigation was made secret. The investigation covered a long period of time, there being extended adjournments. Circumstances were developed which fastened serious suspicion oil one Hairy L. Leavitt, who had kept a low variety show in Sioux City, Suspicion was also fastened upon several

BARRY LEAVITT.

others with whom he was found to have been intimately associated. But the trouble was there was no satisfactory proof. Leavitt and other suspected parties testified before the Coroner’s jury, and had stories to tell in which they denied knowledge or part in the Crime. But before the Coroner’s jury adjourned, it was noticed (hat these parties, toward whom suspicion pointed, -began to disappear from the city. Leavitt was among those who levanted. He was filially arrested in Chicago, and confessed all he knew ia connection with the tragedy. He fixed upon John Arensdorf, a member of the Franz Brewing Company, as the man who fired the

JOHN ARENSDORF.

fatal shot, and declared tbat therewere present at the murder Henry Peters, the brewery driver, standing at Arensdorf’s elbow; Fred Munehratb, Jr., Geo, Treiber, Paul Leader, Harry Sherman, Louis Plato and two other Germans. Arensdorf, Leader, MohcKrato and Sherman wefe instantly arrested, and warrants were sworii out for the others named who had disappeared. Albert Koschnitski was arrested in California, and Sylvester Grande in Kansas City. After a long andnaiient investigation the grand jury returned two Indictments against all the nine defendants above named, charging them jointly with murder and conspiracy. At the January term of court, the attornevs for Arensdorf demanded that he should be first put on trial, and claimed to be ready for trial. The prosecution asserted its legal right to say which defendant should be first tried, and asked that a speedy date be as-

signed for trial. The court set the fjrinl for the 21st of March. Some days prior to this date the defense insisted that the prpsecu-j tion should elect which of the defendants should be first tried, and the prosecution replied by electing John Arepsdorf, the principal defendant, and that ne be tried on tne charge of murder. Thereapoa toe court so ordered, and set the trial for the 23d of March. , g-—■. the TRIAL. On Wednesday, the 23d of March, before Judge Lewis, began the trial of John Arensdorf for the murder of Rev. George Haddock, and at this writing it is still in. progress.

JUDGE LEWIS.

Able counsel represent both eides. On the side of the defense are the names of O. C. Tredway, Judge Isaac Pendleton, G. W. Argo, of Le Mars; M. M. Gray, Willis G. Clarke, Judge J. N. "Weaver, and Geo. W. Kellogg. The prosecution is represented by County Attorney S. M. Marsh, M. D. O’Connell, of Fort Dodge, ex-Uuited Srates District Attorney; Hon. T. P. Murphy; United States District Attorney; and the wellknown law firm of Hubbard, Spalding & Taylor. The jury, in the selection of which only one day was consumed, consists of John O’Connor, a farmer, of Morgan Township; Thomas Crilley, a farmer, of Morgan Township; C. C. Barllett, a farmer, of Little Sioux Township; John Madden, a farmer, of Miller Township; Dennis Murphy, a farmer, o’ Kedron Township; C. G. Gross, a merchant, of Correetionville; Thomas Frazier, a farmer, of Rutland Township; M r . P. Pennell, a farmer, of Concord Township; David Kpff'er, a farmer, of Floyd Township; E. Webster, a farmer, of Woodbury Township: John D. O’Connell, afnrmer, of Liberty Township, and John Adair, a railroad grader, of Sioux City. Mr. H. J. Taylor presented the easeforthe State and Mr. G. W. Argo presented the case for the defense. Mr. Taylor, after reading the indictment, recited the story of the crime in a delicate and somewhat labored manner. Mr. Taylor laid the foundation of the motive for the murder in the exciting incidents of the injunction suits against (he Sioux .City liquor dealers. The Rev, George C. Haddock’s participation in these suits and his advocacy of temperance werc'Shown to haveincited the enmity ofcertain men, among whom was John Areusdorf. It is freely predicted in certain circles that a disagreement will be the result of the trial, and betting men are taking odds against conviction. Mr. Taylor grew ruggedly eloquent as he neared the climax. In few words he outlined the plan of the State in its proof of the murder. He described the assembling of the alleged conspirators at Junk’s saloon, the-watelrng for Haddock’s return from his temperance mission to Greenville, the arrival of the minister at Merr 11s stable after leaving Mr. Turner at his home in the western part of ihe city, and the starting of Haddock for his own home. Then came the deed of blood. Haddock, after once returning to the stable door to ask “if that mob was lying in wait for him,” started to cross Water street, directly in the face of the band on the corner of Fourth and Water streets. A man stepped firmly forward, passed the victim, then tnrnect and fired (lie deadly shot. This man, Mr. Taylor declared- the State was ready to prove, was none other than John Arensdorf. “And the blood then shed on our city’s streets,” said he, “now cries for justice at your hands.” w Mr. Argo entered a general denial of the State’s charge, and introduced the defendant to the jury in a brief biographical sketch. John Arensdorf was born in Belgium in 1851. His parents were farmers. At fourteen 'years of age he was apprenticed to a brewer. In 1871 he came to America and has been employed ns a brewer sinee that time. He has resided in Sioux City for nearly ten years. Hr. Argo showed that the defense proposed to rely upon proving an alibi, and upon the general good character of the defendent, The counsel devoted considerable time to an arraignment of Harry Leavitt, who, he said, was the chief wituess for the State. It was for the prosecution to prove the gnilt of Arensdorf. But the 'defense would unquestionably demonstrate that he not only knew nothing of the murder, bub that he had, on the night of the shooting, actually saved a temperance worker from assault. * Glass, porcelain and other metals can be soldered by an alloy made as follows: Copper dust, obtained by precipitation from a solution of the sulphate by means of zinc, is put iu a cast-iron or "porcelain-lined mortar and mixed with strong sulphuric acid, specific gravity 1.85., From twenty to thirty or thirty-six parts of the dust are taken, according to the hardness desired. To the cake formed of acid , and copper there is added, under constant stirring, seventy parts of mercury. W hen well mixed, the amalgam is carefully rinsed with warm water to remove all the acid, and then set aside to cool. In ten or twelve hours it is hard enough to scratch tin. W'hen required for use, it is to be heated so hot that, when worked over and brazed in a mortar, it becomes as soft as wax. 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