Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — EUGENE FIELD DEAD. [ARTICLE]

EUGENE FIELD DEAD.

SUDDEN DEMISE OF THE .FAM* .. OUS POET. •,• ■' ; - \... y-’. - - • ' . o Awful Crime in Omaha—Exploring: an Island Unknown to White Men—Disastrous Blow to Decatur—Long and —Successful Chase for a Criminal. / , \ ■ Death Claims a Shining Mark, Eugene Field, poet, litterateur, one of Chicago’s brightest men, died while asleep Monday morning, of heart disease, after a brief-and slight illness. Newspaper circlesand eleYgy of the city, and the Whole 'poetry-IbFihg? Eng 1 ish jspeaking wbfl d? is profoundly touched with sorrow at the demise of this best-loved of men. The loss does hot come alone to men and women. Children’s eyes all over the land __wilJL flush_ t wit 11 tears and childish hands. forsake their play because the touch of death has fallen upon the lips of him who sang their sweetest lullabys. What child is there in a home worth the calling who has not “sailed away in the wooden shoon” with Wynken, Blynken and Nod, or gazed with swelling throat and overflowing eyes upon the deserted tin soldier, sturdy and stanch, and the other toys, awaiting the return.of Little Boy Blue, “since he kissed them and put them there?” And not one of all these little folk but will know a new grief when they learh that this friend of faries and children, this dreamful and gentle-souled jester, has gone to look for his Little Boy Blue. Whether in the West or the East, in America or in England, the most authoritative critics have paid Field their praises as a poet who sang the simple songs of the human heart with a faultless melody and touched his lyre with an exquisite delicacy.

Young Girl Murdered. Ida Gaskin's mutilated body was found in a small outbuilding at Omaha, in the business district, at 2 o’clock Monday morning. She had been assaulted and murdered. Within an hour George‘Morgan, Ed Sanford and Henry Booker, all young men, were in custody charged with the crime. Ida Gaskin was 11 years old. The little girl was choked to death, her throat showing plainly where the cruel fingers had left their imprint. Booker is a driver of a coal wagoq and a friend of the Gaskin family. Morgan is a col-lar-maker by trade, but has been out of employment for some time. Sanford works for the Crane Elevator Company. It is the opinion of the police thatvthe case is conclusive against Morgan. Big Fire at Decatur. The Grand Opera House at Decatur, Ill.,built in 1889, and furnished elegr. nt ly throughout by Orlando Towers at a cost of §IOO,OOO, was destroyed by fire Monday night, the flames breaking out in the :basenmiit. ; #iam fiome unknown cause. The fire worked its way~into the block north of the opera house and broke out afresh after the roof of the opera house fell in. , Great volumes of sparks, flames and smoke rose, and the wind carried them everywhere. The total loss Is placed at §500,000.

BREVITIES. Sheffield’s Walcott mills and the whole town of Walcott, Minn., were destroyed by fire. The loss is $150,000. Yielding to the petition of more than two score of manufacturers ajid inventors who have entered rin the motocyfcle contest, the judges decided to postpone the Chicago motoeycie race until Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28. Judge Buck Kilgore of the Federal Bench in'the Indian Territory has written to Attorney General Harmon defending himself against charges filed torneys. The most serious charge is that “he doesn't know much law and is tyrannical.” In the Airheart lease of the AnchoriaLeland Company’s claim at Cripple Creek, Colo., a six-inch streak of bbnanza ore has just been encountered at a depth of 232 feet,. Select samples from a halfton of the ore assays §27,240.80 to the ton. Sylvanite abounds. The strike is one of the most marvelous yet made 1 in in the gold camp. Running along with this is another seven-inch streak that assay’s 32 ounces to the ton. Prof. W. J. McGee, chief anthropologist of the bureau of ethnology, left Washington on what will probably prove one of the most interesting expeditions ever sent out by the department. Professor Mctjee intends, if possible, to visit the stronghold of the Seri Indians on Tiburon Island, a rocky bit of territory in the Gulf of California, noiifinally a possession of Mexico, but practically a possession of the Seri Indians. It is a spot that has never been visited by white men. Sheriff M. H. Patterson, of Woodruff County, Arkansas, captured J. M. Leslie, alias Rygm, alias Le'wis, nt Okolona, Mis* His chase of the man extended over 2,200 miles, but the crimes wamnted the persistent pursuit. Leslie is Wanted for two bigamous marriages in ,Texas and Arkansas, and known forgeries in Omaha, Neb., and other cities, with a line of the later crimes the length of which is not known.

The steamer Joe Peters, plying between Memphis and Vicksburg, sank Sunday Uight at Island Sixty-three, while on her way to Vicksburg with a cargo of about 120 tons of miscellaneous freight. The cause of the accident is not known. No lives were lost. The captain and owner, Al Cummins, telegraphs that both the boat and cargo are a total loss. The boat was valued at SIO,OOO and was insured for $0,500 in Louisville. The cargo was worth about $3,500 and insured in shipper's policies. > The Turkish Government has again instructed the Government of Bitlis to protect the American missionaries at that place. Owing to the disturbances the American missionaries who have been engaged in relieving the sufferings of the Armenians at Sassoun have decided to postpone operatic us and seek safety pat Bitlis. V At Montgomery. Ala., the Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and St. Louis Railway is given thirty days in which to pay to the Metropolitan Trust Company of New Yaak SIBI,OOO defaulted interest If not (Mil th* rood will be sold. ‘

EASTERN. ’*=*'■_ Bill Nye was treated tuf a fusillade of over-ripe eggs at Paterson, N. J. Fire at Dauphin, Pa., caused by a spark from a locomotive, destroyed 4,000,000 feet of lumber worth §75.000.. Gotham society is in a flutter because invitations to the Marlborough-Vander-bilt wedding are advertised for sale. . At .lamestown, Douglass. is under arrest charged with the murder of Mrs. Winslow Shernnan and daughter in December, 1894. Dr. J. B. Carpenter, a brothcr-in-law of rx-Guvr Flower, x-onniritted suicide at GouVerneur, N, Y. Desixmdenev due to ill health was the cause. ~~T~ ■ ■ " z== At Newport, R. 1.. James .1. Van Alen has been arrested on a writ charging alienation of wife’s affections, sworn out by Col. S. Colt, and hits given §200,000 bail. —— Two students have been expelled from the Pennsylvania State College, fourteen more haveMieen indefinitely and wholesale criminal prosecutions may follow—all the result of ha«iny. —CulyeAc Co., King & Co., and Trvskow & Krellin, coal-stripping contractors at Hazleton, Pa., have been forced to suspend operations owing to the severe drought. Twelve hundred men have been thrown out of employment. Senator Chandler's paper, the Evening Monitor, of Concord, N. IL, declares that “war between the United States and England is inevitable,” because of the latter’s encroachments on the American continent, and that Russia will be our ally. William Thorpe, a wealthy railroad contractor of New York, recently purchased fourteen hundred acres of land in the lower end of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. He erected a number of buildings. planted trees and built fences. . The, buildings have been destroyed by incendiaries, the trees torn up and the fences destroyed. Detectives are now at work on the case. It is alleged that people living in the vicinity said after,Mr. Thorpe .had , made his purchase that fourteen hundred acres of land was too much for one man to own. IL A. McCausland, a traveling salesman for the Michigan aiyl Ohio Plaster. Company, either threw himself or fell UOUia UnlM jfltifOVmddw"sf the OsbormT House, at Auburn, N. ¥., Wednesday morning. Although conscious when found, he died four hours afterward. It was impossible to secure from him a connected statement. Twice he said that there hliil been persons in the hotel room with him, but as the doot was found to be locked, with the key inside, all thoughts of foul play were abandoned. McCausland was about 30 years old and his home was irt Saginaw, Mich.