Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 51, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 June 1883 — Page 4

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

ruBUCATioif omcB,

Hoc 20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND FBOPRIETOK.

TERRE HAUTE, JUNE 16, 1888.

THE OLD FIRM.

for 1884, is the question of interest to I

politicians Mr. Hendricks has declared

not feeble. On the contrary he was never

in better health. Mr. Waterson thought-

If these conjectures are well founded It is pretty hard on Joe McDonald and his friends, and thore is likely to be no small ruction come of it among Indiana Democrats. Some of the boldest, as the Evausviilo Courier, have begun to talk out very pluinly and to tell Mr. Hendricks flatly that his egotism npd selfishness will not be allowed to destroy McDonald's chances a second time, as they did at Cincinnati. Notlr* is served on Mr. Hendricks that being dead, politically speaking, he is expected to take himself out of the way and let the live McDonald have a chance. Those who speak thus do nftt seem to relish the thought of having the old ticket of 1870 brought forward aguin, but are disposed to have a now deal.

It Is a pretty tight as it stands and will afford abundant opportunities for fine playing, but if Tilden and Hendricks are laying their heads together to secure the nomination ot the old ticket, it may as well be understood that the old ticket will bo nomlnatod. They are "devilish sly" fellows and with one of them in

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Srnator Shkr*as,

T""* "It /T A I ^H* Mail is not given to excusing or I I—I 1—4 Z\ I I justifying homicide, bat if ever there

A X_-/ w#gE CMe ot

ovoa «m hriarht. ttnri hin rhAAira

that his eyes were bright, and his cheeks rosy, bis intellect as sinewy and clear, and his wit as inslsive as of old. He tired Mr. Watterson out completely by "climbing long stairs, meandering through labyrinths of decorative art, and threading tbe tapestried and frescoed mazes of corridor and chamber. Besides all this, Mr. Tilden is a voracious reader. One of the young ladies impulsively declared to Mr. Watterson, that the little household had got through over 200 volumes during the past winter. What kind of volumes they were, and the proportion "got through" by the several members of the household are not stated, but altogether it is quite evident that Mr. Tilden is a wonderful man, and fully equal to the necessities of a presidential campaign. Nevertheless Mr. Watterson is positive that be cannot be induced to take the nomina tion under any circumstances, although he is careful to say that Mr. Tilden did not tell him so. From other quarters, however, word comes that tbe sage is carefully engaged in laying the pipes to secure the nomination in 1884, and it is broadly hinted that Mr. Hendricks reoent talk about the old ticket was not without the knowledge of the senior pnrtner. It Is well known that Mr. Tilden loves to "move iu a mysterious way his wonders to perform," and cunnlng politicians who are familiar with the tactics played in former years by this sly old man, are not slow to perceive a strong resemblance ln his present movements.

the hotel,

^anlm^nefra^tv^iv 2? Wm'

Inlve.the siSofP.

nn«thiniris«»rtaii» thomrhvftrvold helal

oppo-

a six months trial the famous]

star route case ends with an acquittal of all the defendants. Tho two trials cost) the government well on to a million of dollars and apparently end in smoke. There is one consolation, however, the I

preeses the opinion that the tariff question will be the overshadowing issue in the next national campaign and that tins declaration of the Ohio Republican* in favor of a protective tariff indicates the position which the Republicans will take in the national campaign of 1884. If the Democrats will declare for a tariff

prove tbe hottest one for years.

EXTRACTS

jagtifiable killing, it would

seem to be that of tbe infamous Dukes, st Unlontown, Pa., who

use Qf m0ney.

w„nad to leave

heed the warning

shot by

young Nntt on Wednesday evening. Dukes, it will be remembered, wss a prominent lawyer of Unlontown, and a member of tbe State Legislature. Under promise of marriage, he accomplished the ruin of State Treasurer Nutt's beau-

Uful daughter, and afterwards shot and killed her father in Dukes' own room at

whether tbe father of

dlBgn4Ce.

Dukee

lQto the hote] for the

th®

the

purpose of killing paired

"T"f

DQke8

,D®

He was repeatedly

the town, and that his

^1|£,| warned 10 leave wwu, overflow of Pogue's run in June 1882 leesly called on him tbe other day, and danger, but he refused to was fairly dumbfounded to find that the

anj continued to live

ln ttat he

tjjere or

fche"W10* cemetery. That be

recognized the jeopardy he was in is I shown by tbe fact that be carried a loaded revolver, and a dirk knife at the time of his death and avoided being out at night. Young Nutt laid in wait for him on the fatal evening at tbe postofflce, and

shot him in the back, emptying all the I

chambers of his weapon to make sure

work. Dukes died almost instantly and

without speaking. Nutt's remark when

arrested, was that be could not help do-

ing what he did, and this was doubtless true. By brooding over the terrible wrong to his sister, and the murder of bis father, young Nutt became so frenzied that he absolutely could not resist I

the impulse to slay the villain who went I

brazenly about the community, reeking with crime. What son and brother with any manhood in his breast would not have done the same? We may well believe tbe report that everybody seemed glad that Dukes had been put out of the way. His presence in the place must have been an incubus.

one single issue of our daily papers this week is recorded an embezzlement, caused by gambling, a terrible shooting affair and a horrible cutting scrape, caused by hard drink. We only single out these three cases because they occurred in our own city. Here are three candidates for the penitentiary, three families disgraced, through the passion for gambling and drink. At the same time occurred, at our neighboring town of Vincennes, one of the saddest murders on record, a husband, his young wife and unborn babe. This was also caused by intoxicating liquor. Ninetynine per cent, of all the heart rending crimes that take place in the world are caused by indulging in forbidden pleasures. Until men learn to control their desire for these tbihgs we need not expect the list of crimes to grow smaller. Murder is the culminating point of drinking, gambling and licentiousness and almost every murder is caused by one of these three vices. The remedy lies, not in waiting till the murder is committed before inflicting punishment but in breaking up,by the strictest laws, the causes that lead to it.

EvansvxIjIjR worked very hard during the last Legislature to get one of tbe new insane asylums located there and finally succeeded. Now some of her thifty citizens are wor-king equally hard to get the State to buy their laud for several times its value for a location for

the new institution. The Journal of

New York and the other in Indiana they I that city says "There are surface indiwill lay the wires so skillfully that no cntlous of the existence diplomacy on the part of their nents will be able to defeat them.

tion to make the State pay fancy prices for any site which the commissioners may regard as at all eligible. The commissioners find that all the real estate appears to be in the bands of one or two brokers, and that for some mysterious reason, to them unknown, the price on several sites has materially advanced since their last visit to the city." This is a poor way for Evansvllle to show her

cost to tho defendants has been correspondingly heayy and some at least of I appreciation of the action or the legisla their ill-gotten gain has been exhaust I ture in locating one of the asylums at in their defence. More than this, the case will not be without a healthy influence on official morality. The exposures which have been made and the Iketa with which the public has been made familiar, will be very apt to prevent for along while to come any repetition of such official obliquity as the central figures In the star route business were guilty of. The conduct of Brady, Doreey, et al, has been rendered so obnoxious that men occupying high official positions will be careful bow they become Involved in personal speculations of a character to reflect discredit upon them.

of the

that place, and if her people expect any favors of that kind in the future they will do wisely in squelching the land sharks who are trying to pluck the State in the present Instance.

of Ohio, ex-

firom Mr. Blaine*»new book

have commenced going the rounds of tbe newpaper*. The ad vent of tbe bonk itaeirmuM be near at band. Undowbted-

ly It will have a very large sale and tbe'

are to have some crops it appears after all. Tbe ten leadingcorn-growing states report a largely Increased acreage over last year, and the p\a»t is in good condition. Kansas expects to increase her product of 157,000,000 bushels in 18S2 to200,000,000 bushels this year. Illinois and Missouri will also increase their production. The unfavorable condition of much of the winter wheat early in tbe spring, resulted in the planting of more corn, part of the wheat ground being plowed up and put into corn. The condition of winter wheat is still low as compared with last year, but the arm of spring wheat is increased about half a million acres, and the condition Is up to what it was last year. There is also a large increase in the acreage of oats and barley.

for revenue only and tbe Republicans fortnight, has had a booming effect on for protection, tbe campaign is likely to 1 every growing thing, and tbe crops are

coming in well on the home stretch. It ia dear that we shall have enough to oat, and something wherewithal to be clothed. MI

Thk first issue of tbe Saturday Even

L»G

I*nce, which M.

probabilities am that it will deserve it. went from Marshall to Topeka, Kansas, At any rate mwt people will want to to establish, is on onr table, presenting a aee'Miui BteineV book. Tbe author neat appearance, Harry W. Frost Is and publishers are likely to make a fat announced as the editor, and his pre par-

The

TERRS HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MATT,

Okth Sranr, a son of Hon. John A. Stein,a well known lawyer of Lafayette shot and killed George Fredericks at Kansas City, on last Saturday. Stein was the city editor of the Evening Star and Fredericks was the proprietor of comic theatre. The trouble grew out of the relations of the two men to a courtesan. Mr. Stein has gone to the scene of the tragedy .accompanied by Coffroth DeHart, Ward and Dike man, all prominent attorneys of Lafayette and Logansport, to defend the young man, who

girl claims to have been acting in self-de-

had gone at Dukee' invitation for a con-1 fense. Stein has the reputation of being

The talk is still of Hendricks—and of I ferenoe upon the subject of his daughter's a ready and versatile writer, but has disTilden. Is tbe old firm in the field again

All the indications were that sipated so recklessly that some of his

deliberately entrapped Nntt I friends think his reason is seriously im

Mkssks.

Ehwin,

wbole-

sale dry goods dealers of Indianapolis

^^nche^' bis trial an was have recovered a |10,000 judgment acquitted, undoubtedly through the cor-

ag&ingt the dty aod soaieo{ the railroad

damasres

ou^ay

sustained bv th«

com^niea1^damages

sustained bywe

The trial lasted five weeks and was iu tbe nature of a test case. There

are

"°,a'd .ultotaokof It and tho result will pro

other

bably be to compel the city to adopt some adequate method of dealing with Pogue's run, which has played havoc with property in the city for years past Pogue's run is little but it is also mighty when it gets its flood tide bar ness on. It will require a considerable

t0 enlarge the channel so as to

prevent damage in

enougb to make

The

times of overflow

but IndiaQapoli8 is large

and wealthy

the expenditure and

ought tQ have done go lonj?

papers state that "the Washing

ton Gas Light Company, which has ruled that city as sotuo of the Roman emperors controlled the sewerage and

atreet

cleaning of Rome and made enor

raouS fortunes out of it, has been shamed by exposures into reducing the price of gas to |1.60 a thousand, and into lighting the streets every night in the year without extra charge." Villages liko Terre Haute must stand back and wait their turn, but there is consolation in the fact that even the Roman emperors were forced to throw up their street cleaning jobs and we are on the line between Washington and St. Louis. One dollar and fifty, cents a thousand! Whoop-la!

higl) license bill which is before the

Illinois Legislature, and is expected soon to become a law, fixes the license for retailing beer, at $ 150 and for whisky and other spirits, at $500 per annum. It is believed the law will result in closing at least one fourth of the 4,000 saloons in Chicago, but the remaining 3,000 would return an estimated revenue of more than a million dollars, while the present revenue from all the saloons is only about $200,000. Public sentiment differs as to the wisdom of the measures, tbe prohibition people claiming that it is a practical victory for the liquor men, in that it legalizes their traffic while the general temperance element regard the bill as in the interest of leal temperance,

The

North American Review has just

paid George E. Waring, Jr., $2,000 for a single article. This forcibly illustrates the superiority of mental over manual labor. Very few men, by hard manual labor, could make as much in a year as Mr. Waring has by writing one article. But if skilled mental labor we.*e as easily obtained as skilled manual labor, the price for it would be much reduced. It is only when the supply falls short of the demand that the price of anything is increased.

of a combina

is said that fitting up saloons with stained glass, works of art. bric-a-brac, etc., has a good influence, that men will believe they are in a sort of a parlor and won't drink so much. If it had this effect the saloons would not decorate. They understand their business. Handsome saloons dr&w a better class of customers, better behaved, better paying. This lavish decoration of saloons will put a stop to the esthetic business in house furnishing, which is not to be deplored.

General Crook's

The

Frost aod son

thlnf of it, the more «apeciaiiy a* there ation of ibecolums of tills new veoture acquittal of two of tbe prisoners. Iboee has been no book tesned for some time show* him well adapted to tbts special coavleted were sentenced to penal servipast of a national Interest. field of Journalism

5 "f-w-at

recent skirmish

with the Apaches, in which he captured four hundred of them without the loss of a single man, does not augment the soldierly qualities of the Indian. The Apaches have tbe name of being good fighters but in the present instance they appeared to be panic stricken from the first and fell an easy prey into the bands of the old Indian warrior. It will to dawn on the red-skins by and by that there is no profit in fighting against the Great Father.

law punishing attempts hi sui

cide is said to have produced good results in New York. People are more careful about attempting suicide or more certain to make sure work ef it. It is as proper to punish attempts at suicide as to punish attempts at homicide. Both need the law or the asylum. „,

This

week, during a tornado near

Muncie, Ind., the storm struck a tree, under which a number of sheep had taken refuge, and killed nineteen of

The warm weather ot the past them. The Lord tempers tbe wind to tbe shorn lamb bat the old sheep with the wool on must take their chances.

Is some one engineering a boom for Arthur? It is given out that Senator Beck stated recently that tbe Democracy had more cause to be afraid of Arthur as a presidential factor than any Republican yet named- If Mr. Beck Mid that be most be slightly off his balance.

The dynamite trials in London have resulted in tbe conviction of four and

.J lude for life.

lifeS

Vl# 5^

THE POPPING PISTOL I

SHOCKING DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT VINCENNES.

CHARGE IT TO WHISKY!

Lost Saturday nightr at Vincennes, Charles Pollock shot to death his young wife, and then with the same weapon killed himself. Mrs. Clara Pollock, the victim of the homicide, had been absent during the week visiting relatives in an adjacent dty, and returned home at noon on Saturday. Her husband met her at the depot, and with every manifestation of love and devotion greeted her ln the most affectionate manner, and appeared delighted at her return. Young Pollock had been drinking heavily during the week while his wife was absent, and in tbe afternoon left home, promising her to return as early as'he could. Tbe am ily live all together in a large elegant residence on Seventh street, one of the plea8antest homes in the city. Young Pollock did not come home when he promised his wife he would, and she retired. She was as gay and happy as young wives are wont to be, but was somewhat solicitous on her husband account, and wondered why he did not return to her. Meantime Pollock was tramping the streets, taking a drink fcere and there, and endeavoring to borrcw revolver. He was with his brother-in law until nine o'clock, who endeavored to persuade him to go home, but Mr. Pollock made the excuse that he wanted to get shaved and see some person on business. Pollock was in the company of several gentlemen during the evening, who are unanimous in their expressions that not one word passed his lips, nor a sign intimating the terrible tragedy he was about to perpetrate. Somewhere after eleven o'clock, young Pollock ran across a miller, Mr. Ward, with whom he was intimately acquainted, and the two sauntered leisurely toward Pollock's, home, smoking and talking as they went. To Mr. Ward Mr. Pollock re marked that he felt very much depressed tbat be bad been drinking too much that week, and he was lonesome because his wife was away. He added in connection with bis remarks concerning his wife, tbat he had the sweetest and best little woman in the world. His conver sation drifted into business charnels and Mr. Ward says Pollock never talkec more sanely or sensibly in bis life. Within a square of Pollock's homo Mr. Ward left him and returned to his hotel. Pol lock walked into the bouse and was met at the front door by his mother, who thought she recognized something uuuniiai in his manner, and said, "Charley you have been drinking. You ought to be ashamed. You must quit this." The son put bis arm around his mother and kissed her, saying"Good-by, mother I am going away. His mother having heard him make the same queer expressions before paid no heed to them and retired to her room. Charley followed his mother to her room a moment after and asked her if his father was awake. He reached over and pulled his father by the arm and said: "Good-by, father, I am going." And went upstairs to bis room.

He had not been up-stairs over twenty minutes until the family was startled by terrifying screams from the poor helpless wife, who cried, "Oh, Charley, don't 1 What are you doing?" At which instant a pistol shot was beard. Mrs. Ross, a daughter of the family, rushed to see what the trouble was. and reaching the top of the stairway, saw Mrs. Pollock fall to the floor in the ballway. Thinking she had fainted, Mrs. Ross called to the other members ot the family, but in a moment another shot was heard in the chamber adjoining. The greatest confusion and excitement was created, and the grief and horror and despair of the family knew no bounds when the full extent of the soulsickening and dreadful tragedy was known. The lovely young wife, a bride of a few months, lay in the hall-way weltering in her warm life's blood, dead to all earthly sorrow. In a few brief moments after her cruel husband shot her down, and he, the perpetrator of the nnatural, fiendish and cowardly deed, lay across the bed in bis own room breathing heavily and struggling with death in the last throes of agony, tbe eighborhood was aroused and a mes senger dispatched for a physician, who arrived and found the once happy wife a corpse, a cruel wound in her left breast. The ball penetrated downward and across, severering the aortic artery, which caused instant death. The busband shot himself in the left breast, the bullet penetrating tbe abdominal portion of the aortic artery, and he expired in twenty minutes, unconscious of the fearful, heartrending havoc he had created in one of tbe city's happiest households.

This tragedy is the most lamentable and heartrending that has ever been recorded on the pages of the history of that city. Every circumstance surrounding the case creates the profoundest wonder that the young husband could be so rash, so cruel and so unnatural. He loved his wife, and the pangs of jealousy never entered bis bosom. An orange, partly eaten, lay upon the table in the room which the couple occupied. Pollock had given it to his wife upon eneotering. Evyy act of his during the fatal afternoon and evening brings up the saddest and most touching recollecir portrays the unquestionable horrors of a mind unbalanced and dementedby strong drink, and ofersa seqnel to humanity that is indeed a startling lesson which should ever remain in memory.

Suicide seems to be a mania with tbe children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pollock,one of their sons having twice tried to hang himself, one to shoot himself, and one to bleed himself to death.

IT DEPENDS A OOOD DEAL ON THE HUSBAND. Adrian Times.

Tttook tbe ladies of the Michigan Woman's Christian Temperance Untftn a little wbile to get acquainted, but when tbe acquaintance was once formed it ripened fast.

Sow do you give your name?" asked one lady of another as they removed their wraps at tbe door one morning. "I have usually written it Mrs. James

JoD6S«^ "Did your mother name you 'James .T"inquired|the first speaker wi considerable emphasis. "1 will never call myself by my husband's name." "Nor I,""Nor I," "Nor I,"came from number of bystanders.

Tbe little woman appeared surprised to find herself so largely in the minority, but she finally found breath and courage tosav: "Wdli I suppose it does make a difference what kind of a men tbe husband

GET THERE

To-night, or you will miss seeing tbe Tournament at tbe Rink. Admission 10 centa.

8AYINQ8 AND DOINQ&

A leading Boston preacher says: "To make two sermons a week is impossible."

Captain John Erlccson, the inventor of tbe monitor, still bale and hearty, is now 80, looks about 70, and works like 60.

A man named Gasbill asked the Arkansas Legislature to change his name, and it was done without asking his reasons for desiring it.

Fred Douglass, being at a meeting of white clergymen In Boston the other day, was called on for a speech. "No," he said, "I came here merely to give oolor to the occasion."

WNX WHITE'S, 525 Main street, is tbe place for you to go when you want pure Ice Cream, fine Confectionery, choice Fruits, sparkling Soda, Qaudies. and Nuts of every description.

—The only place for the celebrated Philadelphia Ice Cream, by the dish, quart or gallon, is at W. H. Gilbert's, opposite the postofflce, where is constantly on draught fresh Mead, Ginger Ale and Soda, with pure fruit syrups.

MAKE HOME BEAUTIFVL. The work of the decorator has come to be an art which is so rapidly developing that one can hardly follow the quick succession of improvements. The old fashioned paper hanging is a thing of the past, and so skilled is the new industry that none but artists can now find employment with any well established house. J. W. Roberts A Co., of this city, are in the lead in this kind of work, and combine the painters' labor with the decorators', and thus are enabled to completely care for the wants of those who are trying to make their homes attractive. Make your selections, aided by Mr. Roborts'good taste, and he will send out his paper hangers, real artists in their profession, who will make a wonderful transformation in tbe dingy walls of your house. The reputation of this house has been built up on low prices and good, honest work.

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Don't forget to come and H'ing your ladies to the Picnic at Monnigers tomorrow, the 17th inst. The Ringgold Band will be there to enliven nhe occasion, and lighten the flying feet of the young by uheir eloquent music.

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