St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 25, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 January 1894 — Page 2

A T i A SSO TON INDEPENDER;, -e e—— e oA L o mmion \?:P--———__——A 7 ! 6y , BOYCOTTS ARE LEGAT, SO SAYS PENNSYLVANIA'S SUk PREME COURT. 'nele Sam'’s Accounts for the First Half of the Fiscal Year—Lively Fire at Red ¢ Key, Ind.—St. Joseph Alderman Kiiled— Whipped the Editor. A New Decision. ' A DECISION directly at variance with | the prineiple upon which the Ann Arbor railroad strikers and boycotters were g udged conspiraters at Toledo was ‘ ed by Justice Dean, of the PennBty 10 -

pectation, it will probably be fought|, e- ) Dynamite is a great instrument in facilitating the construction of railroads, and by its use many millions of dollars have been saved. . T The saloon of Joe Wetz, at Wilkin__son, this state, an anti-liquor town, was blown up with pewder by fanatics recently. That kind of reform fails to reform. Nine years ago John P. Hopkins, now mayor of Chicago, was shoving jumber at Pullmar for $1.25 a day, and he may have oceasion to wish he was back there again before he gets 3 through with his official life. o ———————— Tew Wallace’'s new book, “The Prince of India,” is said to fall far below his “Ben-Hur” in point of interest and literary merit. “Ben-Hur” is the erowning work of Wallace’s genius and is the only one of his books that is dessined to hold an enduring place in the

literature of the world. The long and interesting trial of Annie Wagner, charged with the poisoning of Mrs. Clara Koesters at Indianapolis, ecame to an end on Thursday of last week, the jury rendering a verdict of not gyilty. On receiving the news the defepdant swooned and fell in a faint fpefa suppressed smotion. 25 TSI RS BT &i charler of much conjecture and\ e ‘money speculation is as to who &

8 X7 , : e [delphia mor :‘ L 1§ gaad f}ficiit“';\gnv'x-\\ munwd\ % :i :\lar};l\(\“\‘x‘l;‘xix\n\ \‘\‘&\ publicly given g Aloq lashes. ’ VICHARD SPRUCE, botanist and travb eler, died at Malton, England. He was 4 66 years old. * THE Woman's Auxiliary to Midwinter Fair at San Francisco has reserved the first week in May for a Woman’'s Congress. : THE bedy of Lucy Stone., the renowned alvccate of woman's rights, was cremated—the first to undergo this process in Massachusetts, THE United States mail was robbed at McAlester, I. T. The sack was found lying on the platform truck czut ; open and all contents gone. WiLLIAM KING-NOEL, first Earl of Lovelacse, died at Horsley Towers, Eas® Sufrey, England. ¢ne of his country places. He was 88 years old. THE notorious outlaws, John Boone and Frank McDowell, were arrested near Augusta, Ky., and taken to Covington jail to prevent a lynching. AT Louisburg. N. C., a skeleton has been found disclosing the murder of a | Jew peddler in July, 1892, Four pergons are implicated, of whom one has confessed. PRAYER BOOK CROSS, erected in Golden Gate Park by Geo. W. Childs, of Philadelphia, to commemorat> the landing of €ir Franeis Drake on California soil, was unveiled. BURGLARS entered two st-ros at | “Montezuma, Ind., and sto’e two valises, | several cloaks, and scm: watche-. 5 They did not touch the safes, though | one with watches and jewelry in it was | unlocked. i WHILE Ald. S F. Pendleton was at- | smpting to drive acrgss 55 §Pt.l'ack.~t at - s he was | ? thelhv o ciréngine and fatally ! nly a-short time aco his : 10, mother were struck by a ‘al train in the north part of the d both instantly kiiled. 7T the munieipal elections held | soughout Ontario, January 1, a vote | 5 taken which shows a majority of | )00 in favor of the total prohibition I he manufacture and sale of intoxi- | ing liquor in that province: and it | expeeted the Ontario Legislature | 1. pass an aect in aecordance with | e vote, | THE Denver, Col.. Savings Bank re- | _‘»ened, The People’s Savings Bank sclared a dividend. {HARRY Lucas, late Grand Chancel- ¥ of the New Mexico Knichts of Ythias at fSilver City, has been miss- ¥ for several weaks. ‘IT was commenced in the Circuit | ' at Fort Wayne, Ind.. by Spencer | Aiken as attorneys for Elizabeth | afer against Eva Henderson for | 000 for slander. The defendant had ! £ i36d the plaintiff of stealine two | \/\) !.)h'eSSes_ r in

e R R TRNDT B R -e ——_—_— — EASTERN. A FIREMAN was killed and $475,000 worth of property destroyed by three blazes in Gotham. HeNrRY W. PAINE, an eminent lawyer, died at his residence in Cam- - | bridge, Mass., aged 83 years. /| EasTERN lines have agreed that joint freight rates east bound, except dairy preducts, shall be raised. .| SENATOR HILL is the leader of the opponents to the confirmation of Mr. Hcrnblower as associate justice. / FORTY-NINE of the New York elec--5 tion officials charged with fraud | pleaded not guilty when arraigned. DR. CHARLES M. CRESSON, the distinguished chemist, died at his home, in Philadelphia. He was 55 years of age. REv. EDWARD BELL, arrested in Long Island City for ill-treating a /child. has a bad record in Ohio and Illinois. BURGLARS looted five stations on theline Os the Pgnnsylvania’s New

dignified as a legi sanction of the law. So you may |€ hereafter say ‘“leg pulling” all you want to and with the utmost confidence that you are keeping within the | legitimate bounds of the king's English. , : I —— The jury in the Prendergast trial returned a verdiet of guilty and fixed the punishment at death. The execution will take place, it is thonght, about March 16. No doubt strenuoys efforts will be made by the defense to seenre a new trial. “Mr.” Prendergast himself is very much surprised at the yverdict, but thinks that he will l never be executed, as he says he is too‘ yaluable a man to the community to ever be hanged. AP SRR WIS An intellectual woman of South Car--1 olina has addressed to the Legisiature | of that state a petition for citizenship. | She says: “I have in the eyes of the | jaw committed but one crime, that of | being born a woman, and since male

persons who have been convicted of ! treason, felony, bribery and other | crimes may be restorad to their civil | rights by executiye pardon, I here petition the powers that be to pardon the single crime of which I am guilty, and restore me to the right of citizenship. lam taxed without representation. li am governed without my consent, thus nullifying the sacred principles of De—mocraey.” : ‘ P R TP TR,

hole in e roof X»‘“fl“;{ oht and escaj © 1 ¢ ! prMERx GLICK aud Miss Harrison were badly hurt at Columbus, Ind., by amule they werez driving running away. | FIFTY sheriffs of Kansas met at Topeka and protested against the socalled “trdmp circular” of Gov. Lewelling. f WITH a corn knife for a weapon,Mrs. Ellen Kelly, 70 years old, living near Shawneetown, Mo., beat off a maskedi robber. 1 NEAR Mandan, N.-ID., a broken rail | caused a tourist sleépér to leave the track. Its four occupants escapc with | slight injuries. JOHN P. HOPKINS was installed Mayor of Chicago Wednesday evening. The ceremonies were simple, but thel | | decorations were elaborate. I I CoL. CHAS. A. ZOLLINGER, Mayor l -~ of Fort Wayne, ‘lnd.,, and e.\'—! { pecting appointment as pension agent, f died suddenly of neuralgia of the| heart. | Miss Louisa HOLLENBERG of Terre Haute, Ind., was strangled at breakfast by a morsel of food which lodged in her throat, and before aid could be effectively rendered she died. . Ex-CoNGRESSMAN E. H. Gillette of' Des Moines, lowa, has now brought suit for divorce and for a more equit- 1 able division of the estate than was | agreed upon when his wife separated | from him a yearago. , By the decision of Secretary Hoke Smith Colonel J. H. Knight of Ashland. | Wis., once talked of for United States ' Senator, must lcse title to 1,009 acres | ~of land which he claimed under the‘ | innoeent purchaser aet. . - MARY WILSON, employed in & steam ‘i - laundry at Muncie, Ind., had her right | | hand caught between hot cylinders] ' used for ironing, and the : | was pullec ) nd held until the ’ Wated. The flesh | ' was cooked and the bones crushed. | | Gov. LEWELLING, of Kansas, has| dismissed Mrs. Mary lLease from the | position of President of State Board of | Charities. Some time since Mrs. | [.ease, in an interview, declared that ! i all the Populist leaders from the Gov- ! | ernor down were bocdlers and thieves. | , CHRIS EVANS, of Evans and Sontag, | jnotorious outlaws and train robbers, , | has escaped from jail at Fresno, | Cal. A confederate in the guise lof a ‘waiter toek in his sup- - per Thursday night. Evans’ wife ' | was in his cell, cstensibly to visit him. | ' Under a napkin on the tray with the | supper were two big revolvers. Evans seized cone, his wife the other, and, assisted by the waiter, held up the cuards. On his way from the jail | Fvans encountered City Marshal Mop- | gan and shot him, probably fatally, | He then jumyped Into a newsboy’s de- | | livery cart and made his escape. Mrs, | | Evans i$ /in jail. «The pseudo waiter ! also escaped. : [ MME. ALICE DE STELLINA was buried at Milwaukece Wednesday. She went | there teni vears ago ind began giving ! instructions in singing. Prior to that time she was cennectel with the

R ]Hess and other companies, and for imany years sang in grand opera, ap- ) L)earing for several years as a star. | She is aaid to have received as high as S3OO & night_for her services on the lyrie stage, but in Milwaukee only suo- | ceeded in making a bare livelihood. | After her death it was found that she did not have a cent left and kind | friends, who admired her talents as a ' | singer, raised sufficient means to give | her Christian burial. | ANNA WAGNER, whose trial at In- '| dirnapolis has been going on for nearly a month and who was charged with the murder of three children and the wife of Charles Koester, because she was in love with Koester, was acquitted. The verdict was greeted with uproarious applause and Anna ‘Wagner, after hearing the words that tet her free, gasped and fell to the floor unconscious and remained in that condi- | tl9n for twenty-five minutes. Anna W agner was the domestic in the Koes- i ter family and the method employed b{y her for causing the death of the Koesters, as alleged by the prosecution, was slow pgison. DEATH is the penalty decreed against f atrick Eugene Joseph Prendergast, for the murder of Carter H. Harrison. J

K S last word of accusation was utter areat Fxcitement Causet. Juoze Resain i on a Preagher in Indiana. A special dispatch from Wabash, ; this state, gives an account of an™ g | sault made upon an evangelist named] Keeley, who, we presume, must be onr own Rev. Keeley, late pastor of the Walkerton Presbyterian church. The particulars as given by the dispatch are‘ as follows: : #“T'he excitement in the southern part of this county is still great over the as=ssilt on Evangelist Keeley by Homer Hale, a horseman. It is feared that the affair may breed a feud that will last for years. ; Although the assault occurred last Tnesduy, excitement continues unaba—ted, and the general sentiment is one of condemnation of Hale. Last evening at the regnlar revival meeting at Liberty church resolutions denouneing the i assault as nunprovoked, brutal and cow’lardly, and condemning Hule in strong langnage, while expressing sympathy “ with the minister, were adopted unan- . o 2t S & & A SR W

‘imously aud were sent to the Wabash papers for pablication. In addition members of the chureh have plncpd‘ the case in the hands of the prosecutor | and demand that the grand jary iudict} Hale. Hale on'a plea of gnilty before a justice was fined $3, but as the prosecutiug witness was confiued to his bed from injaries received, this is no bar to indictment. Hale insists that he had provogation, but says be is sorry the affair occurred. Rev. Mr. Keeleyy with | his face swollen gnd diseolpred,

It was O 0-' € FOSen ':;'it F women's clubs that Mr, Stead appeas in Recital Hall, where women we: %{Lthered at the behest of the ChicaglVoman's Club to confer as to plans tq aid the suffering poor women anc children of the ecity. The hall was filled. Dr. Sarah H{Lckett Stevenson§ presided. : SiLas W. PETTIT, of Philadelphia, General Counsel of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, has filed before ' Judge Jenkins, in the United States Court in Milwaukee, a petition for the | removal of Thomas F. Oakes, Henry | C. Payne and Henry C. Rouse, t.ha_r'efl-‘,l ceivers of the road, alleging that they are parties to a conspiracy to | defraud tte company, and that there—[ fore their places, should be declared vacant and other persons substituted for them. In support of his petition Mr. Pettit presents detailed statements of the way in which he declares the Northern Pacific Railway has been robbed and its directors enriched which throw into the shade an of the achievemenrnts of the famous Fisi i and Gould manipulation of the Erie ! Road. Mr. Pettit shows how the di-! rectors of the road, who were all evi- | dently close students of the “Mikado” I took upon - themselves the role | of “Pooh Bah,” and that as di- I rectors of the Northern Pacifie Ra.ilwa{l Company, they bought from l themselves miles of branch lines | of railway that were absolutely ‘ worthless to the Northern Pacific, at a ! profit to themselves of millions of glol- | lars. Within one year from the time | these directors obtained control of the | ‘company they had saddled upon it i branch lines of road and increased its | bonded obiigations over $60,600,000. Not one of the properties so acquired has ever earned the interest upon its bends, and some of them have cost the Northern Pacific Company milliens to | maintain. The petition avers thatthe y the board —ireClOrs have a. cause of action against the late directors. including | Oakes and Ralston, for the various | transactions set forth. \ SOUTHERN. ' CHARLES MITCHELL and James Cor- ! bett were arrested to test the law of | Florida in reference to gilove fighting. i Gov. RUSSELL, of Massachusetts, i declined an invitation to address the | Watterson Democratic Club at Louis- | ville, Ky. # MRS. THOMAS RANSDALL, near Har- | rodsburg, Ky., was burned to death with her three children, together with the house. CONGRESSMAN BRECKENRIDGE, of! Kentucky, is understood to have set- | tled with Miss Pollard by payment cf | $2,000 in cash and a small annuity. l WASHINGTON. ! BEHIND closed doors the Senate Com- , mittee on Foreign Relations began its investigation ints the Hawaiian im- | broglio. i “Branp ToM,” the musical prodigy, | }'}o‘\:“}\*~ ‘Hi’i!)g the sole support 0o Mrs. } Bethune, in whose family he w: < born | . & slave, is now called on to pay « laim l

% on account of a deceased |- l%{y 3;.!1. n lawyer who undertook to |- b..::k thvcree of court which made Mrs. BoMßrdlhis legal guardian. THE ¢ a‘\issioner of patents pro-}. poses pae (pg public the names of rights t. ¢ r have lived their seventeep years 0. S nopoly. i : = s FOREIGN, S.I LBEAN unrest is spreading to the malni@sd of Italy and Naples is threatened lth street riots. IN & riot in Sicily growing out of the anti-BBx agitation four per:ons were kille@and many wounded. FRISIAN police are taking extraordihary precautions to prevent threats of dknrchists being put in execution. @rT. WILsoN and forty men, who E /® pursuing King Lobengula, are saiflll to have been killed by the MataNEBO. AN expedition will soon start from TTRiro to effect the release of two AusF ans held in captivity by the \Yuh-\ A oUS #EGULATIONS for the yearly calling Re M s ats eY At e At d

el satioth yeur are to be enforced in Nt s 3 enferced in 3 | The = of ~\4 .al ‘W PR yters pE— -to colze the Gilbere TSIaNUS T - AW ought to San Franecisco by a sailing oft Wefrescel. “nd A pEAVY decrease in British trade \a' @ shown by the yczu-ly review of a F ndon paper. Imports fell off £17,- \ aal 500,000 : e ¢ AN engagement between insurgent W 8 and Drazilian Government ships is reT ported to have taken place off Rio de ‘ seilly Janeiro. | # count BisMARCE, youngest son of il the Prince, has received a letter | 28l threatening t» blow up his house with | 2 ° dynamite. B | Vicror PROSPER CONSIDERANT, a | & French legislator and author f Social- ] ” tstic works, died at Paris, He was 1§ | born in 18)%, F’- Two AMERICAN ceamen were shot LS and dangerously wounded by San DoR | mingo soldiers. Other. cutrage; on ’ % Americans are reported. 3%, e A pDISPATCH from Caje Town =tates 1 hthat native runners have arrived at TRGEF-Fort Salisbury bringing confirmation 18 of the reports of the annihilation by : I}latxgl»c-f(,,-s of Capt. Wilson and the oe e T

1. force commanded by him. Ihe run- ‘ ners state that Capt. Wilson was sur“Sryounded by the Matabeles, and that B not a single min of the Britisn force ie esca.ped. : IN GENERAL , 28! THIRTEEN animals suffering from 1 TBl tuberculosis were killed at Guelph, | <} Ont. cw NORTHERN PACIFIC employes are indignant at the restraining order issucd ™ by Judge Caldwell. : ?}iluj Chinese Six Comjanies will isa circular urging ccmpliance with ML & provisions of the amended Geary

J -'.; RN A e e DISTRIBUTION of the American war ships"in foreign waters is said to be to | encourage respect for the United | States. EMPLOYES of the Northern Pacific are consulting attorneys with a view to preventing the proposed reduction in salaries. AMERICAN MINISTER THOMPSON is reported from Buencs Ayres to have . recognize 1 the Brazilian insurgents as ébe}ligerents. . GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN SOv- | EREIGN, of the Knights of Labor, before he left Philadelphia for his home in Des Moine:, issued an address to the Knights throughout the country 'Qggealmg to them to protest against the proposed $200,000,000 government | bond issue. In closing his address Mr. Sovereign says: “I am in receipt of letters from the cotton regions of the ibomh and from agricultural districts in the West, declaring that the issuing of interest-bearing bonds by the National Government will be considered gufficient provocaticn to justify a call to arms. The issuing of bonds is an outrage upon a liberty-loving people and should brand with eternal infamy every name connected with the disreputable transaction.” ; MARKET REPORTS. I . CHICAGO. _ C E—Common to Prime.... $3 50 @ 6 00 Hogs—Shipping Grade 5........ 400 @550 SHEEp—Fair to Ch0ice......... 225 @37 WHEAT-No. 2Red.....c.c0ee.. . 00 @ 61 Cal Mo 2. ... ..., @& 8 OB No.> oo v B e 9 EEE . ... B 8 B BUBLpß__Choice Creamery..... 26%@ 27% - EaG i 2 @ 23 B PNI e 2 @ SO OESs—Per bu.............. 30 @ 60 o INDIANAPOLIS. o 0AT1LE—5hipping.............. 300 @5.25 HOG#—Chotee Efght _w...02wt"3"00 @ 5 50 “SHE®P—Common to Prime..... 2(0 @ 32 WE»gT—No 2Red.............. 56 @ 57 Con@§—No. 2 White............. 3 @ 36 GisgNo. 2 White.............. & @ 8 ST. LOUIS. CATPRIBE cL e i inaeic, 300 @ 50D HoGcB vl o heis visstive iioi Sl G- 5o WHESS--No.Zßed _........... O & W CGoRRN6.2.. 7. ..z WA we OPs WMo oo 00, B @ % PORWGEMeRN. ... .ooton - 1308 ge g 8 | CINCINNATI SO, i . 3 @SO BN eik .. 300 @& 560 CBHEEPCE . Gan Y 900 @8 WHEAT RGO Rede ... 0. .. B%@ 503 | OO D 868@ 37k | e R Wiced . 0.0 30 @ 81 | e 62 @ OG4 | DETROIT. eL. 800 @A TS Hows - @2 . ... ... 300 @560 e.. 200 @350 § - WHEAT—N0.2Red.............. 60 «;} j;}. l CorßN—No. 2 Ye110w............. 33 S o OATS—No. 2 White.............. 381:6@ 32 TOLEDO. A WEEAT—No.2 Red.............. 09 «553 3w CorN—No. 3 Ye110w............. 90 L’Z 2052 OATS—No. 2 White........ccc.-.. 29 S ne RYE—NO. 2....cccievssescviosenes 5) @ 239 BUFF .\In() . o ' BEEF CATTLE—Good to Prime. 250 @ 52 Hoos—Miged Prokers. .. ....... £lO @GOI | WHZAT—No. 1 Hard. ..........-.: 1 @ S | N 0.2 Red............-. 6270@ - | MILWATRBE. = l , WEEAT-No, 28pxing ... S 8 S cag | | CORN—No.3......cccnnnmrmmmnees oy @ 30 | OATS—No, 2 White...........--- S o LY R-—NO. I i evermrveeomese 9 @ 50 | BARLEY—NO. 2.wceveoeeensets 0 50 (219 g 5 ‘ lOßK——)[pNi......N-l-':‘\;\: YORK. ok S ’ T ERVERE. it R i G6OO | [ HeGl .oo ol ntieii s 505 @390 | SRREe. 0@ 67% | | WaEAT—No. o Hed..... 2o e . L COBN-—NO, 2., o ao-co-onirz o 835 @ 49 | OaTs—White Weste™ ™ .---c==t" g @ 28 l BUTTER—Choice...----***"*""" 1375 @l4 80 PORE—New Mega.coereevrer®”

v : HE FEARED DISGRACE SUICIDE OF A DISHONEST CINCINNATI MAN, Globe Theater at Boston DestroyedTragedy at Omaha—Eight Fatally In- ~ jured by Gas Explosion — Clothier’s | Scheme to Defraud His Creditors, t He Prefers to Die. GEORGE N. LEIGHTON, a prominent citizen of Cineinr:ati, Ohio, unsuccessfully gttempted to commit suicide at Stafford’s Hotel, Chieago, Friday night. He was taken to the County ElosFitul, where it was said that he wculd recover. The cause of Leighton’s desire to end his life is not hard to discover. The followiug dispatch from Cincinnati tells the story The grand jury has about concluded its investigation into the giving of fraudulent mortgages to the Old Men's and Widows’ Homes, by which the treasuries of these institutions have been swindled cut of thousands of dollars. It is said that six

persons have been indicted, among whom are some of the most prominent in the city. It appears that George N. Leighton. now in Chicago, was the pmeßescocer of the crowd. He is credited with having swindled various institutions out of a total of £60,000. | - Clerk Made a Tool for Fraudsz, ‘ ~ w. P. HupsoN, of Omaha, coml menced a novel suit in the District Bl e Sl ket ST R T Rl N

Court. He charges that Julius Furth, a clothier who recently failed, deprived him of his liberty while acting as clerk for the purpo.e of defmu%ing creditors. He sues his employer also for $133 back pay. He further says that he was sent to Beatrice tosell a portion of the stock of clothing then carried for the avowed purpose of hoodwinking Chicago crelitors, and then transferred to the World's Fair city on business of a similar nature. Four Burned to Death. AN awful tragedy, in which four lives were lost, occurred at Omaha Sunday morning, when John Cummings, a well-known salnonkeepcr,‘ threw a burning lamp into the sleep- | ing-room of his wife and baby, cast his ] mother-in-law, Mrs. Thomas Fox, into | the fiery furnace, and after tryving to | force his father-in-law into the death- | trap, leaped in himself and held the | door while all perished. The only et et RS e ann s Teanmte FOX

[ YEERIARety WEAREE Ml B SRS RTORMW ST W 0 as his father deserted the room when pursued by Cummings. Boston’s Fierce Blaze. THE Globe, Theater at Boston, Mass., was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning. At 2 o'clock it locked as if the entire square in which the theater buildin gwas I cated would burn, inflicting a loss of £1,000,000. But at 3 a. m. the fire | was under control. There is probably not one of the fifieen buildings in the square that is not more or less damag‘ed. The total loss will be £500,000, While the theater was burning there were fivg explosiongg prestmably

diana Naturd! Gas Cofipany pipe line, at East ('hicn%n, was blown up and will probably result in the death of at least eight persens. One of the injured men, after regaining consciousness, put his l hands to his face, when the flesh dropped off, also the hair from his | head. He ran a quarter of a mile and | shut off the main pipe, then fell in a.| dead faint. The pipes were torn up, and the escaping gas burned up over [ sixty feet. ' BREVITIES, | g { LeM WILLIS was bound over without | bail for the murder of Lawyer Hultz, ! at Sullivan, Ind. i TEN eloping couples from Kentueky I were married at Jeffersonville, Ind., Thursday. ’ Ww. HERBERT, a burglar, was killed | by a trap gun in the store of T. J., | Vinson, at Georgiana, Ala. l PosiTioN of the Ways and .\leansi Committee c¢n the ircome tax gives ! Mr. Turner the deciding vote. | THE Louisiana Lottery Company has | bought an island at Honduras and will | operate a second Monte Carlo. JOSEPH DoNJAM, who threatened several public men in letters, was held ' l under $2,000 bonds to the grand jury. { | FREDERICK MARVIN, ex-cashier of | the Detroit Third National Bank, | again-t whcm a charge of embezzle- ’ ment was prefe red by J. L. Hudson, I appearcd for examination and the case was dismisszd. ‘ CHAMBERLAIN, S. D., may soon have ; a new postmaster. The second morn- | ing after the attempt on his life aé coug}}gqf“ weeks ago Postmaster Stroube | quictly Test town and nothing has since | been heard of him. His continued ab- | sence leads to the belief that he will ! never return. A couple of deputies _are in charge of the postoffice. AT St. Joseph, Mo,, little Hazel ’ Schipp was walking down one of the prineipal streets, when a boy with a shotgun met he *. The boy peointed the ' weapon at her, and with the remark, “I'll shoot you.” passed by. The girl half turned, when he fired a lead of | ; shot into her side and face, p:'m‘ltwing . i a fatal wound The boy, whpsu identity cannot be learned, escaped. OLIVER CURTIS PERRY, sentenced to ! prison for tl e robbery of a New York Central train in 1892, has been adjudged | insane. : i EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON is said to ! have been offered a hsavy retairer to | defend the Indianpolis bank wreckers, | CONRAD O'BRIEN, postmaster at La- | gro, Wabash County, Ind., is :aid to | , be S6OO short in his accounts, the cause ' assigned being the keeping of public | | and private accounts together. His ’ | office has bcen turnel over to his i bondsmen. [ CHEERS greeted the verdiet of the ; ’jm-y at Indianapolis which found Anna i Wagner rot guilty cf poiconing the | ' Koesters. ‘ CoOoK COLGATE, abandoned by the i Carlin party, has been heard from dnd ' a party will be sent for him, 5

CONDEMNED TO DIE. L THE SLAYER OF CARTER HARRISON MUST HANG. Prendergast Is Found Guilty of Murder as Charged—Jury Alter One Hour's De~ liberation Decides He Is Sane—Makes the Sign of the Cross. Death the Penalty. The Prendergast trial ended in Chicago on Friday, and death is the penalty decreed against the slayer of Carter H. Harriscn. The last word of awful accusation was uttered by At~ torney A. S. Trude at noon; an hour later the Judge charged the jury, and sixty-two minutes after Prendergast’s fate was committed to twelve of his peers a verdict was returned, which read: “We, the jury, find the defendant, Patrick Eugene Joseph Preddergast, | guilty of murder, in the manner and | and form as charged inthe indictment, | and fix his punishment at death.” S e S T e e e Ll el

The assassin did not falter at the announcement of his doom; he bent his head slightly, and, touching his forehead with the tips of the fingers of his rifht hand, then bis breast, next his left and lastly his right shoulder—making the “sign ol the cross”—he mumbled the words T The—wessaaal the Father and of the Son and of the | Holy Ghost.” The trial was begun ‘ Dec. 6 and occupied just twenty court

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days. Two months azo and a day from the time P'atrick Eugene Prendergast committed his crime the death watch was set at his ¢:1l to remain with unremitting vigilance until he is led to the scaffold. | There was an impressive silence in the eourt-room when the verdict was brought in. Few of those who were in. the court-room when Judge Brentano Fave his instructions to the jury had oft, for there was a general feeling that the jurors would nct be long in arriving at a verdict. It took the Judge twenty-five minut s to read his instruetions, the jt\;:ors standing while they were in% _ given. e i et raetions concluded withy- (Gl

ke YA RO e TR AR W'l Deen introduced n evidence, were handed to Bailiff Busse, who led the jury to one of the jury rcoms adjoining the court room. At the same time th2 prisoner was i taken back to the jail to await the de- | liberations of the tweive men who h?d | his fate ‘n their hards. Judge Bréni tano retired to his chamlers, and the lawyers and visitors at the trial, among ' whom were a large numbgr of ladies, . remained in their places or gathered | in groups to dis:uss the outcome, | _An hour after the ‘ury retired Bailiff | Busse was informed by the jury that { they were ready to appear in court. | He immediately nc tifieg the judge and | passed out through the covered pas- | sageway leadingz to the [ail to notify | the officials there to bring the prisoner 'into court. Those in the court room knew when they saw the bailiff pass to ‘ the jail that a verdict had been reached. iAt once all conversation ccased. The | jurors with grave faces filed in and | took their accustomed seats. The ! judge took his place on the bepch, | = The prisoner, pale and anxious, was | brought in by Jail Clerk Price. “Have | you agreed upcn a verdict?” inguired | the judge. Most of the jurors bowed | assent; somo of them answered audi- [ bly. “Hand your verdict to the clerk | to be read.” and Juror Sutter, who had been chesen foreman. handed the folded document to Clerk Fitzgerald. | While the clerk in measured tones read the verdict every ear was atteni tive to catch its fateful words. | Scarcely was the reading concluded | when Clerk Price and EBailiff Busse, l who stood on either side of the prison- | er, started with him toward the jail. * They had nearly reached the exit from ! the court-room when the Judge called i them back that the prisoner might be | present when the jury was pu% - each juror the clerk put the fuUc tion: | “Was this and is this now your verdict?” and each, as his name was called, | rose and answered, “It was and is.” When the last answer was given the l prisoner, supported by the two officials, was taken back to jail. “You, gentle- | men of the jury, are digcharged from | further duty,” said the Judge. Mr. | Wade made the usual motion for a ' new trial, which the Ccurt directed to be entered, and the Prendergast trial was at an end. | | WHEN you have a mind to divert your fancy, consider the varicus good qualities of your acquaintances, As the enterprising vigur of this man. the modesty of another, the honor and integrity of a third, the liberality of a fourth, the vivacity and cheerfulness of a fifth, and so on; forthere's n(‘»thihg 80 entertaining as a lively image of the virtues and advantages of those we converse with.—Antoninus. V. L. ARRINGTON, ex-treasurer of Douglas Ccunty, Ore., was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for larceny of public funds. 5 o e IN a business quarrel at Padueah & ’ Ky., Abe Livingston, merchant, shot and fatally wournded Ad FElliott, a St, Louis traveling man, e oaw e CAPT. STEVENS ran the steamship Seneca, which was on fire, into Havana harbor and sunk her to prevent her total destructicn.