Greencastle Star, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 October 1880 — Page 1
VOL. 8.
THE
GREENCASTLE, IND.,
greencastl^.
OCT. 23, 1880.
NO. 27
Shot **y A Womnii. ■ Jeffkusonvu.m:, Ikd., October l'?.— B'hursday night, at nine o'clock, a myslerious affair transpired in Silver ('rock lownship, Clark County. At that hour Kro men went to the country residence
A Terrible Explosion.
Thkuk IIa' TK, Ikd., Oct. 20.—A most horrible accident occurred in this city this afternoon, rtt a little after three o’clock a loud report was heard for miles, and the concussion rat'led the
MA«TCIM«'i;i> THEitlMELVES.
I ivr Woinrii in :t Cinciuuati
I'm tor) stop lo Save Their < lolliina at!:l Lose ’riteir
Liven.
! Nfr. .fames Thornbury and rapped for tmildings and windows all over the city. Cincinnati, October 20.-
A I'onrleen-Vear-Old Lad I'om-
■niiM Suicide. [New Orlcana Times.1
He was a pretty boy, scarcely over fourteen years old, and his long, light hair
|and 1) uo eyes with a far-off look, attract- bery occurred last Wednesday between A shocking -d the attention of the denizens of the 11’earce City,Mo., and Fayetteville, Ark.
Soulli-Wesleru ICoblM'rs !>o Temper Itnsiiu ss M till
Courtesy.
[I.ittlc Rock ttaiatt,!
An old-fashioned highway stage roh-
Children
dmittanco. Mrs. Thornbury being alone, It was immediately reported that an ex calamity in connection with a fire oc-1 Waggaman plantation, on the right bank About eleven o’clock th<> stage was
after 11 o clock this j of the river just above Carroliton, as he
fire broke out in the | slowly walked along. “Who is litis stranger boy?” inquired more than one good-heatted person, for there was something in the lad’s appearance which aroused the sympathy of all
hailed by two men, and almost simultaneously four others appeared. Leveling a pistol at the driver, one of the robbers
exclaimed:
“Hold yourself in readiness to die at 1 any time you make a motion to interfere ! with us. And you,” he continued, ad- 1 dressing a man who was on his way lo 1 buy cattle, “may observe the same rule.’' ; Three of the men bad turned their at-' tention to the passengers inside the stage. They were several in number,, but feeling that resistance would be use
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Castona.
Jlid not respond at first, but upon a sec-! plosion had occurred at the distillery, i curred shortly " " — .« —n 1:.— v--
end rap, inquired who was there. A and thousands of people were seen morning. The
Ipniff voice responded, “I want to get in.” pushing in that direction, where a most j shoddy manufactory of Henjiimin Hey, ptrt.1. is a plucky little woman, an i was horrible sight was in waiting. s eond and Broadway, in snob a way as ■determined not to surrender easily. She The immense establishment is owned > to cut off escape from the third story, I went to the bureau-drawer, and, taking l^y Gox & Fairbanks, and is the largest 1 where 11 number of women were at work. Jmit a navy revolver, repaired to the door, distillery in the world. One battery of The Art m< n made hereto but inefft dual who a»w him
|Hnd asked, what do you want?” The three boilers exploded and caused death 1 attempts to rescue the women. After But sympathy was all thatwasbe|reply was that two men wanted to come ( and destruction on a'l sides. Upon ar- extinguiahing the flro they sue leeded in stowed npon the lad, and, when he was I in and get something to eat. Mrs. T. j riving at the mill a scene was found J extricating the dead bodies of five wo- overtaken by darkness, tired and weary, I responded that her husband was not at which baffles description. Women and i men: Mrs. Rachael Eaggett, 55 years j he laid himself down to rest, on a grassy I home, and that she could not let them in children were running to ami fro, scream- n |d; body burned to a crisp; widow with mound on the levee bank, near the Ken-
J’l’hey swore that they would coma in if ing and calling the names of husbands four children. Mils Margaret Welsh, SOlnedy plantation.
I they had to burst the door. and fathers who were in the mill at theyears old, no reialives known; upper As night wore on apace, passing pedea-less and no doubt dangerous, judging After warning the men to desist, time of the accident. The Eire Depart- J portion of the body burned to a crisp trians heard him sob and cry as if in from the extreme liberty with which the they paid no hoed, but fell against the ment was promptly on hand, and with Mrs. Mary Syron, 49 years old, live chil- anguish, and, stepping to his side, in- robbers presented pistols, the passengers
great exertion prevented the flames I dren, husband at. invalid; upper portion quired the cause of his misery, but the! ^Tendered an aggregate amount of
from making it more horrible, if such a ■ u f the body except the face burned. Mrs. lad mode no r reply, and, thinking that l-.flOO. During this financial transaction <'Ur<‘ liuril8,\V omuls,V> cilk ** a,,v
thing was possible. | Catherine Jackson, 55 years old, widow,' they had done their duty and without j‘he cattle man and the driver remained It was seme time be.ore tlic escaping -upporting a blind daughter; Miss or Mrs. even looking to sec what ailed the boy, | unmolested. 1 he cattle man had $2,00t>, steam and dense smoko could be subdu- Kerwin, 40 years, only at work one day, each in his turn passed by. ! seizing, as he thought, an oppertunied sufficiently to allow the hundreds of an( ] nothing is known about her family, Morning found the lad lying in the ‘T, ho threw it among the bushes,
iftfew moments, she informed him of 1 volunteer helpers to got at the ruins in or whither married or single. same spot, and a little stream of blood, | Shortly afterward he was carefully rwhat she had done. He went out to search of the dead and wounded. Mean- There is no question that the loss ofl which trickled from a ghastly wound in searched, which encouraged him in the
Isearch, and found traces of blood to a while, the wildest excitement prevailed,! iif c j s d ue wholly to the carelessness or 1 his head, plainly told the story.
I door. Mrs. T , placed herself in front of the door, fired through it. She heard 11 voice exclaim in agony, “Jim, I am I shot!” She heard them leave, one groan-
ling as if in great agony.
Upon the return of Mr. Thornbury, in
Mother', lil.o. and PIiydciaUN
recommend it.
IT IS HOT NARCOTIC.
CENTAL'K LINIMENTS; the World’s ttroat Puin-Itelii-viuir reinedies. They heal, soot he. and
and Sprains, Calls, and Lameness upon Beasts. Chenp, «itiiel»
and reliable.
Iwagon some distance in the woods. It' Iwas evident that the wounded man was
Iplaced in the wagon and hauled away, timbers, carrying tho bodies of the faith- stopped for their clothing or become I noon, on the arrival of Di. Gustine, who INeighbors went in pursuit, but could not ful employes who died at tho post of du-' cun f U80( ] ) to escape. Mrs. Eliza Barrett, came immediately upon being informed lovertake the negroes. Search has been ! ty. These bodies were laid on the floor J w ho was persuaded to jump from the ! of the terrible fate of the lad, were tho liuade in the neighborhood for miles 1 of the office, and presented a ghastly ap- third story window, escaped with a bro- ! remains exatnined.
belief lhat his action had not been noted.
which was intensified as the tn'm cnierg-1 ^,0 f r jght of the victims themselves.! No one would move the body until The robbers did not disturb the mail or | ed from the mass of brick and burning qq,ere was ample time, if they had not j the coroner arrived, and not until after ox P r0 ' w 'natter, but, thanking tho audi-
ence for "their kind and polite attention,” I allow ’ho stage to proceed. Shortly | afterward the cattle man, accompanied by
Bergman; Frank Stanley, fireman, and M. Kiely. The last named was a resident of Cincinnati, and was employed by John Nicolai & Co., cement dealers. Ik-
came here some days ago
ajound, but as yet the party shot has not
been discovered.
Child Terribly iHsuitfled by a
Sow.
PAnKEtisiitTiiG,. W. Va , October 15.—A [little boy about four or five years old, son of Mr Thomas Pimm, engineer on the ■ Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, who resides |on Depot street, mot with a terrible misfortune last evening. The little fellow in company with several others about ns own age, was playang on the street in front of his father’s residence, when an old sow, with a litter of small pigs, came along. The children in a spirit of mischief, ran after and caught one of the pigs, and carried it squealing into the yard. The old sow became fearfully enraged and rushing into the gate, seized the first boy she came across, and, throwI ing him down, caurlit him by the top of [ the head with her tusks and carried him screamieg into the street, where she l would have torn him to pieces in a short |time hut forAhe neighbors, who rushed to liis assistance, ami with great Jiflicuity succeeded in getting him out of reach of
the animal. He was carried homo and j were injured, but not dangerously, ia physician sutnmonod, when it was as j Tho head engineer is Chas. G. Foote, Beertainod that the brute had torn the scalp ; who was raised at Covington, Ky., and
pcarance, and being black and bleeding j ken ankle. Mrs. Syron was at the win-1 Dr. Gustine, in his autopsy, found that from tho wounds. Hero the families , dow at tho time, and was apparently I the lad had two wounds, one in his left gathered, and when each body was laid ! ^bout to follow Mrs. Barrett, but when breast and one in his head, either suffion the floor a wail went up tiiat caused a she saw men carrying Mrs. Barrett away, !cicnt to have caused death. Near his shudder over all who were so unfortu-j s h e turned and ran back into the flames s...e was found a Derringer pistol, with nate as to witness the sight. The building was not burned down. The which the crime was no doubt coinmit-
’] here were six killed—foseph Don-' floor where the women perished was not ny, fireman; John Brooks, bricklayer; much injured. The flames were confined Harvey Day, a colored laborer; William mainly to rags and other combustible
stock.
A Ot'sci’leil W ill-.
ted.
At first it was supposed that the lad had been murdered by tramps, but when tho bullet was taken from his body, it was found to correspond exactly with thirteen others which were found it cart-
Vkvav, Ini)., Oct. IS.-uur city was| rid 8«!’«' n the poor boy’s pocket, and to do some i thrown int0 quitc a f cver of excitement! which f' 110 ' 1 lhu P i8to1 ; honc ' 2 - waR in -
work, and when tho explosion occurred on Saturday, by an attempt made by ] ,- ‘ :ri ' ed by the Coroner, and agreed to by was engaged in cementing on the top of | Mrg tQ s hoot her hus-> s j ur . v > that the “"fortunate had com-
tho boilers. He was so badly scaldml j ban( j ) i,' rftn i{ y, Hastings. A few months j mlt fo d 8uicid «-
that when handling tho body tho flesh | ^ llaHting# W4S tnArried t0 MissMa-! The conclusion arrived at by all who would drop from tho hones. quire an(] deierteJ her tho ndxt ,i ay af . -aw the remains was that early in the
ter their marriage. Very soon after their night the boy had shot himself in the
marriage his wife gave birth to a child,
thehcad; William Kertley, fifteen year. : Tho Iim(Ur caugcd qlljt0 sensation at old, arm broken and badly scalded, not j thp ^ M bolh partlc8 were highly expected to live; Henry Dinkle, scalded | counecte()> an<] raoved in t h e best ot so and bruised; Frank Brown, arm broken; I c)(!tyi llasting9 wont to Cincinnati, and
Washburn Simpson, internally injured; ! hU wi(e h „ ii vc d in seclusion ever since., •"<>»"« heard by the
The injured arc Henry Wilson, head bruised; Eugene Mehring, wounded on
breast, and then seeing that the shot did cause immediate death, had reloaded his weapon and sent a bullet crashing through
his brain.
This couclusion accounts for the
passers-by and the
several friends, went back to the scene of the robbery, but, after instituting a close cearcli, failed to find the .?2,000 It was supposed that the two men who stood guards with shot-guns detected the attempt to conceal the money, and had taken it after the stage had left. The robbers wore net disguised, and, from the deliberate manner in which they proceeded to business, it would seem that it was by no means their first financial transaction. This is the first stage robbery of that country—if not the first one of the first. F.very effort will be j
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■almost entirely from the little fellow's ^Bicad and had inflicted other terriblo Rj wounds on his body. At last accounts Hhe hoy was still living, but he is so bully mangled and torn that bis chances for getting over the wounds are very
jHim.
, Chloroformed stml KoMhmI. I Jeffebsonville, Ixn., October IS.— Last night burglars entered the house of i Eli Thompson, on Michigan Avenue and t||Bpring street, and got away with $1,450 cash. Mr. Thompson and William . Elundso are in partnership in business. I Saturday night the money was taken in from car works customers. Mundso placed it under his pillow and went to “ sleep. During the night burglars enter- . | aid by tho transom over the frontdoor, ‘|tnd, administering chloroform, got away with tho money. Nine hundred dollars
'V the money belonged to Thompson, (and children, bout five o'clock this morning Miincl-(with friends
o was found in his room in a state of nconsciousness, the effacts of tho clilo'ofonn not yet having worn off. The obbery is supposed to be the work of x-convicts. Sunday morning a suspi-ious-looking man with a club visited he house, ostensibly for boarding. Late In the evening another man was seen siting on a salt barrel near the house, hesc men are supposed to have cotn-
itted the burglar}'.
George Trout, skull fractured, collan (Jn the diy of the election 1Ia8tingg camc fact that the lad did not answer when
bono broken, and scalded. Many more down probab , y t0 vote) and his wife | questioned. seen on the stre t for the first time. Shi 1 The remains were buried on the river was searching for her recreant husband, j hank, os no one appeared to identify
but failed to find him. On Saturday, ‘he" 1 - learning that he was still in tho city, she renewed the search, and (inally found
who is well known in Cincinnati. He says the boilers were recently inspected and pronounced sound, jam! at the time of tho explosion wore sustaining a pressure of ninety-five pounds. There are all kinds of rumors and theories expressed, but tho. foots will not bo fully developed until morning, when tho Coroner’s inquest will begin, and will bo I
most soarohing.
The proprietors of tho distillery arc doing everything possible for tho wounded and for tho families of tho deceased There is groat excitement hero to-night.
Tin- Murketft.
Chicago, Oct. 20—The Drovers’ Jour-
nal of this afternoon reports:
Hoof—The receipts io* to-day were 28000head; the shipments were 4,S00 head. The market was fairly active and prices were H)c. per 100 1t>s. lower. The offerings were of good quality. Sales were made of host to rough packing hogs at $4.40(5 4 05 per 100 t>.s.: good to choice mixed packing hogs, $4.70(8 I 80; light bacor hogs, #4.60(rf4 75. and select heavy hogs, $4 90(35(JO. Tho
, . ,, • 1 market closed weak, with 8 000 head un-
made to capture tho robbers, and if their so j ( j
capture is not effected it will be their ! Beef Cattle—The receipts for to fault. j d# y worn C,000 bead; the shipments 1 were 6,OCX) head. The market for choice
! grades was firm, with a better demand. ! Sales were made of export cattb- at
[Knoxville (Tenn.) Tribune.1 j $5.20(8 5 65 per 100 lbs ; good to choice Charlie Owen, express messenger on j shipping csttlo. $4 6*)@4 85; common to tho train that was wrecked last Friday mGd , u,m sh jPP in * “‘i'f'„ . t 11,/ stocker* and feed era, 12.8003.2o; cow-
evening, was struck between tho should- ;Il0n u , fair niix ,, (1 butoher cutt | e wer o ersbyabox, temporarily paralyzing his $2 40(53.30; Western cattle wore arms, but when offered a glass of whiskv ! steady; natives and half broods, $•$ 25(ii' ' by the physician he refuted, and when SI 90 ® 8 * 105 throuah TeX "
. . . „ . . fins, m.v(tcJ.o'J. Sheep and Lamps.—The receipts for to-day were 1,2'J<) head; no shipments wore reported. Sales were made of common to medium she< p at $3 ■40(5'.'! 70 per 100 11. s ; good to rhoioe sheep, $4 (X)
<54 25. The market was steady.
A I’i'oiiiIm- to a Llotltri' lirpt.
The lad was dressed in gray jeans pants, blue shirt and low quarter shoes
him in the dry goods store of Hall & | and “ is ho P ,!<1 that tho clothing msy be Lewis. She attempted to talk with him,, bc 'Jentified and the lad s identity cstab-
but he refused to listen to her, when she i 1'shed. drew a cocked revolver and attempted to shoot him, but her arm was seized from ' behind by Hastings’brother, and Hastings' wrenched the pistol from her and walked
away. Sympathy is with tho poor girl, who has been made desperate by her ruin and cruel desertion.
A Plunge ot Ninety F«>ct to Deiith. New Albany, October 19.—At ten [o’clock this morning Archie Kelley, of [Cincinnati, an employe of tho Western Inion Telegraph Company, while engag!d in carrying tho wires of the company tcross tho Ohio Uiver bridge at Louisrille, fell from the north end of the >ridge, a distance of ninety feet, to the jagged rocks below, and was instantly tilled. In his descent tho unfortunate ran turned two somersaults, landing on ns hack on the jagged rocks below. His hones were literally crushed into fragments. His death was instantaneous.
Twin Iti-otlM'i’x Vpiii't. BnADFono, Pa., Oct. 17.—John and Daniel Miller, twins, wero born in Adams County, Pa., in 1810. When they were 4 years old their mother was left a widow. Being destitute and in ill health, she was unable to provide for herself
She sent Daniel to live in Washington County.
John found a homo in Westmoreland County. Daniel grow up and became a miller. John learned the blacksmith's trade. They never heard from or saw^street, one another after leaving their mother, and each supposed that the other was dead. Over fifty years ago John Miller abandoned his trade and became a tollgate keeper on the Butler turnpike, in Alleghany County. He holds the posi tion still. One day last woek he wont out of hishousc to collect toll of an old gentleman who was passing through the gate. A neighbor of the toll gate keeper stood hy. Ho made the remark that tho traveller and tho keeper looked enough alike to bc twin brothers. This brought about inquiries on the part of the two old men. The traveller proved to be Daniel Miller, John’s twin brother. Ho had lived for years in Bradford, but a few miles away from the toll gate in an adjoining county. This was tho first meeting ol tho brothers since they were
4 years old—sixty years ago.
mpRcmember the sale of cattle, farming utensils, etc., by Will Albaugh, on Wednesday, October 27,
l£<‘inni’k:t!>l<> Noniiiiiiiibiilisiiii. The night of the recent fire at North Turner Bridge, says the Lowiston.(Maine) Journal, Mrs. Albert Winship aroused Mr. W., and cried: “Husband, Mr. Starbird's house is all on fire! hurry up!” He did so, dressed on the double # quick, and i with pails ran to the fire and did valiant j service in saving surrounding buildings. | When tho fire had burned down he i rubbed his eyes and said to his wife, “1
New Albany, Oct. 20.—A strange j feel dreadfully. I am lame and feel complienomcnon has just come to light in j pletely exhausted.” “Well you may,”
said the wife, “after working go hard at
the doctor urged him, he again refused.,J a
Insisting, the medical gentleman and several others standing near told him he must take it to save his life. “No, sir!” said the young man, firmly refusing. "When I went to railroading I promised my mother that 1 would never touch whisky, and
Iniuanafoms,
Oct. No.
”0.—Wheat—tins 2, rod. 98@90c.
I’” di0 hero in t,ncks belorc j Cort-is qT::^ 40', (.< die. Oats
white, 50',(«;;2',c. for
United Stock Yakds, Indiana i-oi.is.
Oct. 20'—The market is dull and prices lower at $4.45(34 70 per 100 tbs. Ilo-
9,000 head; shipments, .'!0K)
A Lreit'l'MollM'i' Leave* Her In I'ant Haiti to Hit 1 iTIei’cy ol Hut* ami It is Unawed to Heath.
this city which promises to cause no
liitle excitement in ceatain quarters.
The facts in the case, as related to your correspondent, are as follows:
Not long since a German gentleman and his wife removed to this city from the country and rented rooms in an old three-story brick building on Main adjoining the Phomix Hotel pronerty. There was nothing singular in this, however; but a few days since tho wife of the German incidentrlly espied a bundle of rags in a secluded part of tho houso which excited her curiosity, and upon opening the bundle to her astonishment, she beheld the remains of an infant child partially
gnawed by rats, which had evidently been
secreted away several weeks The Scntinal’s informant states that the old Gorman lady, from some cause, was afrsid to reveal the strange discovery she had made, and allowed tho remains to lay whore they had been placed by an inhum .n mother. Under tho circumstances surrounding the case it will be a difficult matter to apprehend the mother of tho child. The houso was occupied several
is that one of them is the mother of the child. The matter will probably ba in
voetigated.
the lire last night.” "What do you mean? asked said Mr. W. “Why, the Starhird house was burned last night, and you worked like a hero saving the other buildings.” Mr. W. looked dazed for a moment, then took his bat and looked over the premises and came back. “Weil Marcia, the buildings are surely gone, but I never would have believed even you, when you say that I wont to that fire, if they were not gone. I don’t know a thing about it.” Ho had been through all the excitement in a state of sonarabu
lism without being awakened.
Belknap and Mrs. Greene eloped together at Melrose, Wis. They drove a good horse rapidly, but had not gone more than ten miles when they heard a clatter of hoofs behind them. Greene had hastily mounted and started in pursuit. 1 he race was long and exciting, but tho husband at length rode alongside tho pair, cocked a pistol and commanded a halt. Belknap was abject with terror. “You may have your wife, Mr. Gwene,” he said. "I don’t want her,”
week* siooa, it is alleged, by women of ^ e . d ^7. e:don ‘ thM I’ye doubtful character, and the supposition R ^ Hi' . V”* 0 g< !! hCr b “ ck ' ° h a , af th« n0 ’ But 1 11 t,lkC m y «" d » »>‘lf
she’s got in her pocket.” The money was given up and the elopement pro-
ceeded quietly.
it.” The young man mentioned is a broth- arc qu i e j. nfeW
er of tho agent at Knoxville. lie is about! October, nineteen years of age, and lias been in the employ of the Southern Express Company for a few months only. He has been tried on several roads, and on account of his coipts, integrity, intelligence and close applica-1 bead
tion to duty, has boon rapidly promoted, I>i«.:i[t|>Oiiit<‘4! luLovv. by his route agent to the position of first | Shelbyville, In... Oct. 18 -This even class messenger. Ho left L.ynchville on . , , , , , „ , , , .... 1 ing at a few minutes teJore 8 o clock Mr. September 24 with a heavy run of freight , , , , , ' , , . , i Neal committed suicide bv shooting litmand valuables. The entire train left the . , , , , ' „„
self tli'ougb tho heat I ho aol was
track near Big Lick, and the express car and contents were all torn to splinters. Charlie was dragged from under the wreck crushed and bruised, and was evidently suffering greatly. His first words were to call for his safe and the two boxes of silver. When brought to him he extended his bruised body over them, and watched his valuable “run” through
committed on the sidewalk in front of bis lather's residence on East Broadway. The cause is shrouded in mystery, and [the true cause will perhaps never bo
known.
The dead man was twenty-five years old, and a barber by trade. This even- | ing he closed up his business here w ilh | the intention of going to Rushville to hunt wors. Early in the evening he
. . . , „ . I went up town, hid several ol his ftiends I he Rochester Astronomical Society ,, , ,, ,
good by, and called on .Miss liacy Marland, taking bei to his father’s homo
the long hours of the night.
announces that the comet discovered by Prof. Swift, on Sunday last, promises to become very brilliant. It is coming almost straight toward the earth,and so its position in the heavens changes slowly. It is in the cons.citation Pegasus, which is overhead at about 9 o’clock in the evening. It seems to be throwing off a brilliant tail, which will become visible to tho naked eye as it swings into the neighborhood of the sun. If this comet fulfills its present promise it will be a magnificent object in the coming winter e enings. Some of the astronomers, it seems, suspect that this may bc the great comet that blazed with extraordinary splendor in tho western sky just before tho war of 1812. If so, and if it retains its former biilliancy, there is a great treat in store for us. But there have been so many comets discovered this year which have disappointed those who predicted great things for them, that it will be well not to expect much of the newcomer until it has given unmistakable evidences
of its mettle.
ho went to the depot, and telegiaphed to a brother, who lives in Edinburg, to come home immediately. He assigned his reasons for this, saying that he was going to get married in the morning. Returning again to his home he wont in, then turned around, going out, knocking on the window as he passed. In a moment the shot was heard, and before his friends could reach him he was dead. The affair is attributed to a disapointmentin love, and was ur.doubtebly premeditated. The telegram sent his brother was for the purpose of having him present as soon as possible. Before ho fired tho shot he called to the people of the houso saying, “1 am gone.” Jim Neal killed Jack Isaacs in a stn ct fight at 'W'illiamstown, Kv., and then handing the pistol with which he had done the shooting to the dead man’s brother said: “I’ve murdered Jack, and now you can murder mo.” The propo sition was not accepted.