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THE ATHENS BANNER: ATHENS, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY
4, 1830.
P
HE SLAPPED THE EDITOR.
An Unpleasant Kncnunlur Between
Now Orleans N. wsp«p<r Men.
Xhw Oklkanu. Jan. 18 — 'Special.)—
Yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock Mr.
Grorge W. Dupre, editor of tlie States,
mot Major Nat Burbauk, the managing
editor of the New Orleans Picayune, in
the largo barroom under tlie St. Charles
Hotel. For several days past Bur
bank has been publishing paragraphs
in the Picayune severely reflecting on
the manhood of Mr. Dupre, because he
bad refused to fight a due! with the ed
itor of the Item after denouncing the
Item severely. Mr. Dupre said that
he would give Fairfax any satisfaction
be wanted, but would not dignify him
by fighting a duel.
When Dupre saw Burbauk to-day he
walked up to him with the oflemive
paragraphs posted on a sheet of paper
,i bis hand, and slapped Burbank three
times in the face with his own para-
gra) us. After the third blow he pulled
his pistol and called on Burbank to
draw, Burbank threw up his arms and
exclaimed: “I am unarmed.” Mr.
Dupre then put his pistol back in his
jMH’ket and left the place. The affair
created a great deal of excitement.
Tleu to a Cow’s Tall.
Paris, dan. 28.—(Special.)—A horri
ble crime was committed in a provin
cial town to-day. A girl of 10 years
was walking in the fields with her lit
tle sister, aged 2. The baby grew
fretful and the elder girl lost patience
with it and tied the poor thing to the
tail of a cow that was grazing in the
|pasture; then she hustled the animal
into a gallop.
The tiny victim uttered piercing
shrieks, which grew fainter as the cow
galloped madly on. The girl went
quietly home and relate ! her adventure
gleefully, .-several hours afterwards
the cow was found miles away with
a shapeless mass of human fiesh drag
ging at her heels.
WHITE HOUSE BUTTER TRUST.
Mrs Harilson Organized it, but It Is
Weakening.
Washington, Jan. 28.—(Special.)—
There is in this city a firm of butter
dealers which enjoyed a virtual monop
oly of the best custom under the Cleve
land Administration. They were the
purveyors of butter to the White House,
and among their customers were all
the members of the Cabinet and many
other people in public life. When the
Harrisons took possession of the White
House these dealers continued to send
their prill's to the Executive mansion,
and the Cabinet households followed
the lead set by the White House and
dealt with the same firm.
After Mrs. Harrison returned from
her Summer vacation at Deer Park the
White House steward notified the firm
that he would not require any more but
ter from them, and about the same
time the Cabinet dropped off. The but
ter men have been quietly investigating
th ■ matter anil they find out that when
Mrs. Harrison was at Deer Park she
made an arrangement with a farmer
there to send to Washington a large tub
o' butter every week. A certain
amount of this is used in the White
House and the rest is retailed to the
members of the Cabinet, Mrs. Harrison
charging them an advance of five cents
a pound on the price she pays.
Whenever a new tub of butter ar
rives at the White House Mrs. Harrison
goes into the kitchen, and with her own
hand- weighs out the exact quantity
wlm-li each of her customers takes. The
butler is then neatly wrapped up, ad
dressed, a memorandum «»f the quantity
in th- package, and delivered by one
of the official messengers. The butter,
however, has not given the best satis-
saction, and Mrs. Harrison has 1- st two
of her customers—Mrs. Blaine and Mrs.
Window) again dealing with the origi
nal purveyors.
A FEARFUL NIGHT. „
STRANGE SCENE IN A PULPIT.
A Minister Declared He Is Not a Chris-
tan. il s Congregation Refuse
to Accept Ills Res
ignation.
St. Loris, Mo., Jan. 28.—[Special K-
Dr. R. C. Cove, of the Central Chris
tian church, of this city, whose hetero
doxy has furnished a theme for relig
ious discussion during the past month,
came out boldly today and announced
from the pulpit that he was nota Chris
tian, arid tendered his resignation as a
minister. The congregation of the
Central Christian church is very
wealthy, but Dr. Cove’s doctrine split
it asunder. A month ago he created a
great sensation one Sunday by deliver
ing a sermon in which he said that he
did not believe in the inspiration of the
Bible or the di vinity of Christ. He be
lieved in Christ the man, and in a God,
but not the God of the Bible. This
sermon divided the church, and about
half the congregation withdrew, while
the other half passed resolutions in
dorsing Di. Cove. He then resigned,
but his friends in the congregation re
fused to accept his resignation and at a
meeting pledged $50,000 to build a new
church. Dr. Cove reconsidered his
resignation. All the Christian minis
ters of every denomination and creed
in all parts of the United States began
denouncing him. His congregation
met today in Mahler’s Hall, and there
Dr. Cove said that he had been read
out of the church. He was not a Chris
tian, and didn’t believe in the divinity
of Christ, or the miracles or other
things. He said lie desired to retire
from the pulpit, but the congregation
passed a resolution setting forth that
they did not believe any more thhn
their pastor did, and they desired to
cut loose entirely from the Christians.
They resolved to organize an as inde
pendant church, and requested Dr.
Cove to continue in charge. This
schism is the most remarkable that has
ever taken place in St. Louis.
Hanging Didn’t Scare Him.
Guthrie, I. T., Jan. 28.—[Special.]—
Sherman Spencer attempted to jump a
claim here Friday, but was evicted by
the authorities After he had gone to
bed he was awakened by nine masked
men, who dressed, bound and gagged
him and led luui to a tree on the Cot
tonwood river. The masked men start
ed to hang him, but desisted, bought
him a railway ticket, gave him money,
and put him on the train, warning him
that if he returned they would -hang
him. After the train started Spencer
jumped off and returned to town. He
then had warrants issued for John
Fries and Henry Wolff, whose voices
he had recognized. The men were ar
rested.
A JUDGE’S CONFESSION.
The Horrible Grimes of a Doctor
Winked At by an Official.
St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 28.—[Special]
—Minneapolis is stirred up over the
following story:
When Judge W. N. Hollins was on
his death-bed last October bis mind
seemed to be burdened with some terri
ble crimes in which he said he bad par
ticipated. It was to relieve his mind
that he summoned his wife and daugh
ter and Mrs. Thompson, a neighbor
living on Second avenue aud Lake
street, to his bed-side and confessed
that some years ago he entered into a
compact with a physician who lives on
Washington avenue, Minneapolis. The
doctor, be said, agreed to produce
abortions from all patients who should
apply if he could be assured of immu
nity from prosecution, Judge Hollis
devised a plan of operations, and for
this was to receive a portion of the
money derived from these operations.
The scheme was to require each patient,
before the operation was performed, to
sign an affidavit to the effect that a
criminal operation had been performed
upon her by another doctor, usually
some one from an obscure town in the
State, and that she consulted the phjsi-
ciau accused to secure relief.
This scheme was a very successful
olie and the young women who came for
treatment were naturally willing to do
almost anything in order to be relieved
of the evidences of their shame and
never hesitated to sign anything that
might be presented to them. The law
yer said that ho acknowledged the affi
davit as a notary. He told a fearful
story about a young girl whose name
he gave as Annie dying in the doctor’s
office while undergoing a criminal op.
eration. He also said this was not the
only case where a woman had met the
same fate. In this case the cause of
death in the death certificate was given
as peritonitis, and an investigation of
the books in the health office showed a
similar entry.'. •
Half an hour after making this con
fession Judge Hollins passed away.
A JUVENILE CONVICT.
DENOUNCED JEFF DAVIS.
Funeral of William Crutchfled, Who
Threatened the Confederate Presi
dent’s Life.
Chattanooga, Jan, 29—[Special.]—
The funeral services of Hon. William
Crutchfield were held at the First Pres
byterian Church, of this city to-day.
One incident in the life of Mr. Crutch
field deserves record. During and be
fore the war he was proprietor of the
Crutchfield House, now the Read House.
When Jefferson Davis resigued his seat
in the United States Senate in 1861 and
proceeded toward the South, he stopped
at the Crutchfield House, and during
the evening made a strong secession
speech. Mr. Crutchfield arose and re
plied to the speech, denouncing Mr.
Davis as a traitor to the country; said
that Mr. Davis deserved nothing less
than death, and that he meant to ad
minister it. The excitement was in
tense, and but for the interference of
friends of both parties either Jefferson
Davis or Win. Crutchfi.ld might have
died at tlie banquet table. Mr. Crutch
field was locked up in a room until Mr.
Davis could be induced' to proceed on
his Southern journey, and the trouble
was thus endeu. Of a large number of
secessionists, Wm. Crutchfield was the
only member loyal to the Union. He
was a member of Congress in 1873-4,
and was noted throughout the country
for his tccentricities.
The Earth Opened by a Blast.
Lbadvillk, Col., Jan. 28.—[Special]
—Yesterday, after the men engaged in
a drift of the La Plata Mine had fired a
round of holes, they were astonished by
hearing a noise resembling the rushing
of a mighty river, and when the smoke
cleared away, they saw from where
they stood a river running out of the
drift. They barely had time to escape,
and in less than five hours the mine
was flooded to within 270 feet of the
surface. Four thousand feet of drift ore
are submerged, and thousands of feet
of slopes are covered. Many think a
lake was encountered, and that when
the opening was made by the shots, it
burst through the thin barrier and
flooded the mine. If it proves to be a
pocket of water, very valuable mineral
will probably be found behind it, as
that has been the rule heretofore. In
this case the water can be jumped out
in thirty days, but if it is a water
course, the uiine will have to be aban
doned.
DOWN IN SAVANNAH.
Destitution in Dakota.
Huron, S. Dak., Jan, 29.—[Special.]—
There are hundreds of people sitting in
the farm houses on these snow covered
plains, going mad from want. A cor
respondent visited many farmers near
Huron and reports that there is a press
ing need for relief, as starvation is star
ing hundreds of the poor people in the
face. One farmer who expressed the
belief that he was mneh better off than
many others said: ‘‘We have some
thing to to eat, hominy and a little pork.
It won’t last long and have to be care
ful of the coal, but the worst is the
stock. We have not got a thing to feed
the horses and cattle. Can’t sell them.
Can’t feed them. Stock is going to die
by the thousands unless we get some-
for them to eat. We won’t have horses
to plough with in the spring. No seed
to sow. I tell you it goes against the
grain to see dumb creatures suffer.”
Another one said: “Do you know the
only help we have had is from the rail
road—the Northwestern? They have
br. uglit coal to us for $2 a ton, free of
freight, and have done it all winter.
Even at that price we have to econo
mize coal. I tell you if it had not been
for the railway company thousands of
peoplelwould havejfrozen to death. Last
He'd for Hours Between Bumpers by
His Uaugled Hand.
Elmira, Jan. 28.—[Special]—Getting
caught between the bumpers of cars
while coupling them together is the
commonest of mishaps to railroad men;
but James McCann, a brakeman in the
employ of the Western New York and
Pennsylvania railroad at Olean, W'as
made the vieirn of the bumpers on
Thursday night in a manner which is
unparalleled in the history of railroad
mishaps. He was coupling cars in the
yard at Glean at 9 o’clock in the even
ing. The weather was intensely cold.
In coupling the cars together he missed
his calculations, and as the engine
backed one car down against the other,
McCann’s hand was caught between
the bumpers. The engineer not know
ing anything was wrong, pulled away
his locomotive, being a switch engine,
ami its work being finished with the
backing down of the cars McCann was
to couple to. The cars were on the
outskirts of the yard, where they were
to remain until the next morning.
McCann was pinned fast between the
two bumpers, and to extricate his hand,
which was crushed to a pulp, was im
possible. He shouted, for’ help but
no one beard him. The agony he suf
fered was indescribable. For three
hours he was between the cars, when
he became unconscious from the effects
of his injury snd exposure to the cold.
Soon after midnight a night track la
borer who was returning home from
his work passed near the cars where
McCann was a prisoner*, and
hearing moans, discovered the injured
snd freezing trainman. The laborer
summoued help, and the cars were
pried apart and McCann waa removed
to the station. He was badly frozen,
and his hsud was so terrible mangled
that it had to be amputated. McCann
is not expected to recover from the ef
fects of his terrible night’s experience.
An Alliance Boycott-A Sunday Son
tlon.
Savannah, Jan. 28.—A drummer
who has just come in from the interior
of the State states that the merchants
of several counties are nonplusssd by
an Alliance boycott. The Alliance in
its opposition to middle men, notified
the merchants in-Washington, Emanu-
al, Johnson and the adjoining counties
that if purchases continued to be made
through drummers tne farmers would
boycott the merchants.
Policeman Pat Russell tried to sur
round a crowd of negroes who were
gambling on the lands of the Ogeeliee
canal last afternoon. Tlie negroes
broke and ran, and Russell fired at
them. Ilis first bullet cut in two a
spoke in one of Ed Gleason’s livery
carriages. The horses were frightened
and ran away. The driver could net
control them, and the policeman kept
on firing at the gamblers and a great
inob started in pursuit, but all escaped.
Big Fire nt Brnrswlck.
Bbubswick, Ga., Jan. 28—(Special.)
—At 12 o’clock noon to-day a residence
belonging to William Mahoney, an en
gineer on the B. and W. railroad, and
occupied by Mr. Ekan, caught fire,
and there being a heavy wind the
house was consumed by the fiames
within half an hour, also a shanty neai
to the residence, and only by hard
work Valentio’s planning mill was
saved. The heavy winds carried
sparks to the B. and W. cotton ware
houses and docks and instantly three
hundred bales were ablaze. All the
employes, strangers and even boys
went to work with hand buckets to sat
urate other cotton on the docks and by
heroic work saved the dock until the
the local fire steamer Inca pulled up to
the side of the dock and pat two lines
of hose to playingand in half an hour’s
time succeeded in suppressing the
fiames and preventing their spread to
the lower deck, where thousands of
barrels of resion aud turpentine stood
waiting for a final clear sweep of all
the lower docks. The present loss can
not be intelligently determined, but a
rough estimate-runs into the thousands.
A Sou’s Horrible Discovery.
Kingston. Ont., Jan. 28.—[Special]—
On the opening in October last of
Queen’s Medical College there was a
shortage of “subjects” for tlie dissect
ing-room. About the same time it was
telegraphed the local newspapers here ^
that ghouls had been at work in Tweed men of womanhood. She was pretty,
She Didn’t 'roach » Drop. J
Columbia, S. C. Jan. 28.—An aged
lady lives-abont twenty miles from this
Ctty who has a snake in her arm. The
snake Is by no means a stranger, and
has lived in its present lodgings for
(forty years. Mrs. Brown is well along
inyears and time has sprinkled its frost
in her hair, blit she is a healthy speci-
Sought to Kill Her Babe.
Clkvkland, O., Jan. 26.—[Special]—
The members of a theatrical company
that arrived to-night from Pittsburg
had in their care a nineteen-year-old
girl named Emma Yeager, who claims
to live in Allentown, Pa- and her in
fant child. Near Youngtown the girl
tried to throw the child from a car
window. She admits that she came
here to get ria of the child either by
giving ft away or deserting it. She
says she was betrayed by a man who is
now in Buffalo. « •
A MAD INFATUATION.
and that the body of Stephen Johnson DluInp and pleasing when a maid, as
had be n taken from the coffin and car- p v — -*-• —• »-•’ — J
ried off.
Mr. Johnson’s son came here Friday
And went to the collige accompanied
by several policemen. They were met
by several of the students, who vainly
Attempted to bar their way. The offi
cers searched the cellar, in the darkest
corner of which they came upon some
boards, and lifting them up a horrible
sight met their gaze. There, thrust
into a narrow pit, lay the mutilated
bodies of four men. Young Johnson
recognized one of the bodies as that of
his father. The body waa conveyed
borne to Tweed by tbe son.
some of the oldest people tell, and the
arm, now so peculiarly marked, might
have caused many an admirer to envy
a serpent of its lavor. One day abe
noticed a T-sbape figure on the upper,
flesh part of her arm. It was faint and
seemed like a delicate, black thread be
neath the skin. That waa forty years
ago, and as the girl grew the mark de
veloped until the presence of the rep
tile was unmistakable. She was re
peatedly urged to have it removed by a
surgical operation, but was unwilling,
saying that death it shonld be
doue.
The Limit to Which Illicit Love Car
n ried a Man..
Topeka, Kas., Jan. 29.—[Special:]—
A jury whs impanelled to-day to try
the case of the State vs. Fannie Burn
side. This is one of the most remarka
ble cases on record, showing to what
extent aa infatuation for a woman will
lead a man. The defendant was the
wife of Robert Burnside, au aged col
ored man. Her step-son; Charles
Burnside, who hsd served a term in
the penitentiary, came home and be
came infatuated with her. She yielded
to his advances and after a prolonged
intimacy, it is alleged, it was agreed,
in order to get the old man' out of the
way, to poison him.
A package of “rough on rats” was
procured, and it was alleged that sev
eral doses were administered to the old
gentleman, who finally died and was
duly burned, no suspicion of fonl play
being aroused. Several months later
Charles Burnside was arrested for as
saulting his step-mother with a knife
In a fit of jealonsy and with a mad de
sire for revenge he swore that the wo
man had conspired with him to murder
his father. The corpse was resurrected
snd a post mortem held. Stricbnlne
was found in the stomach of the de
ceased. A portion of the package of
“rough on ruts” was found on a shelf
at the house.
A Jack Knife Did the Work.
San Antonio, Texas, Janndry 28.—
[Special,]—Tony Wilson, aged twelve,
and Robert Miles, aged fourten, quar
relled Sunday night and went to a
neighboring square to figbt it out.
Miles produced a jack knife and gave it
to Wilson. Wilson at once drove the
blade of tbe knife into Miles’ heart.
Miles fell dead, and the young murder
er fled, but afterwards went home and
was delivered opto the police.
TEIEGRAPHICSPABES.
Buffalo Bill’s wild west show is ex
hibiting in Naples.
Eight women acted as pall-beurers at
a funeral at Paris, Ky.
Petroleum has been .discovered near
Johnstown, N. Y.
A magistrate at Aberdeen, Ohio, has
married 4,QUO couples. ,
AQ-Year Old Negro Sent to the Pen for WeQt d ° WD W 40
Larceny. *
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 29.—[Special]
—Another child has been consigned to
a felon’s cell by a Tennessee jury, and
forever rendered intainons, socially and
politically, within its borders. The
convict is a colored lad named Amir
Charter, and his crime was the larceny
of a jar of candy. It was indeed a pit
iable sight as he stood yesterday even
ing amidst 500 hardened criminals at
the State prison, trembling with fear
and cold, awaiting assignment to a cell
which the law says he must occupy for
one year for an offense of which almost
any child might have been guilty.
Even the prison officials, who arc ac
customed to all phrases of crime, ex
pressed sympathy for the little wretch
who might have developed into a good
man were his ' punishment less severe
and were, he not compelled to associate
with the concentrated villainy of a
great commonwealth. He is more of
an encumbrance at the prison than any
thing else, being physically incapac
itated for manual labor.
Andy arrived yesterday morning
from Carroll County with William
Hicks, colored, who is under a sentence
of three years for forgery.
Clasped Hands und Fired.
Wheeling, Jan. 23—[Special]—Re
ports have reached here of a desperate
and bloody revolver duel which occur
red yesterday at Trap Hill, Raleigh
county, and in vhieh C. B. Trump was
killed and two other men seriously
wounded.
It seems that while visiting the house
of Hugh Davis, Trump applied a foul
epithet to a man named Tom Snuffer,
and immediately drew his revolver and
fired at him. The ball struck Eldridge
Smith, wounding him seriously. Snuf
fer then fired at Trump. Then the two
men clasped each the left hand of the
other, and fired two shots. Snuffer was
shot in the head, while Trump was shot
through the body and died in twenty
minutes. Smith will probably die,
while Snuffer’s wouuds are not fatal.
legrees below
Eloping Lovers Hunted with Blood
hounds.
Tahlequah, I. T., Jan. 29.—[Spe
cial]—In the vicinity of Cincinnati.
Ark., thirty-five miles northeast of this
place, lives and labors tlie Rev. Mr.
ila.ll, the father of one of the prettiest
girls in the district, by name Minnie.
Win. Smiths is a farm hand, who was
employed by a neighbor of the preach
er’s. Last Sunday the old man, on re
turning from Sabbath school service,
found his daughter and Smith together.
Smith hud oce arm around Miss Hall’s
waist. This sight aroused the Rev. Mr.
Hall’s temper to an uncontrollable
pitch, and he proceeded to do up Mr
Smith in one round, the young lover
coming out of the fight with swollen
eyes aiid a sprained wrist.
On the following night, by means of
a ladder placed at the window of the
girl’s bedroom, she escaped, and, ac
companied by her lover, hied herself to
the Indian Territory, taking with her
one of the best horses on the farm,
together with $100 in cash. On awaken
ing this morning, and finding his
daughter missing, the reverend gentle
man, with one other man, commenced
pursuit with bloodhounds, leaving
this place at 12 o’clock last night and
proceeding on to Bradd’s Station early
this morning. Since leaving here, it
lias been learned that the young couple
preceded the pursuiug .party some
tiours, and succeeded in getting mar
ried and making their escape by the
railroad.
A NEW SECT OF HEALERS.
Robbing Children of Their Life Blood
On the Plea of Helping the Sick.
Kansas City, Jan. 29—(Special.)—
For some time rumors of the existence
of a new religious sect which has gain
ed a foothold in the territory adjacent
to the Blue River, just east of Kansas
City, liave been afloat. The Secretary
of tlie Humane Society recently re
ceived a letter from a man living in
that neighborhood, telling him that if
the authorities did not interfere the
people would take the matter into their
own bands. About a year ago there
appeared among the people a man
named Silas Wilcox, who went abent
preaching the dotrine of doing good to
thesick. It was not long until he had
a sufficient number of c< inverts to his
theories to warrant him in fouuding a
sect, which he called the Samaritans.
Finally he advocated drinking blood
for all'diseases, giving as authority for
such action the fact that the Bible
taught that the blood was the life.
At the home of John Wrinkle the of
ficers who investigated the matter
found two emaciated children. On the
bed lay Wrinkle, who was apparently
in the last stages of consumption.
When questioned about drinking the
blood of the children he strenuously de
nied having done so. The children al
so denied it. Their bloodless appear
ances, however, excited the suspicion
of the officers, aud they compelled
them to show their arms. They were
covered with scars around the inside of
the elbow joint, showing plainly the
effects of the bleeding. When confron
ted with this evidence of the truth of
the accusation, Wrinkle acknowedged
that he had availed himself of the op
portunity, and asserted tbat the chil
dren had willingly giveu him their
blood to restore him to health. The
man waa in such a condition that lie
could not be moved, hut tbe children
were taken from the house and placed
in the Children’s Home. Chief Speers
is anxlons to pot a stop to the practices
of the blood drinkers, but it appears
there is no law which covers the case,
and nothing can be done.
An Indiana man who has been miss
ing since 1872, lias turned up.
The mother of Woodruff, tho Cronin
case horse-thief, died from grief.
Queen Victoria is indisposed and is
said to have an attack of the grip.
H. C. Right of Rochester.New York,
eloped with his wife’s hired girl.
A white man is to be hanged in Mis
sissippi for the murder of a negro
Hoodlums compelled a missionary to
leave the town of Wentworth, N, H.
A farmer living near Martin’s Ferry,
O., killed a hog weighing 736 pounds.
Eugene Duger of New York shot a
man. He says he shot in self, defence.
Ex-President Hayes ony asked one
favor of Harrison, and this was refused.
Azwan, who killed his sweetheart,has
been sentenced to death at Indianap
olis.
The London friends of Mrs. Potter,
denies that she attacks American so
ciety. 1
In the compromise with Judge Hil
ton, the Stewart heirs only get 6-8 of
the estate.
Anna Parke tlie sleeping beauty of
Westport, is now awake after a ten
days nap.
The supposed discovery of the influ
enza bacillus is shown to be a very old batteries
one. . . iH -Hi
Tlie Prince of Wales is expecting tlie
early return of the Liberal party to
power.’ -
An eight-year-old boy lias been sent
to the penitentiary in Tennessee for
larceny.
A holiness clergyman was driven
from Concord, New Hampshire, and
hanged in effigy.
Warm weather in Iowa followed by
cold it is feared has destroyed the peach
and apple crop.
A. R. Lasley, republican treasurer of
Soott county,’ Kansas, is four thousand
dollars short.
Scott Shamlefler, aged sixteen, heir
to $50,000, was convicted of burglary at
Kausas City.
Sohn Holley, of C-entralia, Pa ,• died
from an overdose of laudnum, given
him by his wife.
A negro is ou trial at Topeka for pois
oning her husband in order to live with
another man.
Tlie youngest widow on record is
Mrs. Dros Ickes of Columbus, \0., who
is 14 years old.
A jealous farm hand shoots his sweet
heart, his rival aud himself near Bates-
ville, Ark.
A Woman has been chosen as special
census agent to collect the recorded in
debtedness of St. Louis.
The Rev. Dr. Van Dike of New York,
denied in his sermon the creed that in
fants go to hell.
An Italian woman in New Yark kill
ed a man rather thon give up one hnd-
dred aud forty-five dollars.
Eliza Scott, a married woman stran
gled herself tojdeath.in New York,while
m a state of despondency.
A Chicago firm is building elevators
for a 1,300-foot high-tower in London—
200 feet higher than the Eiffel.
No resolution has yet been offered in
tlie Ohio Legislature to investigate the
recent Seuatorial purchase.
In a recount of votes in the munici
pal election at Memphis, the Indepen
dents are gaining oil the Democrats.
There was a lively battle over a girl at
Erie,JTenn. Twelve shots were fired but
no one was killed.
Mr. McConyers near Dyersburg.
Tenn., was crushed to death by being
caught between liis wagon wheels.
Adversities drove George Miller of
New York to suicide, by turning gas
on in his room.
The counsel for Mrs. Ray Hamilton
of New York, says there has been noth
ing proved yet against his client.
The ri-e in cotton in Liverpool is at
tributed to reports from America that
the crop will be light. A corner is said
to have been formed at Manshester.
The President appointed a bunch of
Consuls, and from all accounts in doing
so, severely snubbed the Secretary of
State who had in most instances rec
ommended others than those appoint
ed.
The Louisville and Nashville Compa
ny have been boring for water at Sebree,
Ky., and yesterday strnck a strong
flow of natural gas at a depth of 500
feet.
Patton, a slick forger, bunkoed the
Knoxville Savings Bank of $1,700 and
the Midillesboro Banks out of $16,500
and shook tne dust for parts unknown.
In the Mississippi senate Mr. Heniy
introduced a bill proposing to excuse
persons sustaining loss by fire from
making proofs by loss and putting the
burden of proof on the insurance com
pany to show that the property was
less than the face of the policy.
Dudley Mnrphy, a merchant of Cold-
water, Kas., was shot dead by Dr.
Strewn, who had been intimate with
Mrs. Morphy.
At Louisville, Col., a snowslide
wrecked a train and killed two inmates.
Other snowslides are feared.
The insurance companies had $135,-
000 on the life of Banker Ditman, of
Philadelphia, but will not fight the case
on. the ground of suicide.
At Seattle, Wash., a pale young man
entered a faro room, shoved a pistol un
der the dealers nose and demanded $500.
He got it. Then he shot the doorkeep
er dead and escaped.
Dr. C. W. Molter of Russellville,
Mo., has been arrested for killing Wil
liam Sloan who jumped Molter’s claim
m the Indian Territory. The crime
was committed twenty years ago.
The Western Union at Chicago will
use dynamos exclusively instead of the
Mr. Jossw Thompson Batter.
Augusta, Ga., January 28.—Mr.
Jesse Thompson, president of the Aa
gusta and West Florida railroad, who
was shot three.times in Midville Satur
day, sent a telegram today that he nev
er felt better.
His physic! in and snrgeon say the
chances for his recovery are very bright.
Norrell, who shot him, is under
$2,000 bond, and is at liberty.
A flaw has been found in the title to
many millions’ worth of business prop
erty at Hellena, Great Falls and Ana
conda, Mont.
Dr. W. A Taylor formerly of Phila
delphia, was found guilty at Peters
burg, Va., of malpractice on Miss Bet-
tie O’Neil, and his punishment fixed at
three years in the penitentiary. He will
bd tried also for murder in causing the
woman’s death by the operation.
Just after it had been barred bytha
statute of limitations tbe state of Mis
souri found that it held $500,000 in notes
against the St. Louis & San Francisco
road. The notes are now worthless.
It is said in Turin that Prince Napo
leon will imprison the Princess Letitia,
widow of Due d’Aosta, in the Pranzi-
no-Castle, in order to silence s eandal
concerning her attachment for“ the
Prince of Naples, ;;
The rains have caused much damage
i the Sacramento Valley, California,
flooding farms to the depth of six feet.
It is reported that Persian Kharassen
is ravaged with an intestinal disease,
over three thousand deaths having oc
curred.
Gen. Crook says the Apaches are
completely subdued, and if taken back
to Arizona would never prove hostile
again.
During thft r recent railroad wreck in
Indiana, a woman saw her three little
children burn to death before her eyes.
A white man and three negroes in
Grenada county, Miss., murdered a ne
gro who had given them away in a
game of cards. ( 1
Two Newport boys named Clinken
beard and Barry, fought ab.mt a girl,
and one of them was dangerously cut.
The owners of a block recently de
stroyed by fire in Cincinnati thieatens
to sue the city for damages resulting
from negligent work by the fire depart
ment.
It is reported that Qu een Victoria’s
rheumatism has recently been very
troublesome, and her majesty will go
abroad for. treatment.
Henry Wilkins was fined fifty dollars
and costs and sent to jail for thirty
days, at Springfield, O., for stealing an
umbrella.
A load of cinders thrown into the
Conemaugh river caused an explosion
that gave tlie nervous citizens of Johns
town & terrible scare Sunday night.
Fletcher Pitziager, aged 19 years, of
Indianapolis, a student at Yale College,
was killed by his buggy being struck
by a railroad train.
Letters from Morocco tell of the do
ings of Consul Lewi*, and the charges
made against him ot ill-treating Moor
ish subjects.
James Gilbert, formerly a musical
giant, and now a private watchman in
Scranton, is to be married publicly to a
Salvation Army woman who is four
feet, sik inches toll.
David Saltzman, a young nobrew,
who had been converted to Christianity,
was badly beaten at a Hebrew wedding
in St. Louis, for refusing to leave when
ordered.
In South Bristol, N. Y., on Sunday
night, the home of - Fred Johnson was
Postmaster Appointed at Social Cirole. burned. The neighbors knew nothing
Washington, D. C., Jan. 28.-[8pe- it until yesterday, morning. A charr-
clal]—The President appointed thirty
postmas'ers
went him _
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MAD WITH JEALOUSY.
An Arkansas Lover Shoots His Rival
aud UisSmeetheau and Then
Turns on Himself.
Batelvillb, Ark., Jan.29—[Special]
—Yesterday afternoon, eight miles
east of Batesville, Jake Schrieber, aged
21, shot Miss Emma Fry and George
Missner as they sat talking on the gal
lery of the girl’s home.
Sehriebner and Missner were rivals,
and the former who lives at Mrs. Fry’s
and is employed on her farm, liad
threatened her before. The first shot
struck Messner in the chin and went
round his neck and lodged in his.slioul-
des It is not a fatal wound.
His second shot struck tiie girl in the
left breast, and tlie wound is almost
certainly fatal.
As Scriebner rode out of the yard,
Albert Fry, a young brother of the
girl, seized a revolver and fired three
shots at him, the last ef which took ef
fect in the back of hiS head and knock
ed him down, but he rose and resumed
his flight.
This afternoon Sehriebner was found
in an old house in the neighborhood
almost dead. In addition to the shot
he received from Fry he shot himself
with the last cartridge in the revolver,
but failed to inflict a fatal wound. He
had then taken a heavy rock and tried
repeatedly to crush his head, and each
blow had rendered him unconscious for
a time. He was brought here this
evening and lodged in jail, where he
lies in a very precarious condition. •>
An Awful Crime.
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 29.—[Speei’il]—
Six drunken rowdies went last night
to the home of Mrs. Alma Robinson, a
widow lady, and brutally assaulted the
woman and her 11-old daughter.
Died Among;the Dead.
Nyack, N. Y., Jan. 29.—[Special]
While attending the burial of a rela
tive today, Ella Bedford was stricken
with heart disease and suddenly ex
pired. She dropped dead near a row of
graves, and was discovered, lying face
downward.
Shot His Father.
Fort Smith, Jan. 29.—[Special]—
Near Mansfield today John Tuth shot
his father because his father was going
to marry a wife whose right to the
property would interfere with the
sen’s prospects,
fatal.
The wound
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
An Ill Fated House.
Washington, Jan. 29.—(Special.)—
When last year Mr. Blaine took a
lease of the old Seward house on Lafay
ette square, the stories were revived
that it was an ill-fated dwelling, and
people began to wonder whether the rep
utation of the house would be maintain
ed after Mr. Blaine moved into it. It had
been used for some years provious as the
office of the subsistence department of
the army, for no one wanted to move
into it after Mr. Seward leftt it. It was
there that Seward was attacked by the
assassin Payne, and this was the last of
ihe long chapter of evil incidents which
were chronicled in the history of the
house. Mr. Blaine moved in late in the
autumn, and had just begun to hold
his entertainments there when his eld
est son fell sick and died there. This
severest sorrow of his life must natur
ally make the old house a sorry dwell
ing place for the Secretary of the
State, and it would not be strange if he
were to leave it before a great while.
H>s Evidence that He is a Hundred
Years Old.
Cumberland City, Tenn., January
29.—[Special.]—Mr. William Thornton
Bluefleld, a resident of this (Hickman)
eounty, claims to be 127 years of age,
aud he possesses remarkable proofs of
his age.
Among these is a very ancient look
ing family Bible, in which his birth is
recorded as having taken place on Jan.
3, 1763, at a village six miles west of
Lake Drummond Va. The Bible was
irinted in the seventeenth century, and
s regarded as a remarkable curiosity.
On the Margin of several pages are the
dates of births, deaths, and marriages.
The first of these gives 1739 as the year
of Mr. Bluefields’ father’s birth, while
the last records the death last year of .
Jamos Caxtou of Baton Rouge, aged
76. This iast named was a grandson of
the surviving William Bluefleld, and
his age and relationship are strong
proofs of tlie correctness of the old gen
tleman’s; claim.
When 70 years of age William emi
grated to the source of the Haw River,
in North Carolina, where he married
Martha Welts in 1793. At her death,
which occurred in less than one year
after the marriage, he went to Ken
tucky, where he led a wild and nomadlo
life until 1828, when he came to middle
Tennessee. During his stay of thirty-
five years in Kentucky he met Daniel
Bone several times. On one occasion
he stopped with Col. Boone six weeks
at Boonesborough, a short time before
Boone’s departure for Missouri.
Peacbstones at a Great Depth.
Nevada, Mo., Jan. 29.—]Special]—
While boring a well on the G. N. Guth
rie place in this city today, the drill, af
ter passing through 80 feet of solid
rock, struck a stratum of rotten wood
and a perfect peachstone. All were
black as tor but not petrified.
EXHIBITING CLIFF DWELLERS.
Lieut. Schwatka Secures Eleven Mem
bers of that Peculiar Race.
El Paso, Tex., Jan. 29.—[Special]—
Lieut. Schwatka is in the city, accom
panied by F. O’Neill, in charge of
eleven cave or cliff dwellers from the
SierraMadre Mountains. Mr. O’Neill
bar lived in that country for & number
of years, and speaks tbe Spanish lan
guage fluently and some Indian dia
lects.
The people whom they have in charge
are members of the Tahuamari tribe,
and speak -a language of their own.
They came from Yuekova, 200 miles
from Chihuahua, and traveled the dis
tance on foot, beating their master
who rode. One of the iuen has a recon i
of traveling 100 miles in 11 hours, and
the lieutenant offers a wager of $10,000
on the speed of this man.
The lieutenant intends to exhibit
these strange people in the principal
cities, and afterwards take them to Eu
rope and turn them over to Buffalo
Bill.
A Lunatic’s Act,
Dubuque, Iowa. Jan. 29,—[Special.]
—Henry Uuchler, the 19-year-old sen of
a prominent German of this city, be
came violently insane yesterday after
noon, and threatened to kill - his family
and his father had him removed tern
porarily to the city prison; Last even
ing he set fire to his bedding in the cell
n here he was fatally hmne I. He diet
s* ou after being removed.
Dead in his Saddle.
Denison, Tex., Jan. 29.—(Special.)—
A nmn by the name of William Camer
on, who resides in the western portion
of the county, died last night
under peculiar circumstances. Cam
eron left Denison yesterday even
ing intending to go to the house
of a frieml to pass t>.e night.
This morning he was discovered in a
lane near tlie main road stark dead, but
seated uprigt in bis saddle. The horse
was standing near a fence. The proba
bility is that Cameron died early in
the evening, as the horse wandered in
to the lane, where it remained all night
with its dead rider. The death of Cam
eron is attributed to heart disease.
Fire in Washington.
Washington, Ga., Jan. 28.—[Spe
cial]—The new gin house, press and gin
and cotton of J. A. Logan burned this
morning.
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