THE SENTINEL.
1 , W. ■CCIiSlS, Manager and Proprietor.
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GRENADA.
CURRENT TOPICS.
The News in Brief.
•
Department of Agriculture returns in
dicate the winter wheat product at 350,000,
000 bushels.
Senator Sabin has determined to resign
the chairmanship of the National Republi
can Committee.
Nearly all the principals concerned in
tbe Marine Bank and the Grant & Ward
failures made assignments on the 8vh.
Proe. Gregory says there is nothing in
the Civil Service law to prevent officials
from attending political conventions.
Pope Leo expresses satisfaction with
the prospect of a renewal of direct rela
tions between England and the Vatican.
California delegates in Congress are
making an effort to secure tbe passage of
Territory of
tne bin
Alaska.
a large attendance at the un
Thehk
veiling of the statue of Chief-Justice-Mar
shall at the Capitol grounds in Washington
on the 10th.
George Jones says the $250,000 raised
for General Grant are all safe, but that
outside of that the General hasn't a nickle,
and is head and heels in debt.
It is reported a treaty has been signed by
Frauce and China recognizing a French
protectorate over Tonquui and Anam. No
indemnity is demanded by France.
The members of the New York Produce
Exchange moved into their new building
on tbe GLb, marching from their old build
ing to the new one in a drenching rain.
New York and Cmeago were agitated
on the 10th over a report that Jay Gould
•was financially embarrassed. The report
originated in Chicago and was denied by
Gould.
Designs for the Garfield monument have
been received from artists in the United
States, France, Italy, Germany and En
gland. No decision will be reached lor
several weeks.__
From papers found in the possession of
soldiers slain in the late insurrection at
Fuigeros, Spain, it is learned that tbe mili
tary conspiracies were extended and grow
ing formidable. _
The London Times explains the hisses
with which Gladstone was greeted at the
Health Exposition as a condemnation of
the treatment of the Government towards
General Gordon.
* The proposed bill on explosives, pre
sented in the German Bundesratu on
the Tth, is very severe, penal servitude
and death being among the penalties for
the violation of the law.
The Sharon divorce case was rich in its
developments on the 8th. A colored wit
ness who had previously testified in behalf
of Miss Hill acknowledged she had been
bribed to perjure herself.
Ingkrsoll and Wilson want the priv
ilege of cross-examining Walsh and Price
if tney are called as witnesses in the Kel
logg case before the Committee on Expend
itu.es in the Department of Justice.
An audience of 3,0u0 people in Exeter
Hall, London, on the (ifch, cheered Canon
Hoare when he alluded to the shame the
English people felt at General Gordon be
ing left without assistance in Egypt.
When the steamer Titania with the crew
and passengers of the State of Florida
landed at Montreal on the 8th crowds were
gathered at the wharf to see them. The
stories of the disaster are heartrending.
William H. Vanderbilt sailed for Eu
rope on the 19th, but before he left he sent
for General Grant and returned to him all
the deeds to the property which the Gen
eral and bis wife had made over to him the
day previous.
An attachment suit has been brought by
the Marine Bank against Grant & Ward,
and General U. 8. Grant is made co-defend
ant. Ward's elegant residence has been
deserted by the family and is in the hands
of the Sheriff.
of the Sheriff.
It is said the King of the Belgians offers
to send Btauley in charge of an expedition
to the Congo region to aid Gordon in his
retreat from Khartoum if the English Gov
ernment will recognize the International
African Association.
The Methodist General Conference at
Philadelphia on the H:h discussed the use of
the church hymnals,
of New York, said tbe people would sing
such hymns as they please, no matter what
the Conference said.
The International Health Exposition
In London, held under tbe.auspices of the
Prince of Wales, was formally inaugurated
on tbe 8th with imposing ceremonies by
the Duke of Cambridge. It bids fair to
rival the Fisheries Exposition.
Rev. C. C. McCabe,
Another confidential clerk has come to
grief through private speculation. James
Clark, confidential clerk of Rudolph Hoch
kofter, commission merchant of Ban Fran
cisco snd Austro Hungarian Consul there,
1s short §30,000 in hls accounts.
Tine steamer Cjty of Portland, which left
Portland, Me., on the night of the 7th for
Ht John, N. B., struck on Grindstone
Hedge at Owl's Head the morning of tbe
8th and was wrecked. The crew snd sev
enty passengers were transferred safely
to another vessel, but the cargo was a total
loss.
Zanesville, O., Is excited over mysteri
ous, wide and deep fissures in the earth,
and the sudden sinking of three seres of
ground, on which were many houses. Some
«f tbe terror-stricken Inhabitants think an
rtbquake has occurred. Others think an
abandoned coal mine under the sunEen
territory caused the depression.
The result of the Inter-State drill at
Houston Is as follows: First infantry prize,
§SJXM, Houston Light Guards; second, $1,
*§0'. Traadway Rifles, St. Louis; third,§500.
„*Sal,,„(( („ Guards, Columbus, Ga. The
feprh Znnares, St. I-ouis, won the Zouave
^EqKtlJMO. First artillery prize, §'o0,
BwnUI B, Louisiana field artlllsy; second,
AW, Be' - ry A, Sfc Louis light artillery.
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
William Ellis was shot and Mlled tbe
evening of the 7th by George Jenne, in 4
dispute about a log-chain, at Tidioute, Pa.
PaiitCE Jerome NaeoleoN, in hie reply
to his partisans, says a republic can not bo
displeasing to a son of the first Consul.
Baron' St. Leonards was committed to
jail in Brentford, Eng., on the 8ib, and bail
refused, on a charge of indecent assault
domestic in the family of a friend
upon a
be was visiting.
At the Medical Convention at Washing
ton, D. C., on the 8tb, Dr. Keller, of Ar
kansas, said in a few years cremation
would be regarded as a sanitary neces
sity. *
An investigation of the affairs of the
Marine Bank has been begun. Excitement
has moderated, the general impression be
ing that President Fish was hasty in his
action.
China will invest Li Hung Chang with
full powers on the Anam question.
During the trial of Dubetski and daugh
ter, Nihilists, at St. Petersburg, the former
stabbed himself fatally and the latter seri
ously.
The charges of bribery in connection
with the late Kentucky Senatorial election
were found by the committee of investiga
tion to be without foundation.
Tm§ spring meeting of the Kentucky As
sociation began on the 8th at Louisville
with warm weather and the track ankle
deep in mud.
Gladstone appeared at the Health Ex
hibition in London on the 8th and was re
ceived with mingled cheers and hisses.
Seaman Nindeumann resumed his tes
timony ou the 8th before the Jeannette
Committee of inquiry. Testimony was
also given by John P. Jackson, Paris cor
respondent of the New York Herald.
The Greely relief steamer Thetis arrived
at St. John's, N. F., on the 9th.
Minister Sargent will be banqueted
previous to his departure from Berlin.
R. J. McKim, a member of the Canadian
Parliament, has been arrested for forgery.
A new edition of the Medical and Surgi
cal History of the War of the Rebellion
will be issued shortly.
The National Medical Association, in
session at Washington, adjourned sine
die on the 9th.
Many buildings were damaged by thun
der-storms in several Eastern States, on
the 9th.
Governor Glick of Kansas is in corre
spondence with parties who claim to have
located the Benders.
Congressman Hewitt will introduce a
bill to amend and simplify the present
tariff law.
Ex-Coroner Hope, of Cincinnati, has ob
tained a judgment of six and one-quarter
cents against the Commercial'Gazette for
libel.
More witnesses are coming forward
• in the Sharon divorce case and confessing
to perjury.
James 8. Coleman! (colored) was hanged
at Columbia, S. C., on the 9th, for the mur
der of Sarah Willis.
Ex-Mayor Saunders of Lawrence,
Mass., has been held to bail charged with
ballot-box stuffing.
and dozen
ballot-box stuffing.
An engine and a dozen cars were
smashed on the night of the 8th near Hunt
ingdon, Pa., by the wreck of a freight
train.
1 wo children perished by tfce burning
of a school building in Roth Rocksville,
Pa., which was struck by lightning on the
9tb.
An additional appropriation of $100,000
has been recommended by tbe Secre
tary of War for the Southern flood suf
fers.
Attorney-General Brewster denies
that the Department of Justice has con
nived at the dismissal of the Kellogg case.
Another attempt was made by robbers
on the 9th to wreck and rob a train on the
Mexican Central Road. One of the rob
bers
An Englishman named Thos. Leonard
was shockingly murdered at Nebraska
City, Neb., on the 8.h, by unknown assail
ants. Robbery is given as the probable
cause.
Two murderers, Geo. Horn and William
Gibbons, in jail at Ashland, O., awaiting
death on the IGnh, attempted suicide
9th by taking morphine, but were saved
for the hangman.
A Utah murderer named Hope, alias
Welcome, has selected shooting as the
means of death in his case, his execution
being set for Juno 12. His case has already
cost the Territory $15,090.
The Alert sailed on the 10th for the Arc
tic regions.
At Fall River, Mass., the operatives'
strike is at an end.
Reports of the 10th said Charles O'Con
nor, tho eminent New York lawyer, was
not expected to live.
A Manitoba barrister named John
Boultbee has absconded with $70,000.
A Plumber in St. Paul, Minn., fell from
the fifth story of a building and only broke
his ankle.
Monsignor Capel will probably be of
fered an American bishopric.
Giovanni Prati, the Italian poet, born
in 1815, died on the 10th.
The Sweetland Manufacturing Works,
Wallingford, Conn., burned on the 10th.
Loss, $41,090.
Ex-Governor Paris C. Dunning of In
diana died of apoplexy at Bloomington, in
that State, on the 10th.
Lieutenant Chkrmside has been de
creed Governor of Suakim by the Khe
dive of Egypt.
The change of forgery against McKim,
member of the Canadian Parliament, has
been dismissed.
It is reported President Arthur lost
money by the Grant & Ward failure.
Thomas. C. Jones, President of the Con
ductors' Life Insurance Company of the
United States and a well-known railroad
man, died on the 10th.
S. P. Burt, a Boston millionaire who
married bis servant girl a month ago,
dropped dead in the Metropolitan Hotel,
Milwaukee, Wis., on the 10th.
A resolution to instruct for Ben Butler
was voted down by the Greenbackers of
the Fifth Congressional District of Ken
tucky.
In order to escape Bonapartist intrigues
Prince Victor Napoleon, son of Plon-Plon,
takes a voyage East.
John MoDougall, of Brussels, Ont., was
run over and killed by a St. Paul train
near Sevalle, Wis., on the 10th. He w as
en route to Portage, Manitoba.
Hon. Butler B. Strong, who represent
ed Tioga County, Pq,, in the State Senate
for fifteen years, committed suicide on the
10th on account of ill-health.
The Northwestern Manufacturing and
Car Company of Stillwater, Minn., has
failed. D. M. Sabin, Chairman of the Na
tional Republican Committee, was Presii
dent.
killed.
t be
Thk Prince of W.les visited It sniarci.
and Emperor William and bad a chat with
the Prince of Bulgaria on the lltb.
Rr.y. T. V. Van Bodenfield, • book con
vaster of BuffMo, N. Y., who has been car
rying on extensive swindling practices,
has been arrested by order of the Bishop
of New Jersey.
Eoan and Daly, the recently captured
dynamiters, have been committed for trial
at Warwick, Eng. They are charged with
complicity in the explosion at Victoria
railway station.
BabonksS Be kdett-Couth is entreated
to establish a fund for the relief of (Jordon.
The expedition to Khartoum, 8,000 strong,
will start in July.
W. G. Case, of Santa Malica, Cal., on
the way to the Presbyterian General
Assembly, was seised with apoplexy and
died at Kansas City, Mo.
MII*Hat Pasha died in Constantinople
on the 11th from the effects of a carbuncle.
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XLVJHTIi CONGRESS.
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In the Senate on the 9th Senator Vest re
ported favorably the bill for the erection of
u public building at Detroit. Memorials
favoring the suspension ot th r coinage of
tue silver dollar were presented by Senator
Bayard and others. A bill was intro
duced by Senator Cockrell to facilitate the
negotiation of bills of lading and other
commercial instruments. The free bridge
bill across the Potomac Hiv
taken upon a substitute for the orig
inal bill offered and passed. Mr.
Vance addressed the Senate in support of
Vest's amendment providing for free ships..
.In the House the morning hour was dis
pensed with and the tariff bill taken up in com
mittee of the whole. Speeches were made bv
. Brown of Pennsylvania, Townsheud,
Gibson, Randall, Blackburn, Eaton and oth
ers, the debate being closed by Mr. Morrison.
There was an excited scene when Mr. Con
ed to strike out the enacting clau83.
ttien
Me
verse
The motion prevailed—159 to 155.
In the Senate on the 7th a bill to place
General Grant upon the retired list of the
ras introduced by Senator Edmund*
army
and referred. Bills were also introduced to
create tho Quillinetto land district in
Washington Territory: to provide for ad
justment of accounts of w< rkmen
the eight-hour law. Mr. Hill addressed
the Senate on the bill to declare
forfeited the land grams of the New Orleans,
Baton Rouge X Vicksburg Railroad Coin
puny. The shipping bill wus taken up....In
the House a number of bills reported from
various cominiitees were referred. The Sen
ate amendment to the bill repealing the iron
clad oath was concurred In. The bill for the
relief of Fitss-John Porter, with the Senate
amendments, wascons.d rid.and, the amen 1
;nts wore non-concurred in. The Senate
•concurred in in the
amendments were
bill establishing a bureau of uniraal industry.
The bill passed donating a purt or the nba 1 -
doned military reservation at Fort, Fmithto
the be..eiitof
the city of Fort Smith, Ark.,
the public schools.
In tbe Senate on the 8th messages were
received from the House announcing non
concurrence In the pleuro-pneumonia bill
and the Fitz-John Porter bill and committees
of conference were appointed. The bill grant
ing pens one to soldier* of the Mexican war was
reported favorably iiomthePeusion.*Commit
tee and pine d on the calendar. The shipping
jn taken up. Mr. McPherson'* amend
ment cutting off comoemation for the leturn
trip of shin* that inav take out the Un t *d
States mail was rejected. A motion to strike
out the section providing for foreign
lost. The House bill
as amende 1, then passed.In the
House bills were reported to enable Na
tional bunks to change their location and
name and to increase their capital slock;
thorlzing the appointment of a Missouri River
Commission; to amend the patent laws. The
House went into committee of the whole on
tbe state of the Union. 9 he bill appropriat
ing $1.090,u00 for the World's Fair at New Or
leans was taken up and passed.
In the Senate on the 9th the Indian ap
propriation bill was taken up. The Senate
amendments increase the appropriation $767.
413, maklnfr the total sum to be appropriated
$6,213,802. Pending debate on the bill the
Senate went into executive session — In the
House h remonstrance from the Louisville
Board of Trade was presented against the en
actment of a bankrupt law. The bill passed
granting the widow of General Frank P. Blair
an additional pension.
bill
>t
mail pay
In the Senate on the 10th a concurrent
resolution of tho Legislature of California,
relative to the appropriation for the improve
ment of the Sacramento River, was present
ed by Mr. Fraley and referred to the Com
mittee on Commerce. The Senate, shortly be
fore one o'clock, suspended business to per
mit.members to attend the unveiling of tbe
statue of Chief Justice Marshall .. .T'tfi House
was not in session, having adjourned over till
Monday.
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHS.
12th a resolution
In the Senate
of inquiry passed authorizing the Commit
tee on Judiciary to look into the facts
forming the basis of Senator Garland's bill
to amend the Thurman act relating to Gov
ernment claims against the Union and
Central Pacific Roads. The Indian appro
priation was discussed at length, but with
out action....In the House Mr. Cox
(of New York) introduced a bill to
place General Grant on the retired
list. Messrs. Hewitt and
(of Missouri) introduced bills relating to
the tariff. Mr. Belford introduced a bill to
prevent the sudden contraction of cur
rency; Mr. Tucker, to repeal internal rev
enue taxes on tobacco and on brandy and
wine manufactured from fruit. Confer
ence committees were appointed on the
Fitz John Porter bill and on the bill estab
lishing a bureau of animal industry. A
number of bills relating to the District of
Columbia passed.
Prince Yamashana of Japan' arrived at
San Francisco on the 12th.
Bismarck has finally received the Em
peror's consent to retire.
Mayer's brewery in New York city was
destroyed by fire on the 12th. Loss, $00,
uie
O'Neill
000 .
The Willinsh Koail has been placed in
the hands of a temporary receiver.
It is said the Franeo-Cbinese treaty
gives France more than she ever claimed.
Hknhy D. Stout, one of the oldest news
paper men in Ohio, died on the Pith. He
was seventy-six years of age.
Ferdinand Ward has filed an assign
ment for the benefit of hls creditors.
George C. Holt is the assignee.
In the contested election case of Wal
lace vs. McKinley, the House Elections
Committee has decided In favor of Wal
lace.
A slight run was made on the 12th on
tho First National Bank of Stillwater,
Minn., growing out of the Northwestern
Car Company's failure.
An unprecedented cut in rates is an
nounced by the agents of the Burlington,
Missouri, Union Pacific and Atchison, To
peka and Santa Fe Roads.
Bhi 1 ' 1 -krh, shin-owners and underwriters
at a meeting in New York on the 12th, con
demned the bill now before Congress re
lating to international bills of lading.
There has been a slaughter of Chris
tians in Bouth Africa. The Norwegian
Mission at Inhlabatkt was attacked and
three men killed on the 4th Inst.
Until the statement of the bank exam
iner Is mode public, no official or definite
figures can bo givenofthe amount involved
in the Grant & Ward failure.
Gkokge A ndkrson, an advanced Liberal,
notics in the British House of Com
on the 12th that he would soon make
gave
mon*
a motion to condemn the existence of the
House of Lords.
SOUTHERN BLEASISHS.
At a receiver's »ale reciently in Au
gusta, Ua., Oban. H. Ftain-ey bought the
Summerville cotton mill, the price being
108,000.
District Grand Lodge, No. 7, of the Inde
pendent Order of B'nai Brith, held its an*
nual session in New Orleans recently.
Large delegations from Alabama, Arkan
sas, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee and
Louisiana were present. After tbe reading
of the message of the President, Seigmund
Haas, of Mobile, the election of officers
took place, resulting as follows: Lea N,
Levy, Galveston, President; Jo3. Hirsch,
Vicksburg, First Vice President; J, A.
Levy, Victoria, Second Vice President; M.
Ullman, Memphis, Secretary; H. Eliren
berg, Little Bock, Treasurer; E. Wolf,
Nashville, Sergeant-at-Arms.
A few days ago a fire starting in the Var
House at Gainesville, Fla., spread
num
thence across the entire square west of the
Court-house, destroying every building in
It then swept across Liberty
its way.
street, burning the Arlington House, an
elegant winter hotel, with the building in
. Estimated value of the buildings
consumed, mostly wood, $40,090; value of
stocks and contents not learned,
was a rumor that a riiild burned to death
in one of the building*. The fire is sup
posed to have been caused by a tramp put
out of the Varnum House the night be
the
There
fore.
A few nights ago twenty masked men
went and demanded the key of the jailer
in Burlington, the couuty seat of Boone
County, Ky. The jailer refused to surren
der them. They then went and broke open
the jail, took out Charles Dickerson, the
arrested last March for
negro who
burglary, and escaped, but was again ar
rested a week ago in the act of committing
The mob took him two
another burglary,
miles from Burlington and lynched him by
hanging. Dickerson pleaded that he was
young in this business, aud had been led
into it by drunkenness.
York Grisham, colored, who died a few
Cherokee
days ago at Will's Wood, i
County, Ga.,
the oldest person in Georgia.
The Georgetown (Ky.) National Bank
loses heavily by forgeries committed by
J. It. Wolf, of that place, who has been ar
rested.
The Kentucky Democrats in State Con
vention at Frankfort selected delegates to
the National Convention and recommend
ed Hon. John G. Carlisle for nomination
s in his 115th year, and
for President.
The jury in the case of Ike Loeb, ot Dal
las, Tex., charged
Emanuel McClarty, colored, brought in a
verdict of not guilty. Loeb was warmly
congratulated.
Charles Greer was shot and killed a few
days since by Lawrence Smith on the plan
tation of Mr. O. B. Stevens, near Dawson,
•ith the murder of
Ga.
In a difficulty between Mr. Wm. Courts
and Mr. Thaddeus Bunn, at Cochran, Ga.,
the latter was shot three times in the body,
from which he died. The murderer has
not been captured.
Henry Sevarn, who murdered Mrs. Har
rison Reed at Winston, N. C., was taken
from jail a few nights ago by several hun
dred citizens and lynched.
A Texas youth of sixteen recently turned
highwayman, stole two of his father's
horses, and, armed with a shot-gun, went
on the road. At the first store he attempt
ed to rob the proprietor fired five shots at
him and the boy hasn't been seen since.
Two houses were blown into the river
during a storm at St. Joseph, La., a few
nights ago.
The cotton crop report for the Memphis
(^strict shows a decreased acreage
planted.
A Louisville attorney named Lewis C.
Garrigus lias sued A. Frazier of that city
for $8,000 damages for shooting him at
Russellville, Ky., last year.
The heirs of Thomas A. Scott sued the
city of Shreveport, La., for $30,000 with ac
crued interest since 1875, but Judge Board
man rendered a decision against them.
James Murray shot and killed D. Hardin,
-Sheriff of Crittenden County, Tenn., a
few duys ago in a quurrel growing out of a
lawsuit. Murray was shot in return and
lied soon afterward.
An attempt was made a few days ago by
a Sheriff's posse of forty men to capture
W. B. Cash, the Chesterfield (S. C.) out
law. The Cash mansion, Cash's depot, was
surrounded and a thorough search of the
premises made, but the murderer could not
be found.
J. R. Wolf, of Georgetown, Ky., was ar
rested at Lexington a few nights ago on
the charge of forgery. He had forged the
name of T. J. Burgess, Cashier of the
Georgetown National Bank, to checks to
the amount of several thousand dollars.
The bank will lose heavily by it.
Austin Bull, a raftsman from Pennsyl
vania, was found murdered under a pile of
straw in tbe eastern part of the city of
Louisville, Ky., a few days ago. He had
been struck in the head, then choked to
death with a towel and his body hid under
the straw. There was no clew to the mur
derer or cause of the crime.
John Ashley, a farmer, while at work on
his farm, half a mile east of Denison, Tex.,
was shot in the face by some unknown
party, the ball lodging near the ear, but it
is thought not to be serious. It is supposed
to have been a stray shot from some on<
out hunting.
The trial of School Superintendent
Carter M. Lauthan, of Richmond, Va., for
engaging in politics in violation of law
resulted in a verdict of guilty. He
fined fifty dollars in addition to forfeiture
of his office. Lauthan will appeal.
One of the little girls of Mr. Geo.
Reeves, of Waynesboro, Ga., went out
into the yord, a few days ago, carrying
one of the smaller children in her arras.
There were two large pots of boiling
clothes in the yard. As she neared the
pots, holding the little one in her arms,
peeping over the edge, she released her
grasp and dropped the little fellow into
the hot water. It was scalded to death.
Rice in Georgia promises well.
Mrs. Rivers, of Galveston, Tex., ha»
brought suit for $20,000 damages against
the Dallas Herald for stating that she was
the mother of a child found recently in a
basket on Dr. Morton's doorsteps. Mr*.
Rivers shows up her own child in proof of
the falsity of the charges of the Herald.
The foundation of the Methodist colored
church at McKinney, Tex., gave way dur
ing a largely attended meeting a few
nights ago. Two lamps exploded and one
woman was burned to death and another
had her clothing all burned off by the burn
ing oil which was scattered over the con
gregation.
The liver of a chicken recently killed in
Maysville, Ky.. weighed one and one-quar
ter pounds.
WEST YIRUIJilA TBABEUIES.
A Farmer Instantly Kills the Newly Weddad
Husband of Hls Slepdnngliter and Lanves
the Latter far Dead—A Mysterious Mur
A****
her—A Sian Shut by Unknow
•instil Hls Field «nd Afterward Beaten te
Death with Stone*.
Wheeling, W. Va., May 12.
A terrible tragedy was committed at
Petersburg, Grant County, Friday night,
the particulars of which have just been
received here, and another lynching may
follow, which will be the fourth in tills
State within ten days. Lawrence SpiUer,
a farmer living back of Petersburg, had a
handsome step-daughter to whom he
played the part of a cruel parent,
keeping her mewed up
ever practicable,
was full of rumors
their relations to each other, and it be
came a matter of surprise when Edward
Taylor, who worked for Spiller, demand
ed her band In marriage. Spiller refused
point blank and warned Taylor he would
kill him If he found him again on the
premises. On Friday night the girl dis
appeared, having eloped with Taylor and
gone to Petersburg.
Spiller armed himself
lowed,
when
The county
concerning
and fol
vowiug death to the
if caught. At Petersburg he
learned that they were married aud were
lodging with a man named Williams.
SpiUer went to Williams' house and
was told the newly married couple had
retired and were asleep. Forcing his
way to the room, he entered, awaking
Taylor with the noise. The bridegroom
sat up in bed as Spiller entered, and
Spiller levelled a revolver at him. The
bride begged piteously for his life, but
Spiller fired, the bullet entering his heart
and killing him instantly. Spiller then at
tacked the wife, hammering her over the
head with the revolver, and bitterly de
nouncing her for deserting him. Leaving
her for dead he rushed from the house,
man
mounted his horse and fled. Williams
gave the alarm, aud an armed posse start
le pursuit. Spiller returned home, where
he was arrested and taken back to jail.
The news comes by messenger, aud
when the man left the town the indigna
tion and excitement were iuteuse. Mrs.
Taylor was then iu a dying condition, and
the courier feared mob law in the event
of her death.
SHOT AND BRAINED WITH STONES.
Charleston, W. Va., May 12.
The people iu this Immediate vi
cinity are excited over the accounts
of the numerous desperate deeds
that have lately been committed.
Within ten days five murders
have been enacted and three lyuch
ings, and while all of the crimes have
been committed by the "Jntnes gang,"
aud though three of Its members have
been lynched and one shot dead while re
sisting arrest, the lawless deeds of the
band are still carried ou and hor
rible tragedies ure becoming every
day occurrences. The latest has
just come In fro: Koauc,
an adjoining county, and will ever re
maiu a mystery. Thomas Duskiu, a
well-known farmer, has figured promi
nently before the Federal Court as a wit
ness in various cases, and has incurred
the hatred of the gang, which caused
several threatening letters to be sent to
him. He gave them no heed, and went
to work us usual. With a man named
Elmore he was plautlug corn, when a
shot was heard, and he threw up his
bauds and exclaimed, "I'm killed!"
Elmore could see no person, . and
takiug hold of Duskin started
for the house, a mile distant. On the way
Duskin became weak from loss of blood,
and resting ou the feuce sent Elmore on
for help. Elmore had not gone five hun
dred yards before five masked men
emerged from the woods aud attacked
Duskin, killing him by pounding his head
to a jelly with stones. So fur as could be
learned nothing Is known of the murder
ers and no steps are being taken for their
apprehension.
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A GRACEFUL ACT.
William H. Vanderbilt Return* the Deeds
by General and Mr*. Grant of Their
Property In Connection with tho Recent
Failure —" Fay When Y
Ready."
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Get Good nod
New Yoi:k, May 12.
It is a fact that is now pretty gen
erally known that on May tth General
Graut went to Wm. H. Vanderbilt and
asked him to loan him §150,000, which he
said was to help the firm of Graut & Ward
tide over the affairs of the Marine Bank
which he said needed a little aid. Mr.
Vanderbilt loaned the money to General
Grant, and on the Tuesday following
both the Marine Bank and the firm of
Ward & Grant failed. Ou Wednesday
Mr. Vanderbilt had an Interview with
General Grant and asked him to ex
plain the affair,
had little to say; he
asked to borrow the money
the firm and did it In good faith. The
failure was as much a surprise to him as
to any one and he felt his position keen
ly. He said he would make all the repa
ration possible and he assigned all bis
property to Mr. Vanderbilt. Mrs. Grant
did the same, including her Newport
property. Two hours before Mr. Van
derbilt sailed for Europe on Saturday he
sent for General Grant, handed him all
the deeds that had bceu assigned to him
and told the General he had no use for
them; he also told him to pay him the
§150,000 when be got good and ready,
hoped the General would come out ot Ills
difficulties O. K., aud bade him a cordial
good-by.
The General
had been
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Locked Wheel* and Ri-okt-i
Heads.
Springfield, Mo., May 12.
Two teamsters' named respectively
Manual Brake, of Polk Comity, aud
David Ilargus, on Saturday drove
close to each othoras to lock their wugon
wheels on the road live miles north
here, which resulted in an altercation,
during which Hargus picked up a pole
and struck Brake on the head, knocking
him senseless. A physician was called,
but at a lute honr the wounded man
still unconscious and not expected to
live. Hargus will be held to await the
suit of Brake's wounds.
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THE ISTER-STATE BRILL.
Result of tlko Houston, (Tex.) Military
Tournament—The Successful Competitors
snd TUoIr Frizes—Houston HoKpitalitic__
A Graceful Act by the Home Company-,
Off for Home.
Houston, Tex.. May 12.
The judges on Saturday night at the
final dress-parade rendered their decisions
In the State and inter-Stnte drill. The
prizes were awarded as follows:
For Artillery—Battery B, Louisiana
Field Artillery of New Orleans, first,,
8760; Battery A, St. Louis Light Artil
lery, second, 8250.
For Infantry—Light Guards of Hous
ton, Tex., first, §5,000; Tred'vay Bides
of St. Louis, second, §1,500; Columbus
Guards, Columbus, Ga., third, 8500; Mo
bile Rifles, fourth, no prize; Montgomery
Greys, Montgomery, Ala., fifth, no prize;
Washington Guards, Galveston, sixth, no.
prize.
The Richardson Zouaves of Indianapo
werc forced to withdraw from the inter-.
State Infantry contest on account of four
ot the members being overcome with the
h 'at, and it was considered unsafe to al
1 .tv them to participate.
The Houston Light Guard as a com
pany were out drilled by long odds by
both the Tredways and the Columbus
Guards, and can thank their commanding
officer Captain Scurry, for saving them
from being placed third on the list. At
no time during the entire drill of his
company did he lose his coolness pres
ence of mind or fail to give the proper
command. lie was the oply officer who
did not bring upon hls company costly
errors. When the Light Guards appeared
ail brokeu up uud|their friends had lost all
hope, he succeeded in restoriug the com
pany to its equilibrium. Had the officers
of the Tredways done as well the first
prize would have gone to St. Louis. The
drill was decidedly close and was only
won by the slightest sort of good fortune
by the Light Guards.
Iu the drill for the best drilled man,,
the prize being the Noyes cup, worth.
§150, R. B. Dumont, of the Mobile Rifles,
was the victor, with B. C. Spickcrinau,
of the Tredways, second. There were
sixteen competitors. The programme of
the day consisted of the great sham bat
tle, in which all the military participated.
It was a splendid Illustration of mimic
war, and was witnessed by fully 20,000
people. The award of prizes gives per
fect satisfaction to the companies, all
feeling that the awards were fairly made.
All Houston was wild with delight Sat
Uay night. The streets arc filled with peo
ple and the shouts arc deafening. In the
State contest between Texas companies
that had never won a prize at an inter
state drill the Washington Guards, of
Galveston, took the only prize offered,
§500. The other companies were placed
as follows: Austin Greys, second; Bren
ham Greys, third; Queen City Guards, of
Dallas, fourth: Johnson Guards, of
Hempstead, fifth, and Lamar Rifles, of
Dallas, sixth.
There is a misunderstanding between
the Busch Zouaves and the drill man
agers as regards the amouutof money the
Busehs ure to receive for first prize. The
management tendered them §750, and
gave the Richardson Zouaves of Indian
apolis §250 for second prize. The lluschs
claim they are entitled to §1,000, and ac
cording to the terms of the drill guide
book their claim is good. The exact
reading of the part referring to the zouave
drill, as copied from the guide-book, the
zouave drill is as follows: "For zouaves,
two or more companies to enter, §1,000;
if but one company enters, §500. As
three companies competed and tin; Busch
Zouaves were awarded first place they are
entitled to the §1,000. It is said that
Captain Koemer returned the check sent
him by the drill management lor 8750,
and declines to take less than the 81,000
his company won. Yesterday was a gala
day in Galveston. The Tredwav Rifles,
the Columbus Guards, tile Mobile Rifles,
the Busch Zouaves, the Bain Zouaves, the
Richardson Zouaves aud Battery A of the
St. Louis Light artillery went thereon an
excursion and gave exhibition drills at
Reach l'urk.
The Light Guards met on Saturday
night and turned over their 85,000 to a
committee of citizens to be distributed,
among all the companies that have visited
Houston during the drill. The division
is to be made to-day and will be on the
pro rata plan, companies having won
prizes to be charged up for the amounts
and tile §5,000 so distributed that each
visiting company will receive an equal
sum of money as near as it is possible to
make it. The Buscli Zouaves have been,
given assurances by responsible parties
that they shall receive their §1,000 prize
and their proportion of the §5,000 as
well. A number of ex-Confederates ban
queted the Richardson Zouaves Saturday
as a compliment to them as the only com
pany from north of Mason and Dixon's
line. Governor Ireland was present and
spoke, and speeches were also made by a
number of other ex-Confederates. Toasts
were drunk, etc. Captain Richardson,
on behalf of his com pnuy, responded in a
very happy manner. A banquet was,
given at the Capitol Hotel,'complimen
tary to the officers of the visiting com
panies.
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An Exciting Fire.
Lexington, Mo., May 12.
John Smith's grocery was destroyed
by fire ou Saturday night. He was badly
burned, and an aged lady named Myers la
an adjoining building very narrowly escap
ed perishing In the flames, being insensible
when dragged through the window by a*
oue-armed boy named Joe Parham,
the Commercial House, a couple of doors
away, there was the wildest excitemeuV
every one raovlug out. The Post-olllce,
opposite, was endangered, uud the ex
press office wus also threatened. The
only protection the city has against tire
is the exertions ot citizens, uud right
nojjly did the bucket brigade work, hut
without success In saving the building or
goods, though the flames were prevented
from spreading. A watch will he kept, l|j
case the flames now smouldering should'
revive.
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Youug; Crowe'* Crime.
PEonrA, III., May 17
Tom Crowe, who was arrested In CM
the accusation ol
cago a few days ago on
having burned his father's barn Febru
ary 11, 1882, urrlved here Saturday even
ing and gavo bond In the sum of 3500 ,
Edward Spallwan becoming his surety.
Tom is a son of Pat W. Crowe, the <y
oao lu
of
namitcr, and the barn burned was
which Pat Crowe, who was a. contractor
for the city, stored gasoline used In HR'
ing street lamps In the suburbs of * • I
city. The Insurance on the.born was u 1
•850.
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