Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye (Newspaper) - December 10, 1874, Burlington, Iowa ESTABLISHED THURSDAY DECEMBER EDNAS Her Libel Suit Moulton Sent to a Counsel Object to Admitting the But Ednas Tender Heart and the Reporters Cheek let them It is Sud that the Reference is all a Put up tiered was based wholly on hearsay lat lie should apologize to her and pay 11 the costs over five thousand dollar t both sides that Miss Proctor should no pecuniary damages against but would be satisfied with a indication of her and the should report according to these and thus end the These rms were agreed to by all and afternoon the reference rhe Government Abandons the Safe Burglary Case in Moulton Sees He Make a Case and Gets Off as Cheaply aa When the case of Edna Dean Proctor against Moulton was called in the United States this Fullerton said tbe defense was not ready for two reasons because this court has no jurisdiction because of the illness of the Ho sug gested that the case be referred to a ret after was agreed te by the plaintiffs and Benja min Silliman was appointed Judge Fullerton said they did not meau to offer any evidence to prove what Is supposed to be the They had never pretended they could prove and did not expect They only wanted to say it was told not that it was They confidently anticipated a complete vindication of both After tbe settlement of the usual pre the counsel went to Silliman when they were joined by Gen eral of and a conference was held on the question ol admitting reporters to the Butler opposing admission and the plain tiff and General her be willing admit It was finally decided to admit them under certain The party then went to the United States Court where the reference was to be The then amended her complaint by stating the residence of the parties to the suit and Tracy briefly opened the Miss Proctor then testified to her high est esteem for and declared there was not the slightest shadow o truth in the stories that nave been in regard to him in her name had been mentioned Thee was never any improper behavio on his neither did he ever offer her any She then related the under she published the volume of extracts from Beecher entitled Life and the trouble she had with Beecher abou the rival She never could forge Beechers breach of faith of arrangements in connection with tni and had seen very little of him since but at all times they had very more The letter of January pub by was given under th following circumstances Beecher calle to see me New Tears FOREIGN Preparations for Holding an In Law The long talked of Von Arnim Trial Begins in The Indictment Accuses the Count of Dereliction in Official to see coe o j j SBI there was some difficulty between Bowe and and that wa and fearing that if I died there might be some wrong construction pot upon Proctor and Beecher s and that to save any such trouble he wanted me to write an expression of my reelings to ward I went up to the library and wrote a letter which Moulton he Senatorial Caucus Perseveres in Leaving Arkansas Matters Tbe Safe Burglary Case Gen ral Williams gives notice that the Gov has abandoned the safe burglary ase under the late indictment which the Supreme Court has pronounced a nul owing to the illegal Grand Judge has ordered a nolle prosequi and discharge the her action will be taken at Presidential The President appointed EH of Cerro rhe Republican senatorial his adjourned without action on the Arkansas A few favored and they differed as to the Most of them favored post as accounts represent the eople aa satisfied with the present gov The Louisiana question was also XLIII SESSION were presented and among which was remonstrance of the type founders of Chicago aud other cities against the ratification of the Canadian reciprocity treaty so far as it relates to type and printers supplies a memorial rom the citizens of Kansas tor extension of time to the homestead and preemption set who have been compelled to aban don their claims on grasshop pers a protest from lumbermen against the Canadian reciprocity treaty also a memorandum signed by the representa tives of the National Association against the claiming that it is and violates the treaties with other Anthony submitted a list of stand ing including the former Committee on Agreed The Transportation Committee is con for this A introduced by au the Secretary of War to tain the expenses incurred by Kansas in resisting tbe was referred to the Committee on Military of New offered a res instructing the Secretary of the Treasury to transmit to the House the report of customs of New stating whether there be any change in the levy ot duty on any article brought into that port since June and to give the reason or such if and state by what authority giving the full ext of instructions in each The House then took up the under consideration yesterday concerning the at who has charge of the said that since the matter The Court Room to be Cleared Dur ing the More Important The indictment proceeds to analyze Von motives and impugn the truth of his asseverations that he was not re sponsible for the of the quoting from the docu ments to sustain their The indictment concludes with charging him with purposely making away with documents officially intrusted to him and illegally The prosecution announced that they would call as witnesses General and several diplomatic officials of Ber lin at After reading of tbe the defense protested against the jurisdiction of the but was The prisoner was then examined and declared his adhering to his previous NEW The Restoration of Watch to His minister Washburne Presents the Time Piece to the Deputy with Appropriate Sudden Death of Ezra Cornell at His Home in Edna Dean Proctors Libel a Suit Sent to England Decides to Send a Commissioner to the American Centennial The Proctor Libel New Edna Dean suit has been sent over under order fur reference to ascertain citizen ship of the of Ezra A dispatch from Ithaca announces the death of Ezra V In Miss Proctors testimony she farth er states that she never went out with Beecher but for a few hours to see some pictures in and that in the studio of a personal She vis at his house with friends two or three One evening she went with the late Henry Raymond on an invi tation from They at tnc and engravings for an hour or two with On another occasion she went in the She remembered being in his study a few These were the only occasions she was in his came up telegrams were re which f how that proceedings now before the United States Court involved the same question as presented in the If the court should decide that the was a continuous part of the Union Pacific legislation would be He therefore moved a postponement until the second Tuesday in Agreed The House then went into a Commitee of the and referred various parts of the Presidents message to appropriate That portion of tbe message referring the THE INTERNATIONAL LAW including that of sent favorable with certain reservations to the ion ot the Czar to participate in the International Law 10 be held THE WATCH HIB GRANDFATHER accordance wich the resolution adopted in the American Con Minister Washburne today band ed Deputy Oscar De grand son of Maiquis the watch which General Washington presented to the latter as capit The watch was stolen from the Marquis while traveling in America in but was lately The cer emony took at the hotel of the American Embassy in the pretence oi the entire LaFayette and many distinguished Amer Minister Washburne related the history ot the resolution to restore the and al to during the American revolution in a mot priate in which lie expressed Ma wish tor the welfare of the patriot descendants and lor continued friendly relations between the United States and De in reply edged the feeling that prompted the re turn of the relic and thanked Wash burne for his kind ami asked him to speak their admiration and homage to heir second its Congress and ORGANIZATION OF THE withdrew his candidature for the Pres of the Left Centre in the Assem Come was then chosen by a vote of 53 to Thia restores the unity of the OBSERVATION OK THE of the transit of Venus were taken at Cairo and Photographic observations were perfectly The weather at Shanghai was overcast and the aun VUNNY ISN T Colonel Forney announces that he has official information that the British gov will recognize the and has resolved to appoint a commis to the IMPORTANT IF Disraeli who is at Bournemouth refused to see the Deputation and re marked that his absence from London would probably be Church Pres church and chapel burned this Loss insurance INDIAN Invading was received here today ot a raid of the Ute Indians into the Snake river They belong to Jacks band from the White River Tbe Colorado citizens are arming and propose to give them a warm The for the are that weather will with areas of north west or southwest winds and high bar TODAYS Grand Opening SCHRODER Take pleasure in announcing To the Citizens of Burlington and THEY NEW LOVES CHEAP The season for reading and indoor com fort is at Among my large stock of Miscellaneous Books there will always be found something also have a splendid stock of illustrated and elegantly bound books for the and books for the and and a great variety of card all things usu ally sold by the A bookstore is a good place in which to spend an hour or Come and see us JAMES Hedges SIGN OF THE Monday Butler and testimony Moulton Fairly Beaten Buder said they to let her testimony stand What was published was justification of their controversy with and of what Beecher told them Anv reasonable expenses this lady may haw Incurred will doubtless be sne Always Van Cott said their client had always asserted earnestly that she if large damages were awarded hr only receive enough for her bare She seemed to abhor the idea making money out of the case Judge Fullerton said his client had not actually libeled but had ed on selfdefense what had been told him Fixing it The counsel retired to fix the amount of expense which was an as and her friends then The Brooklyn says THe Snit is Virtually Yesterday the defense made formal overtures prosecution for a compro mise and settlement which the attorneys for Miss Proctor eventually decided to Last night it was agreed Ik it It die opening of court this Judge Fullerton should propose to the case to which Tracy should after some and that attorney Silliman should be elected referee and that Miss Proctor should testify that allegations as to her illicit in with Beecher were false in every respect that Moulton himself should make affidavit tha the cm his own knowledge knows noting to Arkansas matters was referred to the committee on the subject appointed last and the subject ot the Louisiana troubles to the select committed of seven appointed by the The com then rose and its action was rati fied by the The House then took up the to con the Auditing Board for the District Several amendments were without P Randall arraigned the Presidents statement in his asserting that the debt was instead ol twenty million delegate from the Dis insisted on the correctness of the Presidents and said Kan dan s attack was against the doubtless directed The Fuss they made Over Him at Kalakaua ar rived here this The Mayor City Council and General Ord and staff met them a few miles from the The party left for the east at four A of five thousand the and a saluta was fired from the Dec Orleans now and the libel he THE LONG TALKED Of VON ARNIM Von Arnim trial began The court room wae Fifty reporters ol various nationalities were The Judge announced that the trial would be pub lic except during the reading of docu ments in relation to the ecclesiastical policy of the The Prose cution read the It accuses Count of dereliction in his and says that when Prince Hohen lohe succeeded to the embassy at he found after a strict that a large number of documents were missing from the These the indictment divides into three those Count Von Arnim confesses haying abstracted and re those which the Count acknowledged having out which regarding as his private he re fuses to those which he professes to have no knowledge The indictment states that these docu ments were partly communications from the German foreign office to its repre and partly reports to repre of the foreign Ihe au letters of Bismarck are not in Von Arnim kept journals of his correspondence according to regula but during the last month of his stay in secretly kept the with few The indictment as serts that the documents which were not entered never reached the and that the greater part were not Then follows the enumeration of the documents and the correspondence which resulted in their dispatch admonishes Von Arnim for neglecting to send his gov the pastoral letters of the French bishops directed against Ger Other dispatches all relating to errors and delinquencies in Von Arnims official SOOTH UNTIL FURTHER I Will Straight A for Extra 0 9 for Yellow 10 for 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