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LU.X£bXX JL-liUCa.?t, in an in-Le idea that ased by any ys the cause Ley was be-l dissatisfied s Indian Ter-freak to go hence theyLves the fol~ *he Ameer’s STou may do s in ' M^ lessage has id, and a re-f procedureihe22dsays: ion to-day. iepartments 3 next fiscal o the lowest the falling gate amount erially from the present tion of the Departmenth the Indianhe most es-re treaty be-namely, the withdrawal 1 unsettled, eling exists, L hostilities.h troops in-o aown nana nau closed the bloody chasm; grander than the victory at Appomattox is the victory won by the people of the North in their noble contributions to the stricken South.”A horrible tragedy, being the murder in apparent cold blood of an entire family of four persons, was enacted on the night of the 23d near Vincennes, Ind. The victims of the assassin were a farmer named John D. Vacelet, his wife, and two sons, aged 14 and lfr. The suspected murderer Is a Frenchman, named Pierre Provost, who work-jedr-for Vacelet and occupied a room at his house in company with the two boys. Provost gave the first information of the tragedy to a neighbor, living half a mile away, .to whose house he went in his night-clothes, about day-break, saying that the whole family had been murdered, and that he had escaped by jumping “out of a window. An examination of the premises showed that Provost’s story was untrue in several particulars. All four were killed with an ax. The bodies of the two sons were lying in bed, as was also that of the mother; the father had apparently been aroused by the noise, and going into the adjoining *room to seek the cause, had been stricken dowma^iilled upon the tl^sMld. It is smdHKat Vacelet ha^ about $1,000 cash, lor some cattle sold on the day preceding the murder, and this was most probably the incentive to the crime. Provost was arrested, and there was considerable talk of lynching him upon the spot.Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of* Dublin, died on the 24th. He was born inFncfiarifi in ISOfl anH nnmiimtpfi.CIftrfii-wounded, bu rest of the par sued by the o: A destrueti1 the Sappa Val upon the heel Polk County, extremely fro efl that seven and others se^ J. Winthro] Surgeon-Gem Surgeon Gree Dan Demer ned to rob tin “ given away' shot and kille on the night named Light, time of the Rourke, butr Two mask ^jtage betweei ford, Texas, c were rifled of sengers reliev President £ tary Shermai (Maryland) F Hopeful, th sold by its for to Thomas 1 Yorker, the o ting stock in 1 said to be $25 Right Rev. olic Bishop of 21st, of hemo; a brother of CV Auother Fe Sentenced in 1V 'Mr.Henry]whom a nun were address* of the Elector published a e knowledge of es, which wer consent, and c other parties. Condon and
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Petersburg Pike County Democrat
Petersburg, Indiana, US
Thu, Oct 31, 1878
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