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Logansport Weekly Journal (Newspaper) - January 27, 1883, Logansport, Indiana Weekly j our inv vol. 35.loganspokt, Indiana Satu Bedaf january 27, 1883.-10 pages. No. 4. The next Republican National convention ill be composed of 820 Dele Gate. My. Windorf has to take a personal baud in the Minnesota senatorial font Felt. Gov Fernok Ben Butler s spoon in the Massachusetts senatorial pie stirred up a Victory for or. Hoar. The president of the wrecked Rochester new York City Bauk has been indicted for embezzlement and fraud. An elaborate fee and salary Bill on the salary plan has been introduced in the House of the legislature and ordered printed a proposition to us Mii the question of the repeal of the prohibitory liquor Law to a vote of the people has been introduced in the Kansas legislature. _ a Bill has been introduced in the state Senate to make Bhe punishment of the crime of rape such that the crime will never be again attempted by the person punished the democratic majority in the state Senate is evidently prepared to perpetrate an outrage by unseating Overstreet Republican and giving his place to Johnson Democrat. T admirers of the late Cincinnati Gazette who Are dissatisfied with i s successor the commercial Gazette Rill find an excellent substitute for their old reliable favorite in the Indianapolis journal. Lieut. Gove Nob Hamilton who becomes governor of Illinois by the election of governor Cullom to the United states Senate served As a Corporal in the army of the Union in the War of the rebellion. I a miss Maby a Bat associate editor of the Crawfordsville journal claims kinship with the mighty cabbage representative in the legislature from Warrick county. The names Are both rage Tive of a common stalk. The pub Picans in the House of Congress have determined in caucus to Vasli the House Tariff Bill but it is to be feared that no headway will be made while the House and Senate Are each working on a different measure. Unity seems to be As much of a necessity As Energy in this vitally important matter. The county officers of the state Are gathering in Force and Quot Well heed Quot at Indian Pousi to work against the passage of a reforming fee and salary Law. Every such official should be spotted by Bis constituents. The people have some rights m this country Taat their servants should be taught to respect. It is quite probable thai Cue legislature Wili abolish the of City treasurer acid assessor and Transfer i their duties to the Corres Pontins county officials. The prospects Are al amp of hat provision will t e made f or the a mint of City taxes in ins aimed of a county Ami state taxes Are paf<1�?All of which measure a Are in the lice of sensible Reform it is estimated that the Tarifi revision Bill of the ways and Means committee of the House of Congress would make a reduction on sugar of si2 Coo,-000 on Wool and Woolen goods of $3,-000,0 0 n Silks $3 000.000 on metals 3,0 0,000 and the Ara aunt placed on the free lift $2,000,000. The total reductions Are estimated at $25 000,000. And the increase at Only $1 . The journal a.<re�8 win senator a gee in his speech on the subject in the Senate that it would be better to give the present Road Law a fair trial than to go Back to the old pod Hammer was e and worthless be a of the supervisor so Stem. The present Law May not be the Best that could be devised but it embodies Correct principles which will become firmly Eit blushed. And universally popular after they have had a fair to in two very import Maui uie Eures that Weinem Ich discussed in the general Assembly of 1881, and which have won approval in general consideration since that time should a enacted into Laws at the present session. One of these measures is that in braced under the popular title of compulsory Educ Tina and the other is the modification of the requirement of a unanimous verdict by Petit juries o b of these measures Are to the line of improvement and Reform and would contribute greatly to the Well being of the people of our Sute. The Louisville courier journal diagnoses the condition and prospects of its party As follows Quot the democratic party can not make sure of electing its nominee in 1884. Why is this it is because the party is not one with itself. It goes mean luring after unknown gods. It Folio we false prophets. It catches at every Straw that blows in every Breeze. No sooner was the Over whelming rebuke of the administration recorded in favor of Grover Cleveland than it leaped to the conclusion that it had found a president although it Knelt a no More of the new Man s character and opinions than of court etiquette in the wilds of Africa. This deference to everything except the Chance of a speculative aval labile y accounts for much of the aimlessness of the party managers. Who have devoted so much of their time beating about the Bush of the new York graphic has been figuring up the places that foreign bom citizens occupy in the councils of our nation. The Irish born members of the next House of representatives Are Twenty in number while the German born Are but seven although the German born population of the United states considerably exceeds the Irish born. Of the Twenty Irish members four Are from Missouri new Jersey and Pennsylvania have three each new Fork and Indiana two each and Massachusetts Illinois Iowa Kansas Nevada and California one each. Oat of the Twenty Only three Are Republic Caos. The seven germans Are credited one each to new York new Jersey and Massachusetts and two each to Michigan and Wisconsin. Two of the seven Are republicans. The Only state the majority of whose delegation of the next House is foreign born is new Jersey. The Uhl dam cum. The fatal weakness of the Uhl claim against the City is the fact that the Law recognizes no such thing As an ownership of running water. This doctrine was held by the supreme court in the Pottmeyer Case wherein it was further chided that the operation of nature congealing running water into ice and attaching the ice to contiguous real state added the ice As property to the real estate. It is the use of the water of al River Only that the Uhls Are entitled to and that use is limited to their actual requirements. They would not think of attempting to prevent mrs. Jones from getting her washing water from their portion of the River or of prohibiting Peter Smith from watering his horses in it and even if they did attempt these acts of owner a ship they would t find any Law to sustain them. Their sole cause of action against anybody for the use of this water is an injury to them resulting from such use and their remedy the measure of actual damages caused by the injury. Now what Are the facts in the Case have the Uhl s Ever been injured to the extent of five cents by the loss from eel River of the water sent through the Mains of the water works is it not a fact that at the very lowest stage of the River ten times More water Escapee through and Over the Uhl dam to ctn is pumped into the Mains the answers of these questions will be Given with one voice again to the Uhi s. This being the Case they Bave no cause of action against the City. They have no claim upon the water of eel River that they do not need. That surplus is free and belongs to the Public. The talk about condemning the Uhl dam and paying $30,000 or $40 000 for it As the Only Way to Settle this absurd Uhl claim is ridiculous if not suspicious. The City has no surplus capital to invest in Mill dam and water Power speculations and even if she had she could not afford to engage in that kind of business. The water Power she now owns As a necessary part of her water works is As much of that kind of property As she can manage and it is More than probable that even that management will pass to the hands of private lessees or owners before it is utilized to the Best Adan to be. But it is out of the Power of the City to pay $30,000 or $5,, for Mill dams or anything else while the constitutional limitation applies and Quot old in Junco remains on guard. There is but one Way to meet the Una claim. Let them sue the City and prove their damages. The Chance of beating them horse fool and dragons Quot is too Good to be thrown away against the interests of the tax payers of the City. It will be time enough aft a they have established a Shadow of their claim in the courts to consider the quention of condemning and paying $30,0j0 or $40,000 for a heir old Mill dam. Of Okay Mandler. The Gougar Mandler scandal is now on trial at Lafayette with a brillant array of Legal Talent on both sides. The opening statements of the counsel were made before the jury tues Day morning. Mchugh in behalf of the defence said they would show a Clandestine meeting of Helen m. Go Gnu Ger and Captain w. Dewitt Wallace that they did commit adultery that Captain Wallace visited the plaintiff at night during uie absence of her husband and remained All night and until the next Day about three o clock when he As seen to leave the residence and Fly Down the Street that the plaintiff went to Wallace s office during september and remained there for an hour and a half and that when she went in said offi be a sign was put on the door who it a said Quot out Quot and Captain Wallace cd me Down stairs wiping the perspiration from his brow. Colonel Dehart in stating the Case for the Plait fit said that they would show that the defendant denied that he Ever said anything about the slander and that he denied having seen the parties that it was a conspiracy concocted Long before and coolly deliberately and Isu sely planned and that when first confronted with it they denied it but afterwards admitted it. Tuesday afternoon the witness examination was commenced. The Lafayette courier in speaking of the trial says Quot notwithstanding the fact that Strong Rumor prevailed that the floor of the court room was insecure and liable to take a Tumble Tany moment it was even More densely thronged if such a thing was possible than yesterday. The Miling dividing the crowd from the Arena was almost listed from its mooring by the intensely interested spectators eager to catch the faintest approach to anything like naughtiness. The plaintiff by the Way might Clear a Small Fortune just now from the Sale of her photographs with Autographic attachment. It is said that in Case she is successful in her suit that she will make a lecture tour the coming season taking for her theme some rude subject As Quot our to reducers Quot or How we sat Down on f satan s emis Arier. If she does she will make in warm for the boys. Rumor hath at hat she is already in receipt of several handsome offers from Managan. We give these for what they Are Worth. One significant fact it May be amiss to add in this connection is that she is certainly taking copious notes of the proceed ing but then this May be for pub cation in our oat in the Gold world. From the daily of january 24 a couple of labourers working up near the Davis farm East of the City reported on their return to the City last evening tent a woman was in the Woods near the Davis Bridge trying to keep warm by a fire made of Brush Wood. Captain Morrissey and officer Rodabaugh kindly took the trip up there Well knowing that it the woman slept in the Woods All night she would suffer severely from the cold. On real ing the place sure enough there was a woman huddled close to a Small fire trying to keep warm. She was brought Down town and taken to sheriff Snyder s residence were everything necessary was done to make her comfortable. Her stir by is that her Home has been in Crawford Ville where she was married some six years ago to a Man named Richie. He died about three years ago and since then she has been living with her father a Man sixty years old whose name is William Medler. He is a Tinner by Trade and last wednesday he started for this place with his daughter to get work at his Trade. They went to Cutler first Medler saying he wished to visit a Farmer living near that place named Wright. He left his daughter at Cutler to wait until he returned. She waited a reasonable length of time when she became anxious and went in search of him. She could get no Trace of the old Man whatever. She inquired everywhere Lor her father but no one had seen him. She Nad Only Dollar and a half with her and concluded to come on to this City. She walked nearly All of the Way Andreacei Here yesterday afternoon going directly through the City to the Woods near the Davis Bridge. When asked what she intended to do she answered that she did not know and hardly cared what became of her. She is a woman of about Twenty six years of age and when quest soued As to herself hid her tace and cried. She was very thinly dressed and had a shawl tied around her head and wore a Straw hat Over Thi a. One is afraid her father lost his Way and living a very old Man is wandering about like herself. The Case should be inquired into Aud the necessary help volunteered to Aid her in returning to her mods. If she bad passed the night m the Woods it would be hard to Tell wet her Fate Mig to have been with pie thermometer away below Zero. _ _ Oono beyond. Froid the daily of january 24 news was receive in the City Yew ter Dayr morning announcing the death Ofelt Sutoh l. Custer her death of Carrs monday evening about six o Okma the cause being consumption miss toaster was a Bright Young lady and to la daughter of or. John c. Custer ill fog two Miles North of the City. She Manght cold several months since which resulted in that dreaded disease Consul option. She was a patient sufferer Ard up to the last would not believe she must die. She was a regular attendant at the services of the first presbyterian Church of this City and died with a Beliel in the blessed hereafter. A was at the time of her death Twenty three years of age just Blooming into womanhood. The funeral serv Tosswill be held to Day at the Home of or. Custer North of the City. Rev. W. E. Loucks of this City con ducting the services. Or at it. Edward r. Bryer Cek rated his Twenty first birthday at the residence of his father d. E. Bryer monday evening. Quite a Large party of his Young friends were present to congratulate him upon his accession to manhood and All the responsibilities of cities ship. De Quot is an Indue trios sober and Stead it Young Man who will vote the Republican ticket and gives every Promise of becoming us Efti and respectable member of the body social and politic. He is now working at his Trade in Bunker Hill and among the friends present at Bis birthday party were the following from that place messes. Charles Stiles Noah Larimer chm Les Bucklew Allen Oane John Walters and Frank is Ler and misses Sadie Miner and Mattie bedding. Miss Emma and or. West Ley Bussard of Clinton township this county were also present. A Nice supp was served merry feet were shaken in the mazy and a Good time was Joyed by All. Kot married. A sep action was granted in the Cir Cuit court yesterday which brought out a line of facts and May sometime make it rather uncomfortable for the defendant in the Case. It seems that on the 13 the Day of december 1879, at the town of Camden. Carroll county ind., a wedding ceremony took place the parties interested being James Mccullough and Becca a. Richards. According to mra. Mccullough s Story she and her husband lived together about a year and a half when her husband suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. After she was left alone by her husband she came to this place and has since been doing laundry work. A Short time since she discovered that her pretended by band had a wife living in Michigan at the time her marriage with him took place. She then through her lawyer petitioned the court to Grant her a separation from Mccullough which was done and her Maiden name Rebecca a. R cards taken again. She has never heard from Mccullough and therefore knows nothing of his Whereat tout. The state coins lesion. The Indianapolis journal gives the views off veral prominent Railroad officials on the proposed st the Railroad commission provided in a Bill now pending in the legislature among which Are the following Quot president Mckeen said he did not favor a Railroad commission. The Railroad service of Indiana was the Best of any state in the Union. Railroad men and shippers were satisfied with the present rates and regulations and commissioners would Only be a disturbing element. James Mccrea general manager of the Pittsburg Cincinnati a st Louis thought favor Auy of the commission. In Massachusetts they had been a Grard Success. Men of ability had been appointed commissioners they had compiled annually valuable Railroad statistics and Railroad inter veto of that state had profited by their recommei.datlod8, and these commissions did a vast amount of work annually. All questions in disputes Between the roads it and the Public were brought before them All accidents were thoroughly investigated and the cause thereof made Public and in following the advice of the commissioners in Roi agents in the Way of signals doubling of tracks the crossing of roads above or below Grade of the other a been can led out and really the roads of Massac Betts were the safest 1� travel Over in the country but before Indiana could make a rail Way comm in a i it a a a mess a better syn Tessoff Railroad Law will be charred rez Catiis of the Newham l victims gone Ned to the grave bar Lac the tie Tea. Milwaukee january 25�?fwty-Tbree of the unidentified victims of the new Hall House fire were buried this afternoon. A Public tineral was bad and it was the safest and most imposing affair Ever recorded in the annals of the City. Milwaukee has literally been a place of mourning to Day. Business has been at a stand still and All of the leading houses Are closed. The bodies of the victims were divided As near As could be done. All those found in the servants quarters and near which rosaries or beads were found Twenty in All were turned Over to the catholics and the balance Twenty three were taken in charge by the protestants. The former were buried from or. John s Catholic Cathedral where a most impressive service was held. Solemn requiem mass was celebrated by archbishop Heiss assisted by the local Church dignitaries. The funeral Sermon was preached by father George Mathews of Racine. The protestants held their service in the exposition building and avast throng was present. The following order of exercises beginning at 10 30, was carried out Organ voluntary the lord s prayer. Rev a. F. Mason and All the clergy psalm Rev. J. E Gilbert singing. Overture tree tops is rest Quot male chorus by members of the Aron club musical society and Cecilian choir prayer Rev. A. Kiehle scripture Reading Rev. G. E. Gordon and Rev. G. H. Ide singing Luther s hymn Quot a Strong hold since our god Remakis Quot Cecilis choir musical society and Aron Clab addresses Rev. J. M. Freeman rabbi Moses and Rev. A. A. Haskin a Hgt a in Quot old Hundred Quot by the Oon Greg amp Tion Benediction. Bishop Welles. After the exercises at the two places a laneral procession was formed All of the hading Elvic and military societies oath deity taking part. The protestants were interred in one grave at Forest Home cemetery and the Ca holies in separate Graves at Calvary Ceni every. Tiring the services at the exposition a steam pipe burst and at once there was an alarm of fire. A panic ensued and there were scenes of the greatest consternation. People jumped through the windows and Many were severely but and bruised. Had the building not been on the ground floor Many would have been killed. The vast crowd a not quiet d until the place was emptied. _ holdens services urls Wal. Fort Smith ark., january 25.�?the Rev. Father smythe of the roman Catholic Church and the Rev. J. L. Berne of the episcopal Church were arrested this morning by the municipal authorities for violating a proclamation of the mayor issued on Saturn Day last closing the churches and Public schools and prohibiting Public assemblages on account of the prevalence of Scarlet fever in the City. The mayor s proclamation was issued on the recommendation of the Board of health at a meeting. The two priests disregarded the Procla Natlia by conducting services a i usual in their churches Sun re n ruin. Drapou Dencer and i it at a. Cincinnati january 25.�?at 2 o clock this morning the clerk of the Crawford House forced an Entrance into a room occupied by a guest who registered tuesday night As g. S. Anderson new York but who had not been seen since. The Man was found on the bed unconscious with a Bullet wound in his Bead. He recovered enough to say his name was Gustav Schoman residence Cleveland that he shot himself three Timea Beau of failure to get work. The Man is still alive but Ean not recover. The com bran of meter. Hamberg january 25.�?the Irris Tion against the Captain of the Steamer Sultan is rapidly abating. Two Gei mans who were on Board the Sultan at the time of the disaster were examined before a magistrate and fully c a firmed the Captain s statement. The Sultan is detained by order of the court not by the police As first reported. Her Captain and Crew Are perfectly free. It is said the owners of the Sultan will not Deposit the Large amount of caution Money demanded by the court. The vessel is not w myth it. A female incendiary. Newport r. I., january 25.�?kate sudd a servant girl who has already served five years in prison Tor the come of arson was arrested to Day charged with setting fire to j. G. Weaver s Vilia. Pri a to coming Here she was in a House in Boston which homed mys tediously and two detective were on her track. It was also found that after the Weaver fire she had saved her trunks by some Means. These were examined and in them was found a Lane amount of nothing belonging to mrs. Weaver As Well As several Ai tides stolen from the House in Boston which she is thought to have fired. The total value of the goods found in her trunks is $12,000. Feat ill Levi in Berlin. Berlin january 25.�?the court festivities have been abandoned in Eon sequence of the recent death of Prince Charles but the streets were decorated to Day in Honor of the Silver wedding of Crown Prince Frederick it Faun. The Crown Prince and Princess Victoria received numerous visits Ohcoa grat lations including those of the emperor and Empress who were enthusiastically received by Large crowds. Enc Enle not xxi cd. London. January 25.�?ex-Empi Eugenie told a reporter she had neither seen nor written to Prince Napoleon nor attempted to do so. She had had no communication Ith the French government and no hint that her departure was necessary. She returned to London having accomplished the object of her journey which was simply one of family sympathy with Princess Mathilde. The revolt Tina in Ecuador. New York. January 25.�?tbe Fudlow ing Dispa leh has been received hers from Guayaquil the Revolti Ltd Ecuador continues. Guayaquil is still quiet but the government refuses to be responsible for the safety of foreigners and their property. Prince Napoleon. Paris january 25.�?the magistrate conducting the inquiry into the ease of Prince Napoleon says Sof Floist Saone was not shown Tor anther proceedings. It is reported that de freycinet and Wilson will form a new Cabinet. News Bra Vitikos. The Central portion of Nile try Baa Sia was to Nenmei and some be noon perished in the frames. At Newport by w. Weiye went to the residence of e. E. Hook to Denver bread but was mistaken Foobar Larby the proprietor and is tally shot. Mgr. Northrup has been appointed Catholic Bishop of Charleston s. C., and mgr. Richter becomes first Bishop of the new see of grand rapids Mich. In the Kansas legislature wednesday Preston r. Plumb was re elected United states senator. No Choice yet in Michigan Minnesota Nebraska or Colorado. William Lowry and Talor Ard hunted each other through the streets of Amite City la., with shot guns but Ard finally Quot got the drop Quot and Lowry fell dead. Davitt Healy and Quinn were declared guilty at Dublin of using seditious language and a must go to prison for six months or furnish Bonds for their Good behaviour. In a Baltimore court tuesday judge Grason and state s attorney Mcintosh came to blows the latter s Eye being blacked by a son of the judge who is also a member of the bar. Buffering prevails among the poorer a Laseer a especially the Negr Cess at Lynchburg va., caused by the cold weather and suspension of work in the tobacco Csc tories on account of the tax question. Miss Dora Henninges of Cleveland known on the Lyric stage As mlle. Dorani who Sung at Chicago last season in Malcson s company is dict de to have perished by the wreck of the Cumbria. Charles Cobb a desperado shot and killed sheriff Stone a need afternoon near Udell station Kansas and a armed party from Winfield went to these each of the tis Gedy and Hong Cobb to a tree. Evan Koriath and o. F. Far fell Oon fined in the Russel county a a for defrauding cattle raiders were us Effiom the prison a Tew nights Sinee by a band of masked men and it is supposed that they have been lynched. Mcgennis Jeffries an employee of the st. Joseph to Post Offlee was arrested for robbing registered letters. He his Eric and took the officers to the rear of Bis in Denee where $360 of the stolen kinds was buried Jeffries claiming that he never used a cent of the Money taken fria letters

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