The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-06-27
Minnesota Correspondence.
ST. PAUL, MINI. , June 10, 1867.

ST PAUL, MINI June 10, 1857.
FRIEND MAcKLEY The June fresh
cts are upon us-are ,Cith US. The Miss
issippi is bank full, and rising. St An
thony and Minneapolis, the great lum-
Der markets of the State, have lost thou
sands of lumber logs. The booms have
given away, and the river opposite
St. Paul is covered with the material
which would have given work to hun
dreds Of laborers, who must now seek
some other vocation. Yesterday the
price of lumber advanced S200
When it does not rain, the veg
citation almost srings from the earth
"Old Sor' is out with all his pristine
warmth, atoning for the tenacious grasp
in which old winter held us.
l saw yesterday some strawberries
in market, for which 80 cents per quart
was asked l do not like them-faet is,
| positively dislike them now; to be
sure, | ate strawberries and cream last
summer, but they were Is cents per
quart then; to be sure, if they were the
same price now, | might "worry few
down;" but under present circumstan-
ces-llke the famous old gentleman who
ate crow-'G don't banker for them"
On Monday, May 27, the trial of
Moses A. Hawkes. for the murder Of
his wife commenced. Two days and
part of third day was spent in OBJ
tanning jury. More than 800 tales
men were exhausted before the illiterate
twelve could be obtained, for illiterate
and unreading men they must be, who
had formed no sort Of opinion as to
this mans guilt or innocence. To-day
the jury brought in a verdict of "not
guilty" The principal features of the
case, developed during the trial, are
these. In 1851, the Hawkes. family
migrated from Marblehead, Mass, to
Kewana, Ills. The father died about
1860, leaving wife and two children
son and daughter. The daughter
married man named Morgan, and the
son, Moses, was also married in Feb.
1866. His wife, at the time of her
marriage to him, was a widow named
Mrs. Nichols. They first became ac-
Quainted while she was boarding at his
mothers boarding house in Chicago,
and were both at the time attending
Eastman's Commercial College. Moses
married her secretly in Chicago, no one
being present during the ceremony but
the minister who otiiciated, his family,
and boarder at Mrs. Hawkes. named
Wilson, and his wife. At Moses re-
quest Mrs Hawkes., his mother, wat
acquainted by Wilson of the marriage
on the same night, but it was kept {
secret from the other boarders for some
Two or three weeks. The reason as
signed for this secrecy was desire tC
complete their course at the Commercial
College; but it seems it was not the truO
reason, for they only attended few
days after the ceremony. In the mean
time Moses had his life insured for $500
and afterwards the life of his wife il
his favor for $1,000. At the time o
insuring the life of his wife he enjoinec
his friend Wilson not to tell Lizzie, (th,
wife's name,) but that the insurance ol
his own life was for an equal amount
Shortly thereafter he insured again ol
the joint plan" for $4,000 for tn
benefit of the survivor. He then wen
to st. Paul, where he claims he wa
going to engage in the sale of engra
wings. There he became intimate with
and was on very friendly terms wit
the proprietor, bis wife, family, an
many others lie then sent for hi
wife, and within one week of her al
rival had sent the spirit of the wife t
God who gave it. The servant at tn
hotel who was employed as chamber
, maid, testified that Hawkes. told he
a to sweep the room occupied by himse
9 and wife that morning-,that he remove
the chairs for her while sweeping, attC
, which he returned them to the exa
t position from which he had taken the
s that his chair was placed Direct
a facing the back of the chair on whiC
: his wife sat-that he placed thil
h chair in front of him, and between hi
d d and his wife, on which he had oil, rag
n &c, and his pistols, which he was a
e parently cleaning. That after Il
y ~ chamber maid had finished cleaning Il
/ room and gone out, Hawkes. went o
+ p after her and requested her to bring
a pitcher OF water-that she went al
% got the pitcher--went down stairs, al