Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-09-03
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LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF LIFE IN
NV YORK.
One Of the Nathan MurdererS COnfesSeS
His Guilt.
HOME NEWS.
SHADES OF METROPOLITAN LIFE.
DISHONESTY ---Disturbances--Dise and
Death.


Death.
NEW York, Aug. zO.-rhe ex-deputy
Treasurer, Rodman, of the city of Brook
Ign has been arrested on the charge of
Il S203,000 defaltcatiOn.
Seventy laborers engaged in rebuilding
the Standard oil works struck because non
society men were employed. They at.
tackled the workmen but the Police restor-
ed order and fiually escorted the non-soci-
ETY. men home.
Michael Angelo Mcfarland, who spent
S2j, 600 in defence of his brother Daniel
for the murder of Albert d. Richardson,
died last evening in Bellevue Hospital and
having no friends WILDE buried in the pot
ter's field.
The Nathan Murder story Revived.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Ca man nam
ed Irving, who is in Jail here, confesses
completely in the murder of Mr.. Nathan,
in New York. He thinks the name of his
confederate was McNally. The house
keepers son got them 10 do the murder at
the suggestion of Washington Nathan.
The basement story was left open and Iry-
ing and his companion remained in the
dark some time, when a man came down
who said IL have finished the old man."
They then went up stairs.
Irving says he has in his house i'm New
York, some stocks and a memorandum
book partly written in Hebrew, which he
took from the old man. They only got be-
tween six and seven thousand dollars.
Irving gives graphic details.
The committee of surgeons could not de-
termine as to his sanity. He came here as
a sailor on British ship.
New YORK, Aug. 20.--It is ascertained
that John II. irving, who has been arrest
ed in san Francisco on his own confession
as an accomplce in the murder of Benj
10 a. l.. Nar iaf
and burglar. His story is probably false
and invented as a means of procuring n
| free return here.
The Nathan murder was committed July
| 9Th, 1871. John 7. Irving was arrested
| the following day in Hoboken, where he
! was concealed, the charge being burglary
! and robbery. Later-it turns out that the
| Irving arrested in .Hoboken was one wear
! before the Nathan murder. The New York
police believe he was in the State prison
in July, ISL. ..H.-. llI
| CHICAGO, Aug. 29.-The Tri5mc has
! the crop reports from about forty counties
of Illinois, embracing the greater part of
| the corn growing portion of the State and
| from twenty counties in different parts OF
Iowa. With the exception of half of the
! counties in Illinois, all put the corn crop
at only from one-half to two thirds of au
average yield though in some localities
where the yield will be short there is great
er acreage planted than usual. ....
The reports from Iowa vary, but are
similar to those in Illinois. The drouth
has injured the corn very materially, and
the season is SO far advanced thatrain now
would hardly benefit it.
BALTIMORE, MD, Aug. 29-ShOwalter
who cut his wife's throat fatally with a ra
ZOr, and then cut his own, fingers at the
hospital. He is very violent and a straight
jacket has been applied. He is originally
from UniOntown, Ala, and studied medi'
cine and graduated in New York. Mrs. Sho
walter, then a widow, was n matron in the
Confederate hospital at Petersburg, where
Showalter was an assistant surgeon hC
contracted the small poX and this lady
nursed him. The hospital surgeons say
that Showalter was perfectly sane wher
brought TO the hospital last night. Mrs
ShoWalter was a Miss Carter, of Lancaster
county, Virginia.
BALTIMORE, August .-Showalter ,wht
cut his wife's and his own throat, is dead.
The debt statement shows decreare o
SO, 100000 coin in treasury, IS, S75, 900 cur
rency $4,000, 600.