Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-04-01

1872, Of Daniel 8. Kreamer, his wife, her
mother (Mrs. Machemer) and Annette krea-
mer.
In reply to telegram from one OF the
miners who recently came out of the Black
Hills, as to whether he would be permitted 70
return with reinforcements and provisions,
Gen. Ord is reported as saying: Troops
from Fort Laramie and hostile Indians have
both gone for you miners. For their sakes l
hope the troops will reach them first, as the
military orders are simply to bring in the
party, confinc the leaders, burn their wagons,
and destroy their outfit"
A National Conference OF Representative
Workingmen is to be held at Cincinnati on
the first Tuesday in Superintendent.
Personal.
Bessie Turner began her evidence in the
Beecher trial on the 10Th. According to her
statement Mr. Titon was addicted TO sullen
moods, during which he would make himself
very disagreeabl" to all in the house, especial
y his wife, whoa he would scold for hours at
time. She (wtness) never saw anything i'm
proper take place between Mr.. Beecher and
Mrs. Tilton, and on his frequent visits to the
house she MRS. T., treated him the same as
other gentlemen visitors. Bessie repeated
the story of having awakened one night and
found herself in Mr.. Tilton's bedroom alone
with him, whittier he had carried her while
she was asleep, and she Indignantly left the
apartment at once. She also repeated
conversations which she alleged Mr. 7. had
had with her regarding afiinities. On one
OCCASION when Mr.. Tilton was shaking his
clcnched fist in his wifc's face, witness inter
fcred in her behalf, and Mr.. 7. ordered her,
with an OATH TO leave the house, which she
refused to do, and he struck her (witness)
with his fist and knocked her down.
Tiburcio Vasquez, the notorious and des-
perate California bandit was hung at San
Jose on the 10th.
The United States Senate on the 22d con-
iirmed the nomination Of John Parker US
United States Marshal for the Western Dis
trict OF Michigan.
In her direct examina tlon on the I'D
Bessie Turner corrected some of her previous
statements regarding dates and identified
several letters which she had received at
different times from Mr. Tilton while he was alb
sent from home. She said Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton
sent her TO boarding school, but nothing was
ever said about her going away in connection
with the charges against Mr.. Bcecher. A
letter was then read, written by witness to
Mrs, Tilton In January, 1871, stating that
Mrs. Morse had endeavored 10 procure her to
circulate stories injurious to Mr.. Tilton, and
also second letter stating that the story
NJ "A I,..f L.. 4 4
a wicked lie, which second note witness said
was written at the urgent solicit
tation of Mrs. Tilton Witness was
cross examined as to her statement before
the Church Examining Committee and stated
that she had made some mistakes in her
story there which she herself had subsequent
ly discovered. She would have then told all
she had sworn To on the trial had she rcmem-
bered 1t Mt the time. She could not be GER
tain as to exact dates Of several occurrences
! sworn to here by her. Up to the time she came
on the stand she had told her story substan-
TALLY to stenographer, Mr.. Shearman and
Judge Porter this was some tine during the
week Of her first evidence on the witness
stand; had previously told some of the par
ticulars to Mrs. Ovington.
The Grand Jury of the District Of Columbia
has indicted Whitelaw Reid, of the New York
Tribune, for libeling eN-Goy. Shepherd.
4 recent Washington dispatch says it APP
pears that the late John Mitchell, who was
elected member of the British Parliament
from Tpperary, Ireland, as a subject of
Queen Victoria, was In fact a citizen of the
United States, rs appears from transcripts of
the records recently made in the office
OF the Clerk Of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia for the British Minister.
1t is presumed the Government OF Great
Britain Intended to use said transcript TO I'M
seat him in Parliament
Bessie Turner's cross.examiuatou was con.
cluded on the 24th. Several corrections as
to dates were made, and she admitted to hay-
ing made mistakes in her evidence before the
Church Investigating Committee. She re.
| affirmed her testimony as 10 Mr.. Tiltons
conduct in his family and toward her.
George l.. Perkins, Of Norwich, Conn, ties.
titled that he saw Mr.. Beecher in the train
on the Boston X Albany Railroad, "a route for
Boston, on the 4th OF June, 1873, the date
| fixed upon by Mrs, Moulton Us the day Mr..
Beccher confessed 10 her Mr. Geo. S.
Sedgwick and Mr., c. c, Higgins, lawyers,
testified to having seen MIR. Tilton in the
company Of Mrs, Woodruff and Miss Clatliu,
In communists procession in 1871. John
G southwiek testified that MIR. Tilton had de.
MED to him the truth Of the Woodruff sean.
dial, as far as il related to Mr.. Beecher and
Mrs, Tilton, He lTutonl had pronounced
Mrs. Woodruff q tue woman, aud gloried in
having written her life.
James b. Woodleish lcolored(, formerly
in Mrs, Wooahuls employ, testified on
lLc 18th. lie had freuMantlN soon Mr..