The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-12-24
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The author of the horrible plot tC
blow up the steamer Mo>cl, by the eN.
plosion of whose Internal machine on
the quay at Bremerharen 100 people
were killed and injured, died on the 10th
from the effect of wounds inflicted upon
himself in an attempt TO commit suicide
following upon his arrest. 1t is stated
that before his death he made Il full
confession, duplicating other parties on
this side of the Atlantic. His real name,
he said, was William h. Thompson; he
was a native of Brooklyn, y. Y, and
was about 81 years OF age. He
was once captain of the vessel
Old Dominion, and he changed his
name to avoid being prosecuted
for running the blockade during the
civil war in America. He bought the
explosive material for his Internal ma
chine in the United States and had it
forwarded to him i'll Germany, and the
clOck-work attachment was manufac-
tured by a mechanician named Fuchs,
residing at Bcrnberg. The apparatus
was constructed to run noiselesSly for
ten days, when it ceased a lever to act
and strike with 4 force ofthirty pounds.
Twenty similar machines had been or
dered, and Thompson told Fuchs that
they were for Il mandatory in the
United States. The motive for this di-
abolical scheme appears 10 have been
to procure exaggerated and fictitious
insurance.
ALEXANDER =. TUTTEN, Supervisor
of Internal Revenue, who was to be
transferred from Philadelphia TO St.
Louis by the celebrated order of Secrc-
tarv Bristow, issued Jan. %, 1879, has
written a letter to the President, which
is made public, in which he gives the
facts of an interview between himself
and President Grant, 1T which ne Gut
ten) strongly urged the President to re-
yoke the order making the transfer
of Supervisors. At that interview,
he saws, the President expressed him.
self as being satisfied that the proposed
transfer would accomplish no good end,
and at the close of their conversation
assured him (Tutten) that he should
suspend the order. In conclusion Mr..
Tutten says; 81 have felt it was due
both to Won and Gen. BabcOck to make
this statement of facts, to be used as
You deem proper in view of the charges
made from time to time in the papers,
and especially in the speech Of eN-Sena-
tor Henderson"
BISHOP HAVEN Of the Methodist EpiS-
copal Church has written a letter to
the New York Tribune, correcting GER
tain misstatcments made by the papers
in reference to his address at Il recent
preachers meeting at Boston, in which.
it has been alleged, he renOminated
Gen. Grant for third tcrm. The Bishop
in his letter says: "'Pray, brethren,
for the denomination Of President
Grant-that was al said. Ineycr re-
nominated him, as the papers had it.
asked the brethren to pray for the re-
nomination. This ! had aperfect right
to do; Alright as a citizen, as a Christian,
Il minister, as Il man. The brethren
made no such stiltcd response as is rep
resented. Some responded, Methodist
fashion, by amens; some by the less
Methodist fashion of stamping and
clapping. How many responded | know
not. Afterward they approved, by Il
rising vote, my words. How much that
vote included [ don't know. This is
the whole Of the scene. 1t was not, as
YOU suggest, "a put-up job Nobody
expected it"