Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-10-27
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Vice.
LIVELY WEEK.
The past week has been full enough OF
excitement to satisfy the hungriest hunter
after sensational topics. We had in the
first place our chronic excitment--the i'm
pending Presidential election, and the va
rious elements at work to enlist our feel
ihgs in the contest. Then came the news
of Vanderbilt'S death. at the first whisper
of which everyone turned their eyes upon
the Stock Board, expecting to see chaos
Come again there. The denial of the ru-
NOR followed with desperate haste, for
there are too many millions of property
dependent upon that one life, to prevent
any negligence in attending to every cause
which can effect it. An hour and half
after the rumor Of the death was sent fly
ing over the wires to every part of the Un-
ion, the Associated Press sent an authorita-
tive contradiction after it. Swift as this
was, it is said that it was still to slow to
save thousands of dollars TO holders of
Vanderbilt stocks, who were overtaken
with panic at the first intimatiOn, and
haStened to dispose of their shares at sac
rifice. This seems hardly possible. Van
derbilt's death has so long been matter
likely to happen at any hour that it would
seem as if its effect must long ago have
been largely discounted by the dealers in
stocks. Further, it is well known that
Vanderbilt has carefully trained up son
as his successor, VINO has now reached the
mature age of forty years, and is known to
be thoroughly imbued with his fathers
ideas ard practices, and while not having,
probably, all of the Commodore's wonder
full executive ability, has ability enough,
at least to carry on in the same manner
the great organizations that his father has
built up. and in doing which he will have
the aid of all the able men gathered about
him. and disciplined into harmonious work
ing together The Stock Exchange and
some other interests, are making very
vigorous hunt after the author of the bo-
gus dispatch, announcing the old gentle
mans death, and some persons pretty high
up in business circles are likely to see the
penitentiary loom up unpleasanily propin-
quous and distinct in the vista of their fu-
ture. The next sensation in order was
MRS. IRENE HOUSES TRIAL
for the murder of her husband, 0rson A.
House, the notorious divorce lawyer. In
less string times this would have made
sensation as profound as that which arous-
ed the country at the time of the, Cunning
ham-Burdell murder a score of years ago.
1t has an unusual numbeF of elements to
arouse the keenest interest. The murderess
is rarely beautiful, a blonde of that perfect. |
pure type that men-especially dark haired |
ones-idolize into angels and invest with |
all the attributes that cratic poets endow |
their queens of song and beauty with, but |
who are likely to be very far from ETHEREAL |
saints. The fair Irene is now thirty-two, |
with every womanly charm in full maturi-
ty. She is the child of wealth and cultiva-
ton, has done everything to supplement |
the lavish gifts of nature. But she has a |
temper, and her past life does not appear
entirely spotless. She was married at six
teen to a man that proved to be uncongeni- |
al. She sought House to procure divorce.
They found themselves to be affinities at |
first meeting; he rid her Of her distasteful |
companion, and some years after his own
wife had the good taste to die-eommitted
suicide on account Of Jealousy of Irene, it
is sald-and House and Irene were married. |
House made great sums of money by his
nefarious business, and they lived In fine
style at Trenton, N. j. Their conjugal
life was characterized by alterations of the
most ardent affections for each other, one
day, to bitter quarrels, the next, which fre-
quently ended by House beating his wife
savagely. June 30, House beat her crIclly
and then turned on her son by her first hus-
band, boy Of sixteen. She snatched re-
volver which she had always near her, and
shot her husband through the head. As
he fell dead she was seized with remorse,
andall her love for her husband came up
permost. She was arrested for the murder
and imprisoned: The trial came off at
Newark on Thursday the defense intro
duced evidence to show that when she fired
she thought her husband was going
to kill herself and boy. She conducted
herself very impressively during the trial,
and when string her testimony burst into
tears, exolaiming that she would net ex
pose her husbands faults, that It they
wanted her freedom to take it, she would
not answer any more questions. The jury
were ont SIX hours ara 4 half, and returned
a verdict Of acquittal. Not the least in
teresting part of the whole story is match
that was gotten up between the widow and
the brother of her late husband, and which
was approved by the House family, whose
object was to retain the possession Of their
brothers fortune. Mrs House would not
divide as was desired, and the matter broke
up tn a row. Even as meaty topic as
this, however, eonld not hold its own
against the overwhelming importance of
the
EUROPEAN WAR NEWS
which threw everything into q ferment.
The dispatches first received were ominOus
of the war taking the widest range and
probably convulsing all Europe. The con-
sequences would be such as to reach every
mans pocket-benefcially to those who
had something to sell, to make, or to raise;
harmful tO the much smaller number who
had to fill contracts made abroad: For
one day the excitement was intense-the
next they saw that there was ne use of go
ing wild until some greater exigency had
arisen than had yet manifested itself, and
50 all classes subsided into state of eager
expectation, in which they still continue
The oecuranee Of a general European