Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-16
EASTERN DISPATCHES.
BY Overland Telegraph.
The Beecher Congregational COun.
ell AbansOned-The Failure Of
Plymouth Church to stand to
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NEW YORK, Jan. IA.
The attempt to call a congregational
council for the purpose of deciding the
question as to the right of Plymouth
Church to drop from the list of its
members the name of Mrs. Moulton,
has finally failed. In arranging the
names for the council, the names of
DIR. Storrs and Mr.. Buddington were
included among the other clergy. Al
ter they had announced that they
would probably accept the invitation,
the committee of Plymouth Church
entered a protest against their
serving, on the ground that they
were partial and had enmity
against Plymouth Church. When
some of the other churches heard that
Drs. Storrs' and Buddington's church
es would he left out, they declined to
serve, and the calling of the council
was therefore abandoned. Mrs. Moul-
ton was apprised of the fact of the
withdrawal of the churches and the
disagreement of the list and consulted
with her counsel, MIR. Van Colt, and
he to-day sent IA long letter TO Plym-
ouih Church ComD,ittee, refusing to
treat with it any furihur in relation to
tho mutual council, and sharply re-
buking it for the course it had pur-
sued in rejecting the churches selected.
He did not think that il had acted
fairly and said Mrs. Moulton expected
to submit testimony before the coun
ell that would show good reasons for
charging Rev. Henry Ward Beech
or with adultery. He thought the ac-
ton of the church would he consid-
cred by all just men to be a deliberate
attempt to avoid an investigation az to
the guilt of Plymouth's pastor. Let
ters of Drs. Siorrs and Buddington
were inclosed with Mr.. Van Colts
communication to the committee.
A Sing ular Will.
CINCINNATI, Jan. IA.
The will of Timothy Kirby, who died
recently, leaving an estate valued at
something over one million dollars,
was taken to the Probate Court yester-
day, but owing to the strange requests
made by the deceased. steps were inn
mediately taken to prevent the probate
of the will by General Banning and
Don Piatt. 1t appears that q woman
named Mary Francis, a notorious char
acter at Cummiusville, a suburb OF the
city, where Kirby resided, claims to be
the wifi. Of the deceased, and is left by
the will $4,000, and five bastards,
whom deceased mentions as his adopted
children. are placed on an equal footing
with his legitimate children. The lat
ter are made trustees for the period Of
tifi cen years for the former. Mrs. Fox,
another woman, is made a handsome
Request. 1t seems that the entire estate
has been FILTERED away in this manner
DR.. Thomas Wood, who had known
deceased for a number of years, testi-
fled in court this morning that deceased
was a m-onOmaniac; that he was infat-
uated with the woman Francis, and
submitted to iniolerable abuse from
her. Other witnesses to the will, it Is
presumed, will testify In a similar
manner. The will will probably be set
aside. The affair creates quite 4 sensa-
ton.
Runners of War with Spain War.
like Preparations.
CHICAGO, Jan. Is.
A Times Washington special says
that rumors OF war are again revived
| with ten-fold intensity by pretty we'll
authenticated persons; that the last
response to the famous American note,
h'S q HOie sOibp NCCNS hEO VI IOT-
eign Governments has Teen received.
The purport of these responses is not
known, but AS most of the European
Governments have given in their ad
hesion to the Monroe doctrine it is
hardly probable that there will be n
very serious objection to whatever
propositions Mr.. Fish may have, at
Grants dictation, made to outside Pow
ers. 1t is the confirmed opinion of GER
tain well-informed classes, based upon
observations, and from conclusions
drawn from the open and continuous
preparations on the part of the Navy
Department, that war is meditated if
Intervention in Cuban affairs or recog.
milton of the belligerents is pushed.
The old story of Grants purpose to
keep himself the center figure of nat
ural necessity has been revived with
the announcement of the proposed in.
reference. Sharp eyes have been
watching the navy expenditures, and
distrustful patriots have been condens.
ing the general war outlay of the past
three or four months. These signs,
supplementing Grants unmistakable
language in his message, are held to
mean a determination to push through
the Cuban question, even though war
be the immediate result. As soou Is q