Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-04-01

END OF A BABYLON SCANDAL-Last Au-
gust Chauncey Brewster, a colored man,
eloped nom BABY lon, l.. l., with young
daughter of Nine. Belcher, a wealthy widow
lady OF that place. They were found two
days after ia the hut OF q negro fisherman at
jail on a charge of abduction, and the grand
jury indicted him for seduction under prom
Use OF marriage. He offered. through his
counsel, TO marry the girl, but her friends re-
fused TO allow it, The case has been going
from court TO court ever since, till finally IL
has come TO an end by District Attorney
Wtckham entering a nOlle prosequi. Nine
Belcher had made a will bequeathing all her
property TO the girl, but since her elOpement
IL is said, she has torn IL up, and the girl has
disappeared.-lN y. Herald 3lst.
A MOTHER AND Two LITE CHILDREN
FROZEN TO DEATH IN A SNOW STORM
Special dispatches from Kansas City state
that during the snow storm last Monday
night Mrs. George HOlton aud two little
children, living near Wamega, Kansas, on
the line OF the Kansas Pacific railroad
started TO go 10 neighbours house, only q
quarter OF a mile distant. Darkness coming
on and the storm beating them so furiously
they became bewildered and wandered about
the prairie until exhausted. They were
found frozen TO death, not twenty rods from
the house they were in search OF. The moth
er had taken Of nearly all her clothes to pro-
tect her children, and was herself In an al
most naked condition.
HUNG ON HIS OWN GALLows.-DurIng
the DIR. Lake excitement at Jockey Hill,
near Kingston, one of the residents, who
was especially angry, erected a gallows on
which To hang him If he ever appeared In
that vicinity, and great crowds of people
went To see IL. One day last week the man
who erected the gallows thought he would
Just for fun try and see how it would work.
he put the rope around his neck, and by &C.
cldent hanged himself. At first the people
laughed, supposfng II was part OF the play,
but when he began TO get black in the face
they saw there was something wrong, and
went and cut him down.
1oRK-Mary Francis Wood, aged eight
years, residing with her grandfather at Mr.
j. h. Lawson's, OF No. $50 West 124th street ,
was allowed oct 70 play with some other
chlldren In front OF the house on Wednesday
evening, and ran around the corner of Sixth
avenue, after which she suddenly disap-
peared and has not since been found. She
was very richly dressed and wore expensive
earrings. Julius Hess, aged four years,
LEFT the school-house in Vandewater street at
Twelve O'Clock yesterday and has not since
oeen heard of-lM y. Herald, Slst.
@John l.. BiItenger, OF st. Joseph. Mo-,
lnd1cted Tor whisky frauds, has Withdrawn
nus plea OF not guilty nd now pleads guilty
ga bill for taxation of church property
was rejected in the Massachusetts house yes
ierday by large majority.
9Letters OF administered ton on the estate
OF the late Frank p. Blair, jr., have been
granted TO Mr.. James l.. Blair, of ST. Louis
The estate is valued at $500.
~ killed himself on account OF n1ancial
troubles, is found to have had $50 600 assets
over liabilities, after all.
~Dion Roucicault has given orders for
the erection OF fountain at Huntington and
the restoration OF the grammar school build-
ing, outside and inside. as memorials of mis-
SON, who was killed at the Abbot's Ripton
yailHsy collision.