Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-02-06

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stine on the charge OF poisoning her husband
Andrew j. Van Alstine, was begun Yesterday
before Judge {. 7: Waller. Van AlStine was
farmer, AID lived In Starrucca thirty miles
north OF Honesdale. He was an excea,inrS,s
passionate man. In the spring OF is;6 in a ~,
OF anger. he struck neighbor. destroying one
OF his eyes For this offence Van Alstine was
sent TO the penitentiary for eighteen months
turing his absence his wife made a paramour
on on samuel Every. the hired man. Va. Alstine's
imprisonment eN pired in july last lie returned
Nne ,o, on The lOth OF that month. but his wife
Ina1ssu To receive him. on the Goth Of July h,
how, ~ u, V,"iNulsions on, two hours after drinking
o., n vi Ucheset tea. ON the charge ~ her old
~ son Mrs. Van AlStiue was arreSfe5 on sns
e,Soum nri VI having poisoned her husband Sam1
Uoncsaait t.iu, MrS Van AlSt,ne WAS lodged I'm
n @ usie Jall, and the stomach of Nan Alsrine
was sent 10 Professor Cresson af p,iia ,oi,,h,
tlr dnalS Sis lew weeks after She w. ifa,aai;
Mrs A'I xan ,si IAN AlStine gave birth 10 child.
aoout forty Years Old She appesrea an ea,,r
carving her four months old hahy amon,.
.he witnesses called for the nr,,set,,,t,on a.s ,s
Ira Van Aistne. the ten-year-oId srn -, wss va,
prisoner When he took the staad no hnrS,
lhlo Tears; Ills mother also wept. The court
excused hiin from teStifying. Flora rita Tan
Alstine. pretty fourteen year-old d,ughter or
The prisoner. testified 10 having mixed ne hone.
SCI Tea herself. and that her mo;hc. had no
thing TO CO with it,"
A WHOLE SETTLEMENT TO RE orSrEn -. sp,t
has been brought in the court OF caancery of
NeW Jersey TO forecloSe a mortgage oa nroner1y
owned by $50 different persons; IN fact on the
Whole settlement known as Madison Park near
PATERSON. \. j. Madison Park is mostly with
IN The corporate limits OF Paterson and con-
t:lns ABOUT 500 city lots Several wears before
the Ianlc or 1873 there was formed In Paterson
The Madison Park Land improvement company.
wren the purchase OF the tract was made the
company borrowed from the Newark Mn;IaI
fenett Life Insurance company Sis nao. giving
theiefol bond and mortgage on the whole OF
Madison Park. The company then sold lois
giving in every instance a warrantee deed
Some Of the purchasers OF property never knew
OF lie existence OF this mortgage; Others were
Sallslled That the c0mpany'S bond WAS good
without any security, as indeed II was az Thar
ume Madison Park soon grew TO he quite n
settement, numbering several hundred houses.
prlhcipaily owned by mechanics and laborers
In lew days all OF them will receive sum-
monseS 10 pay mortgage OF nearly $50 GOO
Mllh acchinulatcd interest, OF be ouSted on
Monday sheriff Van Voorhees, received the re-
qulslte papers for the issuing of the sitmmonses
ana many viii he astonished 10 ind their homes
In jeopardy, though they considered theal clear
Inc attorney OF the insurance cOnDany saws
that 40 pro idta payment viii be received as
'he company holds the whole tract as security.
AN ENtHrLE MADE OF "FRE- -BrG"-
ApIahaH lerlStein, one OF the New York fire.
DugS- recently convicted OF arson I'm Tho iirSt da
St,, Sdee LOT iaNlhS set lire TO n tenement house
occupied 10y over twenty families In the nierhr
tlme- was on Tuesday sentenced by Jud,rp Cow
ing 10 imprisonment for life I'm state pltSon AT
i narI laoOr. In passing the sentence Judge
'ONlhg Said criminals nf pcrlSiciu'S class IN a
great city Ike New O0E threaten the security
u thousands of lives and millions of p-apprfy
ara need 10 re closely watched. and when dis
covered In tie their malicious and wic<ed acts
most severely punished. The sentence Is severe
but melited
A DEAD PRIESTS GIFT.-A somewhat curiouS
suit, brought by Catharine Mal.nn against
James Duly and others, administrators OF the
late Rev. Father ". f. Duffy. formerly a Catho-
lie priest in Connecticut, was tried Yesterday
before judge Lawrence, In the supreme Court
Father Duffy died fntestate, in iS.5. and the
pla1ntlff. who was his niece, was brought here
Dy him from Europe some years ago and e6u-
Gated 10y him. She now brings this sun against
his administrators 10 recover, on a check for
81 600, Which she alleges was given 10 her by
Father Duffy on the Goth OF February 1873 as
compensation for her services as orga-,iSt of his
church. Tie defence was that the check was
given as gratuity; that as no services were
rendered for money the claim was not lien
upon the estate, and that the defendants as
administrators, were not bound 10 paw CON-
Siderable testimony was introduced during the
trlal on Tie question OF Father Duffy's alleged
haDltS OF drunkenness, but both the plaintiff
ahd er sister as well as other witnesses testi-
ned that they had never seen the deceased at
all intoxicated. After some other TESTIMONY
and brief charge by Judge Lawrence the iury
letlied, and shortly after brought i'm q verdict
for 81 eco In favor OF the plalntin.-[N. l. Her
aid, 5th