Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-12-30

asked to stay all night The evening being
so disagreeable they we're permitted to remain,
and occupied bed in the same room with the
family, it being the only one where there was
a fire place. About eleven o'clock flames
from the little cottage attracted the neighDors,
who found the house SO far consumed when
they arrived at the scene that nothing could be
done towards saving it. 1t was the impress
sion that the family had absented themselves
| for the night, but in the debris was found the
crisp, charred remains Of the trio. EX-
cited indignation took full sway and investi-
| cation developed the above, when search was
at once made for the two men, 1t was found
that they had separated, one going towards
| Aberdeen, the other in the direction oil To-
polo. The posse that went in pursuit of the
| Aberdeen bound man were successful in find
| ing him hid in a field six miles from Aberdeen.
! He was returned to the scene, when
| he confessed that after Brown and
his wife had gone to sleep they
arose. administered chloroform, rited the
! house, scattered cotton over the floor and on
| the bed, saturated it with coal oil, set 1t on
| fire and left. The crowd, composed Of TWEEN
! ty.fiye resolute men, determined that the
fend should be punished with his own weap-
ons. They pinioned him, with pine splinters
arranged around him, covered with coal oil,
and set him ablaze, Diligent search was be-
| ing made for the other man, and he will
doubtless share the same fate If caught.
JONES & MCDONALD, grain dealers of
Chicago, failed on the Doth, with liabilities at
about $6OOOO and assets secured approx
mating $450,O0O.
JOSIAH DELOACH died at Memphis on
the Goth. The deceased was a prominent
Union man during thelate civl war, and once
saved General Grant from capture by
giving him timely warning OF the ap-
proach of Van Dorn's cavalry near Collier
vile in 1862. General Grant at the time was
on q reconnoitering expedition and had in
tended resting for the night at Deloach's
house. General Grant, when he ascended TO
the Presidency appointed DelOach postmaster
at Memphis, which position. he held during
the eight years Of General Grants admins
tration
WILLIAM AND CHARLES MULLnS, broth
ers, owning farm near Santa Rosa, CAL, were
killed on the 10Th by Albert and Frederick
Quackenbush, also brothers, and claimants OF
portion Of the farm held by the Mullins.
The Quackenbush brothers surrendered them
selves to the authorities, claiming to have
acted in self-defense.
THERE are large number, Of cases
of diphtheria reported in Buffalo and in one
section the public schools have been closed.
HEAVY snow storms we're reported in
Virginia and New Jersey on the 21st. Roads
were blocked and railroad travel impeded
On the 2lst Illinois Cancelled $751;
059 of State bonds, the last that were out
standing.
MANSON, BARTHoLow & Co., COM
mission merchants at st. Louis, failed on the
2lst. The failure is for from six to eight cents
per bushel on some 100000 bushels Of wheat
THE MiIburn House, three-story
brick hotel at Toledo, Ohio, was destroyed by
fire on the morning Of the 21st. Henry Sea-
man jumped from a third story window and
was killed
A FIRE at Brownsville, Tenn, on the
21st, destroyed eight business houses.
A NEGRO in the Richmond, Va, jail
for shooting a woman, wrapped his clothing
around his head and neck, saturated them
with kerosene and set fire to It, on the night
Of the 18th. He died from the inhalation of
the flame.
AN express train on the Pennsyl-
Huulh Ihl lllb9 luilADCl Vi IubbSAgClp
about to enter the train at Bristol, Pa, on
the 2lst Three, probably four, were fatally
injured,
The first annual festival of the New
England Society Of Brooklyn was held in that
city on the night Of the 2lst. President Hayes
and General Grant we're present and made
some remarks.
The Grand Jury at st, Peter, Mimi,
report that they were unable to ascertain the
manner in which the recent fire at the AsY-
lum was started or originated, or the party,
or parties, If any, who started It; that the at
tendants used all the means within their
reach to save the lives of the patients and
TO suppress the fire; that there was
some negligence In allowing certain
pat ent TO be out Of his room after the time
when he should have been confined IN his |
room, on the night Of the fire, and especially
80 In this particular instance, owing to the
fact that before such fire he had threatened |
to burn the building; that at the time of the
fire there were no ladders In or about the hos
pital Wherewlth to reach the third story to re-
move patients from the outside Of the build
lng.
THE Senate in Executive session, on
the I'D, voted down the motion torecOnslder
the confirmation Of Judge William b. Woods |
to be Associate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court, and his confirmation there
fore stands.
SEVERAL Ponca chiefs arrived at
Washington on the 22d. They declared |
unanimously that they desired to remain in
the Indian Territory and to make permanent !
homes there, to sell their Dakota land and to
acquire title to their reservation In the Indian |
Territory.
GENERAL ToCHMAN, exiled from Po-
land for participation 10 the revolution Of |
1880 and Brigadier General in the Con.
federate service, died at his home Ia Spott- |
sylyana, Va, on the 2lst In the eghty-hfth |
year Of his age.
MICHAEL P. CAFFE, Laurent De-
Fossa and Charles Wyant, President, Treasurer
and Secretary Of the Mutual Stock Operat-
ing Company New York City, were arrested |
on the 29d for swindliag people out of some
S200,00O.
Ex ATTORNEY GENERAL AKERMAN
died at his home in Cartersville, Ca, on the
night Of the 21st, after weeks sickness of
inhammatory rheumatism.
A CAUCUS Of Republican members of |
the Pennsylvania Legislature of Allegheny
County, unanimously determined to present |
the name Of Harry W, Oliver for United
States Senator st II
AT Howe's Valley, Ky, on the 21st,
Bud Harrington shot David j. Carter, the ball |