Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-06-30
BISMARCK D. 7, FRIDAY JUNE 80, 1881

any quarter. The shall 60 down with your
self and Bolin and Harper and johnson and
Early. have lightning shafts nearly ready
to strike, and no power shall stay my hand.
/ have asked, begged and entreated for
my wife. They have defrauded nae of her,
ruined her and laughed at my calamity.
de.' %es|y shall sec what an outraged man can
In letter to John W. Guiteau, dated
Chicago, April 80, Scoville says: II give you
and her CHS wife) notice that will do no
business until I get this matter done. Fanny
had degraded herself to go to Johnson's
Office and ask an order to get her own mat
tress. would not 60 for it there would
have been scene with bulldog pistol in it. !"
In view of the threatening character OF the
letters it is said to be John W. Guiteau's
intention to have Scoville arrested upon his
arrival in Washington, and put under
bonds to keep the peace.
MRS. sCOvnLE TO THE PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, June 29.-Dr. Hicks to-day
handed the president a long letter from Mrs.
Sc0ville. She says: because crazy man
makes the crazy claim that the president is
his friend, thereby throwing possible sus-
picion into the minds of an ignorant few up
on the presidents s motives, shall the honored
president of these United States, the chief
magistrate of great freehold, even though
raised to that place as the result of a terri
BILE calamity, brought about in the inscruta-
hle wisdom of God by the hand Of an ire
ponsible lunatic, be afraid to stand boldly up
for justice and mercy? It is not so much my
brothers. life for which plead, asfor Justice.
All men know he was and is lunatic. All
men know, and none better than those who
tried him, that he did not have a fair, un-
prejudiced trial. How could he, with all the
source against him. Even Judge Porter said
Immediately after his wonderful cross exam
ination of this most wonderful witness: 'The
man is as crazy as a loon. l never examined
such witness. could not mix him up a
particle, his delusion is SO strong He said
this to Mr.. Stone, editor and publisher of the
sition or make affidavit to the fact. May the
Lord of hosts strengthen the mind of the
president of these United States to extend
mercy, and mercy is justice"
Great Disaster Near Long Branch
[Atan early hour this morning the TRIBUNE
received the following, accompanied by the
statement that the first part of the dispatch
had not been filled in St. Paul.-ED. TR1-
BUNE. ~
LONG BRANCH June 29.-Coroner Cooper
empanneled a jury and visited the scene of
the disaster at noon. An inquest will be held
scene as soon as possible. Physicians were
summoned from all directions. The badly
wounded were picked up and taken to farm
houses near the scene of the accident, where
theyWere promptly attended BY physicians.
There were about eighty persons slightly
wounded either by being hurled over seats
when the train stopped, tipped from the
bridge into the water, or by being struck by
broken window glass; Bradley was picked
up dead. He lived at $50 East I'D street,
New York. He was living for the summer in
cottage at Ocean Beach. G.. w. Demorest,
provision dealer of Reed street, New
York. died soon after the accident.
VIM. r. Gowison, son of Commodore Chas..
K. Gowison, is at the point of death. The
track spread just as the train ran upon the
bridge. The train ran for full fifty feet be-
fore the cars went over into the water. The
seats were thrown in all directions. Chas.
NJ. Woodruff of New York, and J. E. Mallory,
of New York, bankers. are both dead. John
broken. Ex-President Grant had his knee
slightly bruised. ~
Among those who received more or less
injuries were c. H. Tucker, F. H. Hall, Ed
Webb, S. M. Lepman, Mrs. Charles Newkirk,
R. M. Galloway, S. P. Logan, G. E. Scofeld,
D. M. Shaw, James Brooks, Samuel Seleg-
mon, M. E. Reynolds, J. G. Westerfelt, G. R.
Fowler, VIM. Penkensfeld and wife, Morris
H. Brown, G. r. Blanchard, R. B. Minturn,
w. G. Stokes. and E. Webb, all New Workers.;
o. J. Fox, Richmond, Va; A: Il: Stilwell
John Buckalew and Rev. DR.. Matthews,
Ocean Grove, N. j.; J. R. Carmichael and
H.C. Fablekaison, Elizabeth, N. j.; W. G.
Hilru, Ocean Beach, N. j.; G. II. Rordall,
Camden, N. j.; Henry Mordica, Dallas, Tex.
and j. j. Bedfore, Elberon, n. j.