The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-02-28
.PITH OF TIE NEWS;
Capital Topics Crimes and Casualties.
Personal and Political.

| nine, was a graduate of West Point, class of
/ 1927. In 1861 he went to the field as colonel of
! the 10th Ohio regiment At Shiloh, the day
| before the battle he was on outpost duty with
| his regiment in front of Sherman's division, to
/ which he belonged short time after the
1 battle he published pamphlet, in which he
| claimed that on that day he became convinced
| the enemy contemplated an attack, and that
/ he repeatedly notified General Sherman OF
! what was going on III his front, but that his
warnings were unheeded, and the surprise of
| the Union army on the morning Of April 6,
! 1862 was the result He declared that If
! proper precautions had been taken, as should
/ have been done after the information sent by
him from the picket-line, the result of the
! first days battle would have been different.
/ This publication caused bitter controversy
! between him and Generals Grant and Sher-
man, whom he criticised severely, and a few
months later General Sherman preferred
/ charges against him for intoxication while on
1 duty, and he was cashiered. The sentence was
! subsequently reversed by President Lincoln,
i and he was honorably discharged.
The Secretary OF State received cable mes
! sage on Monday from Minister Foster, at Mad
] rid, announcing the death by suicide at Ali
/ cante, Spain, of James r. Partridge, who was
residing there on account of his health He
was in the United States diplomatic service
for many years at Brazil and other South
American countries his last post being at
Lima. Mr. Partridge was a native of Balti-
more and his friends in that city think there
must be some mistake in the cablegram stating
that he took his own life. He had been suffer-
| ing from palpitation of the heart
/ It is learned that the advance ship of the
Greedy relief expedition will be the Thetis, and
! that she viii be under the personal command of
Commander Schley, the leader of the expedi-
1 ton. 1t is thought that Lieutenant Uriel Lee
/ bree mot Seabury, as announced will be her
| executive officer. Lieutenant Emory III. Taunt
/ will either be assigned to duty as navigating
! officer of the Thetis or as executive officer of
one of the other vessels. Lieutenant Bradbury,
it is understood, will be the executive Of one of
! the vessels, probably the Bear.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the night of the 18th inst house in
Ayondale, Ohio, in which lived Beverly Taylor
and his wife and Eliza Crambert an adopted
/ child, all eoiored, was burned down and the
! inmates were missing On the Dist their bodies
were found in the Ohio Medical College. An
examination Of the remains shows that all
/ three were murdered all showing unmistakable
signs of violence, the skulls of Taylor and his
/ wife being fractured. Allen ingalls,, JEFF Lout,
Richard ingalls, and BENJAMIN johnson, all
coiored, were arrested on suspicion of being
the perpetrators of the crime Ben Johnson
and Allen ingalls, have confessed the crime.
Allen ingalls, said he went to the Ohio Medical
! threessubjects that night. He then arranged
with Johnson to commit the murders and they
went at night and killed Beverly Taylor and
4 his wife and Eliza Jane Crambert with clubs
/ They then carried the bodies to the wagon sent
I by the college. and they were taken to the in
! stitution, ingalls, and Allen receiving SIS for
each Of the bodies. Taylor, the murdered man.
/ was himself formerly resurrectionist
/ The body of a man was found in the North
! Sa.Ev a.
4 of Eighth street and was identified as that of
i Salmi Morse. the author of The Passion Play
When found the body was still warm, and it is
i thought had been in the water less than an
hour His silk hat, in which was a tract enti-
/ tied God Loves You" was found on the rail-
road track near the place. The conclusion of
4 the police is that the case is one of deliberate
suicide. Dir. Morse was fifty three years old,
and had spent the greater part of his life tray
cling in Europe and the East He lived in
bachelor style in two rooms in his theater-
The Cosmopolitan-cooking his own meals on
a small stove, taking bis dinner, however, at a
hotei requiring but little for his personal sup
/ port he did not care for money except to carry
| out his ideas.
Witt Kerns, Walter Hinnann and Peter NJ
/ Burk were convicted in the United States Dis
/ trict Court at Philadelphia on the 21st inst of
conspiracy to fraudnlentiy obtain pension
money. Kens, it was testified had brother
August who was pensioner. The latter died.
Witt procured Hinmann to personate his
brother, and he and Burk would take the part
or vouchers The three appeared at the PEN
sion Office. Howard v. Sickel, son Of the pen
sion agent, grew suspicious and directed the
4 trio TO appear before the pension examiner and
have the claim investigated. The men did not
90 near the examiner, and their arrest was
i procured The jury agreed upon their verdict
] of guilty without leaving the box.
On the morning of the 10th inst, while sey-
/ enty men were In the mine of the ConnellsyiIle
Coal and Iron Company, at West Leisenring,
small village four miles north of Uniontown,
| Pa terrific explosion Of fire damp took place.
by which nineteen men lost their lives The
conclusion was so great that the top Of the der
rick, 100 feet high. was knocked off. Two
mules were standing at the bottom Of the shaft,
sou feet from where the explosion occurred
and one of them was blown through wooden
cage. SCATTERING it. 1t was two hours after the
i explosion before any volunteers could enter
the mines. At O'clock the first body was
brought out, and by noon nineteen bodies had
been carried out Of the shaft.
During the past week a terrible cyclone
passed through portions of the South Macon
Ca, was visited on the 18th, and many houses
were unroofed and other property damaged
The house Of w. A. Miller, at BloutsviIle Jones
county, twenty miles from that place. was
blown to atoms. His wife and three children
were killed. The bodies Of the dead were
found at 200 to 500 yards distant from the site
Of the house. Six negroes were killed on the
same plantation. In the vicinity of Atlanta
twenty-three persons were killed and many
were seriously hurt.
Benjamin McCloud, mine boss of the Comet
Coal Works, was found terribly mangled on
the track of the Cincinnati, Washington and
Baltimore Road, near Jackson, o. on the DIST
inst. Examination showed that his throat had
been cut, and physicians say he was dead before
being placed on the track George johnson
has been arrested on the. charge Of the murder !:
also a woman who admits her knowledge of
the murder.
A train on the Hannibal and ST. Joseph
Railroad was thrown from bridge Saturday
near Brookfeld, Mo- Four or five persons were
killed, among them boy named Baldwin.
Among the injured were j. L. Rose, T. S. Tracy.
Benjamin Patterson, James and Joseph Mei1hot
and Mrs. Meilhot About twenty-five Others
were cut and bruised.
At Troy, N. Y, early Sunday morning. burg
lars effected an entrance to L, Marks & Sons
jeweIry store, first gaining an entrance to an
insurance Office next door. The safe door was
forced from its hinges. The contents taken
include diamonds, gold watches, cash, iewelry,
etc, the estimated value of which is between
$4,000 and $4,000.
fire at Jackson, Mich, Sunday morning.
destroyed the Union Hotel and theatre and
several stores involving a loss of S175. 600.