Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-05
STIRRING up THE FILTH,
The Late BIains- Sentinel Libel
Suit.
SOME VERY PERTINENT QUESTIONS
The Indianapolis Sentinel Reaffirms Its
Charges Against Blaine and Says
They are True.
THE LABOR SITUATION IN OHIO.

INDIANAPOLIS, md, September Tine
answer of the Sentinel Company in the
Blaine libel suit was filed. in the United
States Court this morning. The defense
admits printing and publishing the articles
complained of in the issue Of August Sth,
1884, and denies that it was false in any
particular thereof. 1t sets forth that James
G. Blaine was married to Harriet Stan
wood, at Pittsburg on, or about March 10Th,
1851. That prior to that time, during their
courtship Blaine seduced Miss Stanwood; /;
that he at first refused TO make reparation
for the wrong done, but being
afterwards strongly urged thereto
chastisement and punishment therein he
married her as stated; that in June follow,
ing a child was born, known as Stanwood
Blaine, which lived two or three years and
was always acknowledged By the plaintiff
and his wife as their son. By reason
whereof defendant say the matters and
things set forth in the article recited are
true, and the same being true they were
published of and concerning said plaintiff
by the defendants as they
Justly and Lawfully
might do. Defendants file with their an
swer a number of interrogatories and re-
uuire that the same be answered by plain
Tiff under oath, positively and without eva
sion, within such time as may be limited by
the court thereby, among which are the fol-
lowing: ..
State when you finally left Kentucky; if
at any time you resided there
where you went from there and
where you were next employed
in what business or calling; if you answer
that the maiden name ofyOUr wife was Har-
riet Stanwood, state when she finally left
Kentucky, and when and where you next
met her; give the State aud place Of your
marriage and the names of the persons be-
sides Yourself and wife who were present on
the occasion; what acquaintance had you
with Jacob StanwOod: what relation was he,
if any, to the person YOU married, and what
conversation or interview did you have with
him before said marriage concerning
the same, and where did such interview
if any occur and what was said and done
therein: was not the first child Of said mar
rage born on the 18th day Of June, 1851; /;
where did said child die; where was it buried
and if in any cemetery give the name OF
the cemetery; was any tombstone or monu-
ment erected at the grave of said child CIV
ing the date of said birth and by whose di-
rection was said tombstone erected; did not
said tombstone bear the following inscrip-
ton relative to the birth of the child: Han
wood Blaine. born June Is, 1851" Has
any portion of such inscription on said
tombstone been erased since its erection; ii
so, what portion thereof: what acquaintance
have you with book called The life Of
James G. Blaine"
written by Russell H. Conwell, with an in
PRODUCTION by Gov Robie, of Maine, and
published by Z. C. Allen 4 Co., of Augusta
Name, 1881; were not the proofs Of such
work submitted to you for revision, and is
not the statement made upon the sixty
eighth page of said book as follows; Miss
Stanwood, in March, 1851, became his wife
at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania" a correct
statement Of the time and place of your
marriage? Did you not communicate to
the author Of said book, for his use in said
work, the name of the place Of your mar
rage as aforesaid?