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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-18
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PACIFIC COAST.
Passengers south and East.


MODESTO. CAL, May l7.-following
is list Of south.bound passengers pass
ing here this evening;
Mr. and Mrs McMiller, w X Town
send and wife, Mrs Herbert, M Sails
bury, 7 w Mcintosh and wife, w A
Vandercook, |. II Shears aud wife, w 4
Floyd, Cbas Hayes, San Francisco; MIR
aud Mrs A w Burrell, u Newhill and
wife, j B Merritt and wife, Mrs Gordon,
Oakland; 7 Reeves and wife, W + Hol
comb, Jos Craig, San Bernariino; @ l.
Crisinau, Salt Lake; John Wolfskill and
family, Sacramento; + Wood, Riv.
erside: @ Barber. Auburn, N Y; NJ
Dodsworth, Mrs John Bryson, + /
Mott, q II Burton, \ NJ Woods, K M NJ
Dodsworth, NJ l. Wicks, u Germain. "
II Perry. J A Studabecker, Los Angeles
II NJ Ames, San Gabriel; Ii A Wray
Sandwich Islands.
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Officers Of the Grand Lodge. 1. d.
q. r.. Installed.

SAN Francisco. May 1.-THE Grand
Lodge, |. O. o. F., this afternoon in-
stalled the newly elected officers for the
ensuing term. The appointment Of
District Deputy Grand Masters was
then announced. The ceremony of pre-
sentng A. G. NJ. Jewel to W. W. Nor
row was then performed by Edward
Benner of Eureka Lodge, No. 4. Grand
Master-eleet, l.. 2. Smith, followed with
brief salutatory andlthe Grand Lodge
was declared adjourned sine die.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

Princess Clotilde sister of the King of Italy,
md wife Of Prince Napoleon, is dangerously i'll.
Joaquin Limdendox, director of a Havana
savings bank, committed suicide, and the bank
has suspended payment.
The Swiss police are searching the houses of
Anarchists. The president of the Berne An
archical Club has been arrested.
1t is announced that great stagnation exists in
the shipping interests upon the Tyne. One
hundred and twenty four vessels are idle and
1860 men out of employment.
Prussia's proposal to the Bundesrath regard
ing the anti-socialist law is TO prolong the law
until 1886, on the ground that many attacks
upon life and property are traceble to Socialists
In Tarragona, Spain, a shoemaker named
Perez entered a cigar store for the purpose of
robbing it. Meeting with resistance he stabbed
fatally an old woman, her two daughters and a
servant
Hong Kong advices report collision had oc-
Cured between the Chinese soldiers and Euro
peans at Shanghai. A small body of the former
assaulted several of the latter and wounded two
with bayonets.
The American consul at Dundee has asked
captains of whaling vessels TO keep look out
for Lieutenant Greedy in Bafiin's Bay, in view of
tho possibility of his drifting from Smiths
Sound on an ice foe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
THE CORNING OUTRAGE.
The Assailants of McDevitt Under Arrest
Statements of Father 0'Boylan.

CORNING, O., March 4.-The sheriff and a
number Of deputies have arrested the leaders of
the crowd which forced McDevitt to leave town
on Sunday night They were taken to New
Lexington for preliminary trial. A warrant is
also out for Rev. O'Boylan, with whom Nc
Dewitt had the original difficulty. Forces and
sentiment are pretty equally divided between
the two men, and trouble is feared between the
church people and those not members.
Father OBoylan has published a card in a Co.
lumbus paper and been talked with by the rep
resentative of paper in that city. The sub
stance of his statement is that the McDevitt mob
at Corning was under his sanction. The com
mittee was not appointed to eject MeDevitt but
to investigate the statements he had published
concerning OBoylan. He says, further, that
MeDevitt had threatened to take his life, and he
supposes the people thought they had some
right to rid themselves of desper-
ado as the people of a neighboring
town, Rendville. did a short time before
There was no question of doctrine anything
else in which the church is implicated in this
matter. McDevitt simply attacked the eharac-
ter Of OBoylan and threatened violence, though
he denies making threats.
McDevitt states that when the party took him
out they threatened to kill him, and after keeping
him in suspense an hour, told him he might live
by retracting what he had said against O'Boylan
and leaving the country. He accepted the con-
dition to save his life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
A VIRGINIA TRAGEDY.
John GlasscOck Murders His Wife and Three
Children, and Then Kills Himself.

DELAPLANE, Va, March 4.-On Sunday morn
ing, John Glasscoek, while in a fit of passion
supposed to have been caused by jealousy, muir
dered his wife and three small children. After
setting fire to his house he proceeded to the
woods half mile distant, and shot himself
through the heart. The fire in the house was
discovered and extinguished before the bodies
were consumed or much damage had resulted
1t seems the attention of the neighbors was
called to the residence by the appearance of it
belng on hre When they entered and the fire
was extlnguiShed, the body of his wife son aged
seven, baby and child between, were found dead
and weltering in blood from pistol Shots one
each in the wife and second and third child and
three in the Oldest boy Shortly afterwards a
shot was heard in the direction of the woods
a short distance off and the body of John
| Glasscock himself was discovered. The deduc-
ton is that he murdered his family, reloaded his
revolver, fired his house to conceal the crime,
and then killed himself as soon as the extine11ish
ment of the fire told him his crime was revealed
He was son of Thomas Glasscock, who lives
beyond the Fauquier line, in Loudon, but owns
more land in Fauquier and pays more taxes in
this county than any other one man. The wife
OF John Glasscock was Miss Frazier, of Loudon,
and OF most respectable family. Glasscock
was gwen to drink, and it is believed he was
craZed by LIQUOR
1t now appears that Glasscock, while laboring
under some hallucination or fit of temporary in
sanity, drove away the servant early on Sunday
morning murdered his family poured coal-oi
over the bed and set fire to it, fastened up the
! house, and then went to the cabin of neighbor
and pretended that he needed servant to cook
breakfast for himself and family. He then re-
| turned, as his tracks in the snow indicate to
| the vicinity of his own house, and finding the
| tragedy had not yet been discovered. proceeded
! to the edge of piece of woods overlooking the
! farm, where he seems to have watched his burn
ing house until it was entered and the fire ex-
| tinguished by the neighbors He then retired a
few PAGES further into the woods and shot him
| self through the heart
The father, mother and three children were
buried side by side in the cemetery near Middle
burg Va
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The national Free thinkers convention will be
held on Sept. g. at Cassadoga Lake
The New York Republican committee has de-
cided to hold "a State convention at Utica, on
April %.
Goodwin & Summers, of Lym4 Mass, boot
and shoe manufacturers, have failed. Liabilities
unknown.
Peter johnson, teamster of Des Moines.
killed his wife, yesterday, with revolver, and
afterward shot and killed himself. No cause as
signed.
The high-school house in the suburbs of Potts
| town, Pa, private educational institution,
burned last night Loss, $4,000; partially in
sured. Seventy pupils escaped uninjured
Desire Boudoir before the police court at
Great Falls, N. H., pleaded guilty tc the charge
of killing Frederick Grant, for which crime his
father stands convicted He will be tried in
September.
Chicago telegram reports that Eva McMay-
on, little girl, died of hydrophobia in the sub
urban town of Lake last evening This is the
third death at that place from this disease with
in q week.
The New York Independent Republican COM
mittee has secured permanent headquarters at 100
Broadway. a circular will be issued to all Re
publicans throughout the country, which will
| contain a general plan of reorganization.
At Morrow, O., Pat F. Kennedy, a fireman,
was killed. last night, by Jacob Forkner The
two had always been good friends till yesterday,
when they had several quarrels. Kennedy was
going away from Forkner when the fatal shot
was fired.
In street fight at Washington D. c., last
night growing out of a difficulty between white
and colored men, Frank Langston, son of Profess
sor John NJ. Langston, United States minister to
Hayti, shot and killed JAS Spencer, and seriously
wounded John S. Williams, two spectators both
colOred.
AT the continuation of the Murphy library
sale, in New York, last night, John Eliot's In
dian Bible, second edition, brought $3.50; two
other copies of the same work, later editions,
$40 each; Public Good Without Private In
terest," by Gatford, 1867, $3.50; ''Epistola Girls
toferi Colomb 1893" $3.50
VIM. p Brown has brought an action against
the Mutual Trust Company, of New York, to
compel it to account for $4,000 derived from
the sale of seats in the American Mining Stock
Exchange it being provided that she sum re-
allied should be held in trust for stockholders,
after being invested in United States securities.
Plaintiff claims this was not done, but that the
company appropriated the money.
The members of the Madison avenue New
York. Congregational Church who are opposed
to the further continuance as pastor of Rev. Dr.
Jno. P. Newman, met, last night, in the resi-
dence of DR.. Ranney, one of the deacons The
following clergymen have accepted invitations
to participate in a council, which will convene on
March IL, to settle the troubles of the church,
Revs. R. S. Storrs, A. j. T. Behrends George
F. Pentecost, A. J. Lyman, W. NJ. Taylor, John
A. French Z. P. Terhune, J. L. Whitson, E. B.
Webb and H. NJ. Dexter, w. $ Smart, j. q.
Rankin, H. W. Lathe Newman Smythe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
THE SUFFRAGISTS.
Annual Convention of the Advocates of
WOman's Suffrage.

Annual Convention of the Advocates of
WOman's Suffrage.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-The fifteenth annual
convention of the Womans Suffrage Association
began to-day. All the women who have been
prominent in the suffrage movement were pres
ent except Mrs Stanton, who is detained by
the illness of her sister. AS the meeting was in
the nature of an executive session, Mrs. May
Wright Sewell, chairman of the executive com
mittee, presided After the appointment of a
number of committees and the adoption Of sew
eral resolutions, relating for the most part to
routine business, the association took a recess.
The first public session of the convention was
held this afternoon, Miss Anthony presiding in
the absence of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton. The programme for the af
ternoon session included an invocation by Rev
Olympia Brown, opening address by Susan B.
Anthony, and reports from Belva A. Lockwood
Mary Clay, of Kentucky; Hattie Shattuc, of
Massachusetts; Abigail Scott Dunniway of Ore
gon and Washington Territory, and Helen NJ
Cougar, of Indiana, and speeches by DR.. Glenn
ence Lozier and Mary Seymour Howell
Miss Anthony read letters of encouragement
from Geo. w. Curtis, j. P. Thomson, NJ p,
and Jane Golden, daughter of the late Richard
Golden.
At the evening session the following addresses
were delivered: 1.-THE Craftsmanship of
Women" by Elizabeth Boynton Norbert;
1.-THE Unknown Quantity in Politics, y
Lille Devereux Blake; Disabilities" Martha
Mcclellan Brown; 1.-THE Successful Elk
pertinent" Judge NJ Brown, United States dis
trict attorney, Wyoming
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
MINOR MENTION.

The President Urged to Appoint General
Gresham to Succeed Judge Drummond.
Special to tho Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, March T. - Representative
Peelle called upon the President to day and pre-
scented petitions of members of the bar in
twenty-one cities in Indiana, asking that in the
event Judge Drummond is retired Gresham
be appointed. He presented, also petition
signed by all members Of Congress and senator's
from Indiana, making the same request The
President made no answer to the petitions, it
not being time for him to speak. That he will
do when Judge Drummond indicates his readi
ness to retire, which, in the opinion of those in
position to know, will be some time this month.
1t seems now that there can be no doubt that
Gresham will get the place, and without any
solicitation upon his part. So far there has been
no indication that he has made any move for the
position, while, to the contrary, there is every
reason to believe that what is done by his
friends is without his knowledge.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
THE GAYHEAD WRECK.
Captain Wright Found Guilty of Gross
Negligence and His License Revoked

BosToN, March 1.-The united States local
inspectors who investigated the wreck of the
steamer City of Columbus, with a loss of
seventy-ffv of her eighty five passengers, and
twenty eight of forty-fve of her crew, reports
the backing of the engines after the ship struck
was fatal mistake. The report goes on to say:
when the last course was given to Mate Hard
ing by Captain Wright, the ship was where any
ordinary landsman could have taken her past
the fatal rocks without chart of compass
We cannot help believing had special pilot
been on duty no such disaster could have hap
pened on such night. The immediate and di-
rect cause of this disaster was the neglect of
the man men to watch the ships course
Captain S. E. Wright was the only legal pilot on
duty at the time of the dsaster, and as master for
Illegally delegating the duties of pilot to those
unauthorized, and for inattention to his duties
as pilot, his license master and pilot is hereby
revoked The officers of the steamer Glaucus,
who sighted the wreck, and who did not go to it,
as they did not think for a moment of any one
being on or near the wreck, are net subjected to
any penalty.n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

Mr.. s. K. Kittle, boot and shoe merchant of
Rising Sun, made an assignment on Monday.
The liabilities are little more than S. 600, and
the assets about $500.
Mrs. John Schroeder a German woman living
in the southern part of LaPorte, while doing
some outdoor work slipped and fell, breaking
her neck, killing her instantly.
All persons interested in the subject of the
drainage of the marsh lands in the valley of the
kankakee river are invited to meet in South
Bend at the county commissioners rooms, on
March s.
Louis Oberndorfer the would-be murderer
and suicide, in prison at Clay City, died sud
denly and unexpectedly on Monday. He asked
to be raised in the bed, and wanted some milk,
which was brought He coughed two or three
times and asked to be laid down, when he died
The motion for new trial in the Brooks
Ganse murder trial, at Richmond, was over
ruled, and the defendant, Brooks was sentenced
to tho Southern Penitentiary for twenty lone
years-the extent of the law for manslaughter
His attorneys will appeal the case to the Su
preme Court
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
NATIONAL CAPITAL TOPICS.
CONTINUED from First Page

tives Murphy and Paige a subcommittee on cam
paign documents, the chairman being eX officio a
member of both subcommittee.
The committee had an informal talk over the
arrangements to be made for the campaign, but
did not enter into the discussion of questions of
party policy. The revenue reform Democrats
appear to be in the minority on the executive
committee. Senator German and Senator kenna
are both tariff Democrats, as are Representatives
Paige and Stevens. Representatives Stockslager,
and Murphy were Carlisle men, and with Sena-
tor Garland represent the tariff reform element
on the committee Representative Rosecrans
voted for Carlisle for Speaker, but
is an incidental protectonist, and indorses the
Ohio tariff platform. The secretary of the com
mittee is tariff Democrat. In the main, the
committee is composed of the younger element
of the party.
The following is full list of the campaign
committee, as at present composed: Alabama,
d. A. Herbert; Arkansas, A. IL. Garland; Call-
fornia W. S. Roseerans; Connecticut, W. W.
Eaton; Delaware, G. B. Lore; Georgia, A. II.
Colquitt; Illinois, r. W. Townshend; Indiana, 3.
James F. Clay; Louisiana, N. G. Blanchard; Ma
ryland A P. German; Massachusetts, H. B. Low
ering; Michigan, N B. Eldridge; Mississippi, Fl. L.
Muldrow; Missouri, A. NJ. Dockery; Nevada, G.
W. Cassidy New Jersey, w. H. Fielder New
York, R. P. Stevens North Carolina, Clement
David; Ohio, d. r. Paige Oregon, J. Slater;
Pennsylvania, VIM. Mutchler; South Carolina,
Samuel Dibble Tennessee, j. Q. Harris; Texas,
R. o. Mills; Virginia, John S Barbour; West
Virginia, John E. Kenna; Wisconsin, p. V.
Deuster; Florida, r. H. M. Dawson; Arizona, G.
Fl. Curry; Montana, NJ Maginnis; Wyoming =
E. POST Utah. ]. F. Cain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
ILLINOIS.
An Old Farmer Living Near Bloomington
Burned to Death.

An Old Farmer Living Near Bloomington
Burned to Death.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON, March 4-Early this morning,
the farm house of John R. Brittin, an aged cit
izen and an old settler of this county, burned,
and Mr.. Brittin persisted in the flames. Mr..
Brittin was seventy years old, and lived in
dover on the farm he settled on nearly half a
century ago. A tenant, named Gepson, farmed
his place and occupied the lower part of the
house, while Mr.. Brittin slept up stairs. About
daylight this morning, the Gepson family were
awakened by the cracking of fire, and they
barely escaped with their lives, and in their
nightclothing and barefooted. They ran to
their nearest neighbors half mile away, and
returning the house was burned, and in it
Mr.. Brittin. His charred bones were found in
the cellar. 1t is thought the fire originated by
the explosion of coaloil lamp.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
Obsequies of Minister Hunt.

WAsHINeToN March 4-The flags Of the
Navy Department and navy-yard were placed al
half mast at noon, to-day, in respect to the
memory of Minister Hunt, whose funeral took
place, to-day, at st. Petersburg. The Navy De
partment closed at o'clock.
A St Petersburg dispatch says the funeral
services over the remains of Minister Hunt
took place, to-day, at the American church The
coffin, wrapped in stars and stripes, con
horses. large number of mourners were
present, and the services were very impressive.
The coffin was laid in the vault of the church,
where it will remain until arrangements are
made for transporting it to the United States
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
Hangings.

WEST POINT, Miss March 4-Jesse Stephens,
colored, was hanged here to-day, for the murder
of an old negro named Porch, at Westbrook,
last July. An immense crowd, princ pally col
ored, witnessed the execution On the scaffold
Stephens said he had made peace with God, and
sprung at half-past l. the fall breaking the
doomed mans neck.
PHILADELPHIA, March 4.-John McGinnis was
hanged in the county prison at 1875 this morn
ing for the murder of his mother-in law, Mrs.
Mary Reed. The prisoner seemed fully pre-
pared to die, and paid no attention to anybody
but his spiritual adviser. His general calmness
indicated one who fully realized his position.
On the scahold he embraced and kissed the
priest. In the middle of the repetition Of the
sentence Jesus receive my sour the drop fell.
He seemed to die without pain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
CONGRESSMAN PEELLE.
Indiana Republicans Harmonious and In
Good Fighting Trim.

Indiana Republicans Harmonious and In
Good Fighting Trim.
Special to New York Tribune
what are the prospects of the Republican
party in Indiana now as compared with the
prospects at this time four years agol" Congress
man Peelle was asked
Decidedly more favorable now than they
were then, should say. Indeed I doubt if we
have been in a better condition in fifteen years
than we are to-day There is absolutely no
factional feeling in the State"
''Will the Indiana delegation to Chicago pre-
sent candidate for the presidentiall nomina
toni"
II think not. Probably the delegates will go
unpledged at least 1 hope so. OF course, if
there should be developed in the national con-
vention a strong tendency toward Indiana
man as a candidate our delegation would be
Jealous, earnest and united in his sup
port We think that Indiana has strong
claims on the Republican party. The State
has cast her electoral vote for the Republican
candidate in every presidential contest, except
once. since 1885, and she has been, in sense, a
pivotal State in several election. The Repub-
hcans of Indiana have been faithful and true,
and have borne the heat and burden of the day
in many hot fight. We have several men,
either of whom, as a presidential candidate,
would carry Indiana with whirl do not
think there is any jealousy between them or
among their friends / do not believe, for ex-
ample, the warmest friends of Senator Harrison
would put straw in the way of General Gresh-
ANS success, nor do L believe his friends
would raise an obstacle in Senator Har-
rson's path. The friends of one are the
friends of both and of each other, and the
same is true of Governor Porter's friends. If
either Gresham, Harrison or Porter should be
prominently brought forward in the national
convention, the friends Of the other two men
would support him with just as warm enthusi
asm and loyalty as would his own special friends
and advocates. And all of them will support,
with the same heartiness and zeal, the nominee
of the Republican national convention. whoever
he may be-
Among the Republican voters of the State,
the feeling in favor of Blaine is very strong.
General Arthur's course since he became Presi-
dent is highly commended by Indiana Republic
ans and he is regarded with general confidence
and respect. But, as l have said before the
nominee of the convention will receive their
hearty and undivided support They only desire
that the convention shall be body fairly repre-
sentative of the Republican party of the country,
and that after free conference it shall make a
fair, deliberate choice from among the several
excellent candidates before it."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
Brief Mention.


The Carpenter ease will be called, at Peters
burg, on Monday next.
The revival meetings at Hillsboro continue
with results satisfactory to those inaugurating
the movement.
The postoffce and store of S. Schmidt at Mel
vile, five miles west of Alton were destroyed by
fire on Monday afternoon, with all their con
tents.
Bryce Alsbury of Waynesville died on Mon
day from the effects of pistol-shot wound in
fiicted by Henry Teal, who has disappeared.
John Foley, of Wapella, took his life, on Mon
day, while lying in bed, by shooting himself. No
reason is assigned for his doing So and it is
somewhat mysterious as he was surrounded by
the most favorable prospects.
Charles McHenry. an inmate of the Galesburg
Jail, cut his throat on Monday night. He is the
one who, last Friday night attempted to break
jail and nearly killed Sheriff Stuckey. 1t is
thought that his wound is not fatal
The new Methodist Episcopal Church at Car
rollton, costing ST., 900, was dedicated on Sun
day. Bishop Bowman, of st. Louis Elder Geo
Stevens and DR.. W. F. Short, of Jacksonville;
Chaplain w. H. Rutledge, of the Joliet Penten-
tiary, and number of the local ministers We're
in attendance. The sum of 5000 was raised by
subscription to complete paying for the building