The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-13

body was nude and the head was found
in thicket 100 yards from the cistern.
This was late Wednesday evening.
The body was taken to Troy, where it
was viewed by large number OF people,
but was not identified until Thursday,
when it was recognized as the body of
Mrs. Stilwell Henderson,, who resided
on farm fourteen miles back OF Troy.
A neighbor of Henderson,, while in
Tell City, saw the murdered woman's
husband and also noticed a valse
marked f. H. Henderson,. While the
steamer Droillard was at Troy, search
warrant was procured, the valise
opened, and found to contain the cloth
ing of the victim covered with blood.
Warrants We're made out Immediately
for Stilwell Henderson,, husband, and
+. II. and William Henderson,, the
sons. The old man and his son William
were arrested and brought to Troy.
The murder of Mrs. Henderson, arose
from her refusal to sign away farm to
| which she bad deed in fee simple,
which the father and sons wanted to
dispose OF. Several hundred people
were present at the trial, and about
noon an effort was made to seize the
| criminals and mete out summary VEN
geance upon them, but the officers suc-
ceeded in averting the attack. AT
o'clock Friday evening, the mob at
Troy took the eldest son out of Jail aud
hanged him to beam in the barn
where the crime was committed. He
made confession that his father shot
his mother, and that he cut her head
off with an AK. At 10 o'clock the mob
passed through Tell City, on the way
to Cannellton, three miles above, to
hang the father and the other son, who
are in Jail there. There is mob 200
strong.
A Boston dispatch says: In refer
ence to Blaine's denial of the assertion
of Warren Fisher that he (Blaine) had
offered sum Of money for the Mulligan
letters, given in these dispatches,
Fisher reiterates his claim that Blaine
did make such an offer. He declares
that at the request of Elisha A. Atkins,
and at the special request of Mr.. Blaine
he went to New York in the Spring of
$780, and met Blaine at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, and that then and there
Mr.. Blaine made a request to obtain,
for money, or otherwise, from James
Muligan, all the letters and memo
randa in which MIR. Blaine had any in.
terest The amount was not limited,
and he was authorized to pay $4,000 |
if he could not obtain them for less. |
Mr.. Blaine said John Cummings, part |
ner OF Elisha A. Atkins, would furnish |
the money.
The Commissioner of the General |
Land Office has submitted a report of |
operations for the fiscal year ended |
June 30, 1884. The sales, entries and
selections of public land embraced &C.
S34.Oil acres; Indian lands, 697, 1919
acres. Total, 1881. 40 acres; increase
over the year 1883, S,l0l, 1877 acres,
aud over 1852, l3, 222, 003 acres. Re.
ceipts from the disposal Of public
lands, 81 $40, 993; from Indian lands,
1898, l37. Total, sl2.779. 1870; an in.
crease over 1883 of 81 ,073, 364, and over
1882 of 1892, $50. to which is to be
added SlO,275, received for certified |
copies OF records-making the total re.
ceipts for the year, Sl2, 7S9, 40j.
The Philadelphia papers contain &C.
counts descriptive Of the most success.
full experiments Of the Keely motor yet
known.
1t is stated that the French Govern
ment is negotiating with the owners of |
several large English steamships with |
the object OF chartering vessels to con-
vey troops to China.
Advices from Catania show that the
recent cyclone was far more destructive
than was at first announced. The en-
tire country about Catania was devas- |
tated, vineyards and olive gardens van
ished, and fully three thousand dwell
ings were destroyed.
The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency |
reports sixteen failures in the Pacific |
Coast States and Territories for the |
week ending Saturday, as compared
with twelve for the previous week, and |
twenty-one for the corresponding week |
of 1888.
Frank Pierson, head miller employed
at the Eureka Mill, at Walla Wallla,
owned by Dement, & Bros, became en-.
tangled in the belt which runs the
whole machinery of the mill. His
hand was first caught. and his whole
body wound around the shaft, breaking
every bone, yet he lived ten minutes.
He was member of Enterprise Lodge,
l. o. o. f., of Walla Walla.
A canvass of the students at Har-
ward University, just completed, gives