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Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12
DR.. Caryer,s Great Feat.

At a few minutes past IL O'Clock this morn
| ing DR.. William F. Carver commenced at the
Lincoln rink his great feat of Shooting with
"a rifle and single ball and hitting sixty thou
sand Jumps of coal (egg size) in six days and
| nights. He commenced firing at the rate OF
| about twenty-five shots in forty seconds He
| used five Winchester rifles twenty-five
calibre. During the first hour he fired one
| thousand shots. One hundred and f1fty-six
| missed. At the end of one hour and a halt
he had fired one thousand five hundred shots
which included two hundred and forty-sever
misses.
The judges are General S. R. Smith, Mayor
| G. F. Holcomb, General S. E. Merwin, Com
modore G. w. Scranton, Colonel L. L. Nor
gan. Referee, Professor John E. Clark.
Assistants, Captain Allen, Lieutenant Rob
ert Walker, Major H. r. LOOMS,
A. H. Kellam: scorers, Lieutenant A. L.
Howarth S. J. Beers, F. A. Chase, R. w.
Armstrong, F. A. Waldron.
Among the spectators present were F. A.
Gilbert, Hugh Daley, G. A. Downs, Lieuten
ants Parsons and Fairchild, j. P. Carney,
Captain William Fl. Stratton Captain Viii
liam Kslhrle, Clayton Redfeld. Members of
the New Haven Gun club present were T. J.
Beers, E. A. Folsom, G. E. Longden, Frank
Smith, g. Salisbury.
The opinion was expressed by good judges
that the doctor will accomplish the great
feat.
At $40 this morning when Dr. Carver had
completed his third hour he had made
twenty-eight hundred and six successful
shots
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12
SUED FOR SANDER.
A Young Lady Charges a GentIemz
With Seriously ANNOYING Her.

A Young Lady Charges a Gentleman
With Seriously Annoying Her.
Troy, N. Y, Jan. 11.-Robert Letcher
Brakeman, the son of wealthy parenta, of
Danvi1le, KY, a member of the class of 1887
at the Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute, was
last evening in civil suit brought by Miss
Minnie E. Shaver, of Undertook, to recover
81, 800 for SANDER. Brakeman sought bail
in vain and is now in cell Brakeman and
Miss Shaver roomed at No. rs Grand Divi-
sion street, and the former was very offensive
in his attentions. She repealed him. but, as
she alleges, he became very bold and at
tempted to assault her, whereupon she in
formed W. A. Brown, a River street jeweller-
who had long been acquainted with Miss
Shaver and her family
Brown visited Brakeman and gave him
some wholesome advice. A few days later,
while Miss Shaver was in Undertook. Brown
received letter from Brakeman in which he
says: II will now, in black and white, and
while fully awake, repeat what I said about
the lady" He then declared that Miss
Shaver was a disreputable woman, a liar and
thief; that he could prove it, and that he
had induced Mrs. Clark, the landlady, to
order her to leave the house, and telling
Brown where he could find him if he wanted
to see him. The letter was sent to Miss
Shaver's relatives, and the suit began Mrs
Clark, when Miss Shaver called at the house
yesterday, requested her to leave, and she
did So
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who was married at Buffalo, in 1878, to Miss
Caroline Sloane daughter of Judge Sloane
| OF that city. It was known that Hicks had
been married before, and, in order to salts
fy the seruples Of Miss Sloane and her rela-
tives, he made an affidavit, just before his
second marriage, that he had not seen his
first wife for seven years and that he be-
ieved she was dead. Soon after their mar
rage Mr.. and Mrs. Hicks came to England
and fer the past few years they have lived
In London. During this time three children
were born to them. From the first, however,
Mrs. Hicks has been haunted by the fear that
the first wife was alive and that Hicks would
desert his new family for her. Eleven weeks
ago Mrs. Hicks discovered in the swaziland
of Mr.. Hicks hat two photographs which
had been recently taken and which CORE
sponded with the descriptions she had heard
of the first Mrs. Hicks. Her husband
had slately been very reff1iss in his
attentions to his family and was spending
more and more of his time away from home
The second wife became satisfied that she
had been wilfully deceived for years and she
fed from home, taking her three little chill
dren with her. When Hicks returned to his
tim had escaped, and seemed to be especially
angered by the loss of his children With
the aid of firm of private detectives he
found her living in a state of des-
titution behind rag shop in Not
tinghill. In fear and trembling she
promised to return home, but instead
Mrs Hicks hurried to the American embas-
sy in the Members Mansions, Westminster,
and claimed protection as distressed Amer
lean citizen. She related her history, and
Mr.. White, the second secretary of the lega-
ton, kindly championed the lady's cause
and secured lodgings for her and her chill
dren where they would be safe from molesta-
ton.
Mr.. White explained the case to Mr. Low
ell, who heartily approved Of Mr.. Whites
action. Hicks called on Monday, but
was refused interview with Mr.. Lowell
He enraged at this rebuff and de-
manded his wife's address. This was also
refused and Hicks became still more angry
He ragged up and down the Office, blasphem-
ing and vowing that he would find means to
smash everybody concerned in what he called
the conspiracy to rob him of his wife. Mr..
White was GENT for and he calmly but reso-
lutely disputed Hicks right to the possession
of the lady or her children. This produced
a repetition of the yelling on Hicks part,
and the noise brought Mr.. Lowell to the
scene
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12
The WaSe r. w Nriohf

The late K. w. Wright, who died in Cleye-
land, O., Friday night, was sixty-nine years
of age. His death was sudden and caused by
congestion of the brain He was q native of
Ludlow, VT, and graduate of Yale, class
of 1912. He taught school in Boston for
three years after graduating and practised
law for ten years thereafter in Wisconsin. In
1857 he removed to Waterbury, Conn. He
practised law in that city for three years and
edited the Waterbury journal, serving also
one year judge of probate. He was at one
time executive secretary for Governor Eng
fish and for many years was engaged in jour
nalism and was editor successfully of the
Hartford Daily Post, the New Haven Daily
News, the New York Daily News, the New
Haven Daily Lever, the Richmond, Va,
Daily State journal and the New Haven Daily
Register.
In the fall of 1862 Mr.. Wright received
the Wing nomination for Congress in the
Milwaukee, Wis, district, but declined it
and few weeks later was nominated for
Secretary of State on the last Wing ticket
ever put in nomination in that State, but
was defeated While in Wisconsin he edited
a law book of practical Legal Forms,
which was extensively used by the law pro-
fession in the State He served two terms
as judge OF probate since he came to Con-
necticut.
He had great literary tastes and the results
of his labors have been widely and extensive
~ noticed. To many of the popular maya
zines of the day he has been contributor,
the two most noticeable articles being the
FsLion Cup versus Lion Cub" published in
Scribner's Monthly, and ''The Apocalyptic
Beasts He also wrote two papers which
he read before the New Haven Colony His
torical society, the first of which was en-
titled 'ePoetry and Poets of Connecticut"
and the second was entitled Historical
Sketch of Stephen Goodyear, the first Deputy
Governor of the New Haven Colony"
He leaves two sons by his first wife, Will
liam A Wright the lawyer of this city, and
Walter H. Wright, lawyer of Wisconsin.
His first wife, only daughter of Captain John
Luke, of Armand, Lower Canada, died in
1851. In 1852 he married Miss Sarah Louise
Martyr, daughter of Rev. j. H. Martyr, of
New York city. By this marriage there were
several children one of whom, Robert Will
liam Wright, jr, is now engaged in journal
ism in Cleveland.
The deceased was probate judge in Cheshire
a few years ago. In 1883 he removed to
Cleveland, Ohio One of his sons and a
daughter also reside there. He was until
stricken down engaged in writing book,
which was to be continuation of book he
wrote in 1876, entitled ''Life; It's True Gene
SIS and now in its second edition.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12

James, otherwise known as "Sandy" Nc
Guire, went into Mrs. Stannard's restaurant
on State street on Saturday afternoon and
after calling for meal and eating it refused
to nav. He was intoxicated and in trying to
get out of the place fell over table, break
ing a lot of crockery, and smeared himself
over with syrup, butter and other articles.
He was arrested.
Saturday evening Chas. P. Brown surrender.
ed himself at the police station, saying that
he had no visible means of support and
wished to be sent up for thirty days. They
will try and accommodate him in the City
court this morning
Agnes Park. who is well known in police
circles, will be ushered before the court again
this morning to show cause for throwing 8
stone through an italian dive on Union
street, known as the "Black Cross" on Sat
urday evening.
Peter Toole was arrested on Saturday
night for assaulting his wife and knocking
out two of her front teeth. Toole was very
much under the influence of liquor at the
tima
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12
AN ATHLETE IN THE PULPIT.
Duncan G. Ross To Enter n he Minis.

CLEVELAND, Jan. 1.-THE announcement
was made last night that Duncan G. Ross,
the Scotch athlete, had given up his saloon
business, renowned athletics and decided to
enter the ministry. To a reporter who called
to ascertain the truthfulness of the report
Mr.. Ross said: eyes am going to give up
my saloon and shall wrestle no more. Ihaye
decided to enter the pulpit and am perfecting
my plans for that purpose. have written
letter to the faculty at Trinity college at
Toronto for admission and hope to obtain a
favorable reply and if 1 do I shall at once
close up my affairs here and enter MY pur-
pose is to take two years course of study
in theology and then to enter the ministry. !"
tWhat has caused your present determine
tion?" principally desire to help my fell
lowmen, replied the athlete earnestly. "Since
my wife's death have no heart to resume
my wrestling and the saloon business has
always been obnoxious to me. Beside
l am now convinced that in this
way 1 can do the most good and that
it is my duty. In my particular
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go to the government upon his death or
sooner at her option. This he says antici-
pates the disposition which-he had contem-
plated making of the articles. Mr..
Vanderbilt replied to this say
ing he would insist that he should
not be defeated in his purpose which he had
at heart. He would therefore as fast as he
realized upon the property deposit in
trust for Mrs. Grant during her lifes
General Grant answered this briefly under
date of the 18th, saying that Mr.. Wander
bits generous determination compelled them
to no longer resist. At later
hour Mrs. Grant addressed let
ter to Mr.. Vanderbilt saying that
upon reflection she found that she could
and would not accept his munifcence in any
form, and begged that he would pardon the
apparent vacillation and consider the answer
dafrifa and final
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12

WANTED.
A POSITION as stenographer and corresnond
"A ent by young lady. references given Al
dress STFNOaCtP ,GtIEI, &Au-
ia12 4t* Conria y 6 Etff,
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12

LONDON, Jan. 12.-The Times earnestly
hopes that it will be found possible to arrest
O'Donovan Rosa in connection with the
stabbing of Phelan. 1t does not doubt that
American law will make short work of him
if once his guilt can be proven and the time
of his downfall has probably arrived. All
the papers comment ironically upon Rossa's
absence from his Office at the time of the
tragedy. They dilate upon the care with
which he avoids any danger to his own per
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12
GENERAL GRANT DECLINES
To BE A Pensfoner On Vanderbflt,s
Generosity.

NEW YORK, Jan. 11.-William Fl. Wander
bilt, who held judgment against General
Grant for $15O,OO0 lent him to ward
off the failure of the Marine
bank, on Saturday bought in the
real estate and presents of the
general named in the bill of sale.
He then presented the property to Mrs.
Grant for her separate estate, but she has
declined to receive it. Mr.. Vanderbilt then
wrote to Mrs. Grant, saying that he desired
to present her with all the mortgages upon
the real estate, all the household furniture
and ornaments, but suggesting that
the swords and other honorary gifts
received by the general should be presented
to the government at Washington as memo
rails of his fame. General Grant replied to
this letter for his wife yesterday saying that
while she appreciated his generosity she could
not accept in whole. She accepts the trust
which applies to the articles enumerated to
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12
TRAPPED INTO WEDLoCK.
A Beautiful Young Woman Deceived
nv a HeartIeRa ScoundreI.


BY HeartleSs ScoundreI.
CHATTANOOGA, Jan. IA beautiful
young lady, named Lille Lothro, living in
Dade county, Ca, is said to be the victim of
false marriage. Her alleged deceiver, Os-
car Coulter, a leading young man in this
section, is under arrest on the charge of for
gerry. Miss Lothro moved to Dade county
from the North with her father last summer.
Coulter was smitten with her charms and
became an ardent sutton. The couple be-
came engaged and the day was set for the
nuptials On the appointed day Coulter
came, accompanied by a strange man, whom
he introduced a magistrate saying that
the minister had disappointed him. The
ceremony was performed and the young cou-
pie lived happily until few weeks ago, when
there were rumors that the marriage was lille
gal. The bride became suspicious and is
said to have aseertained to-day that the al
legged magistrate was an impostor and that
the name of the ordinary had been forged to
the license Coulter was arrested and will
be prosecuted.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12
FOUR YOUNG wRETCHES
Drink Themselves Into a BeastIy Stat
of IntOXication.

of IntoXicat1on.
PORTLAND, Me-, Jan. 11.-Yesterday
morning about o'clock as Officers Greedy
and Frank were passing DoIan's barn they
noticed flash as from lighted match inside
md at once went in. While cropping about in
the darkness, they stumbled over the body
of boy lying though dead on the hay.
Lights were at once procured and search
revealed four boys lying on the hay, the old
less intoxicated One of the boys blubbered
out that they had broken into a rum shop
and stolen lot of rum, beer, ginger ale and
cigars. The wonder is that the boys were not
burned up with the barn, for the stumps of
at least twenty-five matches were found in
the cigar box, the inside of which was
oh AIRED
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12

A Colored woman,s Last smoL

ALBANY, Jan. 11.-At o'clock this morn
ing fire broke oft in Lansings carpenter
shop at Lansingburgh, the upper floor of
which was occupied a tenement by col
ored woman named Anthony, aged thirty
five, who was burned to death 1t is thought
she was smoking pipe in bed and dropped
to sleep and set fire to the bed and building
Loss So. 900.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12
REMA IL KABLE SCENE
I'm The Salvation Army Barracks At
Portland.

PORTLAND, Me-, Jan. 11.-There was re-
markable scene at the meeting of the Saliva
ton Army Tonight. Praying, exhorting
cries of t'God help me-" and shouts of civic
tory mingled. Captain Gray said: 81 new
er saw the like. Rich men were on their
knees side by side with some of the lowest
drunkards in the city 1t has been won
derful night In all twenty four professed
to have been converted. Very many were
those who had hitherto disturbed the meet
ings There were also two converted in the
afternoon The crowd in attendance was
very great. No trouble attended the street
parade.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12
A Few Hundred Dollars Will Sc.
cure a Good Home.
FOR RENT

Re, E. BALDWEN'S
REAL ESTATE AGENCY, S18 CHAPEL STREET
ja3daw
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12
A JEALOUS RIVALS REVENGE.
He Makes Pipe For His Foe
which Blows Up And Terribly
wounds The Latter

kAe Makes a Pipe For His Foe
Which Blows Up And Terribly
wounds The Latter.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11.-Yesterday morn
ing as Robert Morphy, truck farmer on the
old York road, was going home from market,
he saw man lying on the sidewalk on Co
lumbia avenue in an unconscious condition
and brought him to the Episcopal hospital
It was found that his under jaw was broken
and lacerated, several teeth in both Jaws
were missing and the bones were bare of
flesh in places. jackson Wartung said he
saw the same man pass down from Waterloo
street few minutes before, going toward
frankfort road. He carried large white
meerschaum pipe in his left hand, evidently
unlighted. This clew, which was impaired
to the police by the hospital clerks, was the
first straw that led up to the discovery of
crime that equals any in the most improba-
BILE novels for cold blood and malicious atroc-
ity. In his pocket was discovered circular,
on one of the edges of which was written
Chow goot vas Bazinskie to give me dot
pibe." Detective Sharkey in the afternoon
met woman named Rebecca Kavoritsky,
and by series of adroit questioning learned
from her that the injured man, who is Casper
Rosenstahl, and Felix Bazinskie were paying
court to her, but she preferred the former,
who was much younger and handsomer than
his rival. This enraged Bazinskie and he de-
termined on a terrible revenge. He was en-
ployed in a factory where celluloid goods are
made, and he had made meerschaum pipe
of specially prepared celluloid, small speck
of which thrown playfully into Rebecca's
stove few days ago blew every stove lid in
to the air with terrific force. This pipe poor
Rosenstah1 was smoking yesterday when the
explosion occurred that has placed him in
his present pitiful state.
The unconscious Rosenstahl was taken into
the operating room and an examination made
by DR.. Northwood. The wounds were dan
gerous; the throat and tongue were greatly
lacerated, burned and swollen. The physl-
clan expressed surprise that the patient had
lost SO little blood, because the gashes in the
throat and cheek, from which the splintered
ends of the lower jaw protruded, caused even
an old surgeon to shudder. Closer inspection
showed that the ruptured ends of the small
arteries We're cauterized as though by fire.
Thus very little blood had flowed. Doubt
less therefore, the comatose condition of the
patient ascribed to a mental shock of
some kind. The wounds were dressed with
lint and bandages, and the return to con-
seriousness of the patient is awaited to get
fJ111 exp1anation of the affair
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12
TELEGRAPHIC JOTrINGS.

Word has been received that General Cor
don was in good health on the 2Sth of De
cember.
The Stratton mills at Swanzy, N H., were
sold Saturday for s25, 900, including all the
real estate of the concern in Swanzy Ansel
Dickerson was the purchaser.
John Dunn, a penitentiary convict at
Joliet, Ill, made desperate attempt at sui
eide Saturday night. He cut and hacked his
throat with knife and may die. He es-
capped from the penitentiary twice and Was
recaptured within month
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12

business have seen many things that will
be useful to me in the pulpit. It will not be
my purpose to wage war upon the saloonist;
In other words I shall not pose as a reformed
drunkard, for I have never been drunkard
Neither am I to preach and advocate tenn
perance exclusively -
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sCoLLoPs.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
FPPS'S COCOA.

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ton and by careful application of the fine proper,
ties Of welseected Cocoa MI ERps mas Proyia SS
erage which may save us many heavy doctors bills
1t is by the udcous use Of such articles OF dIet that
enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hun
reds of subtle maladies are floating around US ready
to attack wherever there is weak point. We may
escape many fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well
fortffed with pure blood and a properly nourished
frame r-Civil Service Gazette.
Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold
civ n half pound tins by Grocers, labeled thus
oAIy MTTS EPPS & Co., Homeopathic Chemists.
Sae11t,1esEwedIy London, England.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12
A WIPES SAD DISCOVERY.

After Six Years of Welded Life She
Finds Her Husband a Bfgamist.
LONDON, Jan. IA sad story of domes-
tic misery between an American couple has
just come to light through the Intervention
of the American legation in London The
husband il Mr. Hicks, quasi journalist,
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12

Another cold wave is on its way east from
the great West. The signal was raised OIL
the Insurance building about two o'clock this
morning A fall in temperature of twenty
degrees within the next twentyfour or thir
ty-six hours is expected
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12
The Senatorial Struggle at ALBANY,

ALBANY, Jan. 1.-THE senatorial contest
will open in this city tomorrow evening.
Headquarters have already been engaged at
the Delavan House by the friends of Messrs.
Morton, Russell and Evarts, and it is ex-
pected that the contest will be hot until the
day of the denouement in the middle of
February
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12
Ten Million Pounds of bottles.


ROCHESTER, N. Y, Jan 11.-Business has
evidently reached bed rock again. Large
buyers see better times ahead and take ad-
vantage of the low prices to accumulate
stock. A large patent medicine house of this
city has just made contract with some glass
works in Philadelphia for 10000, 900 pounds
of glass bottles, or 1900, 900 bottles, over
800 carloads-the biggest contract ever
made. The bottles would stretch over 900
miles in line.
Jail Breakers Quickly Recaptured.
WAUPIN, Wis, Jan. 11.-Great excite
ment was occasioned here last night when
the alarm bell at the State prison rang out,
rousing people from their slumbers. 1t soon
became known that Michael A. Hogan,
Thomas Derby, William Burns and Richard
Page, the former three recognized the
most desperate and incorrigible crooks con-
fined within the prison walls, had made
their escape. Hogan had but recently been
released from close confinement and Derby
and Burns had been in the deadlock for
three months for INSTRUMENTATION. Hogan
and Page had provided themselves with
skeleton keys and succeeded in letting out
the others into the cell with them where a
bar had been cut off, and furnished them the
means of escape into the yard. A piece of
rope furnished Page the means of reaching
the top of the wall and the windlass and
tackle used in lowering an electric lamp let
him to the ground and the others at once
followed. The town turned out and insti-
tuted search for the fugitives. Page was
brought in about half-past nine by farmer,
whose horse he had tried to steal to facilitate
his escape. About midnight the other three
were captured, being found hidden in hay
loft located on the prison grounds. Derby and
Hogan were each serving seven years terms
for burglary committed in Milwaukee and were
notorious criminals Derby was arrested in
Chicago, June II, 1888, by Detective Cos
tello, after he had received a bullet from the
latter's pistol.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12
A Small Blaze I'm New York,

NEW YORK, Jan. IA fire causing a loss
of $4,000 to stock and $4,000 to building
occurred in the cloak manufacturing estab-
hshment of the Brighton Manufacturing
company.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12
An English paper ExuIts.

LONDON Jan. 12.-The Standard reioices
over Fridays Fenian butchery in New York
and thinks it will probably be the means of
breaking up the dynamite gang in that
city.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-12

LONDON, Jan. 11.-Phelan, the man stab
bed in New York city by Short, was the OBJ
ject of police surveillance in England in 1888.
He had prearranged meeting at Hull in
June of that year with one Kearney, sup
posed to be the man who with him in
Rossas Office when he was attacked.