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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-31
PLOTTING THE CRIME.

She camo from Baltimore and visited
a dlsreputable den on Norman street
kept by Boss Cobb. Here she arranged
for interviews with Donaho and the crime
was plotted. Donaho agreed to murder
the young wife after he got the $1,000
which was to be his reward, and then
went to the police with his story. The
woman's identity was concealed so care.
fully that even her husband was not
aware of her arrest until Tuesday morn
ing, when Mrs. Coolidge was arraigned
in the Municipal Court, Hon. Joseph
Bennett appearing as her counsel. The
charge against her, according the war
rant, reads: Soliciting aid to commit
murder" The case was disposed of very
quietly and but few of those in the room
knew what was taking place. Mrs.
Coolidge looked very detected and her
eyes were red with weeping, She is a
large woman and is fair looking. She
claims that she was dragged into it, but
does not say how. The husband knows
nothing of the elder Mellen, the father
ln-law of the intended victim of the al
legged conspiracy, and says he has no idea
how his wife became acquainted with
him or was induced to enter the plot. He
feels deeply greved over the affair. He
has been married about seven years and
they have little girl. His home is
broken up and he intends to put the
child away. dispatch from Baltimore
Tuesday stated that Assistant District
Attorney Dacey and Inspector Gar
naughty, of Boston, and John Donaho
are IN that city and that they are unable
to find Mellen. His son Edward, who
has been living in lodgings with his
young wife, refuses to believe the story.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-31
FISH 5 DEALINGS WITH WARD.

In answer to various questions about
his dealings with Ward on the eventful
May ), 1884, on which the failure oc-
Cured, Mr.. Fish stated that Ward came
to lis office in the Marine Bank and re-
quested the withdrawal of Il check for
$50, 600 drawn on the First National
Bank, which he had deposited in the
Marine Bank as security for one for
ISL 900, which Mr.. Fish had certified on
the previous Saturday, May 3. He
STATE d that the latter would not be pre-
s2nted at the bank, as it had been pro
vided for. Ward had been gone about
an hour when the ISL 900 check was
presented 1T the Marine Bank
Benjamin Fish, the presidents brother,
who was acting as teller, brought it to
him i'll his room. lie rung up Ward on
the telephone and shouted: Ward, that
check for ISL 900 has come in for certiii-
cation That's very strange, indeed"
answered Ward; 81 don't understand it.
will attend to it.
Continuing, Mr.. Fish stated that he
thercupon ordered his brother to certify
the check. In the afternoon of the same
day the check for S1l, 800 was presented
at the Marine Bank for certilication
against the Warner check for SO, 600.
Mr. Fish again rung up Ward on the
telephone, and told him of it, aud the
latter assured him that it would be pro-
vlded for. He then ordered it's certif
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-31
A CONSPIRACY TO MURDER,

The police refused to say word about
the case to reporters and have not given
any information about the case Tuesday
last Mrs. Coolidge was arraigned on a
charge of conspiracy to murder and was
held in s., 900 bail for the action of the
grand jury. Reportorial ingenuity has
supplied what purport to be the missing
links in the evidence and they furnish a
sensation of the most painful character.
Mr.. Mel.en, who is a we'll known hotel
proprietor in Baltimore, is accused, &C
cording to Mrs. Coolidge's confession, of
an overpowering desire to get rid of the
young Irish servant girl, Mary A. Som
erset, who in April last was married to
his son Edward. The girl was very
pretty and the marriage was clandestine
The son refuses to abandon his wife and
has been outlawed by his parents. Mrs.
Coolidge, who is said to have been the
midwife who attended the young wife at
the birth, when the story of the marriage
came out, relates that she conducted the
negotiations with Donaho, not expecting
30 allow murder to be committed, but
for the purpose of getting the $1,000
which was to be her reward. She said
nothing about the case to her husband,
who is thoroughly respectable man, or.
to anyone else, and ''takes on terribly
over her incarceration
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-31
MM. T. WAKRrRTON, ESQ.

After Il severe illness of several weeks, re-
sulting in typhoid fever, Mr.. VIM. 7. War
burton, Esq, died at his home near Bay
View on Thursday afternoon last. Mr..
Warburton was one ofthe few old-tim men
left in Cecil county. lie was in his seventy
farm near Bay View since his earliest boy
hood days. His father was the Rev. Thos.
Warburton, who in his time was the most
powerful preacher on the Methodist circuit.
Mr.. Warburton early became instilled with
enterprising business principles and began
in his younger life to plan means for a sub
stantial welfare. The farm upon which he
lived Is noted fol- its fertility and agricul-
tural wealth. The deceased married Miss
Elizabeth McCauley, daughter of Judge
James McCauley, by whom he mad four
children, the youngest, son, Mr. T. War
burton, .Jr., being well-known lawyer and
politician. His widow and all the children
survive him. His funeral will take place
to-day ut the Bag View Methodist Protest
ant cemetery. Though not exactly excen-
trio, Mr.. Warburton had many Of those old
time ways about him that generally endear
a man very closely to his friends. Always
upright in the defense of just and right
eous cause his three score years and ten
have been completed without a blot of dis
honor, mark of discredit to one so veneer
able, and wise as venerable
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-31
OBIIT.
MISS CARRIE SHIPPERS.

Miss Carrie Shippers, halfsister to Mrs.
John Cantwell of this town, died at the res
dence OF the latter on Main street on Tues
day last. Miss Shippers was in her twenty
first year. She was daughter Of the late
jesse X. Shippers and resided near Union,
Cecil county. Several weeks ago she left
her home to visit friends and relatives in
Philadelphia and on Saturday last when
returning was too i'll when she reached
Wilmington to proceed any further that
day. Her seemingly slight sickness soon
developed into a severe case of pneumonia
and she was removed to the place of
her death on Monday last. Miss Shippers
loss will be deeply felt by her many friends
here and at the Union. She has long been
member of the NJ. f. church and was Il
young lady Of pleasing culture and intel
ect. Her brief illness, resulting so soon in
death, ami that away from her home makes
the case extremely sad. Her remains We're
inferred on Friday in the cemetery at
| nil
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04

The appearance of Mrs. Oscar Wilde
at recent social gathering in London
is thus described: Astheticism Gull
minated III Mrs. Oscar Wilde's cos
tune OF wooden stuff in dull reseda
trimmed with pink, a kind of Kate
Greenaway dress, tied at the waist by
a dropping pink sash. Round the
neck sh. wore a wide Toby frlIl OF
two rows of ficelie lace with various
colored beads and large pink bow
fastening bunch CT yellow marquer-
ties: on her head small Tam O'Shan-
ter cap of the samt greeEish gray
materials was the accompaniment to
this eccentric costume.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04
The Parsons Mistake.
Newman Independent.

A few Sundays ago a minister
preached a sermon On the evils OF
mendacity to congregation in the
back woods near Nipantuck In the
course of his remarks he alluded to
the tragic death of Ananias At the
close of the sermon an old deacon took
the minister aside and informed the
reverend gentlemen that he had made
a mistake in regard to Ananias.
Chow so?" asked the astonished
divine.
"Why, by telling the congregation
that Ananias is deaa," said the dea.
con.
IL don't understand" said the
minister in some confusion; please
explain"
Dang til" said the deacon, near
ly every man In the congregation is
an offce>seeker, and when they learn
that Ananias is dead the whole durn>
I'd crowd will want TO FIJI his place. :"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04
HE BEGAN TOO EARLY.
| The Sad Fate of an Am bitious young
| Man who Was Toe Fresh.
st. Paul Glol


st. Paul Globe.
SIS that the irst tine you ever
killed a man2' asked an Arkansaw
judge of the prisoner he was about to
sentence.
eyes, sir.
First offense, hey?"
Eyes, SIR"
Ever stab any body?'
'No, sir"
Ever steal mules?'
mo, sir
Ever claim that you were d wild
Texas steer with three horns and four
tais?"
mo, sir"
Ever drink a COLON of whisky on
bet2"
mo, sir"
Ever allow that yol. could dive
deeper, come up dryer, and boiler
louder than any five men in the south
west?"
mo, sir"
Ever hold five jacks and two re-
volvers in a game of pokerl"
mo, SIR"
Chow long have you livea IN Ar
Kansas"
Two weeks"
How old are you?"
''Tnirty-thrce.
'Twenty-thrse years old and have
you have killed nan. Ny young
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04
Persons and Thin gs.

Sam Jones, the Southern revival
ist, says there is not Christian soul
IN Nashville.
Senator Beck says of Senator Eustis
of Louisiana, that she is a strong
man, lazy, ugly, and sulky."
DR.. Talmage rejects the revised biz
bic, and says he has become familiar
with the old one and will take no
other.
In the new play with which she is
now depicting the pockets of Enlish-
men Mrs. Langtry appears in a boys
costume.
Secretary Manning has brought out
a last years straw hat with blue
band on it, and is cutting quite a
swell with it.
Secretary Lamar keeps a horse near
his office and when politicians get
troublesome he slips out of side door
and takes ride for his health.
The New York Society for the Pres
ervation of the Purity of the English
Language has decided to take a long
rest before undertaking to convert
the Bostonese.
John L. Sullivan's reply TO his
wife's complaint in her divorce suit
that she has been guilty of cruel and
inhuman treatment of him has set all
Massachusetts, to laughing.
Mime. Barrios, widow of the Guat-
elmalan Dictator, has $4,000, 600 in
hard cash, and is an object of much
interest to New Workers who have
stock to sell and matrimonial inten-
tions.
Mrs. Logan has received very
complimentary and affectionate letter
of congratulation on her husbands re-
election signed Mary Ewing Cock
rell," being the full name of the wife
of Senator Cockrell, of Missouri.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04
Short Stops.

The Hessian fly has greatly damag,
ed the wheat crop in California.
The revised Bible was placed on
sale in New York bookstores Wednes
day.
Mrs. Lucy Smith. aged SO years,
was killed oy the cars at Manistee
Mich.
S. S. Cox will leave for CONSTANT,
nople early in June, and be banquet
ted before he goes.
John Sherman will be candidate
for reelection to the United States
senate from Ohio.
Many members Of the Salvation
army were injured by mob at Sacra-
mento, Cal, Wednesday evening.
The Canadian Bank of Commerce.
Chicago, was swindled out of 81, 600
by forged letter of credit.
Gen. Middleton has received in
structions to war the Indians till he
brushes them. Poundmaker and his
band are still on the war path and
very bold.
The autopsy on the body OF Odlum.
who jumped from Brooklyn bridge,
shows that the ribs were broken on
both sides and that internal injuries
were received.
Garter Harrison refuses to qualify
as mayor of Chicago unless the re-
turns from the Third ward, which
were stolen, are counted. As this
will defeat a democratic candidate Or
two, Garter and his party are out.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04
A Scientific Fact About Wood.

Wood, when subjected to heat of
from 400, 800 degrees, is resolved into
three distinct products charcoal,
pryoligneous acid, and gases. The
process is thus described: A cord of
fairly seasoned wood weighs, say
4, 900 pounds. This cord of wood,
placed in a charring recepticle and
subjected to proper temperature for,
say FIVE days, entirely disappears. In
its place we have l, 900 pounds OF char
coal, 1000 pounds of pyroligneous
acid, and ], 900 pounds of uncondensed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04
SHOULD WOMEN PROPOSE TO MEN
LaDOuchere ON London Lecture by
an Am erIcan Lady

LaDouchere ON a London Lecture by
an American Lady.
The American lady who recently
lectured at st. James's hall, on the
subject of love, courtship and mar
riage, appears to entertain rather
pessimistic opinions with regard to
the amount Of happiness enjoyed in
the married state. She computes that
percentage of one>third of the coup
les so joined ia this country and
America are thoroughly miserable,
and traces a large amount of such
misery to the prohibition against
women proposing to men. She thinks
1t hardly fair that men should mono~
police the privileges of selecting
their partners for life, and deplores the
restrictions that condemn a girl to sit
ia silence, while he on whom she has
fixed her young affections goes around
proposing to other ladies. With how
ever, a wholly womanly one>sidedness
the lecturer only enlarged upon the
suffering of the love~lorn damsel, and
quite ignored the painfulness of the
position in which the gentleman
would find himself if suddenly con-
fronted with proposal of marriage
made in person.
Much of the lecture was too thoro-
ughly American to be quite ineligible
to an English audience, whose social
customs differ so entirely in many
ways from those of their transatlantic
cousins. For instance, the word
lady" was used so completely to the
exclusion of woman" that it was inn
possible to avoid the conclusion that
there are no women in America but
only ladies, One lady" was desert
bed as being unhappy in her marriage,
but entirely successful as market
gardener. Another acted as school q.
teacher, and boarded around"-a
mode of life that is Internationally
suggestive of vague and cratic meals,
And the diseases of '1adies" were ref
erred to as though the beings so des-.
ignated were constructed upon some
especial plan, differing essentially
from the one pursued in the formation
of mere women,
Here is the lecturers notion of
domestic happiness: a pleasant room,
a bright fire, a comfortable cat ana
dog, rosy-cheeked children, and
prettily-dressed mother, with sewing
in hand. To these enters the husband,
tired with his days work. and happy
to be at home. He throws himself in
comfortable arm chair, IN an attl-
tude of repose, which he completes by
placing his feet upon his wife.s knees !
This must be bliss indeed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04

1t is stated as curious fact that
when the late Empress OF Russia was
stopping with her daughter, the Ouch
ess of Edinburgh, with large suite,
the Duke gave her to understand that
he could not afford to entertain her,
and ne should be obliged if, on her
departure, she would order the comp
troller of the suite to pay an adequate
sum for the expenses of her witt.
At the moment OF departure, after
luncheon had been taken, the Duke
of Edinburgh drew paper from his
pocket, on which he had noted down
the estimated expenses of the Russian
Empress, and he added the cost of the
luncheon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04

express my extreme regret that
should have given you offense the
other night by expressing my opinion
about steam launches little more
candidly than perhaps should have
done; but believe me-"
Mr.. Thornton interrupted him:
''Believe me, sir, you did not say
enough. am a complete convert to
the opinion you hold. Steam launch
es are an abominatios, sir, and mine
is for sale from this very moment"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04
SHE'S A GENIUS.
SAMUEL NfINTURN PECK.

She's genius! you would guess it
By her slightly squirting eyes,,
She's a genius all confess it
When they list her wild replies.
True, she turns her little nose up
In the style termed retrousse,
Yet l doubt not as she grows up
1t viii turn the other way.
She talks of art esthetic
In enthu iaStic tones,
I've feeling half propethic
She's a Whistler or q Jones.
Her napkins dono in custard,
They are delicate though deep;
While her symphonies in mustard,
They are things to make you weep.
Furthermore in efforts vocal
She's wonder, declare;
Though her fame is somewhat local
She's the Scalchi of the square.
Her voice while but babe you
Might have sought in vain TO drown.
Don't you think upon her debut
She will captivate the town.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04
The BreWeries of Berlin.

There are In Berlin twenty six
breweries of Bavarian beer, thirty-one
of white beer, and fourteen establish
ments which make bitter, brown or
Grant, beer. In 1884 the sum of
1877, 700 marks of taxes were paid on
As, 443, 900 kilogrammes of malt,
while the total amount of beer pro-
duced amounted to 1, S17, 800 hectolit>
res. La this production the Bohe milan
brewery participates with 1873, 200
hectolitres, Friedrichshohe with 139,-
500, Tivoli with 1873, 300, Union with
n, 500, Konigstadt with rs, 900 Moa>
bit with n, 900, the Book brewery
with 10000 bectolitres, etc, all the
foregoing ones making Bavarian beer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04

gases. The aggregate product of these
products is equal exactly to the origi-
nal weight of the wood. By the age
ncy of heat the constituents of the
wood have been disassociated, and the
immediate RECOMMENDATION of these
constituents result in the charcoal. the
acids, and the fixed gases
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04

One of the rules of Monte Carlo is
that when a visitor has lost every
thing at the gaming table he must
leave Monaco. The administration
pays his fare to whatever part of the
world be may desire to go, but if he
has no means of support be is not per-
mitted to remain. Thus it is that there
are no mirerable poor persons In the
principally.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04

friend, you hang on Friday week,
rain or shine. A young man like you
should begin at the foot of the ladder.
not at the top. You are too ambiti~
Gus. Fling away ambition; by that
sin fell the angels. Next case
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04
Bismarck's Garden Parties.


The subtle delights of ''Der Fruhl-
ing" have been sung by all the poets
of the fatherland, and the season of
blossoms in Germany is really SO
beautiful and charming in its gradual
approach to a elimination of rich
verdure and delicate fragrance of
flowers that vt is no marvel the nature
of poets is inspired, and even thai the
spirits of common mortals are mel
lowed by such gentle influences.
In this latitude Dame Nature is not
so complaisant. The sudden transi-
ton from cold to heat, which tests so
hastily our powers Of physical endur-
ance, makes it indeed impossible for
Der TO treat us SO benefciently. We
are derived, therefore, of the oppor-
tunity of going a-Maying, which we
would gladly enjoy if it were given
US. But we can, nevertheless, regard
vita sympathy the pleasures which
other people derive from the awaken
ing of the spring. The great German
chancellor, for example, is to be cons
graduated at the success of his May
garden parties. At these "Fruh-
Schoppen," as they were termed, beer
in unstinted quantities and sardellen-
brodchen are the c0ncomitants of the
perfumes and charms of early spring,
and Bismarck and his guests forget
their politics entirely for the nonce
and become happy in worshiping at
the shrine of Pan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04
The United States and the Isthmus of
Panama.
London Spectator.

London Spectator.
The government of the United
States has taken a great stride toward
the annexation Of the Isthmus of Pan
anna. It was necessary during the re-
cent emeute there to land marines for
the protection of American property,
and. indeed, of civilization in general:
and although on the arrival of Col
ombian troops the marines retired, the
Colum bian government was hardly
found equal to the situation. 1t is as
weak, and possibly as corrupt, as
most Spanish American governments,
and could not permanently protect the
transit. A treaty has therefore been
made under which the government OF
Washington and the governmental
Bogota assume a joint protecterate of
the Isthmus, and between them are to
guarantee the safety of transit. In
view of the inequality of the parties
to the treaty, and of the immense inn
portance of the transit, that means an
American protectorate of the Isthmus,
and consequently something very like
American sovereignty over the route
of the Panama Canal. This is a great
change, but we do not know why
Europe should object. It was inevi~
liable that some arrangement should
made between the world in general
and the only substantive power on
the American con tinent, and the ar
rangements is not more difficult be-
cause Colombia IS practically elimi-
mated. Nobody could prevent the
United States from being the most
important factor in Inc ultimate set
Element which must make the Pana~
ma Canal an arm of the sea, and she
may just as well assume openly the
liabilities of that position.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04

How doth the little onion
Pop up its little head,
AND the restless little raddish
Stretch ia its little bed.
The sunfish and the minnow
Wag their shiny little tails,
While the chipmUnk and the robin
AdorR the fences rails.
The blossom by the hedge side
And on the boss nose
Tell of the coming spring time
And blooming of the rose.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-16
THE NE " ENGINES,
They Do Good " Ork at McCarron:s
Lake But Lack DUTY.

The board of water commissioners met
yesterday morning. MIR. Folsom reported
that he had requested the city attorney to
be present and make a report in regard to
the settlement of the suit of Hough & Gear
and have the case brought to trial as soon
as possible. Mr.. Murray stated that the
water board was only acting as trustees for
the claimants and to bring the matter be-
fore the court for speedy adjustment, some
one of the claimants should petition the
court for settlement.
The bid of W. F. Bailey & Co.. for brass
goods for the year of 1886 was accepted.
also that of A. W. Morgan, Buffalo, n. Y,
for patent stop-cock and valve boxes for
the same season. The secretary was Or
dered to advertise for bids for pipe and
specials required in 1856.
TESTING THE PUMPS.
A report on the test of the new pumping
machinery at McCarron's lake, made by II.
81. Harrison, superintendent of the Still
water water works, and City Engineer
Rundlett was submitted.
By the requirements of the specifications
the test of capacity was to be made by Wier
measurement and the test of duty was to be
determined upon the basis OF the actual
amount Of water pumped, as shown by the
capacity test and the coal used during the
trial without any deductions. A proper
wier was constructed, and on the night of
the Sth of December the test was made of
the capacity of the engines. Owing to the
necessity of working in the night as the
water could not be cut off from the city ex-
cept at this time without great inconven-