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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-04-28
GHOULS.
Wholesale Work Of Grave Robbers
In New vo,k \ State. e
Twenty.two Csssa discovered Thus Far
Private Cemeteries Believed to
Have Been Invaded.

SYRACUSE, N. r, April 2l.-A systematic
plan Of grave robbing has been going on at
the county alms-house for years which,it Is
thought, has extended to the cemeteries In
two or three Of the villages In the county.
The disclosure was brought about by hnd-
ing the body of former inmate In an old
and unused building in Lyons. It had been
thrown into window as II the ghoul had
been surprised by some one, and had dis
posed Of the body in the first convenient
place. The body had been buried
only the day before. The district
attorney and sheriff have begun an
investigation. At least a score Of
graves have been opened and the bodies
found to be gone. In 1884 there were twenty
two deaths at the place. and now an sx-
officer, 1t is said, is willing to testify that 1t
least twelve of these bodies were stolen.
The thefts were, it is said, an open secret
about the Alms-house that year, and the
inmates were terribly frightened by the
thought that at their death, their bodies
might also be carried away for dissec-
ton. Who the body-snatchers are Is not
certainly known, but it is generally
believed that they have been medi.
cal students from Lyons, Phelps and
Newark. An old Lyons physician
says that one night after the burial Of
pauper who died of curious disease,
eleven medical students from villages with
in radius of nine miles met in the ceme-
terry, coming in twos and threes, and each
with the intention of stealing the body. A
parley was held in the woods, where it was
decided that the body should go to the
party drawing certain number from the
hat. The cemetery has furnished medical
students with subjects for years, and
during 1885 several were dissected in an
unused office in Lyons. It is also said
that the cellar of the courthouse in
Lyons, which no one visits during
the summer months, has been the
scene of two dissections in the months of
July and August, and parts Of the subjects
were carried to the Clyde river and thrown
into the stream. A large number Of the
| stolen bodies have been shipped from
! Lyons Newark and Clyde to medical col
leges in New York, Albany and Buffalo.
The bodies were usually put in old oil or
whisky barrels and tightly headed in.
Many of the more mistrustful are sure that
graves in the cemeteries at Lyons and
| Clyde have been opened and the bodies
stolen. They will make an investigation
] for themselves
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FRANCE sends news that the cholera
has appeared within its limits, and in
the news is contained warning to us.
The reappearance of the scourge so
arly indicates that, far from having
died out. it will rage with anew vigor
this summer, and mayhap run its course,
not only through Europe, but through
America also, or at least in those parts
Of the two continents where efficient
means have not been employed to keep
it out. 1t beh ooves every one to put
In operation the best of sanitary regu :
lations.
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Servant Girls Strike,

NEW YORK, April 2l.-There Is trouble in
Tarrytown among the servant girls They
have come to the conclusion that they are
not receiving enough pay, and some time
ago a united demand was made Of their en-
ployers for higher wages, but in nearly
every case they met with . refusal The
wages paid is from fourteen to sixteen
dollars per month. Yesterday about twen-
ty-two of the girls walked out of their re-
spective kitchens and came to this city,
leaving their mistresses to manage affairs
rs best they could. As the summer resorts
are now securing help, the girls think 1t IL
q good time Of the year to strike. b.
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Liquor License in Illinois,

CHICAGO, April 2l.-Municipal elections
took place in many Illinois towns yester-
day, and in the majority Of cases where
the contest was between license and NO IL
cense the former was victorious. At Joliet,
Paxton, Urbana, Belvidere, Rockford,
Monmouth, Warren, Mount Sterling and
Lincoln the license and high-licenss alder
men are now in the majority. At Henne
pin, Dwight. Anna, Monticello, Plano and
other smaller towns where license or no
license was the issue the Prohibitionists
were victorious.
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Blood-poison from a Cat Scratch.

Blood-poison from Cat Scratch.
NEW YoRK, April 22.-Owing to the
scratch Of pet cat, Mrs. Thomas Monsby,
Of Brooklyn, has spent . week in untold
agony, and il now suffering from blood
poisoning. 1he cat became frightened by .
dog entering the room suddenly, and in an
endeavor to get away cug one of its paws
in Mrs. Monsby's under lip, ON whose lap
the cat was lying A tiny drop of blood
oozed from the scratch, which caused
hardly any pain, and the lady forgot all
about the occurrence in few minutes.
Towards evening, however, her lip began
TO swell, and before night 1t was a. large as
an egg. The swelling extended to the
cheeks and parotid glands.
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THE usefulness of living under ones
vine has been tested by Spanish family
at Monticello, near Santa Barbara. A
large family of seven sons and as many
daughters, with about a hundred de-
seendants. have been mainly supported
BY the vine, which. in some years, has
borne over 5000 lunches, or upwards
Of 9. 900 pounds of ripe grapes Between
1850 and 1850 the vine had been trained
over an area of eighty feet in circumfer-
ence. the stem measuring then twelve
inches in diameter and sttaining . height
- fifteen feet from the ground.
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( RESERVOIR DISASTER
Gives Way, sending . swesping
Avalanche Of water Through

Weakened Through Age Retaining wan
Gives Way, sending . sweeping
Avalanche Of water Through .
Little village.
PrrrsYIELD, MASS, April so.-At six
o'clock this morning the village of East
Lee was inundated and devastated by the
breaking away Of . dam ct Mud Pond
Reservoir, Mountain Lake, about two
and Q half miles from the village. The
pond covered 15O acres Of swamp, and was
very deep. The retaining wall, thirty
feet high and twenty-five feet thick,
was built nine years ago by q club Of manu-
facturers as . storage place for water.
East Lee village, whose half dozen paper
mills are situated on the stream, received
the flrst news of the accident when the flood
came pouring down the streets, and bring
ing with 1t trees, portions Of houses, barns,
fences, wagons and every form Of movable
property. On entering the town the first
obstacle encountered was q heavy iron and
wooden bridge. Spectators who saw the
wave as it advanced and struck
this bridge say that il was about
twenty feet high and sixty feet wide.
1t completely enveloped the bridge
and carried 1t away. A rod further on
stood the house Of Simeon Dowd. Mr..
Dowd, a man Of seventy years and rather
infirm, had gone out a moment before to
feed the chickens. Tho water caught him
and swept him to eternity. People fed to
the slopes Of the valley along which the
torrent was pouring and saw houses
moved and toppled about like chips on a
river. The flood passed East Lee and went
on down the road, destroying gardens,
lawns and fences and moving the smaller
buildings. The naked body of A. N. White
was found lying in the crotch of tree two
miles from home. The body of his wife
was forced by the swift current through
the window of Garfield's paper-mill, a mile
below her home, and then SO firmly lodged
in the machinery that four men had a half
hours work to extricate it. Mrs. McCor-
mic, an invalid, was carried out of the
house on a mattress. Just as they left the
door the waters burst upon them, and for
a moment the two men holding the
clasped Mt her breast, were whirled along.
Fortunately only the edge Of the torrent
struck the party, and in another second
they were landed high upon a sheltering
bank. Fortunately the track of the food
was in a sparsely inhabited country, but
what destruction there was for it to do in
wrecking three or four houses along the
road was thorough. The channel, quilted
by the rushing water, is from fifty to two
hundred feet wide. Nine bodies have been
recovered thus far.
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Rioting In New York.

NEW YoRK, April 22-This afternoon the
strikers at the Havemeyer Sugar Refining
Works at Green Point began rioting. The
police were called out in full force and at
tackled the strikers, using their clubs free.
ly, but the strikers outnumbered and over
powered the officers, attacking them with
slaves and brickbats. Three policemen
were seriously injured and removed to the
hospital. One striker was seriously in
jured about the head by the clubs of the
police and was also removed to the hos
pital. Several pistol shots were fired, but
no one was injured by the bullets.
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Eager for War,

ATHENS, April 20.--Four steamers have
been chartered to convey troops to volo,
whence they will march to the front. The
soldiers are enthusiastic for war, and the
semi-oficial papers are warlike in utter
ance. The greatest activity prevails in
the transport department at The Piraeus
A large supply Of war material has been
ordered to be sent to Thessaly with the
promptest possible dispatch.
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Foreign Notes.

The sanitary board of Rome admits that
Asiatic cholera has broken out at Brindisi,
and has ordered that all arrivals at othe
Adriatic ports from Brindisi be quaran-
tined one week.
THE GOODNESS which arose between the
Sultan Of Zanzibar and Portugal in rela-
tion to Portuguese claims to territory in
the Sultan's dominions has disappeared
and been succeeded by re-establishment
of friendly relations The Sultan has or
dered that the Portuguese flag be publicly
Ialuted.
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rne wAR eeovN.


T0TRos
ATHENS, April 22.-On Tuesday night the
Turkish advanced posts attempted to sur-
prise the Greeks who had been engaged on
tho previous day in erecting earthworks
within what II alleged to be the neutral
line. Their effort, however, was not sue
cessful, they being smartly repulsed by the
Greeks, who pursued the Turks and cap
tured two of their guns. The Greeks then
occupied three positions within Turkish
territory, which the Greek Govern
ment has ordered them to evacuate The
Greek and Turkish outposts exchanged shots
for half an hour last evening. No harm
was done on either side. The Turks re-
tired, but were afterward invited to occu-
py their former position, 1t being in Turk
ish territory. King George Is preparing to
go to Thessaly, where there are one hum
dred thousand troops in readiness for the
beginning of hostilities
PARIS, April g. - It is semi-officially
stated that France will refuse to join the
other powers in the plan proposed by Eng.
land to coerce Greece into disarming.
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Heavy Libel Suits.

DETROIT, April 2o.-Last week suit was
brought for $4,000 damages by Miss Helena
Hull against her sister, Mrs. A. J. Spiers,
relict Of G. R. Mabley. The local papers
published interviews with all the persons
directly interested, and Miss Hull now
claims that statements published in an in
terview in the Evening Journal were
libellous and brings suit against Mrs.
Spiers for $4,000, and against Rev. ]. W.
Spiers for $1,000 the alleged improper
stat ,ments being credited to them.
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NAPoLeoN's CORPORAL.
Death of One of the Emperor's Body
Guard Leaving q Fortune of Two
Million DOllare,

Death OF One OF the EmperOrs bO0y
Guard Leaving Fortune of Two
Million Dollars.
NEW YoRK, April 22.-Antoine Goulard,
who served as Corporal of Napoleon
Bonapartes body-guard, and afterward
came to America and made fortune as
q wine importer, died last Wednesday
in Brooklyn, aged eighty-two. He had
for many years lived in the style of
a miser, and he always told the few
friends he had that his money was
all gone. However, he gave will to Niles
Kant, a druggist, to keep for him. On
opening the will it was found that Goulard
left property worth S2OOO,0OO much of it
being in Spain, where he lived long ago.
He left personal property and jewelry
worth 100000 to his friend Kant, and
about 100000 worth Of property to his only
other intimate friend, Colonel c. s. Spen-
Ger, the well-known New York criminal
lawyer. The Spanish property mostly goes
to Don Tompelo Sierra, of Matura, Catalo-
mia, Spain.
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A BROKEN LEvEE.

A Million Acres of Cotton Land Flooded In
Arkansas.
HELENA, ARK, April 23.-The levee ON
the Mississippi river broke last evening
fifteen miles south of Helena on the Arkan-
sas side. The crevasse is forty yards wide,
and it will be impossible to close it. As in
1882, one million acres of the most fertile
cotton land In the Mississippi Valley will
be covered by water from one to six feet
deep. Planting operations were suspended
three weeks ago, and cattle and farm stock
were moved to the high lands. Unless the
water recedes very fast the entire cotton
crop in the overdowed district will be
spOiled
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Driven Insane by overwork.

ST. LOUIS, NO., April 20.-samuel c.
Holiday, an attorney, was appointed his
guardian. The cause of his insanity is
overwork, having been one of the most &C.
tive business men in this city. He was
president Of q ferry company, of belt
road, transfer company, and until recently
president Of the st. Louis Republican Pub
fishing Company.
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The colored people of Washington
celebrated Emancipation Day recently
with parade. At the armory of one of
the colored companies the soldier dele
gated to run up the United State flag,
by mistake ran up the Confederate stars
and bars. The sensation was immense.
"A patriotic clerk in the War Department
rushed to the rescue, and hauling down
the emblem of the lost cause, restored
the equanimity of the National Capital.
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Insane Man Suicides.

ST. LOUIS, April 2o.-Antonio Schmoni,
an insane patient at st. Vincent's Hospi-
tai, committed suicide to-day by cutting
his throat. He was laboring under the de-
lusion that he was the murderer of ex-
Mayor Bowman, of East st. Louis, who
was assassinated few months ago, and
that he was being pursued by q mob whose
intention it was to lynch him.
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A SINGULAR CRIME.

An Attempt to blow Up One Of the
Churches Of the City Of Msdrid.
Madrid, April 2S.-An attempt was made
this morning to destroy the church of San
Luis in this city. An explosive was placed
inside of the enormous hollow candles
which stand ON either side of the altar.
The explosion, instead Of taking place while
the church was crowded, as probably in
tended, occurred before the people began
to arrive. The edifice was badly wrecked,
and two sections who were in the building
were badly burned.
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Mail Robber Confesses.

BEVERLY, MASS, April 22.-Edward T.
Shaw, who for twelve years has carried the
mail between the local post-office and the
railway station, was arrested to-day. He
confessed to having systematically robbed
the mails for several years, taking between
three and five thousand letters, and OBJ
tanning upwards of 81, 500.
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The middle of July appears to be the
time most generally accepted by Con-
gressmen as the probable date of ad-
journment. Speaker Carlisle has al
ready been notified that forty members
desire to make speeches on the tariff
bill. and the estimate is roughly made
that the tariff discussion may continue
for six weeks.
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A woMEN's labor union has been in
corporated at San Francisco for the pur-
pose of manufacturing wearing apparel,
establishing laundries, eating houses,
restaurants and readng-rooms. Capt.
tai stock 100000 in 81 shares.
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THERE have been some imitation,
''two-for-a-cent'' strikes of school chill
dren in various cities of the Union, and
now the school teachers of Wa kefield,
Mass, threaten to strike because their
salaries have been considerably re-
duced. But here public opinion, it is
Thought, will be with the strikers.
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Bessie had been wearing young
lady visitors locket and chain for sew
eral days, when the guest announced
her intention OF leaving on the NOR
Bessie. "Are you, my dearp" asked
the young lady, with Q smile, that
faded somewhat as the small girl
added; "Oh. yes. indeed. ! shall
miss your locket and chain dread
fully. ."-Hdrper's Bazar.
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The question as to whether boycott
ting is conspiracy is to be legally tested
in New York city, where two members
of labor union have been held to bail
for trial on charges of conspiracy to
ruin the business of tradesman. A
number of boycotters were arrested and
fined, and others discharged,
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Libby Prison Partially collapses

RICHMOND, Va, April M.-One of the
three teuements composing the building
known as Libby Prison, used during the
late war for keeping Federal prisoners,
collapsed this evening from overburdened
floors. The building IL occupied by the
Southern Fertilising Company, and the
collapsed tenement was used for the storage
of fertilizers. The damage to stock and
building IL likely to reach $4,000.
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Forest Fires.

TAMAouA, Pa, April 2O.-Great forest
fires are prevailing on the mountains In
this vicinity, and the air is dense with
smoke. Last night the mountain for dis
tanoe of ten miles was one continuous sheet
of fame. There 10 some fear that they
will become as extensive a. two years
ego, when the entire population was COM
PEELED to turn out and fight the flames.
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Sugar Refiners striIke.

New YORK, April 2l.-At midnight to-
night six thousand employees Of the sugar
refineries Of the eastern district of Brook
lyn struck because Of noncompliance with
demands for an advance in wages presented
yesterday. 1t is estimated that the loss to
one firm on sugar now ready for shipment,
will be between $4,000 and 5000 II is
believed forty-f hundred Of the six thou.
sand strikers are controlled by Havemyer
Il Elder,
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! IT is reported that the French War
Department, which has for many years
been experimenting with balloons, has
discovered propelling power sufficient
to drive machine through the air.
without regard to the direction of the
wind. This agent is understood to be
electricity. Further, a balloon that can
be steered in any direction has been
constructed.
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Great rivalry as to speed exists
among the sailing ships that annually
take grain and flour to England from
Oregon and California. The distance is
eighteen thousand miles, and three crack
ships competed this year, the winner.
making the voyage to Southampton in
one hundred days, and the second best
reaching Queenstown in one hundred
and sixteen davA--SaD Francisco CdH.
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IT is remarkable to say the least that
the New York stock market should re-
main so firm, Notwithstanding the labor
troubles in the southwest and elsewhere.
1t proves that the times are determined
to be good if given half a chance.
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"A Smith County (Kac.) hunter
fell into an old dry well, forty feet
deep. He was not hurt by the fall, and
at once began trying to get out by cut
ting steps in the sides with his pocket
knife. At the end of twenty-four hours,
when he was discovered and rescued,
he had got about half way out.
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An Oregon newspaper has no patience
with those who lament the disappear
ance of the buffalo. 1t says it will be
well when he is gone and he wouldn't
have lasted so long except that he was
Sp fonrh
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Colored Knights of Labor.

GALVESTON, TEXAS, April 20.-A special
to the Neps from Texarcana says: It has
been discovered that within the past three
weeks the Knights of Labor have organ
lied several colored assemblies in the vi
cinity of Texarcana, both in Arkansas and
Texas. The movement 10 regarded with
apprehension.
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! LEADERS of fashion are now begin
ming to discard bird skins as ornaments
on their head gear and are taking to
vegetables. Full-grown carrots, beets,
onions or ears of corn on hats and bon
nets would look just as well as the re-
mains of defunct birds, besides being
much more humane by sparing the little
warblers
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More School Boys Strike.

sr. LOUIS, NO., April 2i.-A strike In one
Of the East st. Louis Public Schools was
attempted, but IL soon came to an inglori-
ous end, the agitstion ceasinG when the
leaders were given . thrashing. At an
other school eighteen Of the boys ray away
ct recess this afternoon. The leaders will
be warmed tomorrow for IT, n
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so tough.

MIR. ENoCH PRATT, who gave Balti-
more its fine free library. is thought to
be worth six or seven millions, all self
made. He is past seventy, understood
and very thin, though he is still hale
and acile,
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Internal Revenue Collections Increasing.
WASHINGTON, April 28.-The collections
OF internal revenue for the first nine
months of the fiscal year ending June 30,
1885, were as follows: From spirits, $780,
59l, ,795; from tobacco, $40, lS8,9lS; from
fermented liquors, l3,662, $50; from :
cellaneous items, Gl79, ,7SS, making q tot,
of $84, ,57l ,252, or an increase Of e2, ,974, ,Oa6
over the collections for the corresponding
period of the last fiscal year.
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The exports of wheat from this coun-
try are less than in 1885. but the amount
of cotton is so much greater that the
breadstuffs and cotton together amount
to about S1,000,000 per week over last
years exports.
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The longevity of women who are
fortunate enough to marry soldiers is
shown in the fact that our pension rolls
bear the names of 10000 widows of the
veterans of 1912. The brides of seventy
four years ago are nearly centenarians
now and the number of them quite sur
passes belief.
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The Pennsylvania manufacturers ex-
pect big increase in the steel and iron
trade as soon as the labor troubles
cease, and have put their furnaces in
order for the production of 5000 tons
of rails this year in excess of present
orders There is prospects of increased
activity in railroad building.