Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-18
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A Human Fiend Gtbbited.


A Human Fiend Gibbited.
TExARKANA, Texas, Dec. Thames
Howard, aged So years, was taken
from Jail here at midnight last night
by a masked mob, by whom he was
carried a short distance below town
and hung to a railroad trestle. How
ard was arrested on Wednesday on a
warrant sworn out by his mother-in-
law, Mrs. Winchel, charging him with
maltreating his wife, who is scarcely
IA yea old. Howard and his wife
were married last July. Mrs. Howard
tells a story of atrocious brutality on
the part of her husband. She says he
frequently tied her feet together while
she was in a state OF nudity, and hang
ing her up by the feet, beat her I'M
| mercifully, and threatened to kill her
if she told any one of his cruelties.
On the LIST of November Howard took
a common branding iron, used to
brand his live stock, and heating it
red hot, branded a large letter II on
| his wife's person i'll two places while
she was tied to a bed. After suffering
several weeks from the effects of these
| burns, Mrs. Howard told her mother
what had happened, with the result
that Howard was arrested.
McQua In the Court of Sessions.
New York, Dec. 1.-THE Court of
General Sessions, where convicted ex-
Alderman McQuade was to be ar
raigned to-day, was crowded to the
| doors with spectators anxious to wit
ness the proceedings. McQuade came
to the court in the custody Of Under
Sheriff Sexton five minutes before the
opening OF the proceedings. He wore
an air OF bravado, the first symptom
OF the kind in the long drama in which
he has figured. He said, "good morn
ing, boys" in a tone, and with a man
ner savoring oil recklessness, as he re-
moved his overcoat and pulled off his
gloves, and smilingly surveyed the
faces about him and nodded recogni-
ton to a friend here and there in the
audience. When he had taken his
seat before the bar, he chatted with
one ortwo friends who happened to be
sitting near. General Tracy, ex-Sen-
ator Thomas f. Grady and Richard
Newcombe, Of McQuade's counsel, Ell
tered the courtroom five minutes after
their client. They were serious, and
the face of Newcombe was grave in the
extreme. They each talked in turn
with their client. The lawyers for the
prosecution were late in putting in an
appearance, though Recorder Smyth
was on hand promptly and took his
seat on the bench.
Rival SufsOrs Fight u Duel.
CHICAGO, Dec. IA duel with
swords was fought this morning in
Humboldt Park. A little before z
o'clock two closed carriages entered
the park, each carriage contained a
principal with his second and a sur
geon. They alighted in a secluded
spot, and arrangements being COM
pleted, the principals drew swords Of
Cub II lliAdOb PdLbClhy III tliC dltCl
began. So little skill was manifested
on either side that both we're soon
wounded, one through the breast and
the other by a slash across the face.
The party quickly entered their car
riages ana were driven to a drug store,
where the wounds were dressed. 1t is
said the cause of the affair was the dis
puted right to the hand of a lady, and
that the rivals are, the editor of the
Pharmaceutical Journal and a medical
student. The park policemen wit
messed the duel from q distance, but
were too dumbfounded to interfere.
Exodus of the Negroes.
New ORLEANS, Dec. IA special
to the Picayune from Edwards, Miss.
says: The exodus of negroes from
this vicinity continues undated.
Every train carries off carloads OF men,
women and children, the victims of
emigration agents, who make
them believe that the bottom land Sec
ton is the veritable negroes heaven.
A mass meeting OF the best citizens
was held here to-day, and resolutions
were adopted and orderedto be posted,
warning the emigration agents to do
sist from their efforts among the
negroes, or forthwith leave the con
munity. The meeting appointed a
committee, whose duty it is to wait
on, in a becoming style, all such
agents who refuse or neglect to comply
with our modest but earnest demands.
A GhOstiy Spectacle.
CHICAGO, Dec. 17.-When Joseph
Rosa, a tailor, returned home from
work tonight a ghostly spectacle
greeted him. AS he opened the door
before his eyes dangled the dead
bodies of his wife and 13 months old
child; hung to Il transom by shawl
straps. The woman is believed to
have been temporarily insane.