Western cyclone., 1886-09-09

wiling shade or the trees. Several of the
acquaintance of Mrs. Duggins CHANGED tc
pass by and noticed the numerous atten-
tons paid to Mrs. Claffney by Mr.. Dug
gins. These were all reported full t.
Mrs. Duggins. Aiming herself with COW
hide and box Of cayenne pepper, the neg
lected wife started out and found her riva
and beat her numerically.
A shocking case of youthful depravity was
called to the attention of the st. Louis Pc
| lice. An officer found wee bit of girl at {
o'clock n the morning, clad in soiled
Mother Hubbard, "while her feet were bare
and her long hair streamed loosely over her
| shoulders. She was so much under the in
huence of liquor that she could not stand,
and between screams and prayers begged to
| be released. She did not appear to be more
| than Ii years of age, but her language and
condition showed that she had already
reached the lowest depths. Officer Gardner
picked her up, as he would an infant, and
conveyed her to the -Four Courts. When the
wagon stopped before the building, she be-
gan to scream vigorously and attracted a
large crowd. She was carried into the
building and there, between sobs and
shrleks, said her name was Pearl Nelson.
and that she was fifteen years old. She
was carried down stairs and locked up.
By a special arrangement part of the
passenger train on the Wabash, Chester and
Western railroad passed through Chester,
Ill, and conveyed to the penitentiary the
first lot of prisoners from the federal court
at Fort Smith, Ark. They were twenty four
In number-seventeen white men, five ne
groes and two Indians, one of them full
blOoded Cherokee who could neither speak
nor understand the English language.
They were all strongly shackled and hand
cuffed and under care of Deputy United
States Marshal j. G. Pettigrew, assisted by
five guards. The prisoners were a tough
looking lot of citizens, all young, "like-
ly" lot of convicts. Heretofore the United
States prisoners from the Indian territory
and Arkansas have been sent to the house of
correction at Detroit, but for somo same rea-
son change has been made, and the south
ern Illinois penltentiary at this place, will
get them hereafter.
At the farmers congress in session at St.
Paul, Mimi, L. s. Coffin of Fort Dodge,
Iowa, read an interesting paper on the
Great governing power in fixing freight
rates on railroads in America He closed
by urging the appointment of q national
railroad commission. At the close of the
address the committee on resolutions pre-
sented report which was read by the sec
rotary. The resolutions adopted asked con-
gress to create the Office of secretary of agri-
culture, and to make the officer a cabiret
member. They also ask the extension of the
signal service to all places reached by tele-
graph. They request congress to regulate
interstate commerce in such manner as to
protect the productive industries of the
country. They recommend an appropria-
ton of S3,OOO,OOC to stamp out contagious
diseases among domestic animals, and re-
quest the secretary of state to instruct the
ministers to Germany and France to use all
proper means to prevent restrictions upon
American farm products properly inspected
and shipped, and urge upon congress the
necessity of a speedy development of the
system of waterways, including the Missis-
sippi river. the resolutions also recon-
mend the restoration of the wool tariff of
1867, and the maintenance of the tariff on
rice and sugar.
Rob. HarOn, living near Schumpert's mill,
South Carolina, beat his wife numerically
for hours, sitting astride of her, beating her
first with the leg of bench, and then with
the bench, amid the most pitiful appeals to
him ana regardless of the appeals of
his neighbors, who had been attracted for
half mile around by the woman's calls for
help. She began begging for water. He
would neither give her any himself nor per
NIT any one else to do so. He threatened
the life of any one that would step inside of
his door. When asked what he was whipping
her about, he said that he had been talking
and talking to her and now he was going to
convince her or kill her. Next morning he
drove her from her house and her two chill
dren, beating her as he followed her limping
down the road. One of his neighbors again
pleaded for her, but was warned to move
on. When she was last seen alive by any of
the witnesses he had her thirty yards from
the road and again he warned them away.
Later he came stealing in from the woods
near the back of his house with his wife up
on his shoulders. When he arrived home he
found neighbours wife there. He came in,
threw her limp form on the bed, and said
his wife had tainted down in the woods and
that he did not know what to do for her. He
could do nothing. He had beaten her to
death.
Thirty thousand dollars in cash disap-
peared from safe of the Adams Express
company, at Philadelphia, Pa, two weeks
ago, and since that time the operatives of a
detective agency have been endsavoring to
solve the mystery connected with the rob-
berry. Circumstances pointed to Roth Pratt,
a clerk in the Philadelphia Office of the COM
pany, as the purloiner of the cash, and he
was arrested by detective, and after pre-
liminary hearing was locked up for further
hearing. Pratt stoutly protested his limo
cence. Pratt aud another clerk named
Heath went to the Pennsylvania railroad
office to obtain the money which the COM
pany sends monthly to Shamokin, Pa, to
pay the hands employed by the Mineral
Mining company. The amount was f32,-
COS, of which $4,000 was in silver bags. The
entire amount was taken to the Adams
Express company's Office and was regularly
forwarded. When the safe was opened at
Shamokin the only money it was found to
contain was the 50, 900 in silver. Clerk Pratt
was the only interested party, whose expla-
nation was not satisfactory. He had neg
lected to conform to the custom in vogue
among the employees who handle the money
of calling one of the other clerks to see that
the money was in the safe before he closed
the doors, and upon this and other clues the
detectives had him arrested, and will con-
tinue their investigation still further.
Another case of wholesale poisoning has
just come to light at Maiden, Mass. Mrs.
E. +. Blanchard lives on farm near VIII
mington, Mass, and takes number of sum-
mer boarders. She had to assist her in the
house work thirteen year old colored girl
named Mary Davis, who belonged in Chelsea.
At supper one day five of the boarders par
took of tea and were all made violently i'll.
Physicians were Immediately called and By
prompt action saved the boarders' lives,
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