Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-09-27
Priests Charged with Forgery.

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Priests Charged with Forgery.
AN EXTRAORDINARY WILL CONTEST IN con-
NECTICUT.
A special from Waterbury, Connecticut, dated
Saturday, says: For many years the late Rev
Patrick r. Lawler, OF this city, a protege Of
Bishop Hendricken, of Providence, was pastor
of ST. Mary's Catholic church at New Haven.
He amassed a fortune When his will was
opened it was found that the whole estate
which may be worth several thousand dollars,
brother, Tor Frank McAvOy, age eight, All or
phan nephew. EX-Tax Collector Peter Lawler
brothers
from the probate of the will on the grounds
that the testator was not in the right mind 10
dispose OF the property, and that Martin p.
Lawler, the custodian of the estate by the will,
Is not proper person, and that the will was
ira nad drawn, without the knowledge Of
Murphy Is 10 the effect that the will was exc
cuted after the body OF Father LAWYER was
Margaret Murphy and Catharine Brennan
signed the document as witnesses, in the pres
ence OF the Rev. Martin +. LAWYER and the Rev.
NJ. r. McGlVney, the pastor at ThOmastOn.
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THE LATE BISHOP SHANAHAN.-The body of
the late Bishop ShanaiIan, OF Harrisburg, Pa.
will be deposited in the tomb near the cathe
dral in that city Wednesday morning. Elab-
crate preparations are being made for the fune-
Ryan, OF Philadelphia, Will celebrate the SOL
emn pontifical requiem mass at 10 clock, pre-
cited. Cardinal Gibbons and prominent clergy
ana lalty from all parts of the country are eX-
pected to be i'll attendance.
ATHREATENED LYNCHING.-A dispatch from
Culpeper, Va, says good deal of excitement
was caused Saturday night by a party OF TWEEN
ty-fve or thirty mounted men who rode into
town bent on lynching Capt. Clatierbuck, who
Is charged with killing Edward Green some
some miles out OF town and took siedge-ham-
mer and other heavy tools TO force an entrance
To the JAIL and but for the lack OF a leader Clat-
terbuck, ii Is thought, would have been lynched.
Yesterday Sheriff Putnam called On Capt. Bur-
rows, OF the Cuipeper Minute Men, for de-
tachnent TO guard the Jail, which duty they are
now performing. The Ieellng against Clatter-
buck in his neighborhood is very bitter.
BURIED IN HER WEDDING DREss.-The re-
mains OIL Mrs. Jennie Rudolph, OF Baltimore,
the bride OF six weeks, who committed suicide
was attended by a large cOncOurse OF people.
The body lay In the same parlOr in which she
was married on the 10th OF last month. It was
clad in the white satin robe which she wore on
her wedding day, and the young gentlemen
who acted AS ushers upon that happy occasion
lister who pronounced her wife, oliiciated at her
funeral rites.
TRAINING TO MEET THE CANADIANS-AB os-
ton dispatch says Hosmer and Mckay are bus
lily preparing Tor their coming race with OCon-
~.
to-day tor Worcester. where they win remain
until the match Is rOwed, October 9. Hamilton
Busby, OF the Iu,J, Field and Farm, has been
selected as referee. Both Boston men are con
tident OF victory.
CRAzED BY THE EARrHQUAKE-An old
white man named West, printer, who came
from Atlanta, and has been at work on the
Athens tGa;) Blade, went crazy over the earth
quake, and has refused to sleep. in a house
since, spending the nights in pine thicket
near Barberville. He says the lord commanded
house TO house with Bible in his hand. r mo.
ing 10 the people and exhorting them 10 flee
from the wrath to come.
CLOSING SESSION OF THE ODD FELLOWS
At The closing session Of the Sovereign Grand
Lodge OF Odd Fellows in Boston Saturday il
was ordered that after the Ist OF January Ss7
all cantOns will be required to procure uni.
forms before being mustered. A resolution re-
curing prOOf-sneeLS OF the revised ritual OF the
Degree OF ReOekah to be submitted to q com
mittee before being published was adopted.
Inc following legislation was adopted: In lieu
OF other regatta members of other grand lodges
may wear scarlet ribbon and members
OF grand encampments a purple ribbon The
mother of al Odd Fellow, q widow and an un-
married stepdaughter were made eligible 10
membership in u lodge Of the Degree of Re-
bekah. Certificates OF the secretaries of the
lodges OF the members in good standing must
accomany petitions for Membership In an en-
campment Benefits to dependent relatives OF
deceased member cannot be paid from the
orphan fund. -. 1
DAATdOLOMEWS t1OPES.-LetterS received in
Hartford, Conn.,, from Mr.. Bartholomew The
ascending president OF the Charter OAK Lie
insurance Company, in Montreal, saw ti,at he
always believed that he could pay all OF MS own
obligations, and that he thought the cs ar
lions he was Endorsing for would eventually
make themselves good. Meanwhile he loaned
them his credit. He offers TO do ali he can tn
help his creditors to realize ON his assets. 7. w
Brooks and +. A. Stedman have each Qualified
as receivers OF the company for S25O.tjtM eacn
The statement OF the Hartford Silk Com nanv
shows Its hopeless bankruptcy.
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THREE PERSONS KILLED AT CRossrwc
At PeQuOnnoc, Conn.,, yesterday Rentamin
Gardner, farmer, his wife and the wife Of
their son James, while on their return nom
meeting In wagon, was struck by an expres.
train going nifty miles an hour. The horse was
killed and the wagon broken into kinuffng wood
Mr.. Gardiner was hurled forty feet from 1he
crossing. receiving fatal injuries His wife was
killed outright and Mrs. James (iartiinaf died
before she could be removed.
A HENS BROOD OF QuAIL.-Henry futile. Of
New Haven, Conn.,, while running n mnvino
machine during the harvest season drive ova S
the nest OF = quail. The mother ouaii,s head
was chopped short OF by the machine ht,t her
twelve eggs were not broken. Tutfla loot
them home, put them under u setting han Who
Matched out eight Of the young oman Thov
are now well grown and in full feathar hit
they follow thetr foster mother about ana ho.
have like chickens. The hen seam n ia ven
satisfied with her brood. !" "a
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