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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16
AWFUL TRAGEDY.
The Terrible Work Of Crazy Nebraska
Fsrmer-KiIIs His Wife Children and
Himself.

Farmcr-htiis HIS VIE Chldren ana
Himself.
ELLIS, Neb., July IL. About 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon Mrs. DIR.
Allen, of Beatrice, came to Ellis on a
visit TO her brother, John II. Puter-
baugh, who lived a mile and a half
south of town. She was driven TO the
farm by Louis Perling and knocked at
the door, but receiving no response en-
tered, the door not being locked.
As she entered Mrs. Allen saw her
brother lying on the floor near the
door and supposed he was asleep. She
spoke to him, but there being no re-
sponse looked more closely and saw
blood on her brothers ghastly face.
Mrs. Allen called Perling in and he
made an investigation and found a hor-
rible state of affairs.
In bed in a room in which the hus-
band and father lay was the mother,
with a bullet through her head. In
bed with her was two-year-old baby,
also shot through the head.
On lounge in the room lay lad OF
10 years, dead, shot through the head.
In the room above was another bed,
occupied by two young girls, one IL
and one IS, both dead, with bullet holes
in their heads.
The dead were John Puterbaugh, his
wife and four children.
The general belief is that the terrible
deed was the work of the husband and
father, but no motive can be found as
he was peaceable man in comfortable
circumstances and it is believed that no
trouble existed in the family.
1t seems certain that terrible crime
was committed by Puterbapgh. BY his
side under his arm lay a 32-caliber SIX
chamber revolver with all the chambers
empty.
The scene in the house was horrible
one and made the strongest hearted
turn away. The faces of the dead, al
though covered with blood, were a:
calm as though sleeping. No signs Of
fear were portrayed on any of them and
there were no evidences of a struggle,
All seemed to have been killed while
sleeping and to have been shot directly
through the skull. In every case the
pistol was placed close to the head, as
the powder stains were visible upor
pillows or bed clothing.
Puterbaugh was not drinking man
and had the reputation of being homes
and good citizen. He suffered from
the grip last spring and since then had
not been in the best of health, subse
quently complaining of pain in his
head. He was a man about 80 or A
years of age.
Mrs Puterbaugh was a year or two
younger. The murdered children were
aged as follows: Carrie, Is years; Ma
bel, Is; Charlie, 10, and Ralph, 2.
One son survives-Allen, II years ot
age. He was away from home al
work, having left Wednesday last
Puterbaugh was in Beatrice Wednes
day, and it is SAID he then purchased
the revolver with which the deed wa.
committed
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
THE emperor of Germany. while in
: London, critically watched the musical
ride of the royal horse guards, a most
skillful equestrian performance. The
guards exhibition provoked the great
est admiration on the part of the en-
peror, who said that it was one of the
finest military spectacles that he had
ever seen.
RT. REV. JOSEPH DwENGEB. bishop
of the Fort Wayne diocese of the Cath
olic church, is very low and has been
given up by the attending physicians.
LIEUT.. GODFREY MCDONALD of the
Sixth cavalry has been ordered to pro-
| ceed at once to Fort Bennett, s. d.,
AMI organize a military company of
Sioux Indians. Most of the redskins
were hostiles in the Indian war last
winter and their leader is the willy
Chief Hump
SENIOR ROMERO, the minister from
Mexico. denies that Mexico is ripe for
revolt against the present govern
ment
The pope has decided to create in
Mexico three archbishops to be called
Linars, Oxaca and Durango, and five
bishoprics, Cuernavaca, Saltillo, Te-
huantepec and Chihuahua.
JUDGE PLowMAN, at Deadwood, S. d.,
has declared the state prohibition law
unconstitutional An appeal will be
taken.
The general education bill has passed
its third reading in the British house of
commons.
HIGH officials near the person of the
czar are said to believe that the Rus
sian autocrat contemplates visiting
Paris during the coming autumn.
SECRETARY FOSTER has authorized the
| acceptance of the offer of the 1tata to
pay $500 fine for the violation of the
navigation laws This does not affect
the charges of kidnapping an officer and
violation of the neutrality laws.
IT is officially stated that the porte
will not permit Jews to emigrate to
Palestine. 1t is added that the porte
will not allow the entry of pilgrims.
THERE have been fresh revolutionary
disturbances in several parts of the
Argentine republic. The government
is taking vigorous measures to quell
the threatened revolt in the provinces
of Entire Rios, Cordovas and Catamaca-
JUDGE BLoDGETT, of Chicago, has de-
cided against Phoebe Couzins in her
contest with the worlds fair manage
ment.
AT the dedication of a monument to
Robert Burns, at Leith, Scotland, the
American consul read a poem composed
by himself
NEBECKER, treasurer of the United
States, does not intend to resign. He
says the statement to that effect is en-
tirely false.
EMPEROR WILLIAM had a notable re-
ception at Guildhall, London. His
reply to the address of the lord mayor
referred to the historical amity existing
between England and Germany.
SEVERAL Parnellites have made over
lures to join the McCarthyites on condi-
ton they be assured that they shall re-
tain their seats at the general election.
I'VE intend to have a presidential
candidate in 1892 who favors the free
coinage of silver, even if we have to put
up Piute Indian" said Senator Stew
art, of Nevada, recently.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

His Tin Plate Predictions Not FulhlIed-A
Census of the Infants-stiIl More Prom
ises-
In his speech before the republican
state convention of Ohio candidate Nc
Kinley had something TO say about the
tin plate infant, which was in quite a
different vein from his confident prom
ises and predictions last year. In his
convention speech he said: when
you take them to the factory and show
them that we are making tin plate they
assert with intense pleasure that we
are only maksg "a little That is true;
but how much more should we be max
ing? That we arc making any is the
surprise, for the protective duty on tin
has not yet gone into effect and will
not until the first of July"
This is not the way Mckinley talked
last year When he was engaged in
constructing his tariff bill large dele
CATION of fruit and vegetable Gamers
appeared before the was and means
committee to protest against the tin
plate duty. Mckinley and his follow
ers were then full of promises of what
was soon to be done. Those promises
were thus stated by Hon. L. L. Bunt-
ing in recent address before the ma
tional Gamers association: THE chair
man of the committee ventured the as
sertion that before the law went into
Feffect, July /, 1891, American plate
could be bought cheaper than the for
eign plate was then selling, and that in
the interim the consumers of plate
could buy the foreign article as cheaply
as ever Mr. Bayne, of Pennsylvania,
a member of the committee, pro-
| fessed himself entirely willing to
take orders for future delivery
on that basis. Mr.. Payne, of New
Jersey, lost his temper in IN
effort to show that within thirty days
after the passage of the bill forty fac
| tories on a basis of millions each in
Capitalization would be undermining
the Welshman at his favorite pursuit OF
making tin plate. The prediction of
! Senator Allison that thirty reputable
firms engaged in the iron industry
would, within thirty days, put up tim
ming stacks and manufacture tin plate
was flung at us for our composure."
And how have those promises been
fulfilled?
The New York Metal Worker, pro-
lection journal friendly to the tin plate
tariff, has recently undertaken census
of the tin infants born and unborn,
and the count showed only four con-
Germs now making plates and four more
which will begin soon.
The Baltimore Gamers journal
| (trade) has to make this confession. af.
ter saying that we have four mills maxi
ing plates:
1T will be noted that of the Ameri.
can mills mentioned three of them are
very extensive users of tin plate. and 10
may be some time before they will be
able to produce a surplus above their
own needs, hence will have none to
throw on the market"
Thus, instead of tin, we have prom
Use, promises. The latest promiser Is
Secretary Britton, of the tin plate as
sociation. Give us time" he says,
"and we will make good these prom
ises In year from July we will be
producing all the tin plate the United
| States can use"
| We shall
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE secretary of the interior has ap
pointed as trustees for town site entries
of lands in Oklahoma John Foster, w.
S. Robertson and A. c. Smell, all OF
Guthrie. to be known as board No. 6.
THE general executive board of the
Knights of Labor has decided upon To
, ledo o., as the place for the next ses
sion of the general assembly. The time
is Tuesday, November 10.
THE building occupied by Burkhardt
& Co., fur dealers, Cincinnati, and ad-
/ joining premises were destroyed by
fire on the night of the Sth. The loss
was put at Sl,O0O,0 900.
Two freight trains on the Cleveland
Canton & Southern railroad collided
near Newburg, o., and mum Der of cars
were smashed into kindling wood. Five
men were badly hurt, two of them
probably fatally.
A CALCUTTA correspondent says that
owing to the partial failure of the mon
soon 10, 600, 900 people are threatened
with famine in Madras.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended July Q numbered
:
week and 1877 the corresponding week
of last year.
THE convent at St Hilaire, Que, has
been destroyed By fire. The loss OF
$50, 900 was about covered by insurance.
The influenza epidemic is reported to
have caused scores of deaths on the
Labrador coast. The situation is said
to be deplorable.
MRS. REBECCA RAYMoND's deaf and
dumb SON Arnold was on a bridge al
Olney, ILL.,, when passenger train on
the Ohio s. Mississippi railroad ap-
peared. His mother. seeing the train.
attempted to save him, but both were
run over and killed
The bond of $50. 600 given by Marsh,
the fugitive Philadelphia banker. has
been declared forfeited.
The Reichs Anzeiger publishes the
new income tax law. A stringent pro-
vision compels foreigners engaged in
business in Germany for one year or
more to pay the same tax as Germans
have to pay.
SUMMIT, Miss, was visited by two
cyclones the other day. They were
about eight miles apart Many houses
were destroyed and number of people
in iured and one child killed.
THE superintendent of immigration
of New York reports that 445, 4O4 immi-
| grants arrived at that port during the
past fiscal year as compared with s2s,-
92l during the previous fiscal year OF
last years arrivals 74,sss came from
Germany, 10, 176 from Italy, IS. .4s4 from
Ireland, "a, 504 from Russia, and the
others from other countries in Europe
| and Asia
DRs. AUSTIN FLINT, A. c. Brown and
Robert Mosely as commissioners with
sheriff's jury at New York held an
| inquest into the mental condition OF
Herbert Victor Newcomb. the Wall
street bear, and adjudged him insane
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16
FALSE PRETENSES.

Protectlonists For Thirty Years Have Been
Holding Out the Promise of a Hofos
Market and Yet Fail to Reach 1t.
Our farmers are being continually
told that 1.-The home market is the be
market in the world" The home mar
ket is good, only there is not enough OF
it for our vast quantity of farm prod
ucts; and the home market is no better
than the foreign market in point of
prices paid for staple farm products
The protectionists have been promising
for thirty years to build up home mar
ket which would consume everything
right here at home;" but at this late
day an increasing quantity of our farm
products must find market in foreign
countries.
Our exports of canned beef duri1g
the month of May amounted to 1885,
S07 pounds, valued at S647, ,014, against
4, 4S2, SOL pounds, valued at S3S6, $50, in
the same month of 1s9l. For the seven
months ended May 81, 1891, canned
beef exports amounted to 62,S37,i9A
pounds, valued at S., 1S0, 4Sl, against
43, 994, 2S3 pounds, valued at s., 5S2, ,5S3,
in the same period of 1890.
Exports of cotton for May were 49,
800, 3SS pounds, valued at St1, ,46O, ,9S7,
against 4S, S57, 1874 pounds, valued at s.
146, 257 in May, 1890. The exports for
the nine months endde May 81 were
., 753, so, 800 pounds, valued at S274, 919,-
42S for 1891, as compared with ?, ,367,-
9O6, 90S pounds, valued at $40, ,027, ga
for 1890.
af honf hnnr and
dairy products in May were valued at
81, 41O, 926, against 50, $50, 95a in the same
month of 1890 The exports for the five
months ended May 81, 1891, were val
ued at S51, 759,S13, as compared with
S51, 9TS, 636 in the same period of 1890.
The total exports of breadstuffs in May
were valued at S12, $50, 2S1, against Si3,-
ga, ,73s. The exports of breadstuffs for
the five months ended May 81, 1901.
were valued at SIS, $50, ri, as compared
with S71, ,2O4, ,672 in the same period of
1890
The falling off in some of these fig-
ures was due solely to short eropa of
corn and wheat last year, and is thcre-
fore but temporary. Corn and wheat
are now bringing prices which make
our farmers happy. But the main factor
in raising prices, aside from our own
shortness of crops last year, is the large
demand certain to come froT> Europe
for this years crops, owing to the un-
usually bad wheat crop there this sum-
mer. Already it is reported from New
York that freight engagements are be-
ing made With the great steamship lines
far out into the fall months for trans
portation of grain TO Europe; and It is
already predicted that Europe will take
more of our wheat and corn this year
than ever before.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

A HORRIBLE and sickening accident
occurred at Dallas, Texas, on the 18th.
| A colored woman was run over by an
electric street car, and was so badly
mangled and eutangled in the machinery
| that it had to be taken apart to avoid
cutting her body to pieces.
THE jury in the case of ex-Treasurer
holland, of Missouri, for embezzling
Ss2, 200 of the States money, on the
11th returned a verdict of guilty and
sentenced the prisoner to two years in
the penitentiary.
MRS. KATE WILLIAMS, of Houston.
Texas, has given birth to boy baby
which has full set of teeth.
Mrs. JEFFERSON DAVIS has addressed
a letter to the veterans and people OF
the Southern States saying that after
much anxious thought she has finally
decided to give to Richmond Va, the
care Of her husbands mortal body.
ATLANTA is to be made headquarters
for the West Point Terminal system of
over 5000 miles of railroad.
HARRY CURrIss, aged IS, was found
dead in bed at Findlay, Ohio, on the
11th. An autopsy showed the heart
partially Isralyzed. caused by the ex-
cessive use of cigarettes.
The Sunfower club, the Kansas in
surance mems organization. has been
held by the Supreme Court to be or
ganized in violation of the antitrust
laws of the State. The organization
was formed to maintain stable insur-
ance rates in Kansas and Missouri.
THE total number Of tobacco planters
in Louisiana during the census year was
100; the total area devoted to tobacco.
100 acres; the total product, 46,s45
pounds, and the value of the crop to the
producer, estimated on basis of actual
sales, s11, ,7o7.
THE. census. of England and Wales
just taken shows a total population of
2e,ooi, ,01s, an increase Of 3,o26,57 or
1I.e5 per cent, since the last census was
taken.
OVER 200 men have been recruited at
Norfolk, Va, for service in some for
eign country, presumably Mexico. 1t is
asserted that man giving the name OF
Capt. Annett is engaged in securing
these recruits.
THE community east of Hartman,
Ark, has become thoroughly aroused
over the appearance in that locality OF
what the reports are pleased 70 call y
wild man.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

Il SEE by the papers. said Senator
Quay recently, "a division of recollec-
ton between Col. Mcclure and Mr..
Nicolay, regarding President Lincoln's
attitude toward Vice-President Hamlin
during the convention of 1864. / have
no desire to enter the controversy, but
justice to Col. Mcclure causes me to
speak. 1t is fresh in my mind now, his
recital of the events of the Baltimore
convention upon his return to Harris
burg from the national convention. He
came to talk with Gov. Curtin. have
not the slightest hesitancy in support
ing Col. McClure's statement as it has
been printed
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16
DECLARED OFF.

MIR. Powderly Issues an Order with Refer
ence to the Industrial Union and Farm
ers' Alliance Convention.
New YORK, July 11.-General Master
Workman Powderly issued a special
circular to all local assemblies of the
Knights of Labor, declaring off for
the present the proposed industrial
conference, which was to have
been held on July 90, to take up the
platform of the Farmers Alliance and
join hands with the third party. The
call of this conference has met with SO
little response that Mr.. Pewderly
deems Il wise 10 take this step
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

Dr. DODGE has raised a sensation
in Berlin by accusing Prof. Berg
mann and DIR. Hahn of experimenting
with cancer inoculations since 1857 on
hospital patients without their knowl-
edge or consent. Drs. Bergman and
Hahn admit the truth of the charge but
they claim that in every case the pa
tent has been beyond recovery. They
add as an excuse that it is necessary to
select human beings for experiments,
as the lower animals were unsuitable
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

A LAW passed by the Illinois legisla-
ture which went into effect on July 1
inflicts heavy penalties for participat-
ing in trusts and combinations and pro-
vides punishment for purchasers as
we'll as sellers of articles whose price is
controlled by agreement Very many
of the articles dealt in by grocers are
so controlled, the wholesalers contract
ing with the manufacturers not to sell
below the card rates. This has been
rather irksome to the large dealers of
Chicago, and they have notified the man
ufacturers that under the law they no
longer will be bound by the agree
ment
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

AGENTS of the Chilian congressional
party state that adviccs from Chilli
warrant the confidence that the con-
gressional troops will occupy Santiago
within month. They resume the
campaign amply provided with rifles
and field guns 1t is probable that the
plan OF the congressional generals is to
land between Valparaiso and Lazerna,
crush the main body of the Balmaced-
lists and make a combined movement on
Santiago.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

THE name of Hannibal Hamlin,"
says the Boston Transcript 'recalls
those medals issued during the cam
paign of 1859. They contained ambro-
type portraits of the candidates. On
most of them Mr.. Hamlin was given
such swarthy complexion that per-
haps these very medals confirmed the
belief in the lie industriously circu-
lated in the south that one of his par
ents was a mulatto and that he was
named iu honor of the great Carthagin-
ian to blazon his African descent before
the world. At all events thousands OF
People ia the south actually believed
mat Lincoln and a niger were the
republican candidates
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

ONLY four of the British officers who
took part in the battle of Waterloo sur
vive. OF the naval officers engaged at
Trafalgar, the sea counterpart of Wat
crloo, not one is left, the last of Mel
sons officers, Lieut.. Col. Tynmore, of
the Royal marines, who fought in the
battle as midshipman, having died in
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

For many years people residing on
Sycamore creek, near Martinsville, Ind,
have been picking mp small PARTICLES of
gold and selling them to local jew
elcrs. The other day John Collier
brought in a piece of gold ore weighing
seven pounds that sparkled with the
precious metal. He picked it up on his
farm, five miles northwest of Martins
Vile. The ncighbors have gone wild
over the find.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16
Murdered III, wife and Ii, other.

From the backwoods of Baldwin
county, Ala, comes the report of Il
tragedy in which Jesse cartwright
killed his brother, John William Cart
wright, with buckshot. and afterwards
cut his own wife's throat. He was
Jealous
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

CHARLES d. ROBERTSON, the seaman
who saved many lives by throwing a
Kissing confederate shell overheard
from the gun deck of the Hartford in
April, 1862, now lives in Baltimore. For
this act of bravery Adm. Farragut
made special mention of him in his re-
port and congress voted him a medal
The medal is the size of $50 gold
piece and Mr.. Robertson is proud of it.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16
The Smallest still.

The smalles: "moonshine" distillery
ever captured by the revenue officers
was found recently in Atlanta, Ca, and
sent to Washington as a curiosity. Its
capacity is about three gallons. 1t is
constructed 50 as to be opera ted on an
ordinary cooking stove, and is complete
in every detail.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

A WOMAN was recently summoned as
Juror in St Louis. She took the mat
Ter philosophically and attended court,
only to receive the apologies of all con-
ccrnpd in the blunder
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

A FEUD between the McPhcrson and
McRay families in Warwick county,
Va, resulted in the murder of Leon
McPhcrson and his daughter. The
heads of the families recently had a dis
Yutc over the ownership of certain
huds. Later the quarrel was renewed
and resulted in the shooting by McRay
of Mcpherson and daughter, who hap
pencd to be with her father. Mckay
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

TIE president has appointed John c.
Robinson, of Kingston, Ind, and David
S Wright, of Salem, Ind, to be special
agents to allot lands in severalty to the
CHEYENNE and Arapahoe Indians.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16
A Quick Courtship.

A romantic wedding occurred at Deni-
son, Tex, few days ago. Lee Ander-
son, of Philadelphia, and Miss Sadie
Michael, of st. Louis, met on train
and struck up an acquaintance. Being
mutually impressed, the gentleman pro
posed, was accepted and it was agreed
to get off the train at Denison, the first
place at which the license could be pro
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

THE Freeman's Journal announces
,be death of the Nation, a weekly new
rarcr of Dublin, on the fiftieth ami.
for.arv of its establishment.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

TuE census of England and Wales
shows a tctal population of 29,0o1, ,o1s,
an increase of 3,026, 572, or 11.65 per
cent. since the last census was taken.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

Iris said that efforts are being made
in Paris to induce President Carnot to
nav visit to England and tat the
rrpsidcnt himself favors the plan.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

A TRIBE of Indians known as the Ca
oaiias has revoltcd in Para, Brazil as
result of disappointment in the re-
suit OF gubernatorial elections. Sci
alers went to quell tho uprising. A
battle ensued in which fourteen Of the
soldiers were killed.