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The state herald., 1892-01-15

him to flee with his family to Arkalon.
This advice was taken by Judge Botkin,
as he had further information that the
mob was waiting to kill him If he went to
Springfield, and In case he did not go
there that they intended to come to his
house and murder him. Botkin telegraph.
ed the governor for advice, urging him to
send militia TO the rescue. This Governor
Humphrey promptly did, and Company A
OF the First regiment started for Arkalon
early Wednesday morning,
Judge Botan had heard of the plot three
months ago. He received an anonymous
letter from Il man who said he had been
asked to Join n party, every member OF
which would obligato himself TO kill
Botliin
The whole affair grows out OF the kill
Ing OF Sam Wood by James Brennan, and
the failure to convict the murderer. Be
fore the abortive trial came on the Woods
dale faction sworc in the event of Bren-
| mans acquittal they would kill Botkin.
Botkin laid all the facts before the COVER
| nor, but declared that he was not afraid
and would not resign.
Since July, lS>3 there has been turmoil
in Stevens county. The county seat con
test between Woodsdale and Hugoton
eliminated then in the massacre OF Sheriff
Cross and deputies by Sam Robinson and
his gang of about twenty seven men from
| Hugoton. There was an abatement of the
| killing then until June 90 last, when James
Brennan of Richiield, Morton county, shot
and killed San Wood of Woodsdale, the
acknowledged leader of the Woodsdalc
faction. This killing occurred in front OF
the little church In Hugoton, Judge
| Theodore Botkin having converted the
church into court room, where the term
OF the Stevens county district court was
being held. brennan was arrested. and
after two attempts TO give him a trial on
the charge Of murder, he was taken back to
the jail at Hutchinson to await the third and
last attempt 10 secure jury this month.
The state herald., 1892-01-15

A WISE man gets happiness from
what he Is rather than from what he
has. What he is remains; what he
has who will insure thatP Plutarch
says that Alexander caused to be
painted on table sword within the
compass OF n wheel TO show that what
he had gotten by the sword was
The state herald., 1892-01-15

MUcH OF the blame OF broken conf.
dences rests upon the one who has given
them. He has been too anxious for
sympathy or comfort or approval TO
consider the possible cost to himself
or TO the other He feels that he has
given a sacred trust when in fact he
has required n great and perhaps i'm
possible favor He has no right 10
demand so hard task Or TO inlict so
heavy burden on hls friend much,
less to reproach him with dlsloyalty il
he iainls under the weight He
should at least make sure not only of
his kind intentions but of his power
to do what he desires without undue
strain.
The state herald., 1892-01-15
A. nonsss Nssslsatlsr.
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ID ~ ksss1sis Akod 10
seisac5 M brought V ilsAt & ! ~ ~

Eyfis ~ y - = - - etfl4koQ W.!
sesedc5 <aS brought v ilsAt & ! 49, ~
ing Of the city council Of Dayton, oiit,
when letter was received aud read fiom
John L. Dilts, Bryant, Jay county, In
diana, wherein he sought to make repira
tion for theft committed in this city If
teen years ago, The theft was that o a
scarf pin worth - cents, and which Dts
returned with his letter, along with II
postal order for s., which sum he desiIed
bestowed upon the poor.
In his letter he says: "For true pIr-
pose return this for the benefit OF your
city. ] stole them there when boy, hut
| do not remember from whom. Take this
before the council and sell it, aud use he
money and what send you with it for he
poor If knew the man stole it from |
would mgke it right with him. ask yjur
honorable body to forgive me. There is
no other way of getting forgiveness that
know of Please take this, as | send it
honesLn
The state herald., 1892-01-15
THE WORLD AT LARGE.

Governor Mckinley was inaugural
ed on the 11th.
The actor, VIM. j. Scanlan, has been
taken to an insane asylum.
The county treasurer at Hastings.
Nebraska, is $32, 900 short in his ac-
counts.
jail breaking is very popular
fashion throughout the west at
present
Mrs. Margaret Shegog, agel lo2
other day.
French revenue returns for 1891
show surplus OF 100 000,0 francs
over expenses.
The United States steamer Thetis
left San Francisco on n surveying
cruise off the coast of Lower Califor-
mia.
Five thousand dollars OF the new de-
signs of coins have been forwarded to
Washington from the Philadelphia
mint.
Lady Salisbury has become mem
bcr OF the woman's committee, formed
| to look after British interests at the
Worlds Fair.
An electric car was run into by n
freight train in st. Joseph, Missouri,
the other day. Nine passengers were
injured, two fatally.
There is likely to be fight at Brice-
vile, Tennessee, any night between the
coal miners and the militiamen sent to
protect the convicts.
The state herald., 1892-01-15

Is IT not fact that all the cures for
morbid worry, bilious irritability and
wayward pettishness are founded on
the neglected lighter and brighter side
Of life? 1t is only stupid bovine sullen-
ness that can resist sunny smiles for
long. Well-regulated mirthfulness,
dealt out rs it is able to be borne,
will find IA way in time to the heart OF
any man unless he is an unsouled
lout Once get the cross grained dis
turber of the peace crammed with
con,rariness, to laugh, and his merri-
ment will carry OF the sulkiness of
his temper as lightning conductor
empties n storm cloud Of its danger
The state herald., 1892-01-15
4 BLOODY WAR IN KANSAS.
An Attempt to Murder Judge Botkin
Results in the Death of the Sheriff.

The county seat war between Woods
dale and Hugoton in Southwestern Kan
sas has again resulted In bloodsh she'd. A
plot 10 kill Judge Botkin, an opponent Of
one of the murdered leaders of tho feud,
was put into execution on the 9th. 1t
failed, and the bullets intended for Judge
Sotkin ended the life Of deputy sheriff
Three weeks since Judge Botkin received
information that mob composed of mem
bers OF the Citizens Alliance of Woods
dale and Springfield would endeavor to as
sassinate him on his way to court at
Springfield Tuesday morning.
The Information was furnished by .
member of the conspiracy. who gave the
names of all implicated in tho plot. 1t was
also stated that the Judge would be fired
upon at the head of canon, near Culvert's
place, one mile southeast of Springfield
Monday night Judge Botkin, Sheriff Dunn
and six deputies held u meeting at the
house OF the Judge, which is two miles due
south of the head of the canon. They in
tended to scout the country between the
judges house and the court house, and
started from the house Of the Judge at 80
O'Clock Tuesday morning.
AtdaJ break they came upon the mob,
composed of about forty men, with Win
chester rifles.
The light lasted until daylight Sheriff
Dunn was literally riddled with bullets.
AL OF the other officers escaped and went
TO Springfield, where they barricaded them
selves in house. Shortly after day ybreak,
Joe Larrabee, court stenographer, was seen
" members of the judges family, who all
The state herald., 1892-01-15

A Berlin paper says that the recon t
reception OF generals by the kalsor
was not altogeiher a, ceremonial Us
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-03
SEEKING MILLER's MURDERERS.

Captain Hayes. of the Hoboken police.
has detectives hard at work trying to
learn who the hoodlums were who beat
Jacob Miller. who died at the County Jail
Saturday morning.
Thus far, Che police have arrested John
Mclaughlin, of Spring and Lake streets.
West Hoboken, John Kainey, OF NO. 1, 1906
Madison street, Hoboken; Jonn Brennan,
OF jefferson avenue, jersey City Heights;
Charles Carey, of No. 1,200 Willow ave-
nue, Hoboken; Nellie Jackson, of No 40
1no street, West Hoboken, aud Annie Dill
Ion, of No. 81 Wilton avenue, West Ho-
boken. Caotain Hayes said this morning
that he believed Mclaughlin WAS the
man VINO beat Miller. and that the Two
women and Rainey stood by and saw the
assault. They have told the police that
they begged Mclaughlin not TO kill Mil
ler. The others are held as witnesses.
Miller was a harmless, inoffenslve fell
low, and was favorablv known i'll Hobo
ken. He was good natured to fault and
had many friends. who will see that his
murderer will be punished. Coroner Par
slow will hold on inquest.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-03
HOBOKEN NOTES.

The Hoboken Turn Verein held sue
cessful house warming at their cosy
rooms in Park avenue on Sasurdly night.
A large crowd attended the fair being
held by he ladies of St. joseph's Church
in Lyceum Hall on Saturday night. The
fair promises to be the most successful
vet held.
The Jolly -Four Social Club will hold a
masquerade aud civic ball at Turn Hall
on November -.
The following are the newly elected
officers Of the Richard Barclay Associ :
tion.-President Thomas j. Dunn; Vice
President, William Posi-; Recording Sec
retary, George Husbands; Financi l Sec
retaay. John Kay: Sergeant-at-Arms,
Charles Ross; Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms
John Bente.
There was the usual big Monday morn
ing batch of ''drunks and disorderlies"
hefore Recorder McDonough this morn
ing.
Mrs. Hattie Schmidt, the young mar
ried woman who was burned by the ex
plosion Of kerosene stove, died at St.
Mary's Hospital yesterday
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-03
REMEDY AS BAD AS DISEASE.
Colonel III. and the Roman Bsggar's
Law suit.

Colonel III. and the Roman Beggar's
Law suit.
Colonel Fl. of Baltimore settled in Rome
some years since, and for time received
his mail at the bank, to which he always
walked morning and afternoon, passin
en- route through the Piazza di Spagna,
where a venerable beggar sat, and to
whom he gave aims each time he passed.
But after a few mouths knowledge of
Roman beggardom he suddenly ceased to
drop the accustomed copper into the ex-
tended hat. Wherenpon the beggar
brought suit for 600 lire, which he
claimed to have loaned to Colonel H..
producing at the same time two wit
nesses to the fact. The victim of the
trick lost no time in consulting a native
lawyer. who remarked that while he had
no doubt of the utter fradulency of the
claim, still the testimony of the beggar
and two eye witnesses must stand in the
absence of any rebu ting evidence; but
that If the colonel would spend half the
sum involved he would undertake to de-
feat the stratagem. Outraged as he was,
the colonel concluded to accede to the
attorneys terms, and when the case
came up, and the beggar's two witnesses
lend the money to the defen ant ON a GER
tain day, the latter's lawyer promptly
called two witnesses who made oath that
they had seen Colonel H pay the money
back to the beggAr on day that proved
to be just week after the date of the al
legged negotlation-this to the amaze
ment of the colonel and the consterna-
ION and defeat of the ggar.-HGrper' S
Mn01zinH
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-03
DAILY FOR SENATOR
Robert Hudspeth Decides to
Retire From the Quest
for the Nomination.
DEMOCRATIC CLUB REUNION
Great Gathering at Chickering Hall
TodaY-General Politi-
cal News.

The stories published this morning to
the effect that Senator Robert Hudspeth
had informed the county leaders that he
would be unable to accept a nomination
for Assembly caused considerable COM
ment in political circles. A conference
was held in the office of ex-Sher1f Robert
Davis this morning in the County
Jail. which was attended by Mr..
Davis. Senator Hudspeth, Judge Kenny.
Freeholder Kimmerly. James +. Cannon.
Mayor Stanton of Hoboken. Judge Will
lam D. DAILY, Assemblyman and Free
holder Coyle and Tax Commissioner
James C. Clark.
The consultation which follow
ed resulted in Senator Hud-
speth declaring that he would
decline the nomination tomorrow. JUS
tice Davis later said to me that Judge
DAILY would probably be nominated for
Senator tomorrow. The news spread
like wild fire, and in fifteen
minutes Judge Daily. after he
left the jail, was congratulated
by hundred persons. 1t is considered
an assured fact that he will receive the
nomination.
Justice Davis said: "Senator Hudspeth
will decliue the nomination tomorr ow
and Judge Daily will be nominated"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-03
RAILROAD NOTES.

Box freight cars on the Lackawanna
are all to be equipped with airbrakea, it
is said, and every Car OF any kind which
goes into the shops will come out with
automatic couplers.
The people along the Susquehanna feel
good over the report tha there will be no
Important changes in the schedule this
fall, and that they will have as good ser
vice all along the line during the winter
as they have had this summer.
erintendeut Reasoner has made an
order forbidding railroad employees ac-
cepting any mail matter for postal clerks
on trains. Thev must pOL take letters
from the public aud the postal clerks
must not accept mail from employees on
the trains.
1t is suggested by Car Accountant
Wheatley, OF the West Shore, that cars Of
one line on the tracks of another shall
carry with them certain charge per day,
instead of the present mileage charge
lbis will tend to hurry their return, Rnd
will, to large extent, obviate car
A new locomotive on the Rockaway
Valley Railroad has been named j. N.
Pidcock.
Railroad business on the seashore roads
has dwlndled down almost to winter
basis.
The rumor that the New York Central
Rsilro will have trains every hour to
chicago in 1893 for the Chicago Fair
looks as though it might be borne out
easily by that corporation. considering
mat the company now runs thirteen
trains in as many hours between New
York and Buffalo every day.
In order to make safer the running of
freight trains on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western, General Manager
HalIsteau is having air brakes applied to
q number Of the largest box cars owned
by the company. The men at the Dover
n. j., car shops are at present busy on
this class OF work.
Baggage Master Harry G. Dunnell. of
the South Orange accommodation. was
presented with a handsome wat, chain
lesr week. The alternate links of the
chain are of gold and silver. The presen-
tation was made by one of the wealthy
commuters of the road who took liking
to the handsome yenng baggage master.
The Susquehanna's tunnel at Union
Hill is making gond progress, and will be
completed in about a year. The cutting
has been going on for three months. IL is
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-03
HARRIS HAD MANY FRIENDS.

The escape of Henry Harris, the noted
crook, who was implicated in the big
tobacco robbery in Hoboken, from the
County Jail. has occasioned 40 end of
talk in HobokeD police circles. Captain
Hayes says that Harris had no end of
friends and money and was one
of the most dangerous criminals in the
country. One day in the early part of
last week young woman, who claimed
to be Harris's sister, and young man
called on Captain Hayes and asked for
permit to visit the County Jail and talk
to Harris, but the Captain refused to
grant it.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-03
WEBSTER'S HEAVY DOOM.

The Murderer of Good win to serve Nine
teen Years In State Prison.
NEW YORK, Oct. g. 1892. Burton G..
Webster was sentenced to nineteen years
in State Prison by Justice Ingraham in
the Court of Oyer and Terminer this morn
ing. and unless his lawyer. William F..
Howe. succeeds in obtaining a prelimi-
nary stay of execution he will set out for
Sing Sing with the gang of convlcts that
will be taken there on the eight o'clock
train tomorrow morning.
Webster has maintained the GOODNESS of
practiced gambler in chances ever since
he surrendered to the police August z.
1891, five days after he shot Broker Chas.
E. Goodwin in Goodwin's apartment at
the Percival Flats, in West Forty second
street.
He received the verdict of man
slaughter in the first degree, rendered
last Monday night, with perfect equan-
unity. and today he heard the sentence of
Justice Ingraham with the same GOODNESS,
though his face wore sickly pallor.
When Webster was arraigned for sea-
tence his lawyer, William f. Howe, made
the usual formal motion for a new trial
on the ground of errors in the admission
of evidence and in charging the jury.
The motion was denied and the sem
tence followed, Justice Ingraham making
40 comment whatever.
Webster hurried out of court with his
keeper and back to the Tombs.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-03
CUT HIS THROAT AT BREAKFAST
Berger Failing to XII His Wife and
Children, Cuts HIS Throat.

Berger Failing to XII His Wife and
Children, Cuts His Throat.
BROOKLYN, Oct. g. 1S92.-Otto Berger,
forty-one years of age, of No. 1926 Bush
wick avenue, committed suicide at six
O'Clock this morning, after attempt
ing to kill his wife and four children.
Berger was the proprietor of a saloon at
the corner of State and Lorrimer streets.
and was quite we'll to do. Up to one week
ago he was considered man of steady
habits.
He came home last evening drunk and
drove his family out of the house. This
morning he appeared penitent and kissed
his wife and children. AS the family
were about to sit down to breakfast he
remarked that it was the last
meal they would ever eat together.
He then seized his wife and
attempted to cut her throat but she
eluded him. He also attempted 10 Kill
the children, but they got out of his way
Then be drew the knife across his
throat, severing the windpipe.
He died before his wife and little ones.
the blood from his neck gushing on the
tablecloth.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-03
A CHASTITY COLLECTION.

Death Masks Ranging From Dante to
Lawrence barrett.
The story of the beginning of my col
lection is rather curious one. The half
dozen masks upon which it is based were
found early in the sixties in dust bin in
one of the old fashioned streets which run
toward the East River, in the neighbor-
hood of Fompkins Square, New YORK.
Their owner had lately died; his un-
sympathetic and unapDreciative heirs had
thrown away what they considered "the
horrible things" small boy had found
them and offered them for sale to dealer
in phrenological cases. who realized their
worth, although in MANY cases he did not
know whose heads they represented; and
SO, by chance, they came into my posses
sion, and inspired the search for more
a search extended over many years, and
in the museums, the plaster shops, the
studios of most of the capitals of Europe
and America.
The history of the masks which formed
the nucleus of the collection. or the his
tory OF the original collector himself,
have never been able to discover. They
are, however, the casts most frequently
described in the printed lectures of
George Combe. who came to this country
in The winter of 1889, and the inference
is that they were left here by him ia the
hands of one of his disciples, with the re-
suit as above described.
The earliest masks in the collection are
those of Dante, made perhaps in the first
part of the fourteenth century, and of
Tasso, certainly m de at the end of the
sixteenth. The latest mask is that of
Lawrence BarretU. taken last year.
They range from Sir Isaac Newton, the
wisest of men, to SamDo. the lowest type
of American negro: from Ben Caunt, the
prize fighter, to Thomas Chalmers, the
light Of the Scottish pulpit; from Oliver
Cromwell to Thomas Paine; from Keats
to Robert Burns; from the first Napoleon
to Robert the Bruce -HGTper's MagG-
zine.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-03
AN OLD CASE RECALLED.
After Money Governor Price Received
for services in the Army.

After Money Governor Price Received
for services in the Army.
An ancient and mildewed case was in
the Court of ChancerY this morning, in
which ex-Gov Rodman Price was defend
ant.
Governor Price was in the navy in 1S49
and was among the first to land when the
United States seized California. He had
a clam against the Government. which
has just been paid him. 1t amounts to
S45. .704 08, and checks for that amount
have been sent to the Governor The
checks, however, are tied up in the courts
and this morning Cour land Parker. of
Newark. on behalf of Annie M. Forrest
applied for receiver for the checks. She
is a daughter of an old captain in the
navy who claims that her father lent
money to the Governor years ago. Gov
ernor Price claims that he paid the
money back. The Chancellor ordered
the checks deposited in the office of the
Clerk sot the Court until the case is de-
cideO
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-03
CHANCE FOR A LAWYER TO REFORM.
Special to the Jersey CITY Ne,os.

Special to the jersey City Netos.
TRENTON. Oct. 8. 1s92.-A memorandum
was filed this morning in the office of the
Clerk Of the Supreme Court by Justices
Magee and Werts in the case of Lawyer
Horace j. Kinny, of Newark, against
whom action was brought some
time ago to debar him from
practice. The memorandum recited
that Mr.. Kiuny had made restitution
and shown desire to reform. 1t held
that the affidavit justified the Court in
making an absolute rule disbarring him;
but in view of his reformation it was
recommended that the case against him
remain open until the June term of 1898,
when the rule will either be made abso-
lutte or dismissed. as his subsequent ac-
tions may dictate.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-03
EUROPE'S WANING PLAGUE.

HAMBURG. Oct. 3, 1892-The official re-
turns show that there were twenty-six
new cases of cholera and twelve deaths
from the disease in this city yesterday.
Compared with Saturdays figures this is
a decrease of seventeen cases and an in
crease of five deaths
In Altoona yesterday three new cases
and one death were reported.
HAVRE, Oct. 3. 1892.-Four new cases of
cholera occurred here yesterday. Only
one death was reported.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-03
FRANK MAGOWAN's AMBITION.
Special to the jersey city Nesps.

OstV
TRENTON. Oct. 8, 1892.-It is quite prob
able that Ex- Mayor Frank Mcgowan, w ho
was conspicuous In the Republican Guber-
material Convention will accept the nomi-
nation for Senator ON the Republican
men are named in connection with this
Office. but a conference held during the
last week resulted in a scheme to place
Mcgowan at the head of the ticket for the
purpose of hustlng Mercer up in great
shape. Ex-Mayer Mcgowan, during the
past week, lost no opportunity to inform
the prom inent Republicans 10 the State,
as well as his friends. that he is a canal
date for Governor three years hence. He
starts his boom now and proposes to lose
no opportunity to Keep it floating. He
proposes TO begin his organization as
early as one year before the next convep-
tion and to have the nomination inde-
pendent of any outside influence.