The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-04-04

labor was not in vain. They recon-
mended that a COMMITTEES be appointed
to go 10 Washington and remain there
permanently until the matter was dis
posed Of. The tariff was further dis
cussed. and the matter Of appointing the
committee was left until the next meet
! ing. which will take place at Dunkirk
in two weeks. on April .. Chairman Burk
was seen after the meeting and asked
what action the manufacturers had
taken on the tariff question, but he re-
fused to make any statements for pub
INSTRUMENTATION Chronicle.
THE oldest inhabitant" had an inning
in discussing the weather Wednesday.
This blizzard is nothing" he said. 1T
will do for you young people TO say that
they never saw such weather this,
but for older people to complain serious
~ is to ignore their own experience. II
is coincidence that the late storm came
on the anniversary of the worst storm in
Indiana in this century. Sixty years
ago, on March %, blizzard struck In
diana. The season was far advanced.
Peaches We're i'm bloom. The wind blew
so fiercely that the blossoms were blown
from the trees. Just a month later,
when vegetation was measurably recOv-
ering a blighting freeze came. cutting
down everything. In Switzerland coun-
ty, where l lived. you could hardly find
green thing till the 1st Of May. Then
came the caterpillars. They devastated
the whole country for weeks. A few
weeks after the caterpillars left the sew
en-year lOcusts appeared. Count ess
millions Of them destroyed all living
things and even tackled the grindstOnes
and the brick-yards Nor was this the
end of our plaques. The drought set in
early in the summer and we had not
enough rain TO moisten the earths sur
face. The cornstalks that year were
only knee high at maturity. You see
that everything is comparative when
you speak Of the weather and the sea-
sons.''-Richmond Independent.
The reigning sensation now is the sep
aration of Frank G. King and his wife.
Anna Kerr King. They have been sep
arated near two years. This fact has
really been known to the public to some
extent, but only In very quiet way.
Some eight weeks ago Mrs. Kings sis
ter went TO Chicago. stating that she
was going to walt on Mrs. King, who
was sick. About the LIST of March Mrs.
King visited her father, c. B. Kerr, here.
II was then given out that she was go
ing to abandon the stage on account OF
falling health She left ostensibly for
Chicago March 3. A few days later Ii
is told she was with a travelling man
named McKelvey, and that they regis
tered as man and wife at a Lafayette
hotel. and next at Toledo trying to pur-
chase a large stock of good for a cloak
and millinery store. An investigation
here shows. too, that Mrs. King had been
negotiating for the vacant room into
which Mr.. Waddington moved his shoe
store in which to open business, but
they stopped negotiating for the room.
1t is known that a travelling salesman
named McKelvey who has a wife and
two children at Warsaw, some time ago
met Mrs. Anna Kerr King and became
so smitten with her that he wrote his
wife a letter that he no longer loved her
deserted wife is much chagrined at the
unfaithfulness of her husband, and is
now investigating affairs at this end Of
the line, but has not yet decided what
steps to take. 1t is said both King and
his wife have made application for
divorce.-Columbus Times.
Martin Howley was brought to the
northern prison Tuesday night by II. G.
Myers, deputy sheriff of Allen county.
Last week the prisoner was arraigned on
the charge of murder and was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment. Howley
is probably the only man In the north
ern prison who ever pleaded guilty TO
a capital crime aud accepted the SEN
tence as his just punishment. The pris-
oner is thirty-two years old and mar
ried He and his wife lived with How
ley's mother in a double house in FIT.
Wayne. The murdered woman kept
boarders and one day last November a
quarrel arose between Howley and one
of the boarders. The old lady tried to
preserve peace in tie house, but the men
paid no attention to her and were about
TO come to blows. when Howley's moth
er stepped in between the men to defend
the boarder from her sons attack How
ley was enraged and he made furious
attack on his mother, knocking her
down and kicking her violently after she
fell. She was unconscious and died an
hour afterward from internal injuries.
The next day Howley was arrested in
Fit. Wayne. He made no attempt to es-
cape and seemed to deplore his act. Dur
ing his incarceration he expressed his
willingness to abide by the seVerest pun
ishment that the court could inflict and
when he was arraigned he pleaded
guilty. Subsequently he was taken De-
fore Judge O'Rourke to receive his SEN
tenee of life imprisonment. When asked
il he had anything to say why punish
ment should not be passed upon him,
Howley replied: mo, your honor. eX-
cept that / wish you would show me
some mercy and hang me, as / under
stand you have the power 10 do that I'M
der the law do you mean to say you
would rather he hung?" asked the judge.
Eyes, sir" was Howley's answer. II
have no power TO do that" remarked
Judge o'Rourke, and he continued with
the sentence. There were not many peo-
pie I'm the court room when this remark
able request was made, but the few at
torneys and spectators who were pres
ent were startled and could hardly be-
lieve their ears. Such scene Is not Of
ten enacted in a criminal court.-Mlchf-
gan City Dispatch.