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THE MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE TUESDAY, JANUARY 17. 4 ter that requires an acquittal," he 1YNDALE RAILWAY TIME CARD. WILL HE HAWGP An Observer's View of Guiteau's Fros-peots for Acquittal or Ll Imn Bridge Bar. Cifi? for Lakes. for Minneapolis.

gpm 10:10 ti 8:48 am 0:00 pm 113 am i45m spm ipi im could not extricate them. Near them was a man whom we did not discover nntil some of us had stepped on him. Then he shouted: 'Boys, throw s.jme water on my I never saw Siioh a hero in all my life. His arm was burned to the shoulder, and the olothes were bnrned from his back, jet he did not utter a groan, but directed us as to the best way to get bim out. He was held down by the bar that surrounds the stove.

It was afterwards discovered that the man was Oliver B. Keeley, of Spring City, and the young oouple were Mr. and Mrs. Valentine." Another account says Mr. Valentine only was pinioned; that his bride was free to esoape, but that she olung to him to death.

OB1TUAHY. sisaippi. To do thi for the thirteen bridges the oust ia estimated at The address whioh Guiteau prepared for the Jury was published yesterday. It is a rehash of his previous statements, and closes as follows: "Let yonr verdict be that is was duty actuated me. When the president was shot his cabinet telegraphed to foreign nations that it was the act of a madman, and it will be better every way that it be officially decided that it was the act of a madman." We have received The New York Tribune almanao for 1882.

Edited by Hon. Edward MoPhorson, it is safe to say that there ia no publication in the United States or elsewhere which within the oompass of 100 pages oom-presses as much information of value to the banker, the business man, the politician, and the intelligent student of the public life of the country in its relations to other countries, as this. H0STHWE3TESN NEWS UOrES. THE EXCHANGES. A Bather Unsatisfactory Bhowing, at Compared with the Corresponding; Weeh of a Year Ago.

-i Boston, Jan.16. The Post will to-morraw print the following table, showing" the total gross exohanges at 24 leading clear-ing houses in the United States, 23 being for the week ended January 14 and one (Louisville) for the week ended January 12 New York $972.200 Philadelphia 80,738,047 44.910,4i Cincinnati Baltimore 14,170 488 New Orleans Han Francisco Pittsburg 8.018,371 Milwaukee i'Hle 8.571,241) Providence 4,847,00 Kansas City S.att.fMO Indianapolu Cleveland 2.M,iei New Haven 1.4M,5B7 Mempbis 807 Columbus Peoria Springfield jjsv Worcester, M)87 Lowell 660,404 Syracuse T.tal viv; tl.27rt,l3M Outside of New York SUiMlfiiy The exhibit this week Is decidedly nn satisfactory when oompared with that of the corresponding week of last yar. The total footing, $1,275,183,610, compares somewhat unfavorably with the footings at the end of last week, when the footings stood at The figures as oompared with the corresponding week of last year show a decrease of 14 against one of 13 per cent last week. The falling off in percentage this week was owing in the main to the great decrease in New York. Then, too, trade throughout the entire country is unusually dull for this season of the 3 ear, though the indloatioLS in many quarters are more assuring for an early opening of brisk spring trade.

In New York the peroentage of decrease is 21.3 per against a decrease of 17.8 per cent, last week, and an inorease of 11.9 per eent the previous week. In this connection it must be borne in mind that in the week in 1881 with which thia compares, one of the largest speculative movements ever known in that iargov city was being carried on, the sales of stocks for that week alone amounting to 3,450,019 shares. Tbe general trade in New York is reported to be fairly large. Speculative influences contributed to the depression of export trade in produce and merchandise from the port of New York. Oat-Bide of New York the olearings show a gain in percentage of inorease as oompared with last year, it being 10.3 per eent.

this week against 3 9 per oent. last, and 4 2 per eent. the previous week. be far more serious man mat aouot to vhioh all human oonelusions are subject. It must be a doubt so grave and substantial aa to produce in the juror entertaining it long and anxious uncertainty aa to the verdiot he should give." What hope can there be for Guiteau in such definition of the term "reasonable doubt" THE ASSASSIN'S CHANCE.

The jury in the Guiteau case will oome to the task of formulating a verdict under a charge from the court, whioh will say in substance, "You are to determine whether the prosecution has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the prisoner is guilty as charged; if such reasonable doubt exists you are to acquit." Of oourse no doubt, reasonable or otherwise, can exist in the mind of any juror that Guiteau committed the aot named in the indictment or that, if responsible for his deeds, he. is guilty of murder in the first degree. It is olaimed on the one band that this charge of the oonrt will warrant the jury in acquitting the assassin if they believe that the prose-oution has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Guiteau was sane on July 2, 1881. On the other hand it is insisted that the jury is bound in this as in all ordinary eases to assume the sanity and responsibility of the prisoner, and only abandon that assumption in case the defense has proved the insanity and resulting irresponsibility of the aooused that a mere "reasonable aouot" oi nis men tal soundness is not sufficient to warrant an acquittal. Taking it for granted that the totter rule will prevail, that the prosecution in such a case will not be held to the almost impossible task of proving a man sane when no respectable proof of insanity has been adduoed by the defense, the question remains, What will the jury be justified in regarding as insanity of a kind or degree to acquit the prisoner? In the rulings of Judge Cox in response to the prayers of the prisoner's counsel the mod em principles criminal juris prudence seemed construed to be that a condition of mind whioh enables one to distinguish between right and wrong, between the lawful and the unlawful, carries with it complete responsibility for acts committed.

This leaves out of view the very important element which formed a part of the earlier legal rule, to-wit, the free agency of the person aooused of crime. It was formerly held that the perpetrator of a wrong and forbidden p.ot must, in order to beheld criminally liable, have been in a mental condition to know the wrong and criminal oharaoter of the act, and also to have had suoh control of his faoulties and volitions as would enable him to commit or refrain from committing the prohibited act. The omission of the latter condi tion would be instantly and inevitably fatal to Guiteau's hopes, for his whole defense is based, not on the olaini that he did not understand the oharacter of the act he was committing, but on the claim that he aoted under an irre sistible impulse from a power outside him self which for the time controlled bis faculties and destroyed his free agenoy. The assassin still pretends to insist that the alleged resistless impulse was a divine inspiration, while his counsel reach the same result by insisting that it was a mental delusion of a kind that destroyed the prisoner's freedom. Bat those who administer criminal law have oome to see the danger to society of admitting this specious plea of an irre sistible impulse or delusion, since usually there can, in ths nature of the oase, and notably in this oase, be no other proof of the existenoe of suoh impulse or delusion than the testimony of the criminal himself, and if one murderer is to be discharged on bis own testimony that he was acting under an irresistible delusion when he committed the homioide, then all murderers may as well be discharged without the expense of a trial, for this plea would beoome universal.

The general produce markets opened weak and for most artioles closed a triQe lower. There was no general break in any of the markets, but no disposition to operate in any unless at lower prices. There was no pressure to sell manifested, but a small business was transacted at a shade off from Saturday's closing prices. The visible supply of wheat on the 7th of January was over 11,000,000 bushels less than at the same date in 1881; of corn a little more, but the stock of wheat in sight, whioh includes that on passage, was only 3,046,000 bushels less than at the same date in 1881. European wheat markets were re ported dull.

New York quiet. At Chioago cash wheat closed lo lower than on Saturday; February off; corn was lower; mess pork lOo lower; lard Jo off. At Milwaukee cash wheat closed at $1.33 for No. 2, a loss of o. February V1.29M, a decline of since Saturday.

The local market was quiet. Sales were re ported on 'change of 36 oars of wheat; 25 No. 2 hard at 5 oars of No. 2 at 9 1.20 and 3 at 1 oar by sample at $1.03: 1 oar at $1.20, and 1 car of No. 1 at 91.2S; 1 oar corn at 62o.

NQTE AUD COMMENT. A fire at Lancaster, Sunday, caused a loss of $15,000. Iiiamarok is recovering from a severe attack of sciatica. An engineer was killed and thirty loaded freight oars wrecked on the New York Central Sunday, The smnll pox area in Illinois is extending southward, eighty-two town aow being alii 10 ted. Sheridan's staff officers ridicule the report that his headanarters are to be removed to Leavenworth.

Minnesota has but one olerk in the post- offioe department, while lews has fonr and Wisconsin seven. Mr. Boeoher has retracted his recent charges of dishonesty against the Brooklyn board of eduoation Sibley, Dudley wholesale grooers. of Chicago, made an assiznment Saturday. Liabilities, assets, unknown.

So intensely oold has been the weather on the Sahara frontier of Algeria that hundreds of soldier and camels perished. Under the bell-punoh law, the liquor dealer of Dallas county, Tcxai, paid $18,000 to the state during the last quarter of 1881. The Apaches are raising muoh hair in Old Mexico. Bo long as they confine their murdering that country the remit wilt bi benehc'ai. Mr.

Oscar Wildo, the high priest of esthetes, is fairly overwhelmed with social attentions and favors, and should he remain with us a year oould not accept them all. Mr. Charles G. Francklyn, owner of the oottage at Elberoa in whioh Garfield died, is aid to have been offered a large sum for it by a government official, but has declined to sell it. President Arthur sent Alexander U.

Stephen a handsome basket of flowers, with his congratulation on hi attaining hi 70th birthday. Miss Nellie Arthur gave a dinner party to a number of young friends. A delegation of Northwestern steamboat men are in Washington to arire the ttassaue of a law requiring the building of a breakwater feet long above each bridge on tho Mis- BOW INBANB IS BI? An oooasioutl ojr respondent at Wash-inptoa writes Ths Tbibunb as follows: Und6r Judge Cox's charge to the jury, Guiteau, if not such a miserable wretob, even though the murderer of Garfield, would most likely be acquitted; certainly so, if, miserable as he is, he had murdered an ordinary citizen. The judge will charge in substance, just about as the defense has prayed him to do. Boiled down, he will say, "Even though you believe the prisoner was rational enough to distinguish right from wrong on that eventful July 2, and with respect to that aot, yet if you farther believe not that he was inspired by the Diety, but that he believed he was thus inspired, that that icsf.ee delusion dominated his reason, so that his will was not free to choose between the known right and wrong, then he was Insane, and you should so declare bim." This will be the most favorable ruling Gaitsau oould hope for; and yet, notwithstanding the loathing towards the assassin, the general desire that the jury will find him sane enough to be hung, who oan deny the aocaraoy thereof? We should hang only free agents.

If that insane delusion for the time being destroyed the free agenoy, the rationalty of Guiteau, he should not be hung. That he was thus insanely deluded there is noevidenoe but his own testimony, not even from corroborative oiroumstanoes. And yet, if we do not believe that, we must conclude that his motive was simple revengegoaded into aotion by a morbid egotism. As never before, among the tens and hundreds of thousands of disappointed office-seekers in this country, was a man found to even destroy the property, to say nothing of the life, of the officer wielding the appointing rower, Guiteau's vindiotivenoss is monstrous and exceptional. If so, something in his life corresponding to this exouptional vindic-tiveness might have been found, but it has not been found.

Daring the progress of the trial, he has shown an ugly, but not vin dictive spirit, abusing men at one moment and praising them the rext His past is marked with many petty and disgusting acts, but not with vindiotivenes. Dead- beats are seldom vindictive, it his egotism led him to murder Garfield, he must have believed, for he is very cowardly, that Arthur would pardon him, and, it seems to some men that cone but a complete fool or lnnatio could thus have reasoned. Though Judge Cox said he would not charge the jury that they most acquit him if they had a reasonable doubt of his sanity, yet no one oould doubt that he believed that that was the law. Thus he praotioallv said. that while it was inoumbent on the defense to make a strong oase iu proof of bis in sanity, yet that issue having been raised, it was necessary that the prosecution should prove his sanity beyond a reasonable doubt.

Now, it is just as true that the prosecution has not proven that sanity beyond a reason able dooot, as tnat the defense had not proven bis insanity beyond a reasonable donbt. When the judge said be would leave the whole matter to the jury for them to deoide whether the prisoner's guilt was proven beyond a reasonable donbt, he might just as well have rnled straight and told the iurv Gmteau oould not be convicted if acy one jnror had a reasonable doubt of his sanity, for there is no obanoe of a doubt exoept on this one point. Wi suoh a oharge Guiteau may be convicted, but only Guiteau. A "hung" jury is now quite often prophesied, and that too by men who, like myself only yesterday, prophesied and hoped for his cou viol ion. QJndge Porter, aa every able criminal law yer, is a demagogue, speaking to the passions and prejudices of his hearers.

Mis speech, nominally to the judge on law Doints. was really an address to the preju dices of fcthe jary, and, though demagogic al, was tremendously powerful. The end draws nigh. But does it? Not if the question of jurisdiction oan be appealed to the supreme court of the United States, of whioh I am cot certain. a.

I. J. LINCOLN'S WIDOW. Distinguished! Physioian Report Upon Her Condition A Hopeless Case. At the request of Dr.

L. A. Say re, the dis tinguished physician employed by Mrs. Lincoln, the following is made pnblio. It is dated January 13, and addressed to Hon.

Wm. M. Springer, Washington, D. We have this day made at your leanest a careful medical examination of Mrs. Alary X.

1 lucoln, willow ot tne late rresident Abranam Linooln, at present residing at No, SV West Tenty sixth street, in this city. We hod Mrs. Liucoln suffering from chronio inflam mation of the spinal cord, cbrunio disease of the kidneys, and commenoir cataract ot boto eyes. The disorder of the spinal oord is the rt suit of an injury received some time snce, and has resulted in considerable loss of power of both lower limbs, so as to render walking without assistance impossible. lbe nature of tne spinal trouble is pro gressive, and will end in paralysis of the lower extremities.

Connected with the spinal disease, and one of its evidences, is tbe renex paralysis oi cne ins oi mo eye ana tne reduction of the sight to one-tentn the natural standard, together with much narrowing of the field of vision. The sight wilt gradually grow worse. There is no probability tnat there will be any permanent improvement in airs. Lincoln's condition, considering tbe nature of ber disease and her age. She is now quite belp- lesa and uuable to walk wttn satety witnout the aid of an attendant.or indeed to help her- sel to any exteut.

She requires tbe continued services of a nurse, aud also constant meaicai attendance. We are, doar sir, your obedient eervant, Louis a. UOTD, IU. 285 fifth avenne. MEBmiTU Clvmbb, M.

Ho West Thirty.eigbtb street. Habmom M. 25 West Twenty-fourth street. W. P.

Pancoast, Eleventh and Walnut streets, Philadelphia. "That is a dear and couoise statement," said Dr. Sayre. "If I should talk all day I oould not tell you any more about her oase. I have great sympathy for her.

She is a great snrlerer, and not only needs the oare and sympathy ot friends, but constant skillful attendance." A CRUEL FATE. How Park Valentine and His Young Bride Died-Ollver Keeley's Heroism. The bodies of Park Valentine and his KviHa vam found tnuftther in the burned debri. Their right hands were both untouched by the Are, but their left nanus were buinoa to the bone. Immediately jinlliainn lhA turn urnrs flflftn through a broken window by the oouduotor of tbe larrytown special.

urs. vaieuuuo was imprisoned by tbe broken seats, and was TBHobiuff out her hands for aid in a heartrending appeal, iler husband lay on bis side, aud was hold so that he oould not move. She wore considerable jewelry, and her far-lined oiraular was found afterward in tViu mlns. lir their side in the burned nsr wna found a new valise, one end of whioh was bnrned a little. Iu it were a number of toilet artioles, ail uninjured, and a number of curds of Mr.

and Mr. Paul Valentine. Charles A. Gilchrist gives the following touching account of the death struggle of this ill fated oonple: "I heard the ones of a woman at the rear end of the oar, and found a man and woman with their arms about eaoh other. The woman was orying: 'My love, my lover Their legs were oaaght in the floor between the flooring of the two oars, when they telescoped, and, though we tugged with all out might aad main, we TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1882.

Tbb TBTJHTKSin published daily except Mon day, for circulation by came, newsmen the mailt, 1) IwittrflAr CO rn wwwi Per month, by mail Per year, by mail 80 WEKKLY. Kim-le oonv. oer year $1 Postage in all cane prepaid by the publish era. Bubecriptions payable invariably in ad vanoe. Address THE MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE Minneapolis, Minn, Both the new Iowa senators are natives of Ohio.

"Washington territory asks for admission to the sisterhood of states. The Garfield memorial exeroises will take place in the boose on the 27th inst. Guiteeu is the "crank" whom Waiden Crocker will "turn" into the other world. Oar horticultural friends oooupy considerable space this morning, bat the inter, ests which they disoass are correspondingly Urge. Sooville proposes to speak three days.

Having no hope of an acquittal, he evidently intends to defeat justice by talking the jury to death. A temporary adjournment for a fist fight to settle the differences between Sooville and Porter would not be muoh more out ef chancier than are the daily wrangles in court between the two gentlemen. The many friends in this city and throughoat Minnesota of Judge Henry Barron, of the Northern district of Wisconsin, will regret to learn that his health is such it is feared be cannot long survive. A copy of the resolution introduced in the senate calling for the deoision of the commissioner of the general land offloe with respect to the Northern Paoiflo land grant, and the decision of Seoretary Sohurz overruling the same, was presented in the house yesterday. "Gath" oredits Senator McPherson with mentioning David Davis as a possible demooratio candidate for president in 1884.

lie pea ted failure to seoure the election of one of their own party is certainly a strong inducement for the demeoraoy to seek a Moses from the outskirts of the republican fold. Earthquake shocks in Switzerland are precipitating great masses of earth and rocks from the mountain sides upon the hamlets and scattered homes in the valleys. If that sort of business continues, Switzerland will lose its charm for tourists who wish to confine their observations to this world. A good beginning in the work of suppressing polygamy would be the arrest and punishment of a few of the Mormon agents engaged in proselyting. If bigamy is a crime, why should not persons who counsel it be panuhed.

If the law does not oover the case, it should be made to do so without delay. "Can a newspaper be libeled?" asks The Chicago Herald in its issue of Friday. A day later it was in a position to know that a newspaper can be sued for libel, Mr. George Sooville having begun suit against that institution for defamation of character. The size of the greenback plaster required to cover Mr.

Soorilte's wound is not stated. ndged by reports ef transactions by ths clearing houses the business of the country has entered an area of low barometer. New York shows a deoided falling off in volume of transactions oompared with the corres ponding week a year ago largely due, however, to the state of the speculative market. The depression comes without apparent oaase, and will, therefore, doubtless prove only temporary. The doiaoerats are debating the expediency of adopting the advocacy of civil service reform as their battle ory for 1881.

Ouly imagine the demooratio party rallying its rank aad file and marching to victory ander a banner inscribed, "No spoils," "No appointments except for merit no removals except for cause 1" The heavens may fall, Tennor may beoome a prophet, horse thieves may beoome editors, lottery advertising may beoome honorable, but uoha defianoe of the laws of political gravitation by the democracy will never be attempted. Let the debate stop. It is a waste of breath that ought to be devoted to eoo.lng the porridgo. A paragraph has been going the rounds of the prom for some time past to the effect that the treasury department has fixed the value of Mutilated coin at nearly 50 per cent, below the denomination of the different pieoes, and giving the figures. Every word of it is false.

The treasury department has never fixed any valuation upon punched aud mutilated com. When such coin is sent to Washington ia lots of not less than 100, it is sent to the Philadelphia mint to be melted down ana entered as bought." The able-bodied lie about fixing the value of each ooin was invented by sharp speculators who have reaped and are still reaping a rioh reward by purohasing sunt ua led com from the credulous at their own figures. Judge Coz will instruct the jury that if they entertain a reasonable doubt of Gui teau's saalty they must aojuit him. That mu )h was made known in bis resent derision of point presented by coonsel, and is in aooordanoe with long established prece dent. What ae will define as constituting reasonable doubt remains to be set n.

Courts have not wholly agreed on this point. The Drino'ple generally acoeptod as sound dur Ing recent jean, however, was dearly stat ed by Chief I oetioe i'ennyivuia, in a recent et-e. "A reasonable doubt," he aid, most "be an honest and conscientious dillionlty ia btJievinp; one not merely subtle or iniei-oas; it must arise out oi tne ew denoe at not be fanciful or be conjured op to esoarn consequences; it most strike tue mind with suoh loroe as to compel it to rwnuM in vhAdunr belief." Wharton sneaks still mure strongly. "Doubt of the cbarao- Caroline Kichings-Bernard Something About Her Musical Career The Mother of the Late Gen. Custer.

The death of Mrs. Caroline Riobings-Bernard at Richmond, from small-pox is announoed, removes from the musical world sn artist who for many years has been a favorite with the American people. She was born in London, and was brought to this oounlry by her father, Peter Rioh-ings, when a mere child. She oommenoed ber musical career as a pianist, and appeared with success in several concerts, bat as she had marked dramatio talent, and gave promise of having an unusuallv fine soprano voioe, she was placed by her father unaer tne musical instruction of Bignor Perelli, at one time a verv Donnlar tannr. She studied with this teacher four years, and then made her debut in English opera as "The Daughter of the Regiment," her father appearing with her in the same work in tbe speaking parts.

The performance was followed by successes in the "Elixir of Love," "Somnambula," "Linda," end "Norma." Subeeauentlv she Joined Ma. retzek's troupe in Philadelphia in 1867, aad renewed her suooess in several more operaa. For several years she was very popular in dramatized opera io specialties, suoh as the "Enohantress," Star of the North," "Cir-oassienne," and other works. Her largest measure of fame wai reached in her management of tbe Riohings' opera troupe, in hioh she had for ber leading artists Zelda Seguin, Castle and Campbell. As the prima donna of this strong combination she not only acquired reputation but wealth, but lost the latter subsequently in an injudicious competition with the Parepa-Bosa troupe, with whioh her three leading singers associated tnemseives.

xn imv sue married Pierre Bernard, a German tenor, and since that time, though she has persistently kept tbe boards, she has been lost sight of in a large degree. She sang in this oitv as earlv as 1850 in Rice's theatre, and was for many years a great favorite with Chioago opera-goers. Both as an actress and a singer she occupied a high position. It is supposed Mrs. Bernard took the disease while attend ing an opera.

She was sick thirteeu days, and a great sufferer. Mrs. Emanuel Custer. Mrs. Emanuel Custer, mother of the late Gen.

George A. Custer, died at Monroe, Saturday morning. Mrs. Caster was born in Bargettstown, Mav 31, 1807. Her maiden name was Ward.

She was twice married, her first busbar being Israel Kirkpatriok, by whom she had three children, two of whom are now living. She was married to Emanuel U. Custer at New Kumiey, in ladb, and came with her husband to Monroe in 18C3, where Bbe has ever since resided, ber last marriage she has had seven children, six sons and one daughter, of whom only one son and the daughter (the widow of the late Lieut. James Calhoun, U. S.

are now living. For several years past she has been in failing health, having never recovered from the effects of the terrible shock caused by the tragio death of her three sons in tbe battle of Little Big Horn, Juno 25, 1876. She had for many years been a faithful member of the Methodist churob, and was loved by all who knew her for her many estimable traits ot oharaoter. When it Comes to the Rope. "Oath's" Washington Letter.

The gentleman with me here asked Gen. Crocker how he believed Guiteau would behave if senteBoed and executed. "If he were to be executed," Gen. Crocker said, "he would be an abject coward. Bat be is of a sanguine temperament, very hopeful, and if he were sentenced to-morrow he would believe that stalwart influence would have him pardoned that the doctors, the humane societies, the lawyers, or some influence would oome to his resoue.

That would buoy him Bp until he had exhausted thit hope. Then, perhaps, he would have another one snob as an appeal to the next court above. Bat I anticipate that if he comes to die he will die In fear." Murder at Kansas City, Kansas Citi, Jan. 16. This morning an atrocious murder was brought to light by a haokman, going into the store ot Frank Simons, 410 West Fifth street, to make a gurohase.

The proprietor was found on the oor near the stove, with two terrible gashes in the baok of the head, and an axe lying near with the butt end covered with blood. Simons had considerable money, and a re-ceu found on the desk shows tbe probability of his being in the act of making a loan when killed. Uis pookets were inside out and empty. Suspicion attached to Jaok Fitzraaurioe, aiuu "Wild lie ween him and tbe murdered mtn tbere had oeen trouble. Jaok was lately appointed oity poandmaster, and had seized Simons horse.

An Editor Well Provided For. Niwpobt, R. Jan. 10. Judge Bakor admitted the will of the late Mrs.

Mary Baum, of Boston, to probate to-day. The balk of the estate is left to Allen Thorn-dyke Rioe, editor of The North American Review, who was her grandson, and who in addition to receiving a legacy of $500,000, reoeives an equal share with the daughters in the remainder of the estate, whioh is valued at several millions. Mutual Satisfaction. Dbtboit, Jan. 16.

Samuel Red era to ph and H. Goodman quarreled ten miles south of Greenville, Friday night. In the affray Rederstoph had bis nose bitten off and Goodman was stabbed in the abdomen so that he has since died. The former has disappeared. Railroad Aooident.

Chablottesvills, Jan. 16. A passenger train on the Virginia Midland railway ran into a slide last nicht near F.iber's mills, killing Engineer John Minton, of Alexandria, and badly wounding the fire man. fire In a Missouri Village. Si.

Louis, Jan. 16 -Fire at Mexioo, Saturday night, destroyed Carroll Bolt's dry goods store, several small shops aad The IMUy Intelligence Loss about fAf, 000 1 insurance, $16,000. Small Fire. Toledo. Jan.

16. The warehouse and grain elevator at White House, Ohio, owned by Y. Rakestram Son, were destroyed by fire last night. Loss Marine Notes. Naw Yobk, Jan.

W. Arrived Britannic, from Liverpool, and Neokar, from Bremen. Qubmstown, Jan. 18. Arrived Caspian, from Baltimore.

Huns for Murder. Ratavwib. Jan. 16. J.

Williams, a negro. was hang to-day for the murder of Tobey. Brainerd's population is 4,700. Omaha has its first case of small -pox. The depot' at Springfield, D.

was bnrned last Wednesday. Fergus Falls has 3,000 people, and spent 9250,000 improvements last year. Herman Oppel, on trial at ninth fur the murder of Edward Brannen, was aoquitted Saturday. Augusta Cypiewskt, a young Polish girl, tired of dissipation, took strychnine Friday and died. The store of House fc Callahan, at Hokah, was burglarized Sunday of $1,200 and some valuable documents.

The hanging of Bravo Bear, the Dakota Indian murderer, is postponed by a writ of error granted by udge Edgerton. Callioote and Myres, who robbed St. M. M. cars at Fergus Falls, have been ten.

tenoed to three and a half years each in the penitentiary. The two editors of Mandan, D. disappeared last Monday. The Criterion did not appear last week, and the whereabouts of the editor is unknown. The special term of the district court, for the trial of Louise Patterson, charged with killing her husband last autumn, will open at La Sueur Center on Monday next.

Walter H. Brown, chairman of the bogus Douglass county (Dakota) commissioners, was up before an United States commissioner at Yankton, Friday, and gave bail in 2M). The St. Paul, Minneapolis A Manitoba company has purchased the mines of the Climax Coal Company at Argus, Iowa, paying $2,000 for the 1,000 acres of land, machinery, etc The il dam at Rice's, in Benton county, was swept away last week, and a man who was caught in the current was swept under and through the dam just before it was carried away, and escaped uninjured. J.

C. Easton figures the profits of his sheep farm in Fillmore county, last season, at 13,407.44 on 2.SC0 sheep. One sheep is worth more than aa aore of wheat. Farmers, make a note of this. Itwshford Star.

Jameson of Elk River, made an assignment Saturday; liabilities and assets between $4,000 and $5 OX). Corkendall of Minneapolis, and Hall A Pan, of St. Paul, are the principal creditors. The Wisconsin dairymen's convention, ia session at Sheboygan Falls, elected C. B.

Beach, of Whitewater, president; D.W.Curtis, of Ft. Atkinson, secretary, and H. It. Loomis, of Sheboygan Falls, treasurer. Ex-Mayor John D.

Bash, of Dabnqne, is preparing to build a resevoir on the bluffs of that city, to be nsed in case of tire. It is to be one hundred feet long, fifty feet wide, and about twenty feet high, and capable of holding 200,000 gallons of water. By the testimony of perjurers William Lurger. of Anamosa, Iowa, was, in 1875, sent to the penitentiary for thirteen year for incest. Be was pardoned recently by Gov.

Gear after over six years in prison, the perjurers having confessed their guilt on their deathbeds. Upon the Iowa Agricultural College farm there are nine miles of barbed wire fences, inclosing pastures upon which graze 176 head of horses and cattle. During the past season but one animal was injured on these fences, and that one but slightly. The fences are made with four wires. The seoretary of the Winona board of trade has made his annual report.

It gives the total value of improvements and additions to manufactories in the city during 1881 at new business buildings, residences, churches and pubiio buildings, er a grand total of 1560,870. GUITEAU'S GIBBET. The Gallows on Which the Assassin Will Be Executed. "Gath's" Washington Letter. As we stepped down the iron stairs into the big area of the prison, we saw at the end of an opposite oomdor, rather in the basement of the jail, a framed apparatus, painted of a light green color, whioh we at once reoognized as the gallows.

''If Guiteau is executed," said Gen. Crocker, "I suppose he will be hanged tight there. We had an execution some time ago, and put op the callows where it stands, and, as it is a clumsy affair, we had no way to dispose of it, so we have let it stand. It will probably stand there till this oase isdisposecfof." We walked down and inspected the gallows. The first thing you come to is a very high pair of steps going up about twelve feet, with a side railing.

Then there is the big drop in the middle, suspended on strong hinges on one side, and on the other side is a sort of spring, or hiriKe-bolt, extending about two inches under the trap. The spring, moved by a cord whioh passes iuto an adjacent cell window, the trap falls and the man drops three or four teet "We have three or four ropes here," Slid Super intendent Urooker, "sent rrom amerent parts of the country to bang Guiteau with, their nooses as carefully adjusted as if some professional hangmau had sent them. Perhaps they were men who had served as executioners in the army." Miss Abbott's Vaoolnation, Miss Abbott is still having serious trouble with her vaoai nation. The Chioago Tribune, after relating her troubles while in this oity adds: When she roivohed Burlington, the diffloultv had beoome so serious that she had to relinquish her Saturday night en gagement at mat puoe ana nasteu on to St. Louis, where the scrvioes of two eminent surgeons were called into requisition.

Under careful refit men the troublesome limb was pat into less painful and inconvenient oondition, and Miss Abbott concluded to go on to Louisville and try to fill her engagement there. It was from this point the information re- sueotinK the prima donna seuous oondl tion reached her rieuds in this oi and it was iutiuiat6d that it was quite likely that after the close of her engagement, whioh came to an end last evening, she would be compelled to csnoel future eounitemenU and place herself entirely in the care of competent uhvsiuians nntil the dillioultv was overoomo. The parties in possession of tne lniormatioo state tnat tne vaccination Btory is a paii.ful and distressing reality, and indu'rjHUtly deny that it has been ex aggerated so as to serve as an opportune ad veitising dodge for the prima donna. C3 Seed's Defense of Guiteau, Washington SdcouiI. It was no doubt a thankless task whioh Mr.

lteed undertook, and he executed it in a way to win enoominms. but ths speeoh has probably done him more good than his client. Mr. need seems to thoroughly be lieve in Guiteau's insanitv. and at times to day spoke with considerable feeling on thai subject.

Few, however, now snare tnis be lief exoept so far as everyone, of coarse, looks on the prisoner as a model of egotism and perverted bean. A Family Affair. WtfHiBOToa, Jan. IS. This portion of Wayne oounty, is much exoited over a supposed murder, the victim being David U.

Smith, and the perpetrators apposed to be his wife and sons. He has been misting about ten days, and the neighbors suspecting fool play made search, and on SUurday fonnd bis body in a well, partially covered with boulders; bullet holes were In his head. The wife and two sods were arrested at once. 'I he neighbors say Smith was habitually mistreated by hi wife and sons, and yesterday the little ohildren said they were locked in a bedroom one night about the time their father disappeared; that they heard two shots in the kitchen and two ia tbe baok yarJ. Blood was found on a chair in the garret and on the gate poat.

The coroner's investigation is not yet ended. Dan Smith, who is suspected to have done the shooting, fainted when the body was brought in, but bis mother was not moved. LATIB. The sheriff has placed Mrs. Smith and ber two sous in jail.

On the way down Smith confessed that he committed the murder alone; that his mother and brother had ne part in it and no knowledge that it bad been committed. He says tbey quarreled about a horse belonging to Mr. Smith whioh Daa had sold, and that he shot his father and then broke his skull with a hammer and dragged bim to tbe well and threw the body in. A Murderous Lover. Sah Fbahoisoo, Jan.

16. Saturday the 17 year old daughter of Col. L. O. Gillespie, living near Lodi, San Joaquin oounty, was shot in tbe neck by Thorns Lyden.

The wound is probably ratal. The assassin fired through a window. The body of Lyden was found next morning in a haystack, he having oommiited suicide. He had been employed on a farm by Gillespie, but was discharged on account of pressing hi attentions upon Miss Gilllespie Released on Ball. Nsw Yobk, Jan.

16. Charles Melius, the brakemon aoensed of being the causa of the Spnyten Duyvil rairiai disaster, was arraigned before the coroner today and admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000 pending the inquest. STILLWATER To New Subscribers. If those rjersocs who have kindly added their names to the list of Stillwater sub- n. Low Tn Tn urrM ilnrinff thm nut week, and who will be supplied for the first lime tuis moruinK win uKuutbkjr oiiof tbe Stillwater Main streel.any fail-ore to regularly receive their papers, they will a L.

a. L. A COnrer a iavor upuu iuo ugeut, uu i mo uo- linqneney will be sharply looked after. NOTES PICKED UP HERE AND THERE John B. Goncrh will aonesvr at the Grand opera bouse, February 10.

Tbe pastors of the city met at tne stnoy of Uev. T. MoOlarv vosterday morning, and compared notes. Miss Ada Gray in East Lynne lasi evening gave a very creditable performance to a fair audience. Mr.

Maynard, a citizen laborer at the prison had his foot badly bruised Saturday evening by a heavy pulley falling upon it-Mr. John Brown, the gentleman so seriously hurt at Statles mill Saturday, is doing very nioely, np to last evening no internal injuries having been developed. The Ladies aiu owmiy Wednesday evening with Mrs. Beer at o'olook. Businessof importance win oome no and a full attendance is requested.

iiy t. nil- To-morrow evening narry iouwu a jjiui-nution Opera Company opens at ths opera bouse lor a wnwu nee. me mere snuiiuuiniucui uttuuua mu to fill the boose witn our amusement-ioving people. Martin Esrlv. the man arreitsd here Saturday for participation in the White Bear fraoas, a run account oi wmou appeared In I hi Tbibunb Sunday, was delivered to the White Bear authorities yesterday morning.

State prison looms up before him. Tbe attendance nt ths various ohurohes Sunday was good. The interest being developed in religious matters is cheering to the olergy and religious people gonerally. Meetings will be continued every evening this week in the Methodist and Baptist chorohes. Mr.

F. H. Lemon narrowly ewaped a m-rious aooident Saturday, while crossing the trestle work in the Dulnth yard. 'A train was in close proximity, when Mr. Lemon fell.

Injuring hie left leg severely, and almost preventing his escape from the approaching train..