Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 1

SChe EOT VOL. NO. 99. TEN CENTS A WEEK DECATUR, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1883. VAT SKWS l.V BRIEF.

A SWEEPING REDUCTION posed killing him instantly. As soon as they had committed the deed they turned about and went home, not going near the victim to see who it was or whether thev had killed him or Advertising THE DANCE OF G. W. Traughber Goes Through Very Easily at Taylorville Will he made on all Si Mm Now ai toll 1st This Holds Good in We tlo not believe in Sensational Advertising. We will nut in actice it, nor do we think it judicious, The JO i'i public do not care to read clap-trap announcements CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS, FURNISHING GOODS, TRUNKS, VALISES, aon-d- to OrcLer- Sold at Reduced Prices in the which, when tested, fail in fulfiillment of all but mi LI1 lothing Corner Old Square FLEURY, the THE BOSS CLOTHIER makes no pretensions by announcing, in flaring advertisements, that he is giving goods away, but admits like every honest dealer ought to, THAT HEa IS MAKING A LEGITIMATE JBLQFITj and will continue to do so on all FRESH SEASONABL GOODS, THOMAS OUIHN.

ADAM SEEFORTH QUINN SEEFORTH! for which we pay cash at all times. Past experience has shown us that the public in general would rather pay a profit, especially when the same articles are cheaper with the profit than others who claim' to sell at cost and below. To the trade, who wish to investigate 'the matter, we would say, LOOK AROUND, POST YOURSELF, AND AFTER YOU GET THROUGH COME AND SEE Wholesale Retail Tobacconists -AND DEALERS IN- PIPES AND SMOKING ARTICLES Finest and Largest Assortment in the City. Every Department. ouse, and Main Street.

French Cutter. Celebrated Hand-made Cigar ever made and smooth Tube Colors, single or in Japanese We Manufacture the "LITTLE DUKE" CIGAR. The Maroiis of Lome is in Wash ington, D. C. There were 430,000 ounces of silver purchased for the mints, Thursday.

Mexican railway stock is using at. tne onuon stocK exchange. The urcery and Child's Hospital charity ball. New "York, netted S12.000. One hundred and fifty shoemakers are on a striKe at Allentown, Pennsyl vania.

Flotow, the eminent musical com-porer, died at Wiesbaden, Bavaria; on xnursaay. i-here arfi rumors nf a in the Wardenship of the Massachusetts Pl.t. oiaie iTison. First National Bank, Baker City, Oregon, has been authorized to com mence nusiness capital, 50,000. The women's snfTrap-n nonvenf ion is sitting at Washington.

Susan JJ. Anmony delivered the addreBS. Lord Granville, who has fienred largely en me side of politics in England for many years, is dead. Aged 02 years. There is a revolution in Ecuador.

The government refuses to be responsible for the lives and property of for eigners. It is rumored that' the grand iurv has ignored the charges againsc Fore man uicKson ot the star route cases at AVashineton. The postoflice department prohibits the payment of money orders to Geo. S. Mayo, alias Saoford, alias Sanford Chicago.

St. George's Union of Toronto. has sent an illuminated address to Gladstone in honor of his fifty years of public service. Luther C. Higcs, who sued the city of Atlanta, 111., for damages for false imprisonment, lias received a verdict of Sir.o.

Rear Admiral Fierce Crosby, has been transferred from the command of the South Atlantic to the Asiatic squadron of the United States Navy. Miss Mabel, eldest daughter of Sena tor Bayard, of Delaware, was married Thursday, at Washington, to Samuel D. Warren, of Boston. A boy babv, apparently one month old, was found on the steps of the opera house at Tuscola. Its under clothes were frozen to its bodv.

It is now under the care of the city officers. Adlai Frendit, a member of the Chickasaw guards, of Memphis, being pounded by a Swede, named Winbrey, who had an ax in his hand, was obliged to shoot him to escape death for him- If. Died At Baltimore, Henry E. Lighter, the "drummer boy" of 1S12. At bpringheld, 111., Dr.

Chas. Kyan. At Clinton, John Sweeney, one of the early settlers of DeWitt county, Illinois. THK IHAKK.KTM. Closing Prices 3 i.

ill. ST' LOUIS. WHEAT Jan 1 04 $1 04 March Si 00 to 1 April Si May 1 to CORN Jan. 495 W49X; Feb. 49S to March 50H April 51 a May 52i to 54.

OATS-Jan. 37 Feb. May to TOLEDO. WIIEAT Jan. $104 Feb.

$1 March Sl 063ib; April. lKi'ib; May SI 11; June 1 10 July 1 0C7i b. CORN-Jan. 55 Feb. BTX Mar.

5C May 577s. OATS Jan 40 CHICAOO-. WIIEAT Jan. 101K Feb. 1 ol; Mar.

103K April 1 Ot May $1 CORN Jan. 08 Feb. Slur. May KS. OATS Jan.

Feb. Mar. May 39V4 June 2b PORK Jan. 17 37X a Feb. S17 40 March 817 CO April 17 80 a May $17 UVA June 18 10 July 18 15 b.

LARD Jan. Feb. 10 72 March 10 90 April 11 02 a May 11 15 June 11 17V5. JiiHt Kecelved. New and handsome carpetings; also an elegant assortment ot embroideries.

at Linn Scruggs. j22 Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney, Blander aud Urinary Diseas' es. Si. Druggists. Eude Beauties.

Two young ladies of my acquaintance, writes a New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Jiecom, pretty girls thev are, too, were strolling up the ave nue the other day, when they noticed Mrs. Langtry walking in front of tbem with Mrs. Labouchere. They hurried ud. so as to eet a good look: at her, ana, as they passed her, Mrs.

Langtry said to Mrs. "Do you call those girls pretty?" -'jNo, replied Mrs. Lao. ner loudest voice, "I do not, and I havn't seen a pretty girl since I came to Amer ica." "Isn't it odd," saiu Mrs. Langtry, "there doesn't seem to be any pretty o-irls over here at all." This wa3 said in verv low tones, evidently intended for the passers-by to hear.

American wit was her match, though. "Isn't that Mrs. Langtry?" said one of these girls to the other, looking arouna at ner. "Oh. dear no.

that is not Mrs. Lang try," was the reply, given in a good clear voice: "Mrs. Langtry is pretty, and this woman is not, and Mrs. Lang try is well bred, and this woman certainly is not." To say that Mrs. pale eves flashed fire would be doing injustice to the daggers that leaped.

from out them." "Blood will tell;" so be careful how fou make confidants of vour relations It AS A PKNALTV FOIt THK 5IIK-1KIC OF MoKIXXKV XKAK MAWEO.rA. A Murder Without a Cause aud an Kxeeution Wiihout Sympathy. The Crime and Us CauacH. The execution of Geo. AV.

Traughber for the willful murder of Joseph Mc-Kinney took place in the Taylorville jail yard yesterday at noon. A little wooden shed and enclosure had been built about the scaffold, so that the execution was not public. Within the iittle enclosure and shed to witness the execution were C5 persona, comprising the 12 men who had been sumi moned on the jury for Traughber's trial, sheriffs ef various counties, physicians, newspaper men and a few oth ers. The drop was a distance of six feet. The arrangements were perfect, lraughbers neck was broken by the fall, and his death was apparently painless.

Till! PARTICULARS. Early iii the morning large crowds flocked to town, and towards noon, the time appointed for the execution, they swarmed by scores and hundreds around the jail, so that a detachment of the Taylorville Guards with fixed bayonets were kept patrolling up and down to prevent the eager crowd from pouring into the court yard. The shed containing ttie scaffold was built of rough pine board, and its dimensions were 20x20 feet, with a height of 10 feet. It was joined to a door in the jail building by a tight board fence ibout ten feet in height. At ten min utes to twelve the prisoner was pre pared for the execution.

He was dressed in a dark cloth suit, and a few minutes before 12 he went to the scaffold with the sheriff. He was cool and had himself under perfect control. He walked up on the scaffold, appar ently manifesting no fears. Just before the black cap was drawn over his eves TRAUGHBER ADDRESSED THE SPEC TATORS, saying: "1 have nothing against any oue. I bid you all good-bye.

That is all I have got to say." His arms and limbs were pinioned, the black caD was drawn over his eyes, and but a moment passed before the drop fell, and the body soon swung lifeless. Dr. I. J. Fiery examined the body and re ported the pulsations as follows: 1st minute, 00; 2d, 00; Sd, S4; 4th, 10S; 5th, 120; Cth, 103.

At the end of six min utes the pulsatoins ceased, but a faint tlutttering of the heart continued for two minutes longer. His neck was broken and his death was was scarcely "any motion of the body except at the end of the first minute after the drop when there was a slight drawing up of the limbs and general tremor of the muscles. The body hung twenty minutes, after which it was taken down, placed in a coffin and (after a final test was made) given in to the charge of friends who took it east of town for burial. THE CUIJIE for which this execution was expiation was the willful, murder of Jos, McKinney, about six miles northwest of Assumption, in Praineton township, Christian county, October 28th, 1881. It was one of the most brutal and unprovoked murders ever known.

Traughber and his brother-in-law, Chas. Myers, were great admirers of Frank and Jesse James, and longed to enjoy a reputation as wide spread and terrible as the James boys. On October 28th they left their homes in Frai- rieton township, and went to qua, Shelby county, and spent several hours drinking and carousing. After starting on their homeward journey, they concluded, since it was impossi ble to join the bandit brothers, to build up a reputation of their own, and to do ttiis deliberately shot from his horse Jos. McKmney, one of the most quiet, inoffensive farmers in the county.

Mr. McKinney had left his home in the afternoon to go in search of help to carry on his farm work. He secured the necessary help, and started back home, when he was overtaken by Traughber and Myers. As the two rode up to McKinney, Myers asked him if he wanted to trade horses, to which McKinney replied "No," where upon Myers cursed and abused Mc Kinney in a terrible manner. They then rode oh ahead for about half mile, when they stopped and waited for McKinney to overtake them.

This time Traughber accosted McKinney, and after calling him several hard names, pulled his revolver and fired four two of which took effect in McKinney's body, one entering hts neck, and the other just below his left shoulder, passing through the left lung and downward to the liver, it is sup and lack of ordinary intelligence. The hanging will have a healthy ef feet on Christian county. In all its historv. this is the first hanging, al though murders have been numerous there. There has at various times been talk of "lynching," but it always proved to be "wind." What the county needs is a hanging for every out-ragerjand every murderer untiLtl awful jiower of the law shall be felt and the fear of death shall strike terror in the hearts of criminals.

Honesty the Best Policy. In advertising a medicine it is best to be honest; deception will never do; the people won't stand it- Let the truth be known that Burdock Blood Bitters cure scrotula, and all eruptions of the skin. This medicine is sold everywhere by druggists. Wonders of the Sea. Professor Verrill, of the United States Fish Commission, read an interesting paper on the 'Physical and Geological Character of tho Sea Bottom," before the National Academy of Sciences, in session in New York City.

He said: During the past eleven years tne United States has been carrying on a series ot areaging operations on: our coasts. The total number of observations mado is now 1,500, to which may be added 500 of my own private observations. These cover portions of the sea bottom from Labrador to New Jersey. They range from near the shore to 200 miles out. I wish to speaK now of observations off the coast of laevf England.

Oh the coast of Maine we find a region of very cold water, and the life on the bottom is Arctic. This cold region is swept by a slow Arctic current. On the Southern coast of New England we were surprised to find a rich fauna of tropical nature, containing many animals unknown to "us, living near the coast. This region, from seventy to 120 miles south of the New England coast, is perhaps the most. prolific ever dredged.

We have had 800 species, not including those belonging to tho lower group. Among these are at least 500 new species, There are seventy species of fishes, 214 of mollusks, ninety of crustaceans, and others in proportion. Our observations have covered a belt 1G0 miles long by twenty-five miles wide. We find that the cold belt extends fifty or sixty miles from the shore, and then comes a warm belt. I believe that the Gulf stream impinges on the coast plat eau.

The slope ot the bottom nere is very gentle. At sixty miles out we have 120 latnoms or water, ana snortiy alter- ward it suddenly drops to 1,000. There is a cold belt near the shore, then a warm belt, and then, as we go into the deep water, another cold belt. The edge of the slope is I think, occupied by the Gulf Stream. We have found tho animals always found in the stream at that point.

According to the best charts, the stream ought to be thirty-four or thirty-five miles further off the coast. The charts are also wrong often as to soundings, and as to the Summer and Winter limits of the stream. We find the Gulf stream animals always in the same place, Summer and Winter, so that 1 think the variation is only on tne surface. In the Winter the warm wat-ter is blown further out and in the Summer further in. The presence of the stream makes a great difference in climate.

Sometimes when the weather is raw and gusty near the shore, it is warm and pleasant outside. The creatures living in the deep water have either exceedingly large eyes or none at all, showing that the light down there must be very dim. The color tf all the creatures which live on the surface of the bottom ranges from red to orange. I think this is a protective color, as it could not be anything but in the bluish-green light which must prevail at these depths. The bottom is composed of very fine sand.

It is so coherent that I think the bottom must be a hard mass. We have brought up bowlders from this place. Some of these may have been carried there in ice. Some of them are evidently of concretionary It is impossible to tell whether they are 01 recent formation, or whether they extend as far back as the Pliocene period. They lie loose on the surface, and, I think, are laid bare by the action of creature life.

The sand is probably car ried out there from the beaches. Pooling Immigrants. Michael Gelbschnabel and Peter Fasel- hans are natives of Markstadt, Mecklen burg. Both are, moreover, tools, lney made up uieir minas to emigrate to America about a month or so ago, and for this purpose went to Hamburg, from which port the German steamers start. They purchased their tickets and were iust about to go on board when a shab by looKing man onerea to sen tnem some American greenbacks fifty per cent, cheaper than they could be purchased in this country.

Gelbschnabel was rather wary about entering into the transaction, while aselnans iiimpea at the stranger offer, finally i aselnans induced his friend to invest in the green backs. The following day the steamer start ed, and the two friends felt happy over their good luck. Their glee, however, changed to sorrow when, upon arriving at New York, they discovered that they had exchanged their good German money for the advertising cards of a large London fancy goods store. At first they were speechless with astonishment, but soon Gelbschnabel opened his mouth to remind Faselhans that he had been the cause of his (Gelbschnebel) purchasingthe bogus money. Faselhans repudiated the insinuation, and henco the trouble begun.

"You have no idea," commented one of the officials, "to what extent such advertising cards are passed for legitimate money. They are very poorimi-tatiuns of the same, but are nevertheless unhesitatingly accepted by immigrants. Owing to the frequency of such cases iu this country a law has recently been passed prohibiting the imitation of United States currency in any form or shape whatever." Genuine 1847 of there was also lack of will power not. The most curious thing of the whole is that the murderers had no motive for their deedtand did not know their victim. Myers had said to Traughber, "Shoot him or if you are too much of a coward, give me the revolver and let mo do it." Traughber then shot as he had been urged to do, and with fatal effect.

On the morning following, McKinney's wife found his horse in the barn, and went back upon the road, where she found her husband lying just where he had been murdered, and at once aroused the neighborhood. The vigilantes two peculiar horse tracks back to the stables of Traughber aud Myers, and this led to their immediate arrest and imprisonment In the coroner's jury investigation, witnesses testified that Traughber and Myers had been seen returning from the scene of the murder soon after the shots were. heard, aud the verdict of the jury was that they were the guilty parties, They were indicted by the giand jury-but their attorneys obtained continuances in the Noyember and March terms of court following the murder. Soon after this the murderers lost faith in each other, and each one seemed anxious to confess. Traughber made a confession to Constable Robertson that he had done the shooting at the instigation of Myers.andwhile under the influence of liquor.

In December last their case came up for trial, and Traughber made an open confession in court, seeking thereby to secure the court's leniency. Myers was tried, convicted, and sentenced to the southern Illinois penitentiary for 99 years, and Traughber, upon his own confession, was on December 13th sentenced to be hung January 19. Efforts to secure from the governor a commutation of the sentence to imprisonment for life were unsuccessful, and a respite of one week was obtained to allow the supreme court time to exaniiue the case. Op. Thursday night at 10 o'clock the news was brought to Traughber that the court refused to grant a supersideas, and he uicist hang.

THE ntlSONEB had never manifested any could not rest Thursday night and did not. go to sleep until 5:30 Friday morning when he slept for about three hours. He had always heaitily uutil the day of the execution when he refused both breakfast and dinner. He was brute rather than a man. It seems he never knew what feeling was.

Reared in indigence and rags, he grew up in. ignorance. Naturally indolent, he took no pains to educate himself in the common brandies. Having almost no will of hi3 own, he thus fell an easy prey to the more crafty and perhaps more malicious nature of Myers. Traughber was not known to be in any trouble until about five years ago when he fell in with Myers and commenced to drink and carouse.

This crime was his first serious offence. He was a man about six feet tall, weighed about ISO pounds aud his face would remind one more of a sheep than of a tiger. His expression but he had no expression for his countenance was as blank as the back side of tombstone, He walked up to the scaffold, showing no signs of nervousness except a twitch iug of his lingers which seemed rather the reflex action of some low animal than an indication of the mental anxiety of a man. There is no occa sion for maudlin sympathy over such a thing, for the only reason for pity is that God did not in the beginning endow him with a little better store of brains. He is dead, and Christian county and the world are better off now that his miserable existence is ended.

NOTES. Sheriff W. C. Haines ofliciited as hangman. Traughber never had any religious faith.

Rev. D.L. Mcl5ride, pastor of the Baptist church, had been vainly laboring with him ever since the sen teuce was pronounced. He always seemed unconcerned with regard to the future. Myers went to the Chester peniten tiary last uecemuer, auu the only regret that the people have is' that he was not also hanged.

His father owned considerable property, and upon his death the children each received about 00 acres of land. He panted for notoriety, wished to emulate Jesse James, drank deeply and indulged in every excess that could increase the viciousness of his j. raugnoers last statement is of no interest. The lives of the two men clearly show the causes of their crime to have been ignorance, indolence, lack of feel ing and whisky. In Traughber's case 1 The Finest Five-cent It is not a Christmas Cigar, but IS GOOD ALL THE YEAR ROUND Boss Clothier.

to selling goods at cost, below not Io bodily injury, as HS 0V WATCHES ART MADE. In a Solid Gui atch, aside from the nccessar thickness for engraving and y.cA ishing.a large proportion of met. is needed only to stiffen and the engraved portions in placv, and supply strength. The surplus gold is actually needless. In James lines' Patent fiolil Watch Cases this waste is saved, and solidity ax stkkxgth secured by a simple process, at- to the cost.

A plate of soli gold is soldered on each side' of a plate of nickel composition metal, and the three are then passed between polished steel rollers. From this the cases, backs, centers, bezels, are cut and shaped by dies and formers. The gold is thick enough to admit of all kinds of chasing, engraving and engine turning. These cases have been worn perfectly smo6th by use without removing the gold. This is the only Case made under this process and war-ranted ly special certificate.

For Sale by all Jewelers. 1 50,000 of these Cases now carried in the U. S. and Canada. Largest and Old est Faciory.

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Having contracted early last winter for our. stock of Guns di rect with manufacturers, we were obliged to order in very large quantities in order to get them at the regular jobbera prices. Our Guns are therefore made expressly to our order aud weare now enabled to sell first-class (custom made) Guns at wholesale prices, thus saving to. our customers from 20 to 30 per ten, which would otherwise go into the pockets of the jobbers. Come in and examine our stock and prices before purchasing it will pay you or send fur price list.

All kinds ofxf epairing done promptly and warranted. "Residences fitted up with Hot and Cold Water fixtures and the latest im proved Self refrigerating Steam Heating Apparatus. B. STINE, the The explosion of the. theory as cost, arid giving-them away, shall there will be no gunpowder used.

PURE CREAM TARTAR. SIOOO. Given If ahimor any injuriuussubsuuiccscunbc founQ in Andrews' Pearl Bakiner Powder. Is tws- Hiveiy PURE. Being er.dorsed, and testimonial rccoiveu irom sucu enemistsass.

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FOK SALE WARREN DURFEE. AJNDREWS' ff tlARSNO fTRYIHGTOH0tI)BOWkg 7 ilTAMBOUNOT0RISEy A NEW ENTERPRISE. -(o)- An Exclusive Paint and Artists Store. Knowing, through many jears experience, the necessity ot these goods being handled by prac tical men, we respectfully announce to the public in general, that we have opened an exclusively Faint and Artistic Store adjoining the new Masonic Temple, on the east, where we will be pleased 10 receive a share ol the public patronage. We emphatically say that we keep nothing but strictly pure materials, such as White Lead.

Oils. Turpentine, or Wall Killer, Putty, Varnishes, illers lor different hard wood Colors of all descriptions best Ciold Leaf for house and carriage painting Prushes fordittereut branches of the trade never before shown here, and in-uUpenaable to the trade. Also, the finest imported DRY COLORSIor Fresco, and Scenic Paim-ing. We also call special attention to our complete stock of Artist materials to supply the Attel-tur. and psnpHallv our vouncr ladv artists whose leisure hours are snent in the studio of the sub lime art.

Our stock embraces Canvas, Roman Mixes, complete assortment wun raieiie, nine uus in small vtais uienoer, niaui stocks. Mill Board already prepared Ijincers, Bristle and Sable Brushes, Plaques Blenders, Palette knives Our Paint shop is adjoining our New Store, where we are prepared to do all kinds of painting (rum a common barn to ttie finest residence. REMEMBER THIS. Notwithstanding some of our opponents' remark that we do no plain work, we are willing to give our proposal to any one. whether we get the job or not ETJDOLPH FA9S, First Door South of Hardy's Livery Stable Office, Decatur.

Good Stock of Guns I New Stock, Latest Prices, and 33rer theaper tnan anywhere else in the city. Sua Repairing ud Sewing Mk PROMPTLY DONE. LI WAI2A W0SEHTS0. 6178 US A CA I TAKE SOTICE. ing at 51 50 to $5 oc per week.

Good rooms ana Rood bedsi J. BELFOBD TKAYLOR, Proprietor. F. D. CALDWELL Here is that load ot Coal you ordered about fiiteen minutes ago.

Hard Soft Coal omptly delivered to any part of the city. not be Deceived OFFICE: With American Express Post Office Block. Do by Worthless Brands of Knives when you can Buy the E. D. Bartholomew Co..