The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 2, 1890, Page 6

DOOMED. The Levees on the Lower Mississippi Are Melting Away Like Snow Banks. Memphis, Tenn., March 27.—The lowlands of Mississippi and Arkan- sas seemed to be doomed. The levees are continually breaking and the floods are practically beyond control. The work on the crevasse at Arkansas City has been suspend- ed, which means devastation for that section. At Skipwith, sixty miles below Greenwich, the big levee broke yes- terday morning, overflowing the lit- tle town and sweeping away several houses. The break was instantan- eous. SAW THEM DROWN. A leading citizen, standing in four feet of water and holding his child on his shoulders, telephoned an ap- peal for askiffjand boats to rescue drowning people. He had seen two of his neighbors drown close to him and reported many more would suf- fer the same fate. He claims the people living in the country connot escape. Repeated warnings have had no effect on them, as they felt secure behind their big levees. The break is bad and the levee is melting like a snow bank. Rescuing parties ip boats have been organized at various points. Livestock will be drowned by the thousand, as no provision has been made for removing them, and the government boats patrolling the banks can do no more than rescue human lives. IN TERRIBLE STRAITS. The situation below is terrible. The country on the west side of the river, this side of Helena, is all un- der water. Cattle and horses are herded on artificial mounds and platforms, surrounded by rail pens, and are dying by the hundreds. Buffalo gnats have appeared in count- less herds and sting the starving an- imals until they become uncontroll- able and rush into the water and drown. At Laconia, Ark., where the circle levee has been washed away, poor people are SUFFERING FROM HUNGER. Cattle are perishing from the twin evils of flood and gnats, and acry for aid has been sent out. Abaut 2,- 300 people live in and about the cir- cle. 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Tuthill did work for them all, and was on friendly terms in their homes, and he was ina fair way of amassing a fortune. To day all this is changed. He is a prisoner in the Raymond street jail; his handsome wife is locked up in jail at Newark, and their names are execrated by the same people who only a week ago were proud to be seen on the streets with them. The eminently respectable Mr. Tut- hill has been found out to be the reckless burglar who for the past few years has been robbing the homes of the wealthy in Mont Clare, Glen Ridge, Bloomfield, Orange and surrounding towns, and his wife is suspected of being his accomplice. Shortly after Tuthill came here to live several bold burglaries were committed in rapid succession. The burglar was fearless. He selected only the finest residences in which to find his plunder. As the burglar was always masked, no one could give a description of him. Mr. Tut- hill’s house was never entered, and while he was loud aud devout in his thanks to the Almighty, who spared him such a visitation, he was active in counselling those who had suffer- ed by the depredations of the mid- night intruder. AN UNLUCKY NIGHT FOR TUTHILL. A week ago last Monday the resi- dence of George Booth, a mason, and personal friend of Tuthill, was entered bythe lone burglar. Mr. Robertson, who is thinking of mov- ing to Mont Clare, was Mr. Booth’s guest that night. As the villiage clock was tolling 12 he was aroused by his bed-roum window being opex- ed, anda slim built man leaping lightly into the room from the ver- anda. Mr. Robertson watched him and saw him cooly strike a match on the wall and look about him. Then he deftly abstracted Mr. Rob- ertson’s gold watch from his vest, and the match went out. The thief was striking Janother match when Mr. Robertson jumped out of bed and grappled with him. The cold muzzle of a pistol made him let go quickly, and as he fell back on the bed the burglar laughed sareastic- ally and swung himself out of the window and got away. Mr. Robertson awoke the house hold. While he was telling his ex- perience the burglar was less than a block away getting into the resi- dence of John Manuel, another ma- son and warm friend of good Mr. Tuthill. Manuel was aroused before the burglar got into the house, though he gave him battle on the piazza. The thief's mask came off during the struggle, and Mr. Manu- el could hardly believe his senses for the face he recognized was that of nis friend Jim Tuthill. The latter broke away and got off safely for the time being. Thursday night, in the presence of a number of friends Manuel said: “Iam sure the man who robbed me was Jim Tuthill, but Iam not sure enough to swear it.” He was scoff- ed at, but he held doggedly to his opinion. At last it was determined to give Mr. Robertson, who did not know Tuthill, a chance to see if he could identify him. By the flicker- ing light of the match in his room he had partially seen the burglar’s face. Saturday morning Tuthill was summoned to DeWitt’s carpenter shop, on Spring street, to give an estimate on an imaginary contract for masonry. A dozen of his friends met, asifby accident on the way. The crowd entered the carpenter shop. Mr. Robertson was there, in- tent, apparently on his own busi- ness. As the men passed him he glanced sharply at them, and when his eyes rested on Tuthil!l he sprang forward and grasped the man by the shoulders, exclaiming excitedly: “This is the men; this is the bur- glar who stole my watch, I am posi- tive.’ His friends, everyone of whom would have sworn to his innocence a moment before. fell away from him. A GOOD ACTOR. The man’s acting was superb. Not in anger, but gently and in the voice of a God-fearing, respectable citizen, which he always was in the .day time, he reproached Mr. Robert- son for his accusation. Then turning sadly, he left the shop slowly with downcast eyes and head. His manner impressed the majority of those pres- ent, but Robertson insisted that he was the thief and Manuel backed him. They got a warrant to search Tut- hi}l’s house. When they went there with an officer, Tuthill was not in, but his pretty wife received them so graciously that they did not have the heart to make known the object of their visit, and turned away again to wait until Tuthill should come home. They had not gone far when they saw him coming down thestreet and they returned with him. His wife became hysterical when she learned of the charge against her darling husband. Nevertheless they began a search of the house. They found nothing upstairs. Then Rob- ertson suggested searching the ce!- Jar. There they found a gold and di- amonud mine. Buried in the walis and thrown in concealed crevices, were rings, watches, diamonds, pocketbooks, money, _ bracelets, breastpins, ear-ings, watch chains and every kind of jewelry, represente ing :nany thousands of dollars, and some of which were stolen many years ago. The plunder was placed in a bag and taken. The burglar, meanwhile had jumped on his horse and ridden furiously to Bloomfleld, where he took an express {to Hoboken. He was traced to Brooklyn, arrested and locked up. Tuthill strenuously denied his guilt, and claimed that if he were really guilty he was not re- sponsible, as he had no §recolection of ever robbing anyone. His former friends now believe “that he is the captain of a robber band, and that his pretty wife is his trusted lieuten- ant. She was arrested yesterday morning at her home, and arraigned and committed to jail at Neward. It is said she has made a full confes- sion. 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Mormons recognize two classes of | divorces, as well as two kinds of mar- | riages, writes a correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat from Salt Lake City, U. T. One separates for life; the other for the future state. For | divorces of husbands and first wives the | civil courts are resorted to. Plural | wives have no standing in civil courts. This was decided by the United States | Supreme Court in the case brought by Ann Eliza against Brigham Young. The only divorce remedy for plural wives is through the church. Being investe@ with supreme authority to unite, the president of the church can unloosen. Church divorce isa logical result of the doctrine of plural and celestial | marriage. Plural wives would be badly | off if there was not some way of throw- | ing off a galling yoke. Besides this, people married for eternity, if it was not for the church divorce, would be left tied together for the next world, although they obtained absolute divorce in a civil court. Parties sealed for eternity, after obtaining a civil court divorce, must be unsealed by the church orelse they will find themselves still joined together in the resurrection. Mormons who have been spiritually married and then divorced by the civil courts may remarry for thisworld. But the women can not remarry for eternity without being unsealed from the former union. Murder, adultery, infanticide and incompatibility of temper are the grounds upon which the Mormon church grants divorces. Mormon divorces are granted by the president of the church after the Bishop of the ward in which the parties live has made an investiga- tion of the case and has reported in favor of the application. The Bishop's first duty is to effect a reconciliation. If that is impossible he arranges the terms of the separation. The following is the official record of a church divorce case: Minutes of a meeting held at Bishop —s house, Saturday evening, August 24, 1878, at the mutual request of G. and wife; Bishop —— presiding. Present, Bishop ——_,——, —_, ——_, ——, G@. and wife (parties to the suit). Opened with prayer by——. After a few preliminary remarks the Bishop desired Sister —— to state the charges she preferred against G., her husband. After stat- ing some grievances she had, the following were made out as the sum charges against her husband, viz.: Willful neglect and genera] abuse of herself and family; ill-treatment and flogging of their children, causing them to leave their home; not properly pro- viding for them, and a desire on her part for a separation between them. Also, in reply to the Bishop, she stated she wanted one of the two houses to live in by herself to be allowed a weekly stipulation for herself and that the chil- dren be placed under her charge and care. G. refuted the charge of unmerciful flogging, and stated that he provided for his family to the best of his means; that he was willing todo what was just and right; to give his wife the best house of the two to live in, and abide by the Bishop's decision. The Bishop decided that he turn over the best house of the two for his wife’s use, and as soon as possible get the pres- ent occupant to move to another place; that he allow her six dollars per week and find her in sufficient flour and fuel; that he let her have the sewing-ma- chine, co king-stove and an equal share of the furniture, and that tho fruitof the orchard be fairly divided. W. H. was appointed to see that the weekly payments be made as far ascould be conscientiously done. The clerk was authorized to make three copies of these minutes and pre- sent the same for signature, and see that G. and wife each get a copy. Dismissed by W. C. —— ——, Bishop —th Ward. Decrees of church divorces are made out in triplicate, the original remaining in the church records, and the two copies being given to thc manand wom- an. The form of the church decree is as follows: Know all persons by these presents: That we, the undersigned, —— and ——, his wife (before marriage to him —), do hereby mutually covenant, promise and agree to dissolve all the re- lations which have hitherto existed be- tween us as husband and wife, and to keep ourselves separate and apart from each other from this time forth. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands at —, this — day of —, A. D. 18—. Signed in presence of In the divorce of a Mormon and his first wife the case must be passed upon by the civil courts before the church will take cognizance of it. But faithful Mormons always get the permission of a religious teacher before they apply in the courts for divcrce. Magloire’s Queer Name. 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