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THREE MURDERED. A Horrible Crime Three Miles from Alburgh Springs. Deep Mystery Surrounds the Case, but Robbery is Supposed to Have Been the Motive. Robbery is supposed to have been the motive for killing three persons in Clarenceville, P. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. Omri Edy, and their daughter, Miss Emma Edy. The family lived on a farm three miles north of Alburgh Springs, this state. John Gilbert lives 300 rods south of the Edy house. Early Saturday morning, while beginning his day's work, he saw smoke and flames issuing from the Edy house. He went to the kitchen door, but could not enter on account of the heat. He then broke down the front door, the smoke soon cleared away, and on entering he found the body of Miss Edy lying near the door. He lifted it and rushed outside. Upon a second entrance he discovered Mrs. Edy lying within a few feet of where her daughter had been found, and the flames disclosed Mr. Edy sitting in a chair near the kitchen door with his head thrown back. Gilbert says that at first he thought they were unconscious from suffocation, but when he dragged the bodies into the open air he found blood on them, and then the horrible truth that they were dead and probably murdered forced itself upon him. The fire destroyed the house. Authorities were at once summoned by Gilbert and an autopsy revealed the fact that Mr. Edy had been shot in the breast and in the temple. A ball was discovered in the head of Mrs. Edy. but a carefulexamination failed to find one in the body of the daughter. Both Mrs. Edy and her daughter had cuts in the throat which appear to have been made by a dull knife. Miss Edy also had a wound on the bridge of the nose, as though she had been struck by some heavy weapon like a club or the butt of a revolver. All three of the murdered people were completely dressed. A knife belonging to Mr. Edy was found with a blade open in the ruins of the house. Mrs. Edy when found had a rubber band around the fingers of her left hand, similar to the one she is supposed to have used around her purse. The pocket of Mr. Edy's trousers was found turned inside out when the body was discovered. Both of the above circumstances tend to show that robbery was the motive for the crime. Mr. H. O. Edy, a son of the murdered man, now living in Montreal. can give no other motive for the crime than robbery. The friends of the Edy family scout the theory that Mr. Edy killed his wife and daughter while temporarily insane and then committed suicide. The home life of the family is said to have been very pleasant. A Frenchman named Ford, now living at Swanton, was once evicted from the Edy farm and had threatened revenge, but he accounts for his whereabouts at the time the murder must have been committed. Outsiders attach some suspicion to Gilbert, but those acquainted with him and the Edy family believe his story. It was known that Mr. Edy was accustomed to keep considerable money in the house, and it is generally believed in the vicinity of Clarenceville that the family were killed and the house plundered. But the facts that the house was only partially on fire o'clock in the morning and that the three victims were dressed deepens the mystery of the case. Daniel F. Beatty, the Washington. N. Y., orgaf manufacturer, has been indicted in the courts on Connecticut for sending through the mails circulars concerning a scheme which, it was alleged. had been devised for obtaining money by false pretences. John Dennis, a negro, while drunk. killed his father and mother at Laurel, Del., Friday. He agreed to surrender, but when the sheriff approached he fired, killing the officer instantly Afterward Dennis returned to his home and was arrested. The Plankington bank at Milwaukee failed last week Thursday as a result of the suspension of the furniture firm of Lappen & Co., who owed the bank $219,000. Since the bank closed its doors large amounts in deposits have been withdrawn from all the banks in Milwaukee. The score or more of leading citizens of Minnesota who have robbed the state pine to the value of over $5,000,000 in the past dozen years are not to escape after all. There is in hand $8000 of the appropriations for the last legislature and this amount will be used in pushing the prosecutions. The Domestic Sewing Machine company has applied to the court of chancery of New Jersey for the appointment of a receiver. The liabilities of the Domestic Sewing Machine company are placed at about $1,500,000 and of the Domestic Manufacturing company at $750,000. The nominal assets are estimated at about $2500. Three national banks in New York hold approximately $750,000 of the company's paper. Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World has given $100,000 to the building fund of Columbia college. The trustees of the college recently asked for $2,000,000 as a building fund with which to erect a suitable new home for the college on the site recently selected on Riverside heights, overlooking the Hudson river. Mr. Pulitzer's gift brings the subscriptions up to $550,000. Twenty-five men walked into Decatur, Ill., a city of 22,000 populption. at 2 o'clock Saturday morning, broke down the doors of a jail with sledge hammers, dragged out Samuel Bush, a negro accused of having attacked two white women. and hanged him to a telegraph pole in the principal street. A crowd of 1500 persons witnessed the lynching. but no one offered resistance. The negro protested his innocence to the last.
