Show NEWS BY MAIL ILLINOIS ROCK july this aig the town of edg m ion and surrounding country was thrown alito a atto of the wildest excitement by the news that miss RobbIn sH young lady aged 20 years highly respected had been shot by leo robbins lier brother and instantly killed and that leo robbing shot himself in the head and baj dead As nearly as could be ascertained the facts aro aa follows miss matilda robbing the murdered girl biad for some time past been receiving attentions from a young man named tom richards against the expressed protest of her parents and especially her brother she persisted in allowing richards to call upon her homeier ho weier and n engagement was announced her brother warned her that richards should never marry her and tried to persuade lil lister to break off the engagement but to no purpose am today to day falio was to have been married this morning about clock while getting ready to take the mer county train for rock brother went to her and made mother aphea not to marry the man richardi she refused to break the engagement and then he drew a pistol and shot her killing hep instantly st then he placed the pistol at nis head and fired inflicting a a wound from which lie died li altan hour afterward tiie place where the murder and suicide happened is tho Bolt ingLam farm about three fourths of a mile this side of edgington the only objection to richards as fur as could be learned was that he was a drin king man and a rough sort of a fellow leo robbins who did the deed was a very pleasant respectable young man about 23 of a very modest manner he stood well in the community and lad hosts or friends july there occurred in this city yesterday it scene which was as strange and startling as it was almost in its consequences quen ces the people of the city concluded not 10 engage in a general celebration this year A party of nineteen gentlemen and ladies or a picnic and dinner aal accompanying compa nying pastimes and pleasure in the beautiful grove north of lines boro facing thu valley of the north fork the party consisted of wall editor af pf the journal and mrs wall dr E F powell and wife and sc veril others alie party partook of dinner at and wera in iho height ofa most social and happy scene alien one of the ladies suddenly taken ill with heching pains of the stomach and vomiting ac with chills and cramping dr rowell alike alarming attack and then successively every member of llie party except tw stricken down and before relief could be obtained from town about mile distant they were writhing in the distress of a deathly illness and biad given themselves over entirely to hopelessness and death desiro to live and nearly all sensibility in most of alo cases had departed and the afflicted were helpless in the intense throes of a malady word was at last got to town and wagons conveyed the victims into the city like the wounded from a battlefield the con in Lanc was indescribable the city physicians were summoned and others from preston and rushford were split for and tho physicians and people were engaged during the in administering to the unanimous verdict of the physicians was and still is that poison in some form probably tartar emetic was the caisse of alie dreadful attack from whence it came it is impossible to all an analysis will bo made of the water lemonade and food used as scoon na possible and a thorough effort nill be made to trace the evil to its source the afflicted are considered out of danger but most of them arc still confined to their beds there is no doubt but an appalling tragedy ha acon averted only by ilia narrowest kind of an escape massachusetts BOSTOS july tho discovery of tho forg crien committed by capitain james F edmund last aggregating some cauca intense surprise edmunds is oti years of age wi well and highly respected and is an ex alderman of newton tho amount of forged paper is all in the form of notes for three or four months and all malur ing in the four months it is hold by toven banks and amount to about edmundo who is very sick was brought toBo this afternoon and i now locked up the names forged are sands per bald tho in business here and amasa crit ol 01 newtown highlands his in edw besides tho above men honed notes of hid own without milhous to the af pf oma given for private lire held by various aparici and ahw vicinity and in od edmunds is to contingent liability 01 or until these acro made it waa lie wa worth about ittai under stood when a ear ago lio irom llie firm of edmunda co hour I falers he received for laid aciro of the ais how or why he came to enter upon macli n czuiko a mystery dahis it ii probable collar tant gopie its arti fago lie loit by the teil and to tv leiai preuit ho anil another became for bo and of this amount ha been paid by edmund but im friends ro utterly at loss to know what ho has done the remainder oghig property though it haa been ascertained abal he ha liberally to hla own detriment |