The Western Recorder from Lawrence, Kansas • 1

A. Y7T FERN RECORD "GOD GIVE US LAW IN LIBERTY, AND LIBERTY IN LAW." VOL. 1. LAWRENCE, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 30, 1883. NO.

3G. 8even frame buildings burned in Chicago, NEWS SUMMARY. KANSAS NEWS. with murdering her. His object, he says, in going to Lincoln was to carry information KANSAS BAKERY! 139 Massachusetts Street.

Bakery, Confectionery and Lunch, In Boston, John W. Benway placed a keg of powder on the piazza of John Long's house and tired it. Long was warned in season to escape but the house was shattered. Benway had been drinking. Two hundred and fifty striking miners of the Chaplain and Ludington, mines have been practicing at shooting with Winchester rifles and threaten violence un Peter Moultz was sutlbcated and his body burned to a crisp.

Loss insurance slight. Geo. D. Bauer, a postal clerk between Columbus. U.

and Ashland. has been arrested charged with embezzling and rilling letters. Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, the Washington pension agent is charged before the grand jury with retaining money due pen sioners.

Tests of American and English steel rails, laid side by side for thirteen years in Pennsylvania, show that the former are the more durable. The pope has made editor Dawson of the Charleston News and Courier a Knight of St. George for the stand he has taken against duelling. The Postal Telegraph company for a consideration of $10,408,500, has transferred all its lines, franchises, to the Postal Cable company. Ttie fiftieth anniversary of the running of the nrst locomotive on the hiiadelpnia anu Columbia railroad is to be celebrated early next year.

Curio Van Trotha, who was crushed by a train of the Long Island railroad company, has been awarded $7,000 by a jury. He sued for $50,000. It has been discovered that butchers are selling diseased meat in Kansas City and two men have been arrested. More arrests will follow. Several persons were injured by the falling of a wall of the Union depot at St.

Louis and Benj. Ansfelter had his back broken and will die. A. J. Lee, member of the Texas Legislature from HidalgOj died from the effects of a poisonous fly bite in the face after three days of agony.

Orth Stein, who killed Geo. Fredericks in Kansas City on June 8th, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for 25 years, is trying to get a new trial. Several hundred laborers in Oliver Bros. Phillips mill at Pittsburg, were notified that their wages would be reduced from $1.25 to $1.00 per day. The committee which investigated the Danville, riot of Nov.

3d, examined 37 witnesses and report that the blacks were the aggressors and that there was no intimid ation at the polls. C. C. Wheeler, formerly general manager of the A. T.

S. F. R. has been chosen general superintendent of the Chicago and road. Ellen Reed, wife of Charles A.

Reed, coun sel for the assassin Guiteau, has begun a suit for divorce on the ground of failure to sup port her in Chicago. The Chicago Express demolished a wagon at Lanesville, killing William Mcintosh, his wife and daaghter and Rev. James House, all of Berlin. A section of artillery has been sent to the sheriff of Matthews county, to be used in protecting the Rappahannock oyster beds against dredgers. A storm at Peotone, 111., blew down fences and damaged property.

Chris Shrier's barn was demolished ana six cows ana several hogs and sheep killed. William G. Harrison, one of the most prominent merchants of Baltimore, formerly president of the Baltimore road, died of heart disease, Nov. 19th. iiiei Williamson, wuo was court-martialed for extravagance in the matter of repairing the government vessel Pinta, has been acquitted.

Twenty-nine states were represented at the National Grange in Washington. Worthy Master J. J. Woodman, of Michigan dej livered the annual address. Parties who are unknown placed a dy namite cartridge under the "Dew Drop" saloon in Danville, and blew it up.

The entire town was shaken. It is believed that the steamer Manistee, which left Duluth, Nov. 10th, has gone down with all on board, portions of her cabin having been louna. A gang of Negroes who have been for two years engaged stealing merchandise trom stores in Sparta, 111., and selling it in St. Louis, have just been arrested.

The house of T. W. Huston, a well-to-do farmer living two miles from Uniontown, was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Huston and i -i a two cnuureu perisiieu tue uaiuus.

It is believed that the Vicksburg bank will come out all right. Gen. E. 8. Bute, president of the institution has been appointed receiver and filed a bond of It is estimated that 13,000 soldiers of Kan sas have signed a petition tor the location of a soldiers' home in Kansas.

The petition will be forwarded to Senator Plumb, Dec, 10th. Maior J. M. Limbocker of Ft. Scott was struck from behind with a sling shot, while going home on the night of Nov.

23d. The wouna was painiui outnoi aangerous. ino clue. Admiral Potter criticises the design for new armored steel cruisers as not being so constructed as to work under sail. He ad vises that a large iron clad be built in Lake Erie.

Michael Tiernan, who for two years had charge of the elevator in the Palmer House at Chicago, was killed by falling down the elevator way in the Planter's House at St. Louis. L. M. Rumford, of Kalamazoo, who failed recently has been arrested at the instance of D.M.Osborne, and Co.

of Au burn N. charged with embezzling $1,400. One hundred and thirty excursionists frnni Kansas Citv and Twiints alnni? the K. C. Springfield Memphis road were received and banqueted in Memphis on Nov.

21st and 22d. The commander of the Asiatic fleet of the United States has received instructions as to the course he will pursue to protect American interests, in the event of war between France and China. Lorenzo Woods, son of Judge Woods of the Dixon, 111., judicial district, who traveled for Duncan, Wevth of Kansas City, committed suicide at Albuquerque by cutting his throat. John R. Talbert, of Chambersburg, was shot and mortally wounded by Andy WeittelfF, at Louisville, whose saloon be had entered intent to rob the cash drawer.

Weittelif was arrested. to the authorities, and to consult a clairvoy ant. It is believed that the old man's mind Is unbalanced. George Washington, a colored waiter in a restaurant at the national capital, recently assaulted a policemen with a slioe knue, While on trial for the offense he stated that he mistook the officer for a medical student seeking his corpse, and said he never en tered a drug store without clinging to the counter, lor tear ot trap doors. The prisoners in the county jail at Indianapolis attempted to escape on the morning of Nov.

22d. By the use of dynamite they succeeded in blowing a hole through the walls large enough to crawl through. They were, however, checked by the sheriff. who with a cocked revolver ordered them to their cells and securely locked them in. Before being lynched Jacob Nelling requested his executioners to "Cut off my wind as quick as you can," but desired that the work be done in a business-like manner.

A paper bearing the words, "A warning to murderers," was affixed to the swinging corpse. The coroner's verdict was death by violence at the hands of unknown men. At Camden, N. J. four thieves enteredVhc jewelery store of E.

J. Dougherty, as he was closing up for the night, and one pointed a revolver at his head. Dougherty struggled and his wife ran into the street, screaming. One, calling himself John Welch of St. Louis was captured but the others escaped Mrs.

Dougherty war fired upon but was not hit. The striking miners at Iron Mountain although confronted by eighty special deputies from Chicago and Milwaukee, induced the engineers and pump-runners to leave their posts, and within one day the mines will be comple'tely flooded. The strikers have been informed that they will be paid to date and discharged for the winter. A meeting of prominentturfmen was held in Louisville, Nov. 21st, and among other matters reported favorably upon were weights for racers, rules making reimbursement impossible after being ruled of the course, and other rules that will make fraud on the turf practically impossible.

It was the largest representative meeting of turfmen ever held in America. C. O. Kcufle and his clerk were murdered at Feedqre, Texas, by a robber. Keulie was ordered to unlock the money drawer and while he was doing so, was shot in the head.

The clerk was then ordered to do it, and he was killed by a bullet in the bruin. They got about $15. It is supposed the robber was recognized by his victims and killed them to coyer up his identity. Geo. Darrell and Godfrey Brown were arrested near Pittsburg, for attempting to wreck a passenger train on the Pittsburg Lake Shore railroad.

Recently they hud a dispute with Conductor Davidson about fare, since when three attempts have been made to wreck his train by obstructions placed in a frog. Darrell and Hrown are both young men, living three miles west of Pittsburg. Frederick Albright, 18 years old. is dying at Baltimore. Some time ago a dentist in extracting some of his teeth broke his jaw bone, and terrible sufferings resulted.

A Thompsonian doctor said he could cure him, and initiated hit practice ou the youth by placing him in a collin-like box. Upon being removed he grew worse, lost the use of his speech, and now barks at intervuls like a dog. His case bullies the best ulivsi- cians, The rennrf nf fVmiTitrrillnrK'imv ulmwtlint 207 National banks were organized during the vpnrnndwl Nov ImI 14- in dm states, 40 in southern states, 11 in Pacific suites, zu in uie territories ana 7 in the eastern states. The number of national banks ll oiwritt.inn Knv lut. wm 9f01 rn- sources of these banks on Oct.

2d was wu.i he total amount ot bonds held by national, state and savings banks, Nov, 1st, was $021. 229. 259. or nearly half t.lm intereut bearing debt ofthe country. An unknown boy.

eighteen veurs old. committed suicide in the hardware store of Rowland Bigwood at Parsons. Ks Nov 20th. He cayie in and asked to look at a revolver, and alter examining it. nut a car tridge in one of the chambers, turned the muzzle to ins head and without further warning hred, the ball entering his brain.

He fell to the floor dead. He had nothinir on him by which lie could be identified, and nothing is known about him except that he called at several places that morning and asked for work, stating that he was a stranger and came Irom Illinois. Patrick William O'Brien, the Irish giant and Christina D. Darz, the German giantess were married in Pittsburg, Nov. 20th, in the presence of a multitude.

The groom wore oiacK anu uie onae a superb white satin dress. A reception was held immediately afterwards at the museum and another in the evening at the hotel. The wedding cake measured a lcet in circumference and 3 leet in thickness and a loaf of bread five feet long decorated the table. This is the first wedding of giants in America and the second in the world. The wedding ring wuiguwj penny weiguui hiiu was five inches in circumference.

The com bined height of the parties is 15 feet and 3 inches and their combined weight is 649 pounds. The Chinese minister on behalf of his government delivered a letter to Secretary relmghuysen relative to Annam. The following extract is given of the spirited communication: "It France desires to maintain friendly relations with China, why should we not discuss the matter amicably ii sue insists upon invading the northern part of Annam where our troorm are sta tioned, this indicates that she is determined to break the friendly tie, and our troops then cannot remain with folded arms, but must meet them on the field. Therefore we send this communication to all foreign powers, showing that in the event of the tneiidly tie being broken the cause of the rupture does not come from China." A fiood Country to Live In. Mobile Register.

Baldwin county contains three living beings hose ages aggregate 'SMi years. Their names are Sylvia Cambert, 113 years; Mary Jnglish, 110 year, and Peter Hall. 113 years. I obtained the ages from the probate judge lor Baldwin county, who by the way, is a remarkable man himself, being upward oi HO years of age, and still erect and active. He thinks nothing of riding thirty-six miles on horseback to marry a couple and then return home time lor supper.

Again. there is Mr. Howard, 86 years of age, who married only lant fall. The British troops have received orders Sedan is to have a new bank. Lane university has 78 students.

Kingman is to have a brick kiln. The Seneca Bchools enroll 433 pupils. Cheney, Sedgwick county, is to have a bank. St. Mary's hospital at Emporia is about ready for patients.

Mrs. Mary' Green dropped dead at Emporia on Nov. 15th. The Emporia water mills have commenced making flour. Some one has stolen a horse from Joseph Leon, of North Lawrence.

TI PO nmintv at. lata n1mtirn vn. ted bonds to build a court house. The Blue Eapids flouring mill which burned a year ago, has been rebuilt. The west end of P.

R. King's residence seven miles from Atchison has burned. Leavenworth has 14 divorce cases set for trial at the December term of court. A "coon" measuring three feet, nine inches, has been killed in Allen county. The Eureka ditch which is to run through Ford couuty is being staked off.

Eugine Blaekman, a deserter from the 7th artillery has been arrested at Atchison. Albert C. Strife, an insane man from Osage county, has been locked up at Emporia. About 450 has been subscribed toward building a church at Urbana, JNeosho county. John T.

Grout has sold the Marion Graphic to Frank D. Wheeler and Miss Aimee M. Ward. An incendiary fire occurred at Fort Scott recently, which destroyed a storage hoiiBe. Loss $200.

Robert L. Fry has been arrested at Ft. Scott, chargedwith forging Geo. E. Ford's name a note lor $7o.

As a result of an old feud, a man named Cobb fractured Geo. Edwards' skull, in Lavenwortn, jnov, L'Oth. Miss Belle Mcllvane of Vallev Falls has been adjudged insane and sent to the Topeka insane asylum. An effort is being made to secure an appropriation to preserve 'the banks of ine at 1 1. Leavenworth.

worth rmintv wna L-illn1 1w tlia'anoilnnt. ul discharge of a gun, on Soy. 23d. on Monday night for the first time, and Wichita put on one more metropolitan air. Manhattan JlrnMic Work on the college building lias been suspended until spring; only about one half of this year's appropriation has been expended so far.

The students at the State university are getting tired of climbing Mt. Oread and want some means of transportation up the hill. Newton Kmuan: Two or three attempts are reported to have been made recently by parties to fire Swenson's grocery building. Burglars robbed a hardware store at Emporia and got $10 from a stove, where it had been secreted. Wm.

Boyd's residence was also robbed. Emily S. Rice was elected county clerk of Harper county, Kansas, by a majority of over 300 votes. She is the first woman that was ever elected to that position in Kansas. Lyndon Journal: James Grey, a hired man for Mr.

Robert l'ualen who lives just over the Lyons couuty border, was fatally bitten by a rattle snake on Monday last Independence Tribune: Mr. Arnold, living northwest of the city two miles, has opened a quarry of stone nearly as white as the Winfield stone and much easier to work. W. H. Harris and Luke Short have sold their saloon in Dodge City.

Luke Short will be remembered as the man over whom the bigexcitement was raised several months ago. Mrs. L. II. IrvinV a boarder at the Atlantic Hotel, Atchison, has been robbed of $225 worth of jewelry.

It is believed that the parties who committed the theft iired the building. Ma Register: Sheriff Worst took F. VV. Grantham to the penitentiary last Tues-. day.

Grantham goes for six years five for the forgery for which he was convioted and one for breaking jail. Newton Uejmllimn One day last week Mr. John Nolder fell from a ladder at h's home in Macon township and broke both his arms, a very serious accident for anybody, and especially for as old a man as he. Hiawatha World: A. Carothers has made a fish pond and stocked it with carp.

Mr. Carothers will pay special attention to the industry. Other farmers in this vicinity will no doubt follow this excellent example. Salina lhrahh Doctor Wm. A Phillips, of I am Angeles, California, son of ex-Congressman Phillips, and Miss Rebecca Coburn, of this city, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony at eleven o'clock this morning.

Newton Kanmn: U.S. Marshal Hol-lister, who brought Bothamley's body and the prisoners from out the Indian territory, demands $1,500 for his services, or we understand proposes to keep the 2,000 head of sheep. Osage Mission Democrat: On Saturday evening John Flood tied his horse to one of the posts on County street. When he was ready to go home his horse could not be found, and he had to walk. It is supiosed that some one stole the horse.

In Chicago, the union cigar makers have won the strike. Thirty thousand chests of tea were sold in New xorK isov. zisi. John B. Murray, postofflce inspector at Omaha has been removed.

De Brazza, the French explorer in Africa, has arrived at Stanley pool. Iron manufacturers are sorely disappoint ed at the tailing on or trade. Medical Inspector Kennedy has been dis missed Irom the naval service, Oregon county, was visited by a tor nado on the night of Nov. 20th. Marshall, has had a tornado.

Sev eral persons are reported killed. Col. Albert Pitt Bennett, associate editor of the Richmond, state is dead. The Union Trust Company, has obtained possession ot the sprague homestead. John Chisholm, the New Jersey wife murderer, was hanged at Newark on Nov.

22d, John R. Tanner has been appointed TJ. S. marshal for the southern district of Illinois. A cave-in, 700 yards long has occurred on the Lehigh Valley railroad, at Ashland, Pa.

Wm. Trey, wife and son, were struck by an express train in Philadelphia and killed. John Steinhelber, a dissipated fellow, shot and killed Thos. Kerns, aged 17, at Ashland, Pa. Thepostofficeat Pottsville, was robbed of $5,000 by burglars on the night oi mov, 23d.

John Smidt, of Chicago, through jealousy and rage shot his wife and then killed him self. The Junction City Provision company has commenced slaughtering and packing hogs. The Bush family of ten persons, residing near uaruner, are aimcieu wiui incur nosis. The Michigan Central's new railroad bridge across Niagara Falls is about com pleted. The notorious counterfeiter Wm.

C. Phe- lan has been sentenced to live years, in Boston. On Nov. 24th President Arthur pardoned Serjeant Mason, who attempted to shoot Umteau. Several illicit stills have been discovered by revenue officers in Pennsylvania, but no whisky.

Lieut. 1. 1. Tates of the U. S.

navy, who was charged with uuoilicerlike conduct, has resigned. Cant. McKibben of the fifteenth infantry is to be court-martialled for duplicating pay accounts. Officer Ryan shot and killed a burglar named l'atnck Urady, oi weehawKen, jn. Nov.

21st. It is again reported that the French re strictions against American pork will be withdrawn. O'Donnell. Carev's slaver, took out his naturalization papers at Youngstown, 0., Oct. 19, 1876.

The life-saving service rendered assist ance in three hundred cases of disaster dur ing the last fiscal year. Haffstadt Brothers, fancy goods, New York, have made an assignment and given preferences for $58,000. A fire at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, swept away a hotel and six stores on Main street, causing a loss of $50,000. Tom Blake and Ed. Gearing noted thieves, have escaped from the Riverside (Penn.) penitentiary.

Chas. Hampton, a brakeinan, was instantly killed while coupling cars, at Indianapo-is Nov. 15th. The Corean embassy are reported short of tunds, and trying to borrow $10,000 trom the U. S.

treasury. Commodore John M. a retired officer of 1 lie navy died of paralysis at Philadelphia, Nov. 21st. Salt shipments bv rail and lake from Bay City to Chicago for ten months of this year reach barrels.

Patrick Doad and wife, of Attica, N. blew out the gas in a New York city hotel and will probably die. A portion of the woolen mills, at New Albany, has burned, throwing 125 persons out of employment. A number of inmates of the Indianapolis blind asyldm were slightly poisoned by some unwholesome food. Brakeman McMillan, of a Wabash train was killed and the engineer fatally injured in an accident near Scioto.

The existing percentage pool on freights, will be continued for one year, by the roads between Chicago and St. Louis. Anion Case, a prominent farmer of Cherry Valley, 111., was found dead in his corn-field Nov. 3d. He was G8 years old.

The thirty-three convicted colored rioters of Howard county, have been lodged in the penitentiary at Little Rock. Tlifi TT. S. supreme court lias derided that the Brooklyn bridge cannot be declared a nuisance, or an unlawlul structure. An open switch caused a collision at Coal ing, on the Alabama Great Southern railroad.

Four persons were killed. The now Manitoba railroad bridge across the Mississippi at St. Paul, is of stone arches. It is 2, 100 feet long and cost $000,000. Itamors are current that Jacob Killing's bodv was stolen from its grave at Oxford and brought to surgeons in Lafayette, Ind.

At Cincinnati, George Willack knocked down a hackman who fell against a railing. and subsequently died. Willack was arrested. A new process of manufacturing low car bon steel by which puddling will be done away with, is being tested at Homestead, A disastrous fire raged on Jack's Moun tain in the vicinity of Mill creek, on 2od, destroying vast quantities ot lum ber. Pool Commissioner Daniels, of the Colo rado pool, says that if the Iowa pool is broken up, the Colorado pool may follow suit.

Also Fresh Bread. A. SHELLHORN. YOU WHX FIND THAT BRETT'S BAKERY Is the place to buy good things to eat. Location is 121 Massachusetts St.

LAWRENCE, KAN. D. W. LANGSTON, HE BARBER And Hair Dresser. Shop on southwest corner of Henry and New nampsmre streets, aojoimng r.

tsiroae dibck-smith shop. All Work Done with Neatness anil Dispatch, Chas. Anderson, Sealer in Groceries, Provisions, BEAN, CHOP-FEED, ETC. No. 130 Massachusetts Lawrence H.

O. PATTERSON, Sealer in Boots and Shoes. No. 117 Massachusetts Street. I have bought out my partner.

Mr. Murray, anil Intend to continue in the business, and sinceraly thank my friends for their liU-ral favors, and nope tor a conunation 01 your truae. All persons indebted to the firm will plcnse call nd settle. H. C.

PAXIEK.suN MRS. E. GIBBS, llisery OVER NEWMARK'S STORE, Lawrence, Kansas An entirely new stock of the finest goods ever brought to Lawrence. C.A. Keep always on hand nil kinds of Fresh and Salted Meats and Fish.

All orders promptly filled. We strive to please our customers. Give us a mil, ut 110 Massachusetts Lawrence "jfTCREW cor Dealers in Books 1 Stationery WALL PAPER, Decorations and Picture Frames. LAWKENCE, KAJJSAS. a.oyertoh.

Overton House No. 10, Kansas Topeka. DR. J. H.

YOUNG, Practicing Physician. Lawrence, Kansas. Office up stairs over P. Rheinschild's cigar store. August 27, 1883.

O.W.MITCHEM, Attorney at Law, Practices In the Courts of Kansas. Pnys Taxes, makes Collections, attends to Pension and Bounty Claims, etc. Office over Rheiuschild cigar store, Lawrence, Kan. CARD, Dress Making And all kinds of Fancy Sewing, Keatlydone by Carrie E. Chapman, No.

411 Metropolitan avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas, Ladies and children will consult their interest by calling. H. ROLLING, RESTAURANT, Mo. 60 Kansas Avenue. BOARDING AND LODGING Fresh and Cove Oysters, and all kinds of Game In season.

A Lunch Counter, and best Capital avorita Cigars. Explorations recently begun and still in active prosecution indicate tliat the little frequented district of Holderness, in Yorkshire, England, may yet become celebrated for its exhumed lake-dwellings and their relics. The district was undoubtedly once characterized by numerous lakes, but the sole water space now remaining is Hornsea mere, a broad sheet more than a mile in length. Relics of lake-dwellings have hitherto been sought without marked success in England, and the present discoveries are regarded with great inteaest by archieolog-lets. Chas.

Wm. Siemens, scientist, engineer and electrician, died in London Nov. 20th, aged 63 years. Death was caused by rupture of the heart. FASH less their demands are acceded to.

The government has won a suit to recover $50,000 Irom Albert J. Stonaker, of Phila delphia, the amount ofthe bond of Benj. Emery, defaulting collector of internal rev enue lor the third district of Mississippi. The lamp of Thomas Jones caused an ex plosion in the mines at Streator, which killed Jones, fatally injured John Hillier, li. James and U.

Tiffany and John shanks, and badly burned and bruised Collin Mon- aghan. The prisoners in the Marshall, city jail set it on lire on the inside, and before the flames were discovered the prisoners cried tor help. The door was broken in and six ot them escaped, and only two were re captured. Striking miners at Norway, are behaving in a riotous manner. They attacked the superintendent of one ofthe mines and beat him outrageously.

It is thought the militia will have to be called out to settle the trouble. J. F. Yoakum, a Baptist minister at Grand Chain, 111., has been placed in jail at Mound City for concocting a scheme to swindle insurance companies by represent ing that his accomplice was drowned in the Ohio river. At Boston Ellen Thorne, divorced wife of the deceased actor Charles R.

Thorne, has brought suit against his second wife to secure the payment of $50 monthly and $5,000 in a lump sum, as agreed between the parties in 1873. The lumber-mills in the Chinnewa vallev have had a season ol exceptional prosperity The cut of the Eau Claire was 300,000,000 feet. Rafting has had its day, on account ct the splendid facilities and low rates ottered by the railroads. Jack Brown, a brakeman on a Chicago and Alton freight train, was knocked under the wheels by lour tramps whom he at tempted to put off at Brighton. His leg was amputated at the county hospital, out he died at midnight.

A bill has been introduced into the Lower House of the municipal assembly, of St. Louis, to prevent street railway companies trom carrying on any one car more than seven passengers in excess of the seating capacity ot the car. Ten days ago Mrs. Burmeistcr hanged herself at Baltimore, on Nov. 20th.

Her daughter, aged 20, demented by melancholy, attempted her lite alter the same manner. She was taken to an insane asylum, and her recovery is doubtlul. Five prisoners were whipped at Newcastle, Nov. 24th, three colored and two white Will uroome (colored lor house- braking, stood one hour in the pillory and received twenty lashes. The others were given ten lashes each.

Rev. Wm. Mitchell, the newly installed pastor of the Westboro, Congrega tional church, has been arrested on a charge of stealing books. It is stated that when arrested, lie offered a thousand dollars to keep the matter quiet. The trial in Howard county, Arkansas, of the colored rioters, indicted tor the murder of vat several months ago, has ended in sentencing three men to he hanged and twenty-nine to terms ot imprisonment ranging Irom nve to eighteen years.

A woman in Boston sent a woolen shirt by mail to her father in Chicago, and en closed a letter. The man was hunted up and ordered to pay a fine of $10. He pre ferred to let the government keep the parcel, but found he must pay. or go to jail. Clerks in the county auditor's office at Cincinnati have been increasing the assessed valuatiou oi certain property owners, on the books, and then, for a consideration, "procured a reduction." The scheme has been detected and several arrests will follow.

At Cincinnati a child of James Hegerty died Nov. 22d, and when it was being embalmed, the undertaker left a poisonous mixture to be applied to its face, and the little two-year-old sister drank some of it, dying soon after. Both were buried in one grave. James Davis, secretary of the London it San Francisco bank, has absconded from London. He embezzled 50,000, including 108 Oregon and California railroad gold bonds valued at 30,000.

A warrant has been issued and 200 reward offered for his arrest. Theodore Thomas has secured Frederick Materna, Herman Winklemann and Kniil Scaria, three eminent musicians of Vienna, for fifty representations of Wagner music in the United States, commencing at Boston April 14th next year They will come to Kansas City. The light-house uoard recommends the creation of the Seventeenth district from Lake Michigan and Green Bay, with headquarters at Milwaukee. A new light station at the latter city, where the lake is encroaching on the old one, demands an appropriation of $15,000. Judge Bockholdt, county clerk at Salt Luke, a confessed polygamist, gives notice that he will not relinquish his office to the man elected under the auspices of the Utah commission.

He is not the only polygamous official who takes the ground that the recent election was a mere farce. John Schullen, a half-witted cigar maker, aged 58, wantonly shot at a workman who sat next to him in Crother's factory in New York, missed him and killed Owen F. Plun-kett He says he bought the revolver to kill himself with and that a sudden fit came on him to shoot some one and lie fired the fatal shot. The Committee of 100 of Philadelphia have discovered that a number of persons voted at the recent election upon fradulent tairecelpts and are prosecuting the offenders. James Dobson has been held for issuing thern and Geo.

Holland, colored, for voting on a receipt on which the name of another had been erased and his own entered. A severe storm prevailed at Rock, at noon, Nov. 21st, damaging the cotton compress, the Riverside hotel, the Miller block, and other buildings. The smokestack on McLoud, Vaille Spark's furniture factory killed John Mechins, the engineer, and seriously injured Diederick, a workman. Zura Burns' father has gone to Lincoln and fears were entertained that he would attempt to murder Carpenter, who is charged not to evacuate Cairo yet..