Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-09-15
EVENING STAR
LATE KILOGRAMS, &c.

Conklin, one OF the messengers or the Mer-
chants Union Express, who has been detained
On custody month, charged with being privy
40 the express robbery on the 1lth ult, on the
New ork Central railroad, has been released
on haoeas corpus, there beng no testimony
against him The amount obtained by the rob-
hers was stated in court TO be S5OOOO0.
General Candy hs; appointed Alfred ed MOI mol
mond city. 70 fiji the vacancy occasioned by
he death of Judge Olcott l. 7. freer an, of
New York, has been appointed 10 succeed
Judge Morton IN the sixth judicial circuit OF
Virginia.
In the libel suits brought by ]. b. O'NeiII
Against a Pittsburg Dispatch for publishing
thereon, one OF the suits was dismissed by the
court. and on the other the jury failed to agree
standing nine for aequittal and three for con.
Tiction.
New York. are on strike, the head centre Of
abe Order OF St Crspin deciding they must
Case work because the employers refuse to
discharge some old hands who are not m m =
hers Of the 81. Crispin Society.
The DEMOCRATIC Conservative convention OF
Hartford county, Md, has nominated fer State
Senator, VIM b Stephenson; for House of
Delegates. VIM. Baldwin, Jos NJ Street, 4
7 q. Hopkins, and VIM. NJ Ady for sheriff,
X. +. Morgan.
MIR. A T. Stewart has al last become the
owner OF Hampstead Plains, Long Island, a
tract OF over 1000 acres. On Monday he re-
ceived the title deeds, and rendered in payment
n check for s394, 35O. The stamps on me con.
yeyanee cost q, S9i.
The incendiaries who set fire to the snow.
Sneds At summit Station, on the Union Pacific
Railroad have been arrested. A gang of incen-
diaries infest the East Mountains, near by, for
the purpose Of destroying the fuel and water
stations on the road.
Ex-Secretary Seward yesterday visited the
San Francisco public schools, and to-day will
participate in the breaking of ground for the
San Diego and ella railroad. He will Ieavs
& n
Two men named Patterson and McInalI en-
gagged IN quarrel az NIskayura, near Sche-
nectady, N. y, on Saturday evening, when
The latter stabbed the former, causing death
on Monday night McInall was arrested
All of the treasure stolen from Wells Fargo
a. Go. in the late rOboery on the Montana stage
road has been recovered. Robins Dawson, the
agent who was severely wounded during MS
capture. viii probably recover.
Early Monday morning a fire in WeIlsvilIe,
0nlo, destroyed a block OF frame buildings
The loss is $4,000, and the insurance about
S6,Ooo. The fire is supposed to have been the
work OF an Incendiary.
A frame buIlc ing in Watertown, N. " un-
2rgoing repairs, fell in Monday afternoon, and
live men were buried beneath the ruins All
were rescued, but one is not expected 10 re-
cover.
Adyicss from Arizona TO August p state tia,
fhe lhdiaus attacked tram near Antelope
creek, but were repulsed. Three whites and
twenty Indians were killed.
Large parties of miners are leaving White
Pune and going TO the Hassayampor district on
abe Paeifcl coast, where new and very rich
gold diggings are reported.
The persons who robbed the express car on
the New York Central railroad a few weeks
ago have been arrested, IL is said, by New York
detectives.
The officers OF the Society of the ARMY of
tennessee have expressed the opinion that
Congress ought to erect a monument 10 the
memory of General RawlIns.
banquet was given at DeImonico's last
evening In honor of the Harvard crew They
nave accepted the Inequalities of the city OF
Boston -
The depot of the 81. Paul and Sioux X abroad
II Ottawa, Minnesota was struck by lightning
On Sunday and burned, together with its con.
tents.
The steamship Cleopatra, from Vera Cruz
1or havana, not having reached the latter port
some fears are entertained as to her safety
"A despatch from COrrIns, Utah saws that
$1,000 have been recovered from the rsbbers of
wells, Fargo Co.'S Express.
In Cincinnati yesterday. Warren Kannad,
Committed suicide by jumping out of tourth,
story window above his store.
Prince Arthur is expected to arrive a q uebec
To-Day, where great preparations have been
made 10 Tecei We him.
The Western Union and Atlantic and Pacific
States Telegraph Companies have consolidated
The rumors current of the serious illness of
james Gordon Bennett are quite unfounded
Recent heavy rains have helped the late corn
IN West Virginia and the Valley
The san Pedro and Los Angeles Railroad is
Completed.