Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-01

DUdtH VI hoh' 0s''o'
Official Account Of the
Second MOdOc Exter-
minatiOn.
United states Depository at Mobile
Closed.
WASHINGTON, April 30-On account
of irregularities in the United States de-
positOry at Mobile, Secretary Richard
son has decided TO close that Office, and
hereafter the business at that point will
be discharged by the assistant.
The President Delayed by storm.
OMAHA, April SO.-The Presidential
party, who were expected here at one
O'Clock this afternoon, viii not reach
here until about twelve o'clock tonight,
on. account of delay by western storm.
The President viii probably remain
here until tomorrow morning before
starting east.
An Invalid Suicide.
KINGSTON, n. Y, April 30.-The
wife of Louis Heydecker, while tempo
rarily insane last night from an attack
Of pueperal fever, arose from bed, and
taking with her her infant nine days
old, leaped into a cistern in the rear OF
the house, and both were drowned. The
husband awoke at four o'clock, and
missing his wife, made search with the
result stated.
Wholesale E3assaere by Indians.
ToRONTo, April S0.-A dispatch from
Fort Garry says that information has
been received from trustworthy source
10 the effect that some American traders
having poisoned Little Knife and Sit
ing Bull, Sioux chiefs, at Cypress Hill,
four hundred and fifty miles from Fort
Garry, in British territory, the Sioux
fell on the post and massacred all the
. Americans and half-breeds in the Yicin-
lty.
BERLIN, April 30.-The provincial
cOrres spendents say that the visit of the
German emperor TO st. Petersburg con-
firms the pacific policy agreed to by the
emperors of Germany, Russia and Aus
tria Last September. 1t is especially sig
uificant at this time, because the pros
poets Of quiet in western Europe were
growing gloOmieT
Two cases Of cholera were reported to-
day in MagdebuTg.
Enited gg0rt4i8gmen OF America.
WASHINGTON, April 30.-JOhn w.
Bro gning, OF New York city, has been
aDpointed and commissioned executive
officer for the State of New York by a.
Redstone, president Of the national
labor council at Washington. There
will soon appear an official authorized
statement Of the labor movement by
Hon. John Pool, of North Carolina,
chairman OF the national executive COM
mittee Of the united workingmen Of
America.
Deatn OF Hon. James Brooks.
WASHINGTON, April S0.-HOn. James
Brooks, representative in congress from
New York. died at his residence, in this
CITY, tonight at haif-past eight O'Clock,
i'm the presence OF his family He recog-
nized those around him to the very last
moment. He had long been in feeble
health, from, as he himself frequently
said. the effects of a fever which he con-
tracted In Asia. The deceased was 10
his sixty-third year. His death has
created profound sorrow in all circles OF
the community.
Eew Hampshire Elections
Concord, y. h, April 30.-The re-
turns OF the election in the second con-
gressionsl district gave Austin f. Pike
seven plurality. 1t is alleged that errors
were Subsequently discovered, which, If
corrected, would give 5. n. Bell thirteen
plurality. The governor aud council
To-day discussed the question as 70 their
nower 10 - behind returns, and it is I'M
lerstood they VIII submit the matter to
thej0diciary for decision.
The Recent Horror Near Pittsburg.
PI1vrsBURG, April 0.-Theexcitement
relative 10 the murder of the little girl,
Lizzie Ness, at Salisbury, near this city,
[-asterdsv, still continues. The shoes Of
fhe two men. Pohl and Hyndman, ar
rested Yesterday, were in the tracks dis
covered at the spot where the murdered
child was lying, bat no other evidence
of guilt on the prisoners has been Sc
cured. Several new theories have been
advanced to-day in view OF the possloll-
ity OF the innocence OF the
men in custody, and the detectives
sre working energetically.
Pelican EOtes.
NEW ORLEANS, April SO.-Mr. l..
Hall, of LOnOrke, Arkansas, fell over
board, from the steamer Bertha yester-
day, and was drowned.
Ihe MeuopOlitans are returning from
the Port Vincent difficulty, which has
been amicably adjusted.
Secretary BelknaD. General Sheridan
and party arrived from the Rio Grande,
ar0lae for Washington.
The Louisiana State fair closed to-day
meeting successful
Ticket eight thousand one hundred
ufaety-nine drew the five thousand dol
lar gold prize.
Twenfy Persons Buried Anve-Earih-
0uake-M oman Beat 10 Death.
NEW YORK, April 30.-A Rio Janeiro
letter Of the fourth instant, states that
during the late rains landslide oc-
.-urred, which threw down the stone
wall OF q building in the nayy-yard, in,
SANITY killing twenty Wofkmen and
,younding fifty others
A Sandwich Island letter OF April
frst. saws a numbsrOf shocks of earth
ouakes had been felt in the interior Of
lie country. Tut no damage Is reported.
Richard MoseIy was arrested in Brook
lyu this morning, on the charge OF Ia
tally beating Julia Giilem last night.
WorhingmeH's Troubles
New YORK, April 3O-A special dispatch
from Providence says the mill operators
throughout Rhode Island strike to-mof-
row for ten hours work BY day or sixty
per week The movement is controlled
by the Rhode Island branch of the New
England Ven-hOur association, number
Iue nearly thirty thousand members
Phe timetable provides Recommending
work at half past six in the morning,
allows forty-fye minutes for dinner and
afopping machinery at six O'Clock in the
evening Tor the fret i've days OF the
week. and closing work saturdays at
fortv-five minutes past twelve IA the
evening.
ae.1rucfive Fire-Fatai Accident
louisville, April 30.-A fire to-day
ON she corner Of Twelfth and Market
streets. in an old frame building used as
a furniture store and factory spread 70
several adjoining buildings, including
two new three-stOry brick buildings
dqstroviug buildings and houses 10 the
amount Of thirteen thousand seven nun
dred dollars, with an insurance OF hNe
thousand dollars.
On Friday last John Baker, who hves
one mile from Wiilsbufg, Washington
county, Kentucky, fell from seaffoldi
while Notwithstanding his residence;
and died on Sunday from the injuries.
Mr.. Baker was mueh-respected 1ar-
nles
LONDON, April S0.-In the house OF
commons this afternoon, Jacob Bright
moved the second reading Of the
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