The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-26
MISSOURI.
DeSperadOes i'm the West.

ST. LOUIS, May 26.-Thirty despera-
does took possession of Caddo station on
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad,
but they were driven off and the distur-
bance quelled by troops from Fort Gibson.
Telegraph Summary.
Receipts from internal revenue on Satur
day were $685., 1920.
Treasurer Spinner's oldest daughter is
dying of cancer at Buffalo.
The President will attend the ball at
West Point on the 18th of June.
DR.. Ruppenar has been reinstated as a
Vienna commissioner.
Ninety-five thousand five hundred and
nineteen dollars in specie was shipped
from New York on Saturday.
The Masons have decided to receive the
remains Of the late Minister Orr ul on their
arrival in New York.
The members of the cabinet and the civil
service board had a consultation on Satur-
day in reference to the duties of the board.
The council of ministers in postponing
the election in Cuba for deputies to the
constituent cortes, fixed on no day when
the voting shall take place.
The Prince of Wales is visiting his sister,
the Princess Alice, at Darmstadt.
Elaborate preparations are being made
in Rome for the funeral of Count Manzoni
and the ceremonies are expected to be of a
most imposing character.
The Carlists deny the statement that a
number of volunteers who surrendered at
Sanahuja were butchered. They state
that they now hold all prisoners captured
in no 30
them for Carlists in the hands of the
Spanish authorities.
Alexander Mitchell, member of Congress
from the Milwaukee district, has returned
his Portion of the salary grab to the nation
al treasury.
A.. S. Abel, son and two daughters,
have sailed from Baltimore in the Leipzig on
visit to the Vienna Exposition.
j. M. Baileau, of Bucks county. Penn
sylvania, has committed suicide by drown.
ing. He was deranged, having failed in tht
lumber trade.
The new board of police commissioners
of New York city have removed Superin-
tendent Kelso, by vote of four to one,
and elected George Matsell, who was
superintendent of police sixteen years ago.
James A. Coe, the Boston forger, has
filed in bankruptcy denial of the charge
that he made fraudulent conveyances tc
battle his creditors. The case will go to
the jury at the next term.
The last statement of the New York
banks shows the following: Loans, in.
crease, 81 III 900; specie, decrease, &c.,
800; legal tenders, decrease, $349, 300 T;
deposits, increase 81 ,92S 200; circulation
increase, 81 900. There is loss in re-
serve of 1898, 800.
White & Co., Albany; S. w. Barnard {
Co., New York; 0. Richards & Sons, Sand,
Hill ). R. w. Adams & Co., New York
Dodge & Co., New York; Page & Co., Os
| wego; G. Il. Nichols & Co., Albany; tn,
Williamsburg mill and lumber company
Chambers & Co., Cleveland /; Watson &
Twitchell, Chicago Barton & Spencer
Elizabeth, and Il. A. Lorilard, Chicago
all extensive dealers IN lumber, and mem
bers of the combination to control the cen
trail northern lumber market, have failed
Liabilities are 100000. s
The war department has received infor
nation that the post of Fort Abraham
Lincoln, Dakota territory, was attacked By
about one hundred Sioux Indians about
O'Clock p. m. May z. After skrmishin.
for about two hours the Sioux retreated
The troops lost three horses killed, wound
ed and captured, but no men. The Siou
lost two horses and one man. There ar
no calvary at Fort Abraham Lincoln 0
present, but some are en- route.
| Two corpses have been found near MOI
resa, in Barcelona, with placard on each 9
them bearing the words, "Killed while al
= tempting to assassinate Don Alfonso" Th