New Orleans Republican., 1873-06-01
MISCELLANEOCS.

Return of General Davis from his Scout
with the MOdOcs No Results - New
Trials Granted Memphis Murderers-
A Murderer Commits sSuicide1Swedeu.
bOrgian Convention in Cincinnati
Omaha Selected the Central Depot
of the Union Pacific Railroad-Arrest
and suicide Of One Of the Bender Gang.
SAN Francisco, May 3l.-General Davis
has returned from his scout on which five
Modocs led him. No results. Captain
Jacks adherents are mounted and armed.
The total number of MOdoc prisoners are
nineteen braves, twenty-tlree squaws and
thirty children.
PHILADELPHIA, May 3l-The Athletics
defeated the Atlantics at base ball by
score Of 10 to 5.
MEMPHIS, May 81. In the Supreme
Court at jackson, to-day, in the case of
Charles Clinton, for the murder of his wife,
and Lewis Sturgeon, for killing the boy
Johnny Murphy, last summer, both of
whom were sentenced to death, the court
has granted Clinton new trial, and af'
| tirmed the decision in the case of Sturgeon,
who will be hanged.
BALTIMORE, May 3l-James Gibson. col!
| ored, indicted for killing his paramount with
| hatchet, was to-day convicted Of murder
| in the first degree.
NASHVILLE, May 3l.-The negro who out
ragged and then crushed a widow lady skull
| in Rutherford county, ia in Jail. If she dies
which is probable, the people will hang the
| negro.
LOUISVILLE, May 3l.7Ben Schobe, who
killed Ben Quarish, at Bowling Green,
| Kentucky, recently, committed suicide in
| that place last night. He was driven to the
deed by remOrse.
CINCINNATI, ONO, May 3l.-At the morn
| ing session Of the ministerial conference Of
| New Jerusalem Church, now in session here,
| a committee was appointed to prepare new
| liturgy. The annual address was delivered
| by Rev w. II. Benade, of Pittsburg, on tbs
| authority of SwedenbOrg. Afternoon was
| principally devoted to discussion of the
| address.
| OMAHA, May 3l.-The president Of the
| Union Pacific Railroad Company issued an
order yesterday for the erection of depot
and general Offices for the company at
Omaha. This settles the long agitated
| question between Council Bluffs and
| Omaha.
| Boston, May 3l.-In the game OF base
ball today between the Bostons and ths
! Mutuals of New York, the former weSe size
torious by score of l6 to
| The falling walls killed five persons yoso
| terday.
CHICAGO, May 3l-An accident &C tSe
| decoration yesterday killed two persons.
| Parsons, Kansas, May 81. - County
Attorney Ward returned yesterday trore
Texas, with the body of Nicholas .Mouino
or Marion, supposed to have been az
accomplice of the Bender family, tho
Kansas assassins at Denison. He made
some important confessions, and promised
to tell all he knew about the Benders
when he reached this city; but when neae
| AtOka station, Indian Territory he shot
himself in the head with revolver, inficIe
iag wound from which he died. Ct seems
certain that the Benders are now in Texase
making their way to the Rio GSan!S So
| cross into Mexico.
Weather Report4
| WAR DEPARYn1HD O.
| ONCE Chief Signal Officer, ;
| Washington. May 81, 1873. as p. !. y
| PROBABILITIES.
| Fo, the North west, and thence to Missouri
| northeasterly and sOutheasterly winds, diminish
| ing pressure. and increasingly clOudt
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