Nebraska advertiser., 1874-12-31
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

At Memphis, Tenn, recently, Ben
Scott shot and killed John Ransom
while engaged in fight. Both col
ored.
At Evansville, Indiana, on the oath
inst. an attempt was made to rob Jas.
A. Robinson, hog buyer, near Fort
Branch. He was shot twice, one ball
lodging in q package of money in his
breast coat pocket, another passing
through the skirt Of bis overcoar.
An express wagon run over Mrs.
Moore in Nashville, Tenn, on the
9th, breaking her arms, legs, and
crushing her head, fatally injuring
her.
Secretary Delano has written let
ter to the Secretary of War, in which
he says that the Black Hills country
is secured by treaty to the Sioux In
dians, and respectfully request that
the most effective measureB within
the power of The War Department
may be adopted towards all persons
making encrOachments upon said ter
ritory, and that all intruders be pur-
sued, orertaken and expelled from it.
Joseph Morris, an old citizen OF
Marion county. Indiana, was killed
on the 23rd inst. while attempting TO
cross a railroad track in front of a
train.
The suit of Josephine Mansfield
against the estate of the late James
Fisk, Jr., to recover the value Of two
promissory notes, with interest,
amounting altogether to S25, GOO. re-
suited in favor of the plaintiff.
Near Jonesboro, Wisconsin, on the
oath inst. a Howe's truss bridge gave
way beneath freight train, throw
ing the engine and eight cars into the
river. Quite number of persons
were on the train, but remarkable as
it may appear, no one was seriously
hurt.
A DR.. Roy. of st. Paul, was recent
ly arrested and sent to Jail for per-
forming an abortion on the person of
Mrs. Jennie Williams.
Daniel Mara, farmer of Eau Clair,
Wisconsin, was recently shot and Sc
riously wounded while sitting near
table reading. The assassin shot
through a window. A man named
Bill Campbell is suspected Of COM
mitting the crime.
Jas. Walker, d. D., formerly Pres
ident of Harvard College, died at
Cambridge on the 23rd inst, aged so
years.
The wealth left by the late Mayor
Havemeyer, of New York City. is es-
timated at about S., 900 900.
A German living near Clarinda, To-
wa, few days ago. whipped his little
girl, twelve years old, to death, be-
cause she could not repeat her lesson
to him on her return from school. Af-
ter the child was dead and the mon
ster saw what he had done he attempt
ed to escape, but fortunately was ar
rested and placed in Jail. 1t is won
der that his neighbors do not hang
him on the nearest tree.
At DeKalb, Mo-, on Christmas day,
]. B. Spratt and his son, and John
Brown engaged in fight, and Brown
shot Spratt in the cheek, making a
serious wound, when young Spratt
drew his pistol and shot Brown in
the breast, but the ball glancing, he
was not dangerously hurt.
In Caldwell county, Missouri, on
the 25th, G. w. Henderson while.
hunting accidentally shot and in
stantly killed himself. He leaves a
wife and child.
On Christmas day, says the st. Joe
Herald, at Chillicothe, Mo, q colored
man, named Dan Skinner, celebrated |
the occasion by drinking three pints
of "rot-gut" whisky without stop
ping. He accomplished the feat sue
and died in few minutes
thereafter.
A boy named VIM. Mcpherson, at
Osborne, Mo-, was accidentally killed
while out hunting.
Jacob Neiswander, living fifteen
miles north Of Columbus, Ohio. Is
supposed to have been murdered and
,remated. He left home nearly three
weeks ago, and was invisible until
last, when he was seen 60
ng towards his home with q satcheI.
He again disappeared, and this week
lis family deserted the premises. The
leighbors made an investigation in
he house, and found bones in large
lesp of ashes in q fre-place.I Two
ons of the missing man have been
lrrested; they are boys fourteen and [
Eighteen years old. There had been
In the e)family, and one of {
he boys confessed to having wound |