The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-07-20
HERE AND TltERp.


A HeayylcweIry Robbery AtLoug Branch
Ohio and Kentucky Murders General
Merritt lnterccpis Ib0 Indians En-
Route for Sitting Bull.
SE LOUIS, July l0-rhe Southtn
Hotel Of this city Bro.liu ~ Darling
/ Pforri'Iors, has reduced the price OF
board 10 four dollars per day
LoN0 BRANcu, July ~. The coltag,
of George y, Pullman was robbed OF
diamonds and jcwelry valued at two
thousand five hundred doJlar lat
evening Tho thieves cn.otd the
sleeping apartments Of Mrs. Pullman,
where The property was kept in a
bureau drawer, In the same drawer
there were three thousand dollag'
worth Of jewels which the thieves
failed to secure,
t,NcNNATg, July 10 Aluuso An.
derson, ooiorcj, shot his wife, lat
might In II tit Of jealousy aud his
motbcr.iu law interfering, was shot in
the abdomen, and will probably die.
Tho Queen City Club House, the
largest building Of the kind west of the
AlleghanIes, was formally opened 10.
day
NEW loRh, July l9.--phe habeas
corpus in the case of Justus Roths.
childs, arrested On the requlsitiun of
the Governor ui Missouri ON charge
Of cmpe11lement, was dismissed aud
the prisoner sent TO Missouri.
ClNclNNAu, July 10. Negr Vance.
burg. Kentucky yesterday, Washing
ton Lee, while passing the farm of
Robert Ellis, shot and killed ellis,
who was working in field by the
roadside, Lee wns arrested and taken
to Jail lie gave as u reason for shoot.
ing Ellis that u criminal intimacy eX-
listed between Ellis and his wife. l.aat
night mob oi several hundred peo-
pie took Lee from Jail and hung him.
CHICAGO, July 10, --Emoy a. Storrs,
counsel for llesing and several other
indicted distillers, left for Washing.
ton this morning with a petition
signed by four to five thousand oiti.
Heus of thia city, many of them prom.
inent, asking executive clemcucy for
his clients,
The Board Of Trade to-day adopted
IL resolution in regard TO the con
tinuance Of the fast mail service be-
tween the Eastern and Western cities,
which urgently requests Congress 10
provide at once, by supplemental legis-
latlou, for the continuance Of this
branch of the postal service, at least
on all lines where 1t is at present in
operation, and directs that the resolu-
ton, etc, be forwarded to the House Of
Representatives and to the Postmaster
General,
CHICAGO, July l9.--Brick Pomeroy
this afternoon issued the first edition
Of M anti-Tilden Democratic paper
under the name OF The Great Cam
Iaign. 1t will be published daily, and
while, as it says, 1t is untrsmmeled by
party, it will represent
reform (?) and will oppose
the st. Louis Convention nominations.
1t viii insist on the repeal Of the Re-
Act and ON paper currency,
and will bitterly oppose Tilden ~ be-
ing a tool of rammany and unfit for
the representative Of the American
people. The first edition names no
candidate for President.
CHICAGO, July 10. Mayor Heath en-
tered on the performance Of his duties
to-day without opposition on the part
of Colvin, who acquesces in the sltua-
ton.
NEW YORK, July l0.-rhe executive
committee Of union soldiers and sailols
have called convention to he held in
indianapolis, September 20, to express
sentiments in favor OF principles con-
tended for on flood and field, and to
endorse the standard bearers of the
party which sustained the Union in its
efforts to preserve II while endangered
by domestic foes.
ST. LOUIS, July l0.-The Democratic
State convention met in Jefferson City
shortlo after ten o'clock this morning,
and was called to order by Judge =. A.
Gilbert, chairman of the State central
committee. After n brief address, he
nominated James n. Burns, OF st. Jo-
seph, for temporary chairman of the
convention. Mr.. Burns was elected
and made short speech on taking the
chair, after which committees on ere.
dentials aud resolutions were chosen,
and the Convention adjourned until
two O'clock.
Lines down between Dallas and st.
Louis. --ED.