Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08

who died recently in Canada, left by viii 8
fund of $202 900 for the benefit of the COM
mon schools of Vermont. AZ
r. WEST AVID SOUTH.
The West Virginia Legislature, by. joint
ballot on the 26th, elected II. G. DAVIS
United States Senator for the long term and
F. Hereford for the short term-both Dem
ocrats. q.
/. Hon. Ben. Hill has been elected, United
States Senator from Georgia. =
VIM. K. Neil was hanged az Albany,
Oregon, on the Goth, for the murder. of Seth
w. Hayes. e
W. w. Christian and VIM. Howell were
both instantly killed by the bursting Of an
agitator at the Standard Oil. Company's BE-
finery, Cleveland, Ohio, on the 26rh.. re
Mr.. j. Harris, a respectable citizen of
Blue Creek Township, was assaulted by a
negro named Cutler, near Paulding, Ohio,
on the oath, and dubbed and stabbed to
death. The negro escaped, and the cause
of the killing was unknown.
VIM. r. Messick, Democratic Seriff-elect
of Avoyelles Parish, La, was shot and kill.
ed on the 27th by Policeman McMahon. who
claims he only fired to brighten, not to in
jure, the deceased.
Judge Mackey, of the South Carolina Su-
preme Court, on the 9th, granted a pre-
liminary injunction restraining State Treas
urer Cardozo and Comptroller-Gen Dunn,
respectively, from drawing any warrants or
paying out funds from the State Treasury,
under the appropriation bill passed by the
Mackey House at its late session, upon the
UrOJJn6 that tho hnHU which nrntonHa1 70
originate and pass 1t was not the legal
House Of Representatives.
At Memphis, Tenn. on the night of the
Goth, Robert Gibson, Deputy United States
Marshal, from Carroll County, was shot ma
almost instantly killed by Robert DrurY..
The father of Drury is under indictmer s
for issuing counterfeit money, and Gibson
was the principal witness against him..
Drury fled and had not been arrested up to
the following day. He had just served a
term in the Penitentiary for counterfeiting.
Sheriff w. p. Wallace, of Cincinnati,
was arrested on the Goth, on a United States
warrant charging him with f~raudulently
and corruptly procuring the escape Of c..
w. Young, under indictment for illegal
voting at the October election, and an i'm
portant witness in contested cases now on
trial.
Mr.. G. D. Whips, proprietor Of the Will
lard Hotel at Louisville, KY, on the morn
ing Of the Goth shot and fatally wounded
Mr.. John w. Stockton, superintendent of
the hotel. The shooting was the result OF
an alteration regarding the management of
the house. Stockton died on the following
day. Whips was held to bail in the sum of
$40, 900.
Lawrence Mack, a bar-keeper at the The
ater Comique in st. Louis, was shot and
instantly killed at an early hour on the
morning Of the 2Sth, by VIM. Wiener. a
private Waterman, at the same establish
ment. Mack was a quiet, inoffensive young
man, and the shooting appears to have been
the result of a drunken frenzy on the part
of the murderer. r..
The Academy of Music at indianapolis
was destroyed by fire on the night Of the
21ths Loss from $50, 900 to $500, 900, par
tiafiy Insured.
sT'he physicians of~Chicago held a meeting
on the 18th, to devise means for checking
the present alarming spread Of scarlet fever
and diphtheria in that city, ID I'D
Four men were killed by a boiler explosion
in a saw-miTl near Eaton, Ind, on the 25th.
Gen. John Mcdonald, chief of the former
st. Loiis Whisky Ring, has been ~ppArdoned
by the President ON the ground Of i'll health,
and is now at liberty. - / ~
The South Carolina Supreme Court, on
the Goth, rendered a decision ia the quo
a~Hslgaatos pssessdiagsxagainst the Hayes
electors Fdisnn issing tAefa ses senI the ground
that the proceedings were inegaIly present.
ed On the part of the State, instead of the
United States.
A peddler called at the house of S. s..
Chalfant, near Thornville, Ohio, on the
night of the Goth, and obtained permits
sion to lodge over night. During the night
he chloroformed the entire family and ran
sacked the house, carrying off 5000 in mon
ey and $35 900 in drafts. The robber was
tracked to Lancaster, but not a~pprehended.
:. WI. Hardy, the defeated candidate for
Congressional Delegate from Arizoaa, has
the Supreme Court of that Terri
tory to compel the Secretary to r~ecanvass
the vote. ...
Two rival saloon keepers at Hot Creek,
Wyoming, had a serious shooting affray on
the Goth. Daniel Perry was wounded in the
breast, and head, and j. Ell. Price, bis an
was seriously wounded in the leg. |
A collision between the whites and blacks |
occurred at Timmonsville, Darlington
County, s. c., on the 28th, brought about
assassination by some unknown par
ty; on the preceding night, of B. o. Hol-
the Republican Trial Justice. The
blacks and whites both armed, AM the re-
suit of the encounter was that two whites