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WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

Thirteen frame buildings on Marke
Street, Galveston, Texas, were burned OF
the 9th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Chapman, the notorious land-title swind.
Ter, who has been in Jail nearly a year a
Urbana, ILL.,, awaiting trial on charges
against him, pleaded guilty to five count.
and has been sentenced to 20 years in the
Penitentiary. He has operated largely il
the Northwest.
The wife of eX-Congressman Vance, Of
Cincinnati, has received dispatch from San
Francisco, stating that her husband, who
mysteriously disappeared few weeks since
is in that city and insane.
Rev. w. J. Shannon, pastor of the Con-
gregational Church at Emporia, Kansas,
was accidentally shot and killed on the 9th,
by one of the militiamen who were called
out by the Governor to suppress the railroad
strikers.
The war between the Chicago and st.
Louis railroads composing the late South
western Rate Association is now fairly in
augurated and rates to Missouri Riverpoints
are being reduced to unprecedentedly low
figures.
1t is reported from Santa Fe, New Mexico,
that William Brady, Sheriff of Lincoln COun-
", in that territory, and his deputy, Hind
man, were, on the LIST instant, shot and kill
ed 10y party of four men of the two factions
now and for some time past at deadly war
They were waylaid and assassinated from
behind stOne-wall. -Four men, including
United States Deputy Marshal Weiderman,
were arrested and held by the military COM
mandant at Fort Stanton.
The Oregon Greenbackers have full State
ticket in the field, headed by NJ. wilkins for
Governor, and have nominated Prof. J. f.
Campbell for Congress.
The Iowa State Convention Of Greenback-
ers was held at Des Moines on the 10th, and
full State ticket placed in nomination,
headed by E. NJ. Farnsworth, of Winnesheik,
for Secretary of State. The platform adopt
ed is substantially the same as that adopted
by the National Convention.
The annual report of pork-packing in the
West, prepared by the Cincinnati Price
Current, shows the total winter packing for
ISIS to be 6,505,0O pounds, being gain Of
100000 pounds over the preceding season.
The total production of barreled pork was
1913, sos barrels, an increase Of 81, 101: aggre-
gate packing for - months, ending March l,
was 9,04S,5 hogs. The winter product of
lard was 761, 1872 tierces; Of cured meats, in
Guiding barreled product, 9SO,OOO,OOO
pounds.
G. X. Clark, Jr., the Detroit grain specu-
lator who lately fed to Canada, has returned
TO that city, and effected a satisfactory set
Element with his creditors.
A negro named Dening, employed by
farmer named MCGUIRE, in Walker County, |
Texas, induced his employers daughter, |
handsome girl of Il, to elope with him to |
Houston. The girls brother, accompanied |
by an officer, followed up the fugitives, and |
they were brought back, the negro being
lodged in a vacant house and secured by a
chain around his neck attached to a staple
in the floor. On the night OF the 9th mob
Of about 20 armed men proceeded TO the
Jail, and, forcing it open, fred the
contents Of their guns into the body Of the
prisoner, which was entirely riddled with
buckshot.
George Heaton, prominent and wealthy
;tock-raiser OF MeLennan County, Texas,
Was shot and killed by an unknown assassin,
lear his home, on the evening Of the 9th.