The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-03-13
THE NEWS.
KILOGRAMS CONDENSED.

AuOtuef Nlnllisl plOt III ilussld.
Elder w. S. Maupin suspended.
The Kansas Legislature is about to adj
joum.
Germany is about to quarantine against
Russia.
Gen. Blanco will be the next Governor
of Cuba.
The King of Spain Is about to dissolve
the Cortes.
VIM. Myers kills his brother George at
Houston, Texas.
Oscar Boyd accidentally shoots himself
n Washington, o.
A negro named Sam Tolson was lynch
ed at Glasgow, Mo.
Agricultural laborers at Newmarket,
England, have struck.
Jules Bastide, former French Minister
of foreign affairs is dead.
The Leadville excitement is still draw
ing thousand into Colorado.
The bonded debt of Tennessee is in
fair way of being repudiated.
The three-year-old girl of VIM. Cusick
scalded to death at Decatur, Ill.
Submarine Cable to be laid from Alden
to Zanzibar, Mauritius and Natal.
Almost the entire delegation from Mis-
souri, it is claimed, are anti-Randall.
Henry NJ. Watterson is at Washington,
working In the interest of his father
John McDougall kills his son James
while in drunken spree at New York.
NJ. Z. Priest, the champion checker
player, was defeated by Chas. Freeman.
Postmaster Luke Edmonson shoots and
kills Joe Douglass at Jacksonville, Texas.
A negro named Joel Carroll shoots a
twelve year old negro girl at Coneyville, Ky.
John Mcdonald killed while dancing
with his partner at a ball in Bsstrop, Texas.
A financial compromise instead of a dis
solution of the Reichstag, may occur at Ber-
The Radical Deputies at Paris want
fed.
There will be a splendid spring meet
ing OF the Queen City Jockey Club at Cincin-
natl.
l.. 7. Blackburn will probably be nomi-
mated by the Democrats for Governor of Ken
lucky.
A fire in Crafton's block, at Fairfield.
Iowa, destroyed five buildings. Loss not
known.
A fire at Ottumwa, Ind, DESTROYED the
$1,000.
Joel Elliot. alias Wilson. the Dallas
county, Ia, murderer, captured at Leaven-
worth, Kas.
The British General Biddulph, in India.
was attacked by two thousand natives. whom
he repulsed.
The amnesty bill. now law in France.
gives the President power to pardon all polit-
ical offenders.
Jonn H. Keedy's -four mill was burned
at South Bend. Loss estimated at $4,000. in
surance, 5000.
George Mcdonald, who attempted to
outrage Eliza Rowell. at Dallas, Tex, was cap
tured near there.
Sexton and Slosson played over an hour
and half at 3O0-point game of billiards IN
der the new rules.
At Mortified. Vermont, several build
ings were aestaoyed by fire. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000.
Baron Stauffenberg criticises sharply
AND me! unfavorably the parliamentary discipline
Hon. H. c. Burchard, of Illinois, took
the oath OF Office as Director of the MINIS and
entered upon his duties.
Geo. +: Holland, the embezzling agent
of the Chicago, Burlington 4 Quincy railroad.
captured at Davenport, La.
Russian dispatches state the plague is
abating and disappearing, DIR. Botkin TO the
contrary notwithstanding.
Net earnings of Pennsylvania Railroad
Company. east of Pittsburg, have increased
SlAl,SS2 during the last year.
The House committee on judiciary sinh
mitted unanimous report regarding the
charges against Judge Blodgett.
John Regan's residence at Galesburc.
Ill. together with the contents, destroyed by
hre. Loss, Sl,SOO; insurance $500.
Z. G. Curtis shot dead at Richmond. |
Ind, by one George Poindexter Curtis had
insulted the latters intended wife.
John Avery and Leroy Working arrest |
ed at Springfield, ILL.,, charged with the murder
OF Dr. Daniel Pearson, of Augusta, Ill.
The transfer of the Rock Island water
power to the Moline Water Power Company
passed in the sundry civil service bill.
BY the election the board of supervisors
OF hensselaer county, N. Y, stands l6 Demo-
Gratis, Il Republicans and Independent.
bismarck sends a conciliatory reply to
to the representations of the Vatican, although |
1t does not justify hopes of q speedy issue.
Murphy, Democrat, was reelected Nav |
or of Troy, N. Y, by over LOGO majority over
the Republican and Greenback candidates
Charles, the four-year-old son of Jas.
Scott, n miller at Silver Lake Ind. falls
through the ice on the lake and is drowned.
The Nine Set Wooden Mil, in Glen
dale, Burrillville, r. l., was sold at auction
for four dollars and membranes, amounting
to $4,000.
The river and harbor bill has passed.
1t contains the Eads amendment, adopting
complished.
While pleuro-pneumonia is alleged TO
exist in the United States, the regulations un-
der the contagious disease act will not be re-
scinded in England.
McFadden, charged with the murder of
Winfield Scott at Indian Grove School House.
ILL.,, found guilty of granddaughter and SEN
tenoed to the penitentiary for seventeen years.
special message was received In the
New York Senate from the Governor recon-
mendlng the removal of John +. Smyth, Super.
lntendenf of the Insurance Department of the
State.
In the New York delegation Sam Cox
claims that he will be able 10 divide the Demo-
Gratis and that Fernando Wood, who il is said
sold out the delegation in the last contest for
Speaker, will not be able to repeat the opera
ton.
The proviso in the fifth section of the
ietter-csrrier act has been held by the Assist
ant attorney general fer the post office depart
ment to apply only to the establishment of
discontinuance of the free delivery system. II
WAS not intended TO affect the pay of letter
carriers Is fixed by the act
2LvTH CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the Sd, Mr.. Allison
made n report from the committee on the leg
i.iatve, execution and judicial appropriation
bill, that they were unable TO agree. He said
the committee cculd agree upon every question |
IN the bill except political questions. Il might
- well be understood that the question of an |
extra sessisn depends on political questions in