The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-07-31

!. rang Belmont, burglar, who escaped
LON the tsneen county iaii. was rec,p,nrsd
view iorS early YESTERDAY morning
sitter short chase, during which he frsS
twice at the officer. "e'
William Highfll, an oil and all.
known farmer OF Harrison COUNTY Ind w,.
bitten BY copperhesd snake d,v 49,.
yerterdsv while working in a field and lid
in dreadful agony. ''
BY the fail Of scafoldiny at Pitts
burg, Pa, James Charles, q painter. w,s
immediately killed, Aleck Nugent was
also fatally injured and Robt. Charles, son
OF j ames, seriously injured.
An Ottawa, Canada, dispatch say:
A general satisfaction is expressed at the
happy termination of the Orange demon
stratlon yesterday. VIM. Johnston, of Ire
isnd. has been chosen President Of the
order.
The British Nova Scotisnl ship 81.
Btaarts, Captain Burns, from New York
June 81, via Falmouth July is. for Ant
werp, mas been wrecked at flushing The
captain, pilot and five OF the crew were
drowned.
5. McNabb convicted of bigsmy. for
having procured Utah divorce, was ye.-
terdsy, at Warren, Ohio, sentenced to i'm
Prisonment, at hard labor in the penitenii-
airy, Tor one year, commencing with the irs,
day of his term.
Much excitement existed in FORSYTH
fancy county, Mo-, day before yesterday
over the death a little girl, aged five wears,
caused by an inhumsn whipping admin
istertd by her step father named HAYES.
who was committed to jsI to await an in
vestigstion Of the case.
The Omaha Hrdd has published te,e-
grams from twelve important agricultural
centres in Nebraska showing that the b,r-
vest is almost completed The corn CROP ia
Unprecedented and the crop of wheat and
| barley is unusually heavy. Nebraska will.
| on the whole, send out more corn and grain
than at any previous year.
-E1wsrd NJ. Catterton, a Young man II
years OF age, residing at Elba Centre, Knox
| county, I'LL, who WAS thrown from his horse
last Tuesday, died, after lying unconscious
twenty-four hours. The accident occurred
IN the yard OF his home The horse be
came unmansgeable and threw him back
ward to the ground, crushing his skull.
| Edward III. MAY, an eminent divine of
Il - ~, Htlu Inc ticket which
Grew the sloooo prize in the Kentucky
State lottery, and has signifed hi. inten.
ton OF applying portion of the money In
the building oil a church for his people, but
his Pensioners decline to accept the dops-
ton and propose to dispense with his ser
| vices.
At Bernadotte, ILL.,, on last SATURDAY.
evening, Stephen Joy fatally stabbed Dr. s.
ID HaIl n. 4
over q horse trade. Joy surrendered him
self to await the seton of the law. He WAS
at once taken to Lewistown by the deputy
sheriff OF the county, as fears were enter
tanned that an attempt would be made to
lynch him.
| -Speci ais from South Africa say when
the troops entered Ulundi they found every-
thing Of value removed to a new kraal
built by Cetewsyo when the war
broke cut fifteen miles north Of Ulundi and
approached only through a long and
narrow rsvine. King Cetewsyo has some
J Of his chief regiments with him ~ body
guard and correspondents doubt if be will
Immediately come to terms
An alteration arose yesterday between
two employees in Ingram, Kennedy Il Dsy'.
, sswmiil, at Dubuque, Iowa, in which Viii
liam WEIGH, youth of nineteen, -eiz u a
turnspike and dealt Delphos Gauge n fear
full blow on the head, fracturing the skull,
and rendering him unconscious, with fatal
results probable. WEIGH has fled, but Off
GERS are on his track. WEIGH wa. recently
; released from the State reform school.
An sfirsv, resulting in the death OF
/, one man, occurred in a house 81 bad char
scter, near Fateville, Ky, last night A
r colored man named William Riley entered
! the house end found another msn, named
Hill, Ell joying the society of his girl and il
enrsgsd him 20 fhqt he began 10 stab and
shoot until he inflicted wounds on Hill that
proved fatal few hOnrs after. lie then
escaped, but is supposed to he hidden in u
wood near bv.
The compilations made at the National
Bureau OF Statistics but not yet pubii-hedl
, TOR the eleven months ending May ~, 1879.
dIscl"se the fact that for the hrst time 1T
the history Of the country the exporta ion Of
breadstuff4 has exceeded in vsiue that OF
, cotton and tobacco, the two staples Of the
South, con bin-d. The following are the
Il ures Bresd-tufls, SI92 GIO OO0; cotton,
$4,000 600; provisions, slO1 900, tobacco,
So 100000.
Daniel Rex, OF West Newton, Ohio.
Was arrested, charged with seduction, and
arraigued DAY before yesterday. The suit
was brought by Mrs. A Highly, whose mai
In name was Lizzie Porter, she having
only been marrisd week She says Rex
promised 10 marry her some time ago, and
accomplished her ruin, and it WAS discov-
cred after her marriage with Highly that
she was in an interesting condition and will
become mother in about four months.
Tuesday morning, about five miles
from Eliz ,berhtown, Ky, William H..
Morgan shot his father in law, William
Weller, through both hips, the wound be-
ing very dangerous and possibly fatal
From all that can be gathered about the
shooting, Weller has been trying to get
Morgan's wife to leave him, and some time
since she did leave. This morning Weller
went over to Morgan'- and attacked him
with big club, knocking him down, and
while on hi. back Morgan fired shot which
wounded Weller.
| A warrant has been issued for the ar
rest of Captain Morrimony Of the the bark
/ John Set'osen, who on the voysge from
/ Bremen Haven put in irons five Of his crew
and placed them in the half deck, three and
a half feet high, keeping them forty hours
| without food or water, and the remainder
of the time imprisoned them from three to
| twelve days on a meagre supply OF biscuit
| and water. The entire crew consisted Of
eight seamen and boy, and the complain
| ing seamen say that their of-nse was that
they asked for watch or alternate four
| hours for rest.
| While attempting to cross the railroad