The Worthington advance., 1879-05-29
THE WORLDS DOINGs.
An OLD CRIMINAL CASE

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AN OLD CRIMINAL CASE. W"
In New York city,, May %, William
4. Gray, we'll known Oh Wall street decade
ago, and extradited from England, was place.
| on trial on the charge Of forgery The in(ict
mcnt was found the 18th Of December, 1862
\ CABINET MEMBER TO BE JUDGE.
tits stated Secretary of War McCrar,
has decided to accept tho position of United
States circuit judge for the Eighth district, tc
be made vacant by the resignation of Judge
Dillon, but will not leave the cabinet before
the lst of September next
sHooTINF AFFRAy.
"A special from Culpcppcr, Va, says
In a difficulty here May g., between D. NJ
Rcam, editor of the Culpepper Times, Phillip
Jones and G. ". Jameson, Rerm was shot
in the abdomen and is Thought fatally wound
cd. Jones received a ball in his shoulder,
" INTERPRETATION.
William Newson, colored, was scn-
fenced at Terrc Haut Ind, May 20, to the peni-
tertiary one year and a fine of 81 600, for mar
rying white woman. The prosecution origi-
mated in spite, but hc was convicted under an
Old law of 1856, which Judge Long held to be
valid through a decision of the supreme court.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.
Washington telegram May o2::-The
President has nominated Eugene Schuyler, of
New York, consul general at Rome Consuls
-J. A. Lewis, Sierra Leone, at that place; Viii
son King, Pennsylvania, at Birmingham; VIM.
+. Grinncll, New York, at Bremen; Alex Nc
Lean, New Jcsrey, at Guayaquil.
SILVER PURCHASES.
The secretary of the treasury Nav 21
accepted bids for $4,000 ounces of silver for the
New Orleans mint, and 100000 ounces for the
mint at San Francisco. Owing to an advance
i'll the London market, due probably to reports
Of the action of the German government in re-
lation to the sale of silver bullion, higher
price was paid by the treasury for the plr-
hascs.
OUTLAWS AT THEIR WORK.
Information from the Indian tcrritory
is to the effect that part Of the Canadian river
valley i'll the Chickasaw nation is infested with
lawlcss white men, who are dcprcdating npon
the property OF Indians and violating their
personal rights, and if the government does
not protect the Indians and put stop to the
unlawful invasion there will be very serious
trouble.
REQUESTS OF ASA PACKER.
The will of Judge Asa Packer, who re-
Gently, died at Philadelphia was read
ut AllentownPa., May -, in
the Probate Office. 1t beaucastlles
for permanent indemnity Of Lchigh uniycrsi.
ty, Bethlehem 81, 10000; for library for the
university, s5Oo,O0O; to st. I.ukc's hospital
Bethlehem, $:a>0O0O; St. Marks Episcopal
church, Mauch Chunk, $4,000. Several be.
quests are kept private for the present
HEADING OFF TIE sQATTERR.
~ special from Ninita, Indian Territory
says two companies of United States troops
under Major J. 4. Wilcox, Fourth cavalry, arc
quartcred there to prevent squatters entering
the Territory. Soldiers arc constantly at tho
railroad depot, and all persons arriving with
the intention of going OH government land are
escorted out of the Territory Major Wilcox
says in marching over hundred miles in the
Territory he met but a few squattcrs, and
those were removed
INFANT MURDER.
a horrible murder was committed in
the town of Kewaskum, Wis, on the afternoon
OF May ~, by q farmer named Nicholas Alten-
hoefcr beating out the brains of a six-wecks.
old child, by knocking its head against the
wall and cutting the scalp open with picture
| frame. f1c then carried the dead infant two
miles to priest and acknowledged the crime
The coroner's jury found verdict in accord
with the facts, and declared him insane The
| insanity is the result Of endorsing paper for
his brother NJ. Altenhefer who failed last
spring, rendering him homeless and almost a
paupcr.
ATTEMPTED 1YNCH1NG.
VIM. Allen alias Storey, Of St. Louis,
who cloped with Jennie Atchlcy, wife of farm
er Of Batavia, Ohio, a few days since, was
captured in Cincinnati and placed in Jail at
Batavia. AT an early hour the morning of
May ~ mob entered the Jail, seized Storey,
placed rope around his neck and hung him
on one of the timbers Of the bridge. After
hanging few moments the rope broke, and
Storey dropped into the river, succeeded in
gaining the shore, when he was taken to a
hotel where he now lies in bed in bruised
condition.
AN INDIAN HUNG.
At Shasta, California May %, Indian
Jack was hung for the murder OF Il Chnaman
last September The murder was committed
out of pure deviltry without the motive ofpas.
sion, gain, or revenge. The execution was
witnessed by some fifty Indians, friends of the
condemned, besides number Of white spccta-
tors. Between two and three hundred Indians
congregatcd outside the court yard and kept
up fearful howlng and tearing of hair during
the execution, but no hostile demonstration
occurred Jack preserved tho Indian stoldity
and died without a struggle
RAIN IN WISCONSIN.
Coplous rains reaching nearly through
out all the agricultural portions of the State
fell on the night of May "A doing an almost
incalculable amount OF good to the growing
crops. The rain continued three or four
hours in perfect sheets. The farmers are now
IN high hopes for a bountiful crop. The
heavy fall Of rain washed out small bridge
on the Prairie Du CHEN division of the st
Paul road, near Boscobcl. A freight train ran
into it and the engine and foilr cars ditched
VIM. Newell, engineer, was badly scallcd, but
will recover. The bridge was promptly re-
paired.
VISIT OF THE DUKE OF ARGYLE.
The Duke Of Argyle, the father of the
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