The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-10-16

The clerks in the treasury department
have besn allowed ten days vacation, on full
pay. 10 30 home fnr the election.
Secretary Evarts and Gen. Sherman are
back In Warrington.
CRDR.
On Wednesday night the east bound
Ohioaeo & Alton tfain was stopped ut Glen
and the safe Of the United States express COM
pany v.s robbed BY party Of NAKED men
numbering about eighteen or twenty. A. the
train drew up TO the platform three or four
men stood guard over the engineer, Others were
stationed along the sides of the tain while
four or Eve bfoke open the door of the express
car. The express messenger attempted to g.
the head With revolver and told him to op~n
tho safe. The robbers pocketed its entire con-
tents. estimated 1t about $4,000. After break
ing the telegraph instruments in the station
the robbers all mounted their horses and with
shout, galloped OF southeast and soon dissp-
peared in the shadows of the heavy timber
which surrounds the place where the robbery
vas committed. Upon examining the track
for little way ahead the train men found .
large pile Of big stones heapcd mp between
ths raila, showing that il they had attempted
% run through without stopping they would
have been dttchod.
Two men, near Belmont O., named
James Powell and James Travis, while hunt
ing, Saturday, quarrelcd, when Powell struck
Travis three times over the bead With gun.
and left him in an insensible condition. He
died from his injuries. Powell was immedi-
ately put under arrest, and Ut . preliminary
bearing was bound over 70 the court, and on
giving bail was released. He Was found hang
ing By the neck In his own stable next morn
ing dead.
Peter McManus, q Mollie Mcguire, is
be banged ThursdAy, made . statement, i'm
plioating Canning and Rhuads, the principal
witnesses for the commonwealth, In the muir
der Of Helper. Tho statement says Rhoas-
struck . fatal blow With hammer. Rhoads
vs. tried some yoars ego Tor the murder OF
Nm. Chambefiin. Canning denies the truth
Of the statement.
Walker Kilgore, of Audrain county,
Ao., Was found guilty Of murder in the frst
degree On tho 9Th. He waylaid and shot his
cousin, Dan Willingham. last January. The
Jury was out about three hours. Kilgore il
only about twenty three years old. The trouble
was about the hauling Of c,rn-fodder. Klgore
y sure to hang.
Bail in the case Of the President AMI
Diroston Of the defunct Consolidated Bank
Of Montreal was fixed at q 900 for each prin-
ChYoA, WIN tWO OO0Oun0cu IN Tue 08UnS AMOUNT.
IL b stated that bills of indictment arc being
prepared against the Directors and General
uaaasefs Of the 0echanics' Bank.
Henry Evans, Republican ex-council-
man Of Wilmington, Del, who has contested
the election Of James Carmichael. Democrat,
TO tho council, has been arrested on five
charges Of Libel, preferred by persons whom
be alleged TO be illegal voters.
Thirteen tramps armed with missiles
boarded . train on the Maine Central railroad
and de6ed the conductor % Dust them. After
running some distance the train halted on an
iron bridge, help was called for, and the ruff
cans left the cars.
The inquest held or the body of James
Bryant, whose death Was Suspicious, resulted
in . verdict that Bryant died from poison i'd
ninisteFed BY Dr.. @. ". Turney, Of wsoo,
Texa.. II IL said Turnoy gave Bryant strych-
nine BY mistake.
Robt. Crosby shot and killed, in cold
blood, Charles France, ct . negro dance 1t
Briagetsn, st. Louis county, ct IN early hour
on the 9Th, and then attempted 70 shoot Val
entine Walker, but failed. Crosby was arrest
cd.
Zach&riah Waller, q convict, serving q
term of forty years for murder ct jefferson
City attempted to regain his liberty BY jump
ingintO the river. Tho guards fired ct him, and
oo t0Iuo0 ouo W." O0Ck 70 INC I800Iu&s
p,Lh -. -. -....J a. en-
Daoo nas oeen sSntenceu 70 MIty
nah S mem %u y. ~ ot snotnsf nesr S 10 rex
and her sou. and deiibersteiv .hot and Filled
the son and wounded the old voman.
As e. Io..,L h.. GO. a;...
~ So'IRu, r aass oInuays ulspS .t
scott, 3 street oar d. .ver. over The fare i've
cent, when King threw Soott from the car.
from TIE efects e which he died.
Jnh, c,,,,, ,r.,toa :, h.,l;,
house, in Phiisdslphia while astsmptinr 70
neeotiste q bond stoIen from the Nsnhsftsn
hank, of New York, vss Committed in default
Of $4,000 bsil.
Thomas Ellis for the murder of David
O'Neil, yardmaster Of the Northv.stern rail-
road. Va on the lth sentenced bv Judee Bar-
mum to he rsn,tsntisrv for liz Fiji Eii;. had
pleaded guilty.
The chief of the Bureau of Statistics re-
ports TIE exporss Of petroleum products from
ne United lNtate.{ dnr;no knSust' 1870
eSo.lo1
!, IT, H;II ycu,. 80 - 49,. ~ o.. *
mur6er 81 the GScncsr f.m;Iv con.nmcd the