Jamestown alert., 1879-05-29
THE WORLDS DOINGS.
AN OLD CRIMINAL CASE.

on trial on the charge of forgery The lndlct-
mcnt was found the 18TH Of December, 1869.
es@a aay ssss APPOINTMENTS A. aa
The President has nominated VIM. j.
Gilbraik Of Iowa, as associated justice of the
supreme court Of Montana, John F. Morgan,
of illinois, chief jnstice of the supreme court OF
Idaho, and Norman Buck, of Idaho, associate
Justice Of the same court.
A CABINET MEMBER TO BE JUDGE.
1t is stated Secretary Of War McCrary
has decided to accept the position Of United
States circuit Judge for the Eighth district, to
be made vacant by the resignation of Judge
Dillon, but will not leave the cabinet before
the lst of September next.
SHOOTING AFFRAY.
A special from Culpeppcr, Va, says:
In difficulty here May 23 between D. NJ
Rcam, editor of the Culpcppcr Times, Phillip
Jones and G. w. jameson, Rcm was shot
in the abdomen and is thought fatally wound
ed. Jones received Il ball in his shoulder
INSTRUMENTATION.
William Ncvson, colored, was sen
fenced at Tcrrc Haut, Ind, May 20, to the pcni-
tertiary one year and {; fine of 81 900, for mar
,ryinga Il white woman. The prosecution origi-
mated in spite, but he 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 22:-Thc
President has nominated Eugene Schuyler, of
New York. consul general at Rome. Consuls
j. A. Lewis Sierra Leone, at that place; Will
son King, Pennsylvania, at Birmingham; VIM.
F. Grinncll, New York, at Bremen; Alex Nc
Lean, New Jcsrey, at Guayaquil.
3, SILVER PURCHASES. ~.a., l.
The secretary Of the treasury May 81
accepted bids for $4,000 ounces of silver for the
New Orleans mint, and 100000 ounces for the
mint atSan Francisco. Owing to an advance
in the london market, due probably oreports
of the action Of the German government in re-
lation to the salceof silver bullion a higher
price was paid by the treasury for the plr
hascs.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
At Hamilton Station, Minnesota, shorty
before noon, May 10 during the progress of
thunder storm, 3 young woman named Ellen
Fahcy, about sixteen or seventeen years OF age
was struck by lightning and instantly killed.
An elder sister, who was standing near, was
badly scorched by the electric fluid, but will
recover. The young woman was about her
household duties when killed. She was very
highly regarded by all who knew her T.
+..,at- MOUNTAIN RAILROAD e..
At O'clock on the afternoon OF May
19, the Denver, South Park & Pacific railroad
reached the Kenosha summit with the track,
and at $3.50 ,. m. the first passenger train
reached the summit, 10,14O feet above the sea
level, the highest point yet attained by any
railroad in North America. All the difficulties
in the way are now overcome and track lay
ing viii continue at the rate Of a mile per day
till the road reaches Lcadvillc.
- REQUESTS OF ASA PACKER. f..
= The will of Judge Asa Packer, who re-
Gently, died at Philadelphia was read
at AllcntownPa, May 81 in
the Probate office. 1t bcqucasthcs
for !; permanent indemnity of Lehgh univcrsi-
ty Bethlehem, sl,5OO,000; for library for the
university, .s5OO00O; to, St., Luke,s hospital,
Bethlehem, 100000; St Marks Episcopal
church, Ma,lch Chunk, $4,000. Several" be-
quests are kept private for the present.
= HEADING OFF These ATTERE.
A special from Vinita, Indian Territory
says two companies of United States troops
under Major J. A. Wilcox, Fourth cavalry, are
squartcred there to prevent squattcrs entering
the Territory Soldiers are constantly at the
railroad depot, and all persons arriving with
the intention of going on government land arc
escorted out of the Territory. Major Wilcox
says in marching over hundred miles in the
Territory he met but few squatters, and
those were removed. fsrffsEazrye 81
t!1lI u ATTEMPTED, LYNcHINe. .g.Itt r.
VIM. Allen alias Storey, of St. Louis,
who cloped with Jennie. Atchlcy, wife Of a farm
CT Of Batavia, Ohio "a few days since, was
captured in Cincinnati and placed in Jail at
Batavia. At al early hour the morning of
May %, a mob entered the JAIL seized Storey,
placed rope around his neck and hung him
on Que of the timbcrs Of tie bridge. After
hanging a few moments the rope broke, and
Storey dropped into the river, succeeded in
gaining the shore, when he wbs, takenl to a
: hotel where he now lies in bed in bruised
condition.
.-e-r ,,~gss.. as. AN, INDIA S.HU-Sl.sr., D~
. <At.Shasta, fCalifern May Is.,: Indian
Jack was hung for the murder of Il Chinaman
last September. The murder was committed
out Of pure dcviltry without the motive ofpas
sion, GAIN, or revenge. sTheg execution was
Witnessed by some fifty Indians, friends of the
condemned, besides number of white specta
9 tors. Between I've. and three hundred Indians
Il congregadcd outside the court yard and ,kcp
upa fearful howling and tearing 81 hairdurin.
the execution, but no hostile demonstration
occurred Jack preserved the Indian stolidit,
and died without a struggle.
t'F' ~ ..''' - SUICIDE. '"'.'s.@sA a..