The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-23
POLITICS..
IDAHO HEARD FROM.

UOV. Draynldn OF ludnO, IN MS message
favors the extention of the Utah and Northern
railroad, providing the people of the territory
will not be subject to any additional burdens.
He favors the extinction of the leading Indian
reservations in order that the valuable lands
now held by the Umatillas and other tribes
may be thrown open to settlement; also dwells
upon the Importance of having large military
force in the territory.
THE TRADE DOLLAR.
The House committee on coinage,
weights and measures, authorized Mr.. Null
drow to prepare n bill for the redemption of
the trade dollar at par and to prohibit its fur
ther circulation in the United States. Mr..
Vance was authorized to report the bill intro
duced by Mr.. Cummings, to provide for the
redemption of legal tenders of subsidiary sill
yer coin, and reissue thereof.
AFTER GOVERNOR.
Lieut-Gov. Hull of Florida has been in
dicted by the q. s grand jury on = charge of
conspiracy with others in obtaining false
turns of the election in Brevard county. Hull
was the Democratic candidate for Congress at
the late election from the Second district and
holds certificate of election from the Gov
ernor.
COLORADO POLITICS.
The message of Gov. Pitkins. of Colora-
do, is devoted entirely to State affairs. N. p.
smelling works was elected United States Sen
ator.
NEVADA sENATORsHIP.
John Z. Jones was elected United State.
Senator by the following vote: Senate. 10;
House, Al.
CRIME.
HORRIBLE MURDER.
al
Bills bend of the Cumberland river near
Nashville Tenn. last week. The deed was not
discovered until the day following its execu-
ton. when the corpses of Jno. Whittemcyer
and wife were found side by side in bed. They
had been terribly beaten and disfgured with
| billets of wood. Between the two dead bodies
was found an infant and . child two years old
who were grooming and playing. thoughtless
of the tragical surroundings. Knox Martin,
colored, is suspected of the murder. He had
had q misunderstanding with Whittemeyer
about the pay for days work. He is still at
large.
| ANOTHER MOLLY" GONE.
Martin Bergin was hanged at Pottsville
| last week. for the murder of Patrick Burns,
| April Oh. 1870. He is the nineteenth Mollie
Mcguire hanged for murder in Pennsylvania
Two Others, Peter McManns and John O'Neile
are To be dealt with. Bergin mounted the
if he had anything to say. replied: Il have
nothing at all to say, will die like game
man. That is sill I hav. TO say" He was
dead in four and half minutes. The GOODNESS
displayed on the scaffold exceeded that of any
other Mollie Mcguire, and excited much com.
ment-
sHoEr OF ROPE.
A party of soldiers found the bodies o.
two unknown men near the TT. Laramie anc
Fl. Mckinney road. One was hanging tn
tree. the other lying on the ground. 1t is sup
posed they were horse or cattle thieves. hang
ed by ranchmen. who. being short of rope
hanged the other.
FOR LIFE.
Mrs. Kate Cobb. adiudgei guilty o
poisoning her husband in Norwich. Connecti
cut has been sentenced to imprisonment 70
. public through her counsel protesting her in
| nocence.
, A ire.. the work of tramps. destroye.
! the round-house and machine shop. of th
, A. 4 n. X X in Atchison. KanSaa Four en-
. gines and all the repair machinery of th
GOO.
WHISKY AGAIN.
Henry Feltus. editor Of the Blooming
ton. Indiana. C.srhsr, who shot and kille-
. County Attorney Rogers while drunk. on Ns'
: Years eve. indicted by the grand jury 70
murder in the eecond degree and held for ba
{ in tS0oo.
saor At pEyvxR-
E Geo. Stratton, gambler. shot an,
killed Dan Far, . brakeman Of the Denver
[ Rio Grande railruad. in Denver.