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ty Jail In Clinton, Ill. Jan. 1S. Two
were Immediately recaptured.


were Immediately recaptured.
DANIEL SBARLs, a negro, who, in June
last, murdered Eldridge Reayy, an aged
farmer living at Newark, was hung at
Oswego, N. j., Jan. 21s a.
ANNIE MARTIN, aged %, inmate of a
disreputable house at III Prince street,
New York, was found murdered in her
room on the morning of Jan. II. 1t is
thought the woman,w was first stunned and
then strangled by q pillow case tightly
tied around her neck. No clue to the
murderer.
A DRAFT drawn by the :postoff1ce de-
partment upon Postmaster Brayton, of
Providence, r. l., Jan. 20, for $15 900 was
dishonored. This did not represent the
full amount of Brayton's deficit, but his
bondsmen are good for the whole
amount.
A TRAGIC shooting affair, says spe.
cial of Jan. 10, occurred at Lancaster,
Peoria county, ILL.,, last Saturday evening.
A young man named AL. Barnes shot
Matte Ford, his inamorata, fatally, it
was supposed, and then fired bullet into
his own brain. The woman had been
leading him on in a suit and finally re-
fused him.
A MAN canned Kanday was fatally shot
Jan. 10, in quarrel with man named
Kirby, near Marshall, Ill. Kirby claimed
a debt of $1.40 of Kanday, and quarrel
ensued. Kirby shot him through the
right lung. Kirby claimsn that Kanday
advanced on him with Knife, and he
shot in self defense. Kirby lies in Jail
to await results.
A CINCINNATI telegram of the goth gives
the particulars of daring attempt to
rob the county treasurer's Office in which
100000 was lying. Two men entered
the Office, and while one of them engag-
ed the cashier in conversation the other
slipped inside the vault, but being dis
covered both rushed QUO of the building
ana escaped.
Two prisoners in Cincinnati jail be.
came involved in a quarrel Jan. 21st,
during which Ed. G. Connolly drew a
razor and attempted to strike Patrick
Guilfel. The latter succeeded in w1est-
ling the razor away and with one
de perate slash across Connelly's throat
almost severed his head from his body
causing instant death. The two
prisoners were in jail awaiting trial on
minor ofenses.
The jury in the Hayden case at New
Havep disagreed and were discharged
Jan, 10: The jury on the first ballot
Stools for acquittal and 4 for convic-
ton; second ballot, 9 for acquittal and 3
for conviction; fourth ballot, 9 for &C.
quittal and for conviction in the first
degree, and one in the second degree.
Subsequently the ballot stood eleven to
one. Hayden remained in the court
house long time, receiving the con-
gratulations of his friends, and at late
hour was returned to Jail.
SETH A. TERRY, secretary of the Ter
ritorial Savings Building and Loan AS
saciation of Washington, D. c., was dis
covered to be defaulter in $4,000, Jan.
90. Terry was for many years connected
with the bureau of refugees, freedmen
and abandoned lands under Gen. O. 0.
Howard. While there he, with others,
invested what money he could in buying
claims of colored soldiers, expecting to
realize on them in a few months. Subse-
quently he was clerk in the Second
National Bank, and it is supposed, while
there, his first financial ADVERTISEMENTS
had occurred.