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e six passcngcrsit contained were seriously

the six passcngersit contained were seriously
injured.
At Burlington, Iowa, on the 3lst ult., j. r.
Woodward shot aud instantly killed his
brother-in-law. e. NJ. Price, aud then shot
himself The tragedy grew out of domestic
difficulties.
Last year was the most prosperous year OF
Colorado's history. In Denver over 400 brick
and stone buildings were erected. The total
mine production in Lake County alone was
t19, 9,1lO,s62 against $500, 743 in 1873. In
Leadville the total amount OF ores treated
was ITO, ,4s3 tons, realizing sl0,5O4, 104, or S95
per ton in pure silver and metallic lead, the
greatest ever known in any camp of it's age
in the history Of silver mining.
Hon. George s. Houston, U. 8. Senator from
Alabama, died at Athens, Ala, on the 3lst
ult. The cause Of his death was nervous
prostration and fatty degeneration of the
heart.
The Kentucky Legislature convened on the
3lst ult.
At Cincinnati, on the 1st, Col. l.. A. Har
ris, ex-Mayor, shot and fatally wounded W..
II. Adams, his brother -in-law. The alterca-
tion grew out Of a claim against Harris by
Adams.
At Alliance, Ohio, on the 1st, party Of
eight boys while skating fell through the ice.
Three we're drowned, Harry Coates, Charles
Dorman and Charles Rankin.
Sheriff Stltt and Constable Redmass, of
Van Vert County, Ohio, were mortally
wounded on the night of the 31st ult., by the
supposed murderers of Leonard Pickers, while
attempting to arrest them in house of i'll
fame. The men escaped, but were pursued
and one captured. He had in his possession
5000. He refused to give his name.
A committee of Creek Indians from the In
dian Nation passed through st. Louis on the
LIST on their way to Washington. They had
with them series OF resolutions adopted by the
representative body of the Nation protesting
against the opening of Indian Territory to
immigration. Members of the committee
claim that tho sentiment OF their people is al
most unanimous against the Oklohoma bill.
Strawberry plants were in bloom in the gar
dens around Richmond, Va, on the 21.
Seven or eight men went to the house of
Guy Frey at Gallipolis on the night Of the 1st
for the purpose of robbing him. Frey or
dered them away and they refused, when he
fred at them and they left. The next morn
ing he found the body of a dead man lying in
| Five passengers and six seamen of the lost
steamer Borussia arrived at Baltimore on the
| 30, on an Italian bark which picked them up
at sea about $50 miles off the Azores.
| The suit of the St. Louis, Alton IL Terre
| Haute Railroad against Samuel j. Tilden and
others, has been discontinued. Tilden is re-
ported to have paid 100000 in settlement.
The warehouse of Thurston, Harris IL Co.,
at Baltimore, was destroyed by fire on the Sd.
Over 3, 900 bales of cotton were in the ware
house. Several ircmen who ventured into
the warehouse were overcome by the sitting
atmosphere and borne off insensble and ten
others were seriously injured by falling
wall.
| A boiler exploded in the rolling mill of
Coates Bros, at Locust Point, Nd, on the
5th, by which the mill was considerably
wrecked aud eleven employees were seriously
hurt and scalded.
The California Legislature assembled on
the 5th. The Democrats and Worliingmen
failed to form fusion and the Republicans
elected Speaker on the first ballot.
The steamer Fisher, a mail boat between
Pensacola and Freeport, Fla, exploded on
the 5th, killing Captain Watson and one
other, and mortally scalding the engineer.