Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-01-22
MORNING NEWS CONDENSED.

A shock Of earthquake was felt at
Bath, Me-, last night.
The bill to place General Grant on
the retired list has been laid over.
The senate bill for the retirement
of General Ord, with the rank and
pay Of major-general, has been passed.
Danville, Illinois. had a hanging
yesterday. Fred X. Hester, wife
murder in 1879. He died without a
struggle.
No choice of United States senator
at Harrisburg, Pa, yet. The fifth
ballot stood Oliver, so; Wallace, 81;
Grow, 81; scattering, 6.
Sixty thousand pounds of powder
has been shipped from the govern
ment powder depot arsenal, fourteen
miles below st. Louis, for Benicia,
California.
Noah Bowling, during a drunken
spree, yesterday, at Delaware Bend,
on Red River, Texas, assaulted Geo.
Barnett with a pistol and was shot
and killed by Barnett.
Columbus, o., January q: A saloon
keeper named Lafferty put two men
out of his house for raising a disturb
ance. The men broke in afterwards
and killed Laferty with a bar ofiron.
A special from Genoa, Livingston
county, Mich, says Mr.. Won Blaicorn,
a farmer living zeal there, yesterday
shot his wife dead and then killed
himself. Cause, drink and family
trouble.
Five ballots for United States sena-
tor at Lincoln, Nebraska, with no
change. Those opposed to Paddock
are to hold a caucus and endeavor to
consolidate, but is quite uncertain
whether it can be done.
Mayer & Co.'s furniture factory, 319
and 32l Canal street, Chicago, burned
yesterday loss, $4,000. A high wall
in the real fell, burying the entire
force of fremen in that locality. -Four.
teen injured; two fatally.
The railroads in Minnesota are
somewhat interrupted by drifting
snow, which fell several days ago, and
drifts with every change of the wind.
There has been more snow and sleigh
ing han ever before in the history Of
the state.
A soldier of company F., 10th in
fantry, was shot and killed in cold
blood, at San Angels, Texas, near Fort
Cohcho, by a gambler named Watson,
who, after the murder, was furnished
with a feet horse by his friends and
made his escape.
Cincinnati, o., January 81: AlonzO
Bond, engineer on the Wabash ex.
press train, when approaching Cecil,
Indiana, saw a freight train taking a
siding, and, expecting a collision,
jumped off, was thrown under the
cars and literally cut to pieces.
AT Chicago, near the lake shore, a
body was found which was identified
as that Of j. A.. Copeland, a young
man Of excellent family and reputa-
ton, who had been cashier for Aldrich,
Milne & Co., and whose accounts had
just been found to be short. He had
evidently been unable to bear the dis
grace of exposure, and bad gone to a
secluded spot and blown out his
brains.
New York, January 81: Two men
and two women have been arrested
here on suspicion of belonging to a
secret society. The police discovered
at their house a programme of an ex-
treme terrorist faction ofthe nihilists,
which recommends murder and in
cendiaryism. A quantity of revolvers,
daggers, axes, machinery for themanu-
factufe of forged passports, a portion
of a secret printing press, and a large
number Of revolutionary proclama-
tions we're also found. Copies of a
proclamation relative to the intended
murder of military officers in Kieff
were found, but the crime has been
prevented by the discovery of the
facts above mentioned.