, 1881-06-03
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY,
nY TELEGRAPH TO DATE.

o. same, Mich, was buried on the DIST.
loss, SIS, 900; partially insured.
Col. 7. a. Scott, of PENNSYLVANIA, one
OF the railroad kings of the Z. S. died al
| Clinton In that state on the 2lst of May
| Congressman O'Brien, of New York,
sued for divorce on the ground that his
/ wife maltreated him. A decree was
granted.
Cautas Barta Vas hanged at Mesilla, \.
NJ, on the 2lSt for the murder OF Jas. J.
JULIA, and the subsequent outrage of his
victims wife
| President Garfield and Secretaries
Blaine, Window and Kirkwood will par
| tcIpate i'll the ceremonies in the national
cemetery at Gettysburg on decoration
day.
| a courier reports the capture of Billy
lie Roy and TWO of his gang who robbed
coach between Clear Creek and Ante
| i0pe, Colorado, May 18th. LIE Roy re-
sisted arrest and was dangerously shot.
| He will probably be lynched.
At a meeting of amalgamated machin-
| lists, engineers, etc, of New York, Brook
iyn and Jersey City, it was decided to
demand instead of higher wages half
holiday OH Saturdays from June. Several
bosses have voluntarily made concessions
already.
The wheat harvest has begun in Texas.
The quality is better than during the past
II years and the yield will average eigh-
| teen bushels to the acre. All crop pros.
poets are good. but the general acreage
will be smaller than last year on account
OF scarcity OflabOr.
| Information received states that trouble
! IN the ChoCtaw nation between white
renters and natives continues. Intense
! excitement exists throughout the nation.
IL Is rumOred that sheriff who was at
tempting TO collect taxes has been killed
| The whites are organizing for protection
and conflict is imminent at any mo-
| ment.
| A portion of a large factory chimney in
the rear of Jones x Co.'S flour mills at the
corner of BroOme and Lewis streets New
! York, fell on the 23d while worknen
-were engaged il tearing it down. y
number of men were buried under the
wreck Two We're killed and several
! badly injured. The names of the killed
Were John Crossman and Jas. Beagan.
The steamship Ganos, from Matanzas
for Boston, with a cargo of sugar, sunk
twenty miles east of Boston light on the
2lst. Loss on cargo, S3j0,OOO, and on
| steamer, Sl6O00O. The Ganos collided
| with the Warren line steamer Pembroke
| bound for Liverpool. The latter vessel
was not seriously injured, but put back
| for repairs The crew were saved, with
| the exception of one seaman.
A mass meeting of painters was held in
! New York on the I'D to consider griey-
ances against A Il Stewart * Co, who
! hire experienced painters and other me
chanics To do work, aud when there was
no work at the trades for them to do, en-
plOying them TO do porters and other
work in the store. 1t was stated that un-
| less the practice was ended the matter
| would be laid before the amalgama;ed
trades union and the firm "boycotted."
An Indignation meeting was held al
| New York on the 22d at Irving Hall
made up in great part ofcommunists and
soCia!is, mostly of the German class, 10
protest against the execution of Hessy
! Helfmann, i'll Russia. John SwintOn
made an address. Resolutions were
adopted declaring that the meeting would
regard the executing of Hessv Helimann
by the CZar as capital crime against JUS
tice, and an objectionable wrong against
human nature.
Several days ago three armed Mexlcans
crossed the river at Sheldon's ranch, 81
miles below Eagle Pass, Texas, during the
absence of Sheldon, and kidnapped a
young woman in his employ, forcibly
dragging her acrOTS the river into Mexico
The reason given for the outrage was
that the woman's husband was indebted
TO the Mexicans. The citizens are highly
indignant at the invasion and Kidnapp'
ing on American soil of a defenceless
| woman.
On the 2lst Chicago bound train over
the Kankakee line struck drove OF cat.
tie near Templeton, Indiana. The engine
| al fnrnaI on Si a The
engineer jumped and escaped, but the
fireman, Teddy ROgan, WAS caught under
the water tank and pinned 10 the ground
For TWO hours he was roasted and scalded
hy the hot boiler, and when finally re-
leased was dying. The postal, baggage
and smoking cars were thrown down al
embankment, but nobody but the fireman
was seriously injured, 1t is estimated
that the damage 10 the company VIII be
$4,000.
The site of old Fort Dearborn in Chi
cago was on the 2lst perpetuated by the
erection of "A memorial tablet by \. NJ
HOyt, owner of the building which now
stands there, under the auspices of the
Chicago Historical society. The fort
which for many years WAS II land mark
was established in 1901, evacuated III lo25,
| reoccupied lS2S, troops Withdrawn finally
| in 1886, and in 1888 it was sold. 1t Is i
coincidence that in 1899 jeff Davis met
John Wentworth at the fort, and both
men were in the city during the dedlca-
tion. Davis came entirely by accident
information from Poplar Bluff, Mo, is
to the effect that Hamilton, Meyers and
Brown, the outlaws who shot Sheriff
| Davis and Collector Halter on the list
near Greenvillc, were oyerhauled neal
| Mill Springs bv ii searching party under
Capt w 7. Leeper early this morning
that Hamilton Was killed, Meyers NOR
tally wounded and Brown captured
| Mevers and Brown are now at Mill Creek
under guard and threats Of lynchIng have
been made. 1t appears that Sheriff DAVIS
was not killed as at first reported, Dut Is
mortally wounded, and it is feared that
Hatter's injury will prove fatal.
The entire revised New Testament Is
published in the y. y. Times and TrI'
bune of the 22d. Henry Ward Beecher
in an interview, said that as far as he had
read he was highly pleased with the WORK
of the revisOrs; that he agreed substan-
tally with the changes made, and IN facl
had for many years been nsIng many o!
these changes i'll his pulpit. He dIsap'
proved, however, of substitution OF the
word dservant" for Hslave" used i'll the
King James version. He was not one o
those abolitionists who believe slavery
was not recognized in the scriptures. lie
thinks the revision will be very generally
accepted.