The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-07-16
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'a-CHARLEs G. HEIPHREY, confined in
the Ozark (Ark.) Jail under conviction Of
numbering young man named, james, two
years ago, made his escape; % few nights ago
by saving bar from his cell. .y~%
4 A DISPATCH from Tunh says the
Bey's steward has taken refuge II the Eng
lish Consulate with securities and jewels
worth million francs,and thathe embezzled
the accounts Of the stewardship for many
years.
The remains of Mrs. Henry Halter
man, of New York City, were cremated in
lie Moyne's furnace on the oath.
DEPUTY COLLECTOR KELLY, of the
San Francisco Revenue Office, is defaulter
and has fed
CHARLES Al ANcHls1, who ESCAPED
from the custody Of Deputy Sheriff in
New York while under charge Of enibez-
element, and who, in the false guise Of a Sc
cret service officer of the Treasury Depart
ment, swindled many persons in st. Louis,
New Orleans, Memphis and other places,
has been arrested in San Francisco.
SINGULAR fatality attaches to Klachi
Female College, near Shreveport, La. Two
Professors lately committed suicide, one
was killed by recent tornado, and now the
death of the President, the Rev. J. II. Tuck
or, is announced.
GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN, at nearly
the last hour, granted respite offour weeks
to the Talbot brothers, sentenced to be
hanged at Maryyille, Mo-, on the oath. for
the murder of their father. The date of their
execution is postponed till July %. Extra
ordinary efforts were put forth to obtain
executive clemency, and it is understood
some important evidence was presented to
the Governor not produced at the trial.
Twenty thousand people had gathered to
witness the execution, and as threats of
lynching were freely made, the armed guard
about the Jail was doubled. D, .,.. ,,
TROOPS have been dispatched to a
point in San Juan County, Utah, 125 miles
west of Durango, where an outbreak is
threatened by Pah Ute Indians. A number
of cattle men have disappeared and are
though! to have ceen killed.
FRANK BRAGA, Secretary of the
Portuguese Protective and Benevolent So
ciety, San Francisco, CAL, has absconded,
being defaulter to the amount of about
100000. r.'
CONCLUSIONS at Cambridge Observa.
tory are that the comet now visible has
passed its maximum of brightness and is
moving away at the rate Of 800, 900 miles per
day. 1t will be visible for several months.
The tail is at least 1900, 900 miles in length.
JAMES B. DOYLE, the counterfeiter,
has been sentenced at Chicago to ten years
in the Penitentiary. Doyle is the man who
was arrested with more than 100000 in
counterfeit Government bonds in his posses.
sion. r..
SED1TIoUs placards have been posted
at Marseilles declaring that all works where
Italians were employed would be burned
down. This threat seems now partly real
lied, az two oil mills and mandatory
where Italians only were employed have
been almost totally destroyed. The damage
is estimated at $1,20O,000. An inquiry ha.
been opened. l..D ,.
VENNoR predicts hot and stormy
July, with frequent disastrous storms o.
wind, rain and hail throughout those Sec
lions in which the June storms have been 81
severely felt. .'' 0.sa -.
HARVARD defeated Columbia in the
eight. cared race.
The recent terrible accident on thu
Morilos Railroad in Mexico occurred nea1
the village Of Mailpois, where the railwa!
brid e spanned the River San Antonio
Owing to heavy rains the supports Of tn
bridge had become weakened, and as III
heavy train, drawn by two locomotives AM
heavily laden with soldiers, passed upon it
the structure suddenly gave way, the entir
train plunging into the abyss. Fire addet
additional horror to the scene, a car Of bran
DIV being ignited and consuming most of tn
debris. Seventeen officers and 1877 privates
together with thirty-seven. women AM
five children, were either killed out
right BY the fall or roas cd to death
while fifty others received hurts Of NOR
or less serious character. This Is not inclu
sive Of railway employees or the wives AM
children of soldiers, number of whom v er
upon the dictated train. The dispatch says
"vThe dead and living were wrapt in shee
of flame, and slowly burned before the eye
Of the survivors, who, were unable to say
them" The Morilos Road IL a narrow
gauge line built BY q Government subyen
ton, and is entirely the work Of ,Mexica
engineers. az, aH - rs4"fTa aa u