Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-07-16
|by lightning Oh Sunday and burned.
Loss $4,000. No insurance. 81

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LOSS $4,000. No insurance.
BALTIMORE, July l2.-The Tines
special letter from Westminster Car
roll county, dated yesterday, sayss
Robert Bell, colored, died in this city
last night, aged somewhere in ~
eighties. His life was known to have
been insured for a large aggregate
sum, and his death and insurance.
policies were the chief topics Of con-
versation to-day. Quite a number
are interested in the policies, and the
whole amount is estimated atoyer
$2OO,0OO. It is said that 1914, 600
have been taken on his life in the )
past two or three weeks, one syndi-
cate investing in $4,000. Bell has
been sick about six weeks. He was
a staunch Democrat, voting the
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straight ticket at every election since
the fifteenth amendment clothed him
with elective franchise.
GALVESTON, July IA special to
the News, from San Antonio, says:
Twenty -four persons were injured by
an accident on the International and
Great Northern extension, twenty
six miles west of this place, this morn
ing. 1t was caused by the splitting
of wheel on coach which was
thrown from the track. Stf
SHREVEPORT, July Is. = Squire
Coleman, a well-known colored man;
was killed about two miles from here
late yesterday evening by Charley
johnson, also colored, his wife's par
amour, who had induced her to quit
Coleman and live with him. John
son escaped, but officials are on his
track.
| COLUMBUS, O., July 12.-Gov. Fos-
ter has received kilograms from the
Governors of Indiana, Massachusetts,
Kansas, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Ar
kansas, Illinois, Virginia, Alabama,
Missouri, Georgia, Kentucky, Missis-
sippi, New York, Vermont, Nebraska,
Florida, New Jersey, West Virginia
and Wyoming Territory approving
the suggestion in referenceto the fix
ing Of a day to be observed as praise
day for the recovery of President
Garfield. The Governor Of Georgia
was added to the committee OH date.
OMAHA, Neb., July ll.-Hon. Phi
meas w. Hitchcock, ex-United States
Senator from Nebraska, died here yes
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| terday of general debility, augmented
| by exposure in extreme heat. He
was fifty years old, and a class-mate
of Gen. Garfield's.
| MEMPHIS, Tenn, July l2.-The
heated term Of the past week con-
tinues, and the thermometer ranges
daily between 96o and 9S0. Since
Sunday five cases OF sun stroke have
been reported; four resulted fatally.
| CHICAGO, July l2.AJohn Griscom
concluded his forty-five days fast at
noon to-day. His pulse this morning
was &C., respiration 100, temperature
90. At noon, just before he broke
his fast, he weighed l471 pounds.
SAN FRANCISCO, July -. - The
whaler, Thomas Pope, Capt. Millard,
arrived last evening from the Arctic.
She lett the Straits June 2lst. The
day before leaving she spoke the
whaler Progress, Capt. Barker, and
from her learned that the Indians
near East Cape had found the two
missing whalers, Vigilant and Mount
Wallaster. The Indians found three
corpses only on board the Vigilant,
and fl ON their appearance it was ev-
ident that they had died in the first
year Of their captivity in the ice.
The Indians brought away from the
Vigilant some money, a spy glass, a
bomb gun, and fowling piece. No
one, dead or alive, was found on the
Mount Wallaster. The revenue cut
ter has sent sledge party in search
of the Indians to recover the articles
named, and obtain further intorma-
ton.
LITTLE Rock, July 13.-Henry
) Smith, colored, whoconfessed to hav-
ing ravished and murdered Matte
.