, 1881-04-15
LATESE NEWS SUMMARY,
BY rElEaRArn TO DATE

of the pubic debt for March, at not less
than S5.000,O00.
The naval board ofinquiry recommends
the detail of officers and 35 men for the
Jeanette search expedition.
James Walsh, who killed his sweetheart.
Barbarer Greeneham. in Brooklyn, was
sentenced to be hanged May Goth.
. Eighty of the best citizens of Rio Arriba
county, New Mexico have petitioned Gov.
Wallace to take prompt action against
| desperadoes who disgrace the territory.
Wallace has ordered Adjt. Gel. Grost to
| 20 Immediately with 90 stands of rifles
and 10000 rounds of ammunition and Or
ganiZe TWO military companies to act as
! sheritf's posse. The robbers are led BIZ
Ike Stockton and have headquarters n ;ar
the Colorado line at Durango.
Another alleged wonderful case is re-
ported at Battle Greek. Michigan, Mrs.
Henry Ingram having taken no food since
October last. when, having had some
| teeth pulled, she was unable on account
of nausea TO retain food, has taken nour-
ishment by absorption only. She some-
times absorbs quart of liquids through
the pores. Her stomach is totally para
lyzed. The problem is how long will she
last.
On the 9th of April the anniversary OF
Greek independence, a grand review will
be held, when the king Will present the
cOlors TO the reg imentS composing the
garrisonS of Athens and selected de-.
tachment from other regiments. The
meaning of this act, and the reasons for
the choice of this occasion, are obvious.
The ceremony will be followed by orders
for the departure of the various corps for
their allotted stations on the frontiers.
One Fl. Lannen was taken before u.
S. commissioner on the 29th on charge
of having used the mails for fraudulent
purposes. According to his admissions
ne had been sending circulars as a real
estate and compiler of n great real estate
directory, asking a remittance of 81 In
each case for the directory, when III fact
he had no such work on hand. Being
forced to divulge his printers name, he
let the officials into a still more important
swindling scheme by which through bo-
gus stock reports he had commenced to
| dupe a large patronage. His real name
| is not divulyed on account of highly re
spectacle connections.
A general snowstorm prevailed on the
18th throughout Indiana and Ohio, &C.
| cOmpauied in many places by strong
wind. Heavy rain came first, changing
| to sleet and then snow. On the hill tops
Kenton, Ohio, on the next day it WAS
| twenty inches, and at Wilmington and Mil
| iersburg six inches. \ Dayton dispatch of
| it lies to the depth of four inches. At
| the same date says: The heaviest snow
storm of the winter set in on the 10Th at
about o'clock and has continued all
! day with little cessation, and is still fall
| ing this evening. The snow is wet and
| heavy and has caused great impediment
| to business. 1t is about ten inches deep.
The funeral of Mrs. Isabel Virginia
Swearingep, the mother of Mrs. Justice
Field, took place III Washington on the
| both F. NJ. from the judges residence and
was attended by very large coneourse of
| friends of the 'amily, including all justices
of the supreme court and nearly all Pacific
| coast people now in Washington. The
pail bearers We're Justice Miller, Gen.
Dulu, Senators Millerand Jones of Nevada
ex. Attorney General Williams and Sam
uel B. Wilson of San Francisco. The
remains were conveyed TO Georgetown
cemetery, where they were deposited in II
vault preparatory to their removal TO San
Francisco. Mrs. ]. McCreery came home
from Paris several weeks ago and joined
her sisters Mrs. Field and Miss Swear
ingen in the care and solace OF their
mother during her last illness. Among
other Californians who participated in the
last tribute of respect to the dead were
Senator Farley, Capt. and Mrs. Carlisle,
T. Patterson, Judge McCorkle and VIM.
Gouverneur Morris.
The Commercial says: The present
position of the worlds fair does not ap-
pear encouraging. reporter called re-
Gently on Walter Holt, commissioner for
California, and from him learned that one
of the causes of the present apathy Is lack
of activity on the part of the executive
committee. He said very emphatically
that the executive committee OF which
he is not member has been assured OF
subscriptions to the amount of over
| million and have good promises for $780,
| 600 more. 1t should 90 to work and how
some energy. lie said that California
was ready 10 appropriate large sum II
the legislature could only see that any.
thing was being done 10 forward the en-
terprise His colleague Lever recently
wrote him from San Francisco that moth
ing can be done until preliminaries are
completed in New York. The CONNER
cial adds: AS California or rather San
Francisco is to have very Important
celebration i'll 1855. where very large
proportion of American citizens are ex-
pected to as emble, this expression of the
San Francisco commissioner has weight
that should not be lightly overlooked i'll
the present condition of affairs.
An Omaha dispatch of the 26tlI says:
The whole Platte valley from Columbus
to Fremont is under water. No such
food has ever occurred since the Union
Pacific was built through it. The flood
which came from Loup river this after.
noon has reached Schuyler and Fremont
All places between Columbus and Ere
mont are under water. The first flood at
Columbus subsidized late this afternoon
sufficiently to show what damage has been
done to the Union Pacific. Three spans
of a pile bridge which is an approach to
the iron bridge over the Loup river were
washed out, and the track is washed from
one TO three feet deep for a long distance
east of the bridge and for about three
quarters of Il mile west of the bridge.
Another gorge III Loup river larger than
| the first one broke ut Genoa and Will
again swell the Platte worse than ever
These are but the beginnings Of the foo
disasters in Nebraska, and the outlook Is
very gloomy. Hundreds OF thousands OF
dollars worth of property will be de-
stroved. Considerable live stock viii be
| lost. and perhaps some human lives. Re-
ports are rather meagre DIS great excite
| ment prevails and telegraphlc communi-
| cation is more or less interrupted The
Missouri river at this point is running
bank full and still rising. Ice is gorging
opposite the city about eight blocks above
| the U. p bridge No damage is likely to
result to the bridge but the gorge will be
/ lil-aix TO cauSa flood on Tho layaA- IN