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killed, and the fireman and two passengers
were injured,
The vicinity of Hadlyme, Conn, was
visited by a terrible hail and wind storm on
the 2lst, destroying entire crops of corn, to-
bacco and other products.
FIVE miscreants removed q rail on
the A., II. e. S. F.. Ra lroad, near Law
renee S8ans., on theG1st, by which an emf
grant train was thrown from the track and
badly wrecked, but fortunately no one was
injured. 1t is believed the intention was to
ditch the express train from Pueblo, which
was due short time aiterward, for the pur-
pose Of robbery,
In the Cork Assizes the trial Of GRIM
inal agrarian cases was stopped at the request
of the counsel for the Crown ou the ground
that juries persistently declined to return a
verdict of guilty despite the plainest evil
dence.
The Matanzas branch of the Spanish
Bank of Cuba has been robbed of 5000, 900 in
specie by two employees, who made good
their escape from the island on steamer
chartered by conlederates ostensibly for the
purpose of bringing cargo Of cattle from
Mexico.
THREE executions took place in Mis-
souri, on the 22d-the Talbot brothers,
Charles and Albert, were hanged at Mary
vile for the murder of their father, DR..
Perry H. Talbot, in September last, and
John w. Patterson was hanged at Clinton
for killing James G. Clark in December, 1868.
At Yazoo City, Miss, Brook Boyett,
alias Tobe Bell, paid the death penalty for
the murder of DR.. Williams. At Green
wood, Ark, George Green, colored, was
executed for the murder of his wife in Au-
gustlast.
THE Perryville (Ark.) vendetta has
broken out afresh, the latest victim being
Mr. Matthews, editor OF the Perryville
Times, who was shot while standing in front
Of his office on the evening of the 21st, six
teen buckshot entering his side.
Col. VIM. MILNER ROGERS, noted
American civil engineer, died recently at
Rio Janeiro, where he held the position OF
Chief Engineer Of Public Works under Dom
Pedro, at a salary Of $4,000.
SENATOR HILL, of Georgia, has re-
Gently undergone at Philadelphia surgi-
cal operation for dangerous disease Of the
mouth known as epithelioma. The surgeons
say the operation was entirely successful
and the patient is in fair way of speedy re-
covery.
AT Arkansas City, Ark, on the 21st,
Robert Costello settled a quarrel with a
neighbor named Gathering by shooting him
while he was plowing field, the ball pass
ing through his victim and killing a horse
two rods distant. Costello was held to await
the result of the wound.
AT Fall River, Mass, Andrew john
son, John Howard and Joseph Yates, all
boys, were drowned while bathing. An H.
year-old son of NJ. H. Cushing met the
same fate at Middleboro.
ANToNITO, Colo, has been infested
for several months with gang of robbers,
who have held up and robbed all the stran-
gers coming into town. The gang has been
broken up by the hanging of the principal,
George c. O'Connor, who, in his capacity OF
Justice Of the Peace, shielded them and had
citizens arrested and fined without the least
provOcation. On the 22d O'Connor rode
through town on horseback, with Win
chester rifle and two revolvers, threatening
everybody. A Vigilance Committee caught
him in his saloon and hung him in an old
slaughter house.
SECRETARY WINDOW has telegraphed
Sherman o. Houghton, San Jose, CAL, and
Congressman Thos. l.. Young, Ohio, now on
the Pacific Coast, requesting them to act
with eX-Secretary Ramsey in examining the
charges preferred against Superintendent
Dodge of the San Francisco Mint