, 1881-07-22
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY
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Justice Clifford of the U. S. supreme
court Is dangerously ill.
Yellew fever has appeared in the ship
ping in Pensacola harbor.
-Four persons were killed by lightning
at Decatur, Ala, on the 9th.
A negro choked and ravished a young
lady living i'll Rutherford county, Ten
nessee- Search for him is in progress.
ID. o. Mills gives $4,000 to the univer.
sity of California to endow the chair OF
intellectual and moral philosophy and
civil polity.
twenty-five socialists have been ban
ished from Leipsig. A socialist printing
mouse at Dresden has been closed and the
| employees arrested.
Bonds to the amount of Sl50,OOO lately
stolen from a savings bank in Buffalo, n.
Y. have been returned by the thieves,
S25 900 being paid for the return.
Another unprovoked cold -blooded mur-
der is reported near Hollywood, Ark, the
victim being stranger whose only of
tense was toking unbiddensome corn to
feed his horse and paying for it a fair
price to the owner.
Griscom weighed 15l pounds on enter
ing the 42d day; loss two pounds since YES
terday, and 464 since the start; pulse y:
respiration 80. The venture has been a
financial failure, and he is much discour-
aged over that fact.
The present floods at Marshalltown.
Iowa, have never been equaled. The
water is four feet high on car tracks In
-mense damage has been done to railroad
and other property, amounting to $500. 900
and upwards In the city alone. Besides.
great damage is done to crops.
At noon on the Sth the faster Griscom.
OF Chicago, began his torty-frst day. He
slept we'll most of the time. At 2:3O he
drank eight ounces of water; A. NJ, pulse
54; respiration IA; temperature 9S. At
noon he weighed 153 pounds, loss of
half pound; total loss, A IA pounds. He
is cheerful and confident.
Senator Lamar, in a speech, expressed
feelings of sorrow and regret at the at
tempted assassination of President Gar
field, condemning the act as that of a
mailman or demon. He forcibly demon
strated the consequences should Arthur
assume control. The speaker eulcgizes
Garfield's course.
Thomas Harper, a cowboy. was hanged
at Tucson on the 9th for the murder of
John Holiday last September. His de-
meanor on the scaffold Was cool and
AiC aidQc IlO COGftSSlOn, DuL leII
a letter to Curly Bill, a well known des-
perado, admonishing him to take warning
from him and not to be too handy with
the pistol, and to stand heap from q
man before you kill him"
Ex-senator Dorsey is regular visitor to
Conkling's rooms. Ex-Assistant Post
master General Brady is also on intimate
terms with Conkling. Conkling's COM
panionship with Dorsey, Bradley and
Price was much commented upon in the
Fifth Avenue hotel last evening. It is
thought probable that Conkling will not
again go to Albany until the senatorial
fight is over.
A special from Grapeland, Texas, says
shat T. Nj. Williams came INTO town to-
day, rode up to the rear of the store of Ira
Reals and accosted the crowd with the
words, "Howdy, I've been hunting you
all morning, and G-d d-n you, 1 am going
to kill you" Suiting the action 10 the
word, he fired, part of the load passing
into the room, killing John Kent, wound.
ing Garrett and grazing another man.
Williams and Kent were suitors to the
same lady.
man named WaldOn, accused of raw.
ishing and then cutting the throat of
Mrs. Mitchell. respectable married
woman, aged 10, of Randolph county,
Alabama, was run down by blood hounds
and jailed, where he confessed. Monday
night hundred armed men secured Wal
don, intending TO burn him alive at the
scene of his crime, but finally hanged him
TO the tree where his victim was found
dead. He says that he thought she WAS
a woman who testified against him at a
trial.
Edward Bowers, an old citizen of Mari
posa county, was shot and killed at Hor-
nitos, Cal, ON the 9th. by a nelghbor, also
an old man, named ID. K. Pilzer. The
parties had had some trouble about line
fence between their farms, and about two
weeks ago Pilzer drew d shotgun upon
Bowers and threatened to shoot, when
Bowers knocked the gun aside with a cane
and gave him thrashing. The two men
met in the road at the edge of town, when
Pilzer was returning from town under the
| influence of liquor. drew a revolver and
| fired twice, one ball wounding deceased
| in the arm and the other entering the
breast, passing through the heart, killing
| him instantly. Pitzer was arrested and
placed in the calaboose. The people are
greatly excited, and threats of iynching
were being freely made.
| A Leadville dispatch of July Sth says:
| The Chronicle this afternoon contains an
interview with Mrs. Theodore Dnnsmire
the divorced wife of Charles j. Guiteau.
| She was married to Dunsmire at Boulder,
| Colorado, in 1878, and is now residing N
this city. She showed a decree of divorce
granted in 1874 on the ground OF adultery
| allowing her alimony, and prohibiting
| Guitteau from, marrying until her death
She says that he was very cruel 10 hei
| from the time OF their marriage; tina,
when he was a member of Henry Ward
Beeeher's church he would leadln prayer
and as soon as the meeting was dismissed
tell her of some of his swindlIng schemes
that when given note to collect ior
client he would turn over only half the
collection and report that it was impossi
BILE TO collect the remainder. Guitteau':
father Is cashier in the First Nationa
Bank ut Freeport, Illinois. While In New
| York Guitteau got 10 spending all hi'
money and time at fast houses and fnall,
told her that she would have to snppor
herself She went TO Saratoga and re-
NAMED two months. and on return found
that Guitteau had loathsome disease
Her friends discovered the fact and urges
her to get a divorce, which she did. sh'
was afterwards a clerk in the treasury de
partment at Washington. He never pale
any alimony Last February she receives
note from Guitteau requesting permis
sion TO remarry. She answered, sayinf
that permission would be granted on pay
ment of 500. He wrote again. sayini