The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1882-12-16
GENERAL NEWS.

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The postoffice appropriation bill amounts
to S42 100000.
There are 4,036 Indians at the San Carlos
agency, Arizona.
A large deposit Of asbestos has been dis
covered near Rawlins, Wyoming.
A national woman's suffrage convention
is to be held in Washington soon.
General Burbank, United States Army,
retired, died at Newport, Kentucky, Friday.
Francis Marie Kelly, at one time one of
| the most noted actresses in the United
| States, is dead
| Judge W. H. Collins, of California, died
on the street in Las Vegas few nights
ago. Whisky.
At Nashville, Medora Hogan poisoned
her grandmother in order to acquire pos
session of property.
The trial of Miss Sallic Stokes, for the
murder of Malinda Stephens, resulted in
the acquittal of the defendant
A commercial treaty between the United
States and Mexico will soon be negotiated
by a commission, sitting at Washington.
Rev. George C. Min, the clerical Ham
let" of the stage to-day, is coming west.
He last week played an engagement at
Kansas City y
The Potomac river is frozen solid from
the Anolaston Island to Little Falls, fact
unprecedented in the memory of the old
est river men
Jones, one of the victims of Bill Allen,
the notorious Chicago desperate, who was
shot by the police last week, died in Chi
cago Sunday night
At Bloomington, Illinois the family of
Lewis Braaenburg was poisoned by eating
trichina sausages. One of the family died,
and the others cannot recover.
The Cheyenne Leader says it is surmised
that the Burlington and Missouri surveyors
are heading toward North Park by the
high line route at Cameron Pass.
Captain H. II, Crews, Fourth cavalry
stationed at St Louis, has been requested by
the president to resign. Cause, defalcation,
disobedience to orders and neglect of duty.
Rose No;te, of Cincinnati, deserted by
her lover, threw herself in front OF an ap-
preaching locomotive and was fatally in
jured. She was about to become mother.
1t has just been discovered that in 1S77
the city treasury of Louisville Kentucky,
was robbed of 100000. City officers are
suspected and the matter is being investi-
gated
At Evanston, Missouri, a young man
named Harris shot at young man with
whom he was quarreliing and, missing his
mark, shot his own father, producing in
staut death.
The tosal Morhion population of Utah IS
%. 81. There are AZ churches, 3.20s high
priests and 55,6s6 members-one high
priest to every II members in the terri
! tory.
The present cold weather in the east has
been particularly rough on the lake seamen.
Many crafts have entered port at Chicago
with their crews half dead from suffering
with the cold.
On Sunday John McAlister and Michael
Gallagher fought in Brooklyn saloon
McAlister was fatally injured, and Galla-
CHER died of delirium tremens shortly after
f,being taken to Jail.
SiNty-nine feet of snow fell at Galena
Nlaho Springs, last season The measure
nsent was taken on a board projecting from
the roof OF shed. The snow on the, board
was brushed off every twelve hours.
The three-card monte men. O'Le3ry and
Murphy, recently arrested at Washington,
assert that system of "you tickle me, and
I'll tickle you,n has been for some time in
vogue between thieves and the Washing
ton police -
At St Louis, in wiMam Barr & Co.'S
dry goods house, J. b. Cdlla shot twice a.
uuN WITHOUT
| inluring him. Carpering refused to con-
front Cullals wife, about whom, it is said
Carpering had lied.
The sisters of the Cook brothers, the
desperados, two of whom were killed and
one captured, at Moberly, Missouri, not
| long since, profess but little love for the
boys, ard say their mother had almost lost
all regard for them.
Slim Jim, the gambler who once offered
| the Union Pacific road Si0,o0G for permis-
| sion to work the trains on that road, prom
| ising to leave out ministers and deacons.
met his death last week by brawl in \
New York drinking house.
At Cincinnati William Patterson. a hack
| driver and n notorious character, shot at a
policeman who attempted to quell dis
turbance among a number of hackmen but
missed his aim and shot dead Joseph Coke.
who was standing near by.
Eleven convicts escaped from the peni-
tentiary at Little Rock, Friday, by over
powering the guards They were chased
with bloodhounds, but three of the dogs
being killed and darkness coming on, the
se.lrch for the time WAS given up.
Alexander Gardner, who achieved n ma
tional reputation during the war by his
Photographic work with the army of the
| Potomac, died Sunday morning, aged 81,
He was born in Paisley, Scotland, and was
the originator of the National Relief asso-
| citation.
| The bursting of the boiler of the river
steamboat Morning Star, near New Orleans,
proves to have been the result of the boat
racing with the steamer Sunbeam. In
trying to outstrip her competitor the
capacity of the boiler was overtaxed
| Eighteen lives were lost.
On the first Sunday the New York Sun.
day law went into effect, five hundred
arrests were made. Last Sunday the police
were instructed to give the statute more
\ liberal Interpretation, and the number o
arrests was comparatively small.
At Sahallo, New Mexico, Francisco No
lano, while attending the festivities of u
wedding, got drunk aud engaged in fight
in which he killed two young men, broth
ers, named Rovai He escaped, and going
home amused himself by cutting of his
wifcs ears- He WAS arrested and placed in
Jail.
To counternct the statements Of Jerome
J. Collins in respect to his treatment on
hoard the Jeanette. the navy department
Saturday made public extracts from certain
memoranda made by Commander lie Long,
in which it is charged that Collins proved
himself, during the voyage, both contempt-
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