The true northerner., 1882-09-15
LATER NEWS ITEMS.


George Nesbitt, ranchman, living in
Tulerosa canon, New Mexico, started for
Las Cruces in n wagon, accompanied by his
wife, Miss Woods and a stranger. The dead
bodies of the last three were subsequently
found 1t is thought Nesbitt, who had been
drinking, murdered them and then drove
off, as he and the team have not been seen
since
A dispatch from Albion, Neb.. says
The bodies of William C. Griffith and his sons
Lester and Willie were found dead under the
ruins of their sod house in Wheeler county,
where they had lain for several days. They
were probably killed instantly while asleep.
The dispatch does not state how they were
killed, but the supposition is that the house
fell on them.
An election was held in Maine on
Monday, Sept II, for Governor and other
State officers, members of Congress and
members of the State Legislature. Returns
received up to this writing indicate that the
Republicans elected their entire State ticket
by a majority of not less than 1000, all four
of the members OF Congress, and gained
several seats in the Legislature.
During children's mass at st.
Thomas Church in Cincinnati flames ap-
peared near the altar The little ones be-
came panic-stricken, and trampled each
other under foot, bat no lives were lost.
An infected mattress thrown into the
Mississippi river lodged on an island and
carried the smallpox to laborer named
Hunter. He went to Prairie du Rocher, ILL.,,
where he died, and there are now five cases
under treatment at that point.
The stage coach which runs between
Seligman, on the St Louis and San Francisco
railroad, and Eureka Springs, Ark, was
stopped by two masked men, heavily armed,
and the ten passengers in the stage were
robbed of about 5000 and considerable jew
elry. The mail pouch also was robbed of a
registered letter
Reports received from the cotton belt
indicate large crop, but under certain con-
ditons which exist an early frost would be
especially injurious
The secret order known as the Sons
OF Columbia claiming 5000 members in the
State of New York, is running line of steam
boats on the Hudson, carrying passengers
up TO Poughkeepsie for 10 cents, in order TO
test the cost of water transportation and TO
settle the question of monopoly of docks
Mrs Charles s Carter sues n Brook
lyn saloon keeper for s25, 900 damages for
causing her husband to become an habitual
drunkard The latter received $1,000 for
injuries received in the Ashtabula disaster,
and has been on a spree four years.
Recent deaths: Rev Chandler Rob
bins, ID. D., who succeeded Ralph Waldo
Emerson in the pulpit of the Second Unita-
rian Church of Boston; Isaac Murphy, of
Arkansas, who alone cast his vote in the
Legislature against secession and was elect
ed Governor after the war; Col William II.
Jacobs, of Milwaukee, owner of the Second
Ward Bank, who left several millions;
Erasmus b. owsley, leading packer Of
Louisville
Samuel Claye, the railway-car build
er at Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England has
failed, with liabilities of 81 100000
One hundred British men-of-war and
transports passed through the Suez canal in
space of three weeks, the tolls being g96,-
COO
The first person tried, convicted and
sentenced to death under the Repression of
Crime act, lately passed by Parliament, was
executed at Limerick on the II tn of Septem-
tember. The man upon whom the death
II
who was charged with the murder of herds
man named Doloughty. 1t was of the Jury
that convicted Hynes that it was alleged in
the Frccman's Journal, of which +. Dwyer
Gray is the editor, that the jury was packed,
and that the Jurors were drunk when they
agreed upon the verdict of guilty, and for
the publication of which statement Gray was
committed to Jail by Justice Lawson, and is
still incarcerated
1t is denied by Acting Secretary of
State Davis that Stephen J. Meany, the news
paper correspondent arrested in Ireland, has
received any instructions from the State De-
partment at Washington as TO his course In
reference to the surrender of his recogni-
zances
A large number of leading Georgians
petitioned Gov. Colquitt to appoint Ben IL.
Hill, Jr., to FL the unexpired term of his
father in the Senate
A daring midday burglary was COM
mitted at the residence of Mr. McSorlay, at
West brighton, Staten island The burglars
stole $50 in railroad and Richmond coun-
ty bonds, $500 in gold and silver coin, gold
watch and some plate. No clew.
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