, 1882-04-14
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
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Sergeant Mason has been employed by
a Chicago house at 81, 300 per annum as
soon as he gets out Of the penitentiary.
Two hundred and fifty arrests have
been made at Barcelona, Spain, includ-
ing many revolutionary agents,
Edward d. Gale, collector of taxes in
New York, is defaulter to the amount
of from $40, 900 to 100000,
The telegraph says that Utah has struck
a bonanza in securing Teller's appoint
ment to the interior department.
Mrs. Mackey is very indignant at the
report that her daughter is shortly to be
married to scion of the Bourbons.
Capt. James H. Marsh, of the British
bark Lock Lee, fell from q third story
window at Eureka, Cal, to the ground,
and was killed on the lst.
John n. Massey was shot by James
Hamblin in San Francisco on the lst.
Both are gamblers and well known to the
sporting fraternity.
Grant says if he were the president he
would protect the rights of American
citizens abroad, whether naturalized or
native born. This is no more than an
Executives duty.
The czar, on being apprised of the
murder of General Strelnikoff, ordered
the two assassins who were arrested to
be executed within "a hours. They were
accordingly hanged at Odessa.
A Franklin, La, dispatch of the 1st
says: The water is rising an inch per
hour. Thirty-six hours will submerge
the town and the back country. The
prospect is alarming.
Editors and proof,readers of the World
who took the places at the cases of the
striking compositors, have returned to
their own duties, another force Of COM
positors having beer secured.
Stages bound east and west on the Ell
Paso, Texas, line, were robbed on the
3lst, about 60 miles from San Antonio,
by two men, supposed to have escaped
from Bandera jail few days ago.
The Tribune keeps up its warfare on
the president by showing that the recent
nominations were merely displacements
of capable, honest officers by those who
were simply known US GRAFT men.
The senate committee on territories,
by o party vote of four republicans
against two democrats, decided to report
back the bill for admission of Dakota
with renewed recommendations for pas
sage.
A. T. Weisagar and Bill Ledlow, were
hanged on the 31st at Selma, Ala, for
the murder of Jesse B. Weisager in De-
cember last. The prisoners made a
lengthy speech protesting their inno-
cence.
A Troy dispatch says; Col. A. P.
Corse, chief of artillery of the National
Guard, and manager of prominent
stove firm, has left the city, leaving notes
to the amount of some 100000, said to
be forgeries. Speculation was the cause.
r. T. Merrick has qualified as special
attorney for the government in the star
route cases. Col. Bliss says that the APP
pointment OF so pronounced and distin-
guished democrat as Merrick was in
tended to enforce the statement of Attor-
ney General Brewster that there should
be no politics in the prosecution in the
future.
In the bill of exceptions in the Guiteau
case, the exceptions are to non-admission
of certain evidence and rulings of the
Judge on points of law, and will, when
completed, fill two quarto volumes of
about one thousand pages each. The
district attorney intends to present bill
for hearing April oath, the first day of
next term.
1t is officially announced that the ozar
has ordered commutstion of all death
sentences passed at the recent trial of
nihilists to indefinite hard labor in the
mines, except in the case of the marine,
Lieut.. Suchanoff, in which it is con-
firmed, as his position as an officer, ag-
gravated the crime. He is, however,
granted military execution.
Watertown, Dakota, special of the 31st:
f. Howe, an old settler OF this country,
left for Casselton with soldier just as a
storm was coming on, but its binding
fury stopped them half way to Wah Bah.
They tried to make the trip on horseback
and became separated. The soldier has
been found so badly frozen that his life
cannot be saved, and Mr.. Howe was
found half mile from his home, dead.
A special notes the fact that within 30
days the Milwaukee and st. Paul Rail-
road has absorbed four different roads,
the Hastings and Saltwater, the Illinois
and Wisconsin, the Jouesville, Rockford
and Beloit and the Iowa and Eastern.
All the transfers were made so quietly as
to escape attention. The aggregate value
of the four roads is over 81, 900 900, max
ing the st. Paul by long odds the mos
extensive system of any of the railroads
in the country.
The river is declining at Memphis ant
Helena. 1t will be four weeks befor,
plowing can be done. Cattle are dyine