The Fremont County record., 1882-12-23
i1EnERAL NEWS.
M Ls,,stsy drinks beer.

oAy.
Las Vegas continues daily to hang a
horse thief
General Sherman will retire from the
army next fall.
i heavy snow storm visited the north
west Saturday
Herr Most, the German agitator, is doing
Gotham and the east
Last Sunday the Sunday law in New
York was dead letter. 3.
1 The old state capitol . s:1G5ck1 IN. ~
jackson, burned last Sa4uT3ays
4 The grave robBing Virginia sffidenfy
each got SIX months imprisonment
Business failures last week numbered 2Os
against 100 for same period last year.
i The gold and silver product of Idaho
since 1864 isestimated at S90,OO0,OOO.
Snow fell to the depth of three inches at
Louisville, Kentucky, on Sunday last.
Seuator Logan will oppose to the end the
bill for the relief of Fitz-John Porter.
Geands, Dakota, burned Monday night.
Loss, 100000. Many people pcnniless
The senate has accepted LowelFs bills as
substitute for the former bankruptcy bill.
The Kansas wheat prospects are said not
to have been injured in the least by recent
cold weather
Wyoming is taking decided stand in
| opposition to reduction of the tariff on
lead and copper
The cashier of the Second National bank
oil Jefferson, Ohio, speculated and lost.
| The bank closed.
Mrs. slayback, of St Louis. has sued
Colonel Cockerell for 5000 damages for
killing her husband.
Several prominent physicians have testi-
fed that Theresa SturIa WAS insane when
she shot Stiles, at Chicago.
Many vessels are ice bound in Lake Mich
igan, and several persons have been
crushed to death by the fioes.
About 2f0 southern matrimonial associa-
tions were this week placed upon the black
list by the postoffice department
General Sherman's salary as a retired
, officer Is $4,000 a year, and he possesses a
large amount of paying real estate
The bank of kinsley, Kansas was robbed
Saturday night of $4,000 The county
treasurer, one Crawford, is implicated
The City Bank, of Rochester, New York.
closed its doors on Wednesday The presi-
dent sPeculated too largely in oil ventures
Mrs. Dora Wendell. of Chicago, heart
broken at the recent death of her husband
and child, committed suicide, Monday, by
shooting.
Matt Zimmerman, the only surviving
member of the Minden murderers was
on April list
New Hampshire had the severest earth
quake ever felt there on Tuesday night
last. The shock was so severe as to extin-
guish burning gas.
Before the National Farmers convention
in Chicago Saturday, ]. 5. Stanger, of Den
yer, read a paper on Agriculture in Colo
rado by Irrigation
A Canadian gentleman-Prof Stone Wig
gins-predicts destruction of property
slong the base of the Rocky mountains on
the llth OF January.
Theresa Starla was found guilty of man
slaughter. and was sentenced to one year
in the Illinois penitentiary. A motion was
made for new trial"
The Farmers convention, at Chicago,
last week, resolved in favor of a reduction
of the tariff on wool, but retaining it on
manufactures of the same.
James F. Mallory, of Edgefeld, South
Carolina, Menday, obtained verdict of
10000 against the New York Herald, for
libel The case will be appealed.
The postoflice department, in January,
will award contracts for star mail' service
on 344 ,00o miles of routes. An unusual
small number of bids have so far been re-
ceived.
BY the bursting OF boiler in Vincent
& Sons saw mill, at Shawncetown, Illinois,
twelve men Were blown to atoms They
were at dinner in the engine-room when
the accident occurred.
The prisoners confined at Albuquerque
broke jail last Saturday night. Among
those who escaped were Billy Nuttan and
Sam Houston, the Colorado bunko men
who were recently arrested there.
A fire in the railway yards of West Kan
sas City consumed about $4,000 worth of
property, including the Missouri Pacific To-
cal freight depot, several cars loaded with
merchandise, and the State Line elevator.
The United States supreme court has
| affirmed the decision of the Colorado cir
cult court in favor of the ST. Louis Retin-
ing company rs John Steele ct al, involving
title to valuable property in the city OF
/ Leadville.
BY a collision on the PittsburS. Cincin-
natl & ST. Louis. between express trains Il
postal clerk named Wharton and an esas
gineer named Peters We're killed,as was
/ also the elephant belonging to kiralY
Brothers.
On Monday last the United States supreme
court rendered n decision in the political
assessment ease. The oonstitationality of
the law puder which Curtis was convicted
is affirmed, and the petition for habeas cor
pus denied.
Human ghouls are at their hellish work
at Las Vegas, New Mexico, They broke
open new made grave, stole the coffin
and iewclry of woman, and hurled the
body back into the grave, head downwards,
I leaving it uncovered.
1t is quite likely that bill will be
passed at this session of Congress appropri-
ating $4,000, 900 annually Tor the next five
years to aid in public education, this sum
to be distributed among the various states
accoriing to the ratio of illiteraey.
Il At opclika, Alabama, one day this week.
two factions of the old and new city eoun-
ell came in collision, and riot ensued in
the streets, in which nine whites and one
negro were shot down. Seven of the
wounded will die. The mayor appealed to
the governor for troops.
At Bridgeport, Connecticut, Edward Eng
lish and his SON were buried by the eavinl,
OF well. Aitor eleven hours work reseuers
took the son out alive. At the end oi
so hours English was uuearthcd and found
to be still alive, out before ho could be
taken from the well another cave occurred,
killing him.
On Monsiay the Suprcme court numbered