The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-05-05


Francisco.
Investigation by government officials
show United States Marshal Prussel of
Texas behind in his accounts and that he
has been arrested on orders from Wash.
ingtOn.
A st Louis dispatch says: Judge NJ
Crary has refused 10 grant an injunction
preventing other sleeping cars than the
Pullman being used ON the Iron Noun
tam railroad.
At the annual election of the Chicago,
Burlington L Quincy railroad ut Chicago,
about two-thirds the stock was voted
and the result was the reelection of the
entire old board.
By a decision of the supreme court at
Columbus, Ohio. the case of contempt
against VIM. II. Vanderbilt in connec-
| tion with the G. G. L l. G. railroad is
dropped from court.
r. Peele, late president, and Herman
/ j. Hall. q young speculator who Dor.
| rowed SAC, 900 on $4,000 securities of
the FIRST National bank of Buffalo, now
defunct, have been arrested.
| John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, was
sentenced recently to three months in the
Boston house of correction, for assault
on Chas. Robbins in bar-room on Ell
liott street. Sullivan appealed.
4 correspondent of the New York Her.
aid has been held in SIC, 900 bonds on
charge of libel, in publishing Manthrop's
statement that Senator Mcpherson was
interested in the Peruvian Company.
The body of General Stephen A. Hurl.
but. late minister 10 Peru, was taken
/ from the undertaking room at New York
on the 26th. aud put on board the train
for Belvidere, Boone county, ILL.,, where
interment takes place.
The Tribune reviews the antecedents
| of the presidents latest appointments
warts wing OF the party, aud that they
the majority Of the party.
Mrs. Isaac Thompson, while having
some teeth extracted by DR.. Charles OF
Omaha, expired In the dental chair from
the effects of chloroform. A postrnortem
examination was held and it was discov-
cred she had heart disease and diseased
kidneys.
A bridge burned on the 18th on tue
Texas i Mexican railroad between La
redo and Corpus Christi. A relief train
was sent from Laredo 10 the wreck. The
engineer and fireman were killed, while
several others were Scrioasly injured
| The loss to the railroad IL $1,000.
A Denver dispatch Of the 26th says:
/ This morning about two o'clock Sheriff
Z. \. Campbell, while guarding the con-
/ tents in q vacant house against thieves,
was shot through the heart and instantly
| killed by two low dance house men
/ al F1aex~e~s paRka Tasx.aa
/ ing.
A London dispatch OF the 27th says:
| Further respite for DIR. Isamson Is re-
/ fused. The home secretary has decided
that no ground exists iustifying further
/ delay In the execution OF the sentence,
and Lamson will accordingly be hanged.
The home Office has notified all interested
10 this effect.
A Washington special of the 26th says:
! Still another iron-clad Cameron nomina-
tion went to the senate to-day-that OF
.Andrew j Kaufman TO be collector Of
internal revenue for the 9th district o!
Pennsylvania. Kaufman Is ono of the
BOG, having misrepresented almost the
unanimous sentiment of the Lancaster
district by voting at Chicago for Grant.
William Stull. recently discharged
from the employment of Collins Summer,
q prominent farmer near Georgetown,
Ohio, shot Mrs. Summers six times with
revolver on the 23d, killing her In
stantly. The deed was done because
Stull thought his victim cansed his dis
missal. He was cornered early the fol-
lowing morning in the wood near Frank
lyn. Pa. by the Sheriff and posse. aud
finding escape impossible shot himself
dead.
the Hawaiian sngar question is assum-
ing such proportions in the markets of
the country, that o determined and united
effort is 10 be made by commercial bodies
of New York city TO seek relief from con-
gress. 1t will be demanded that SO much
of the treaty between the Sandwich
islands and the United States as permits
the entry OF Hawaiian sugar free of duty
shall be abrogated. The Matthiesen Il
Wichers' sugar Refining Company, re-
Gently received a consignment of Hawai-
ian sugar trans-shipped by steamer from
San Francisco, where it had been received
free of duty, and large shipment of the
same grade of sugars is now on the way
to that city from San Francisco.
By the alteration of the Indiana con-
stItutional amendment changing the date
of the state election from October to No
yember 80 members of the state senate
| the whole number-are to be elected this
fall, instead of 25 as heretofore. The
term of Office of 25 of them, however,
will not begin to run until expiration OF
the terms of their predecessors, which
occurs few days before the November
election in 1884. This is deemed impor-
tant, as the q. s. senator who succeeds
Voorhees, is TO be elected in the winter oi
1884 85, and this unexpected catch in the
law precipitates that contest in part this
fall. Democrats claim that this is an adj
vantage for them.
A dispatch of the 25th from Selma,
Alabama, says: On Saturday night
points east and south of here for a dis
tanee of from Ia to 20 miles, were visited
by O combined wind and rain storm that
in ferceness surpassed any similar oc-
currence there. The cyclone proper
lasted only five minutes and ranged over
track about 10 miles in length and q
quarter TO a half q mile in breadth
Everywhere in its course houses were
blown literally to pieces, fences torn
down and immense forest trees twisted
from their trunks and carried away
Several brick houses were blown of
smooth with the ground, and brick and
mortar found hundreds of yards off
Five lives were lost, and when complete
returns are in it is thought the death list
will at least be doubled. At DIR. j. H
Wheedtl's plantation near Kings Land
ing, every tree. bnsh, fence and house on
the plantation was swept clean off the
| face of the earth. The doctor and hi.
, wife and family and all other whites or
the plantation capped with only few
bruises. TwoLegro women and one boy