The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-03
NEWS AND COMMENTS.
There is cholera in Egypt.

An attempt is being made at DEM
ing to have wagon road constructed
from that point to Kingston.
King Chetewayo with all his wives
and many of his chiefs has been mas
sacred by the insurgents in his domin-
ION.
Hanlan has won another boat race.
His opponents were Hosmer and Lee,
and the race was rowed at Fulton, N.
Y, on the 26th ult.
EX-treasurer Polk of Tennessee, has
been sentenced to twenty years In the
penitentiary besides fine to the full
amount of the embezGlement.
The Magdalena smelter is running
steadily on Juanita ore. The ore car
ries only six ounces of silver per ton
but it is easily mined and huxed.
Anybody knowing of the whereabouts
Of prospector named Evan /. Owens,
will confer favor upon his parents in
Maryland by sending word to the King
ston Tribune.
The Socorro Sun has changed from
a weekly to daily. The proprietor,
Mr.. Beal is laboring hard to make the
changed form financial success, and
the RANGE hopes he will succeed.
J. D. Mcdonald and John McCalla
both of Pueblo, Springs, of this county,
had a shooting affray on the 26th ult,,
over some mining claims, Mcdonald
shot five times and MORALLY wounded
his opponent. McCalla killed his an
tagonist by his sixth shot.
A log jam on Grand river in Mich.
gan, which had been lodged against the
bridge of the Detroit and Grand Haven
railroad near Grand Rapids, extending
for miles up the river, broke down the
mooring and like a tremendous ava
lanche carried away bridges and every
thing else in its path as it swept down
to lake Michigan. The damage done
reaches into the millions of dollars.
Mrs. Langtry has returned to Eng
land and her loving husband. The idi-
otic American people are anXiously
awaiting the arrival of the next crank
or lewd woman to pour out their cash
to them. In no ether land could Oscar
Wild or Mrs. Langtry have earned ex-
penses travelling about exhibiting them
selves, while here they each made a
fortune.
Seventy-eight people, chiefly women
and children were drowned on the 25th
ult at Tlvoli, ten miles from Baltimore.
Baltimore people who had spent the
day plcniclng crowded the Tivoli pier,
eager to take the last returning boat for
home when the structure gave way and
precipitated them into ten feet depth of
water. Darkness prevented many Of
the unfortunates being rescued.
On The 25th of July Captain Matthew
Webb one of the greatest swimmers of
the world attempted to swim through
the rapids of Niagara. Two thousand
dollars was to be paid to his wife if he
did or did not succeed in the undertak-
ing. He was lost in the rapids and two
days later his dead body was found in
the stream below. A hole cut in his
skull, presumably by the sharp rocks
show the manner Of his death.
A terrible railroad accident on the
Rome, Watertown and OgdeDSburg
railroad occurred on the 2Sth ut, in
which nineteen persons lost their lives
and thirty others were wounded. The
catastrophe took place near Carleton.
A Car had been blown upon the main
track from siding and into this a
double-header excursion train bound
for the Thousand islands, ran. The
engine was ditched and the baggage
car and two sleepers were totally de-
molished.
In the Franco, ,Tonquin war the
French troops recently made sortie
from Hanoi with force of 5000 men.
Seven pieces of artillery were captured
and 1000 of the enemy were killed with
a loss to the French of but eleven men.
A Valencia county justice of the
peace named Stantiago Luna, last week
fined Pillar Aguirre y Guiterres $25 and
costs for the murder of Marcus Sais
and companion in which the said
Pillar was implicated. Justice and the
law have little to do with a Mexican
justices court.
The telegraph operators strike still
continues with no sign of weakening
on either side. This is the most stu
pedious move to compel. an increase of
wages that has ever been attempted in
the land, some fourteen thousand per-
sons being engaged in the concerted
action. There is harmony, absence