Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-07
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Minneapolis is ended.
Rev. Josiah Heuson, Mrs. Stoves
Uncle Tem," died Saturday at Dresden,
Ont, aged "a.
The firm of Louis Rosenstein & Co., N.
", fruit merchant, assigned; preferred
creditors $1S3, 900.
Chas. w. Reese, local insurance agent
at Friend, Nebraska, shot himself through
the heart. Cause financial trouble.
The national holiday of Senior Z~aragosa's
victory at Pueblo in 1862 was celebrated
with much enthusiasm in Mexico.
A statue of Peter Cooper will be erected
by popular subscription in the little public
square just north of the Cooper Union.
Forty.nine of the Des Moines saloon.
keepers have weakened and taken out
licences, paying S12. 600 into the city treas.
ury.
The private postal deliveries at New
York raided Friday are again in operation.
Actions lave been begun against the man.
ayers for recovering penalties.
Six buildings in the business part of
Tarport, Pa, burned Saturday morning.
George ONeil, sleeping in o saloon where
the lire started, was burned, and has since
died.
The jury in the case of Ellis II. Phipps,
the ex-almshouse superintendent, at Phila.
delphia, charged with forgery, after being
out all Friday night, returned a verdict Of
guilty.
The counsel for the trustees of the
Brooklyn bridge and the corporation coun.
sells OF New York and Brooklyn have
agreed the bridge cannot be made free for
any kind Of travel.
Leonard Wiiimet, an insane man of
Minneapolis, while being taken to the in
sane asylum jumped from the train and
threw himself under the cars. He was
cut to pieces.
Frank Mann, of Oxford, Mass, shot
Mrs, Mary Z. Moore, of Millbury, in
James Deans boarding house, at Millbury.
He then shot himself. Both are dead.
Cause, domestic troubles.
The Massachusetts, state boardof health;
lunacy and charity has adopted a resolu-
tion declaring the office of superintendent
of Tewksbury vacant, and that the board
at the next meeting will proceed to the
election of superintendent to hold the
office till July l, 1888.
VIM. H. Vanderbilt sailed for Europe
on Saturday. He intends to make only q
short stay in England on this visit, and
will return to New York again in four
weeks. He will, however, spend the sum.
mer and part Of the fall in Europe with
several members of his family.
An engagement took place Friday al
Suquach canyon, Mexico. between Apaches
and federal troops. The Indians were de-.
feated with the loss of twelve killed and
many wounded. The troops lost three
KILLED and had five wounded. The fight
lasted an hour and forty minutes.
The governing committee Of the New
York coffee exchange expelled Gustaf A.
Recknagel, vice.president of the exchange,
for violating the ruler and failing to answer
. summons Of complaint of the COMMITTEES.
Recknagel failed to meet his obligations.
His brokers, William Scott & Sons, sued
him for $4,000.
Argument was made Saturday before
Judge Sullivan in San Francisco on the
validity of the consolidation of the old
Central Pacific road and the Western
Pacific road in 1870, which resulted
IN forming the present company. Should
the count decide the consolidation defec.
tive 1t Is believed 1t would cause q series of
complications and depreciate the company's
bonds.
Henry Merriott and Mary Pesux were
ia New York on the charge of
stealing $75 600 worth of diamonds from
Franz Kroner, q jeweler, iu Paris. The
confessed to the robbery, and said
after it was committed In March last he |
and his companion went to London, and
then, becoming alarmed, they sailed for
this country. Thres.fourths of the dia.
monds were found at the prisoners lodg- |
ings.
ra,af,l nuo1;u,1;on .ho-. A.. III. |
ming struck the wire of the bell rope at the
Stanton, Pa, air-shaft, passing down into
the mine and ~igniting the gas. There was q
similar occurrence during the storm Satur-
day night at the Franklin Coal company's
slope, demolishing q vast amount Of tim
Der work in the pit, and doing much dam.
age to the workings. Had the slope been
in operation there would have been serious
loss of life.
Before Judge Tully in the circuit court
at Chicago Saturday certain heirs contest
ed the payment Of q bequest to a priest of
the Roman Catholic church to reimburse
him for saying masses for the repose of the
soul of the testator. Ehe point urged by
the counsel for the heirs was the money
Was expended for a su erstitious use. The
court held the objection could not hold
and the bequest WAS valid under the state
George Brisbane, a retired millionaire, of
years, was arrested in Brook
lyn on the charge of libeliug Ridelia Bris.
baue, the wife of his brother. 1t appears
the family was left a large amount of prop.
erty, and the brothers have been in litiga.
tion over it for the pat forty Yeas and
several suits are still pending in the dif-
ferent courts. The accused wrote Mrs.
Brisbane a letter, in which he alleged she
was not married to his brotherand charged
with bigamy. She has begun suit for
$50, COO.
The Cincinnati dramatic festival closed
Saturday night with a repetition Of Othsllo
with the same cast as on Thursday night.
In the afternoon Romeo and Juliet was