Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-05
TELEGRAPH NOTES.

Special Dispatches to THE BHy.
Phares Cassidy died in Lebanon, Pa.
yesterday, aged 102.
The five concerts given by Nilsson in
Cincinnati Melted $50, 900.
Union Elastic Goods company of Bos.
ton is reported embarrassed.
George Jones, Jesse Garter, and G. Mar.
tin Weinberger, of Pittsburg, oonviced
of murder, have been sentenced to be
hanged.
Colonel Harry Gilmore, the we'll known
Confederate cavalry officer, died in Balti-
more yesterday, aged As years, of cancer
In the face.
The four year cid son OF Il. II. Holman,
attorney of Nashville, while playing with
o gun, shot through the brain and killed q
four year old sister.
The water in the Diamond mine was
lowered two feet yesterday. It Is now GA
feet below the original level; 81 feet re-
main to be pumped out.
A large fire occurred Saturday in the Of.
fee of the Popular Printing company,
Rose street, New York. Thirty girls were
employed. Three were burned to death.
The Berlin National Zeitung shirms
that the Prince of Wales has expressed
strong ~disapproval with reference to mill.
tary degradation by Francs of tho Orleans
princes.
w. III. Pratt, president Of the bank of
Mobile, and vice.president of the Mobile
and Montgomery railroad. while attempt.
ing to pass between the cars OF o freight
train, fell and was run over and killed in.
stantly. He was terribly mangled.
Most of the small towns on the Missis.
sissippi besween Cairo and Helena are
more or less inundated, the houses either
deserted 81 the peoole living in upper
stories. Considerable loss of property. es-
pecislly live stock and corn, is reported,
though not as great as last year.
The Lawrence Augustinian society'f
affairs were referred to in all Catholic
churches yesterday, and society meetings
In each congregation will be held Tues
day evening to consider the matter,
Twenty-one attachments, aggregatine
over $4,000, now cover the property,
Judge Allen, now Judge Of the criminal
court Of Nashville, reduced the bail bond
Of eI-Treasurer Polk from $50, COO to $40,
600. The grounds Of the reduction were
Folks inability to give 80 high a bond and
on account of his exhausted condition from
confinement. Polk at ouce gave bonds in
$40, 900 and was released.
After agitation of the diagonal project
in Des Moines for nearly a year past, and
defeat of one per cent tax last August by
q large vote, o subscription was completed
which secures the building of the road e
the city. The road is projected to run
from MEG regor to Nebraska City, and the
track will be laid to Dss Moines before
January l 1884.
Friends of Frank Byrne, for whom ex
tradition by the French government hai
been asked, hos taken steps to secure nu
merous afidavits of members OF parlia
mont and Others, testifyiug they saw Byrn,
in London May 9Th last, the day of tht
Phpuix park murders. Henry Rochefort
has written Victor Hugo, asking him Il
use his influence with the government il
favor of Byrne, The authorities are beiue
urged to admit Byrne to bail in q substan
tial sum.
A Springfield (Ill.) special says; Satur
day morning burglars opened the safe OF
j. @. kaholt, jeweler and matchmaker,
and stole from SIS, 900 to $40, 900 worth OF
goods. A large portion Of the property II
diamonds and jswelry, together with 40(
watches, of which $50 were left for re
pair. Kaholt's personal loss Is about $15.
600. The burglars first entered II. II
Ruttis' hardware store and secured /,
! dozen reviewers and tools to break int,