Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-12-27

made. s. c Slade, a half owner of the Times has lost S9,000 by his venture within about fourteen months.
 ANOTHER RoHBERY-
 DRAGooN, Dec. 24.-Mike Smith and man nlme1 Mason, were held up between here and Johnson last night. MaSon's horse was shot from unler him anl himself wound cd. They g t away
 TIE oLGUIN POSSE.
 CLIFTON, A, T., Dec. 2t.-Nicho las Dig lin anl nine others of hls posse were taken 10 9olom Dnyi,le by Depuy sheriff Hill, yesterday. An effort will be made to 2 ;t tAem off on writ Of ha5eas corpus. A pes tI'ioa, certifying to tue good charac ter Of Olglin and ex 1asrating him from crimjnllity on account of the killing of WrysclTber an 1 Glenn mens, was circulated he e today and nu ner1usly sig leI. The f. ling in C ifton, in Iegarl to the klllInr, is feverish At the mine the sentiment u9holls Olguin, but on the Gila river the 'op 1Dsite is the case. IL is to be hoped thlt a war Of races is uot to be ldei to .he SUI of our troubles, although there is al els ment n this community ready for it.
 A COLORADO AVALANCHE.
 DENVER, Col, Dec. 24-A dispatch from Ourap oa the 23 says: By a special messenger to Moltr lse, Col- Orad0, news has bee1 received of a horrible accident at the Virginius mine which occurred last Friday. Owing to the stormy weather mess senger could not Teach Ouray eArlier although the distance is only seven miles. The mine employs thirty five men aud is situated above the tim Der line. at the foot of Snit1 s range. On Friday afternoon hage mass of snow started from the top of the range an |, gathering IS it went, increased into an avalanche as it descended, striking the budding used as a boarding house, where eleven men were reslng, ani swept it completsly away, crushing and buryIng the men from fftner to twenty feet und.r the snow among the rock. anl timbers, fortunately missing the engine h1u.e. After the naise and cofusion had subsidcd the other miners were hoisted from the shaft and proceeded O hunt fol their clmra1es. Five were taken out alive, but were badly crushed, and may die; the other six were found dead. Their names are Thos. Marvin, J Fitz gerald Robt. Frazer, ". Carmichael, Chas. Armstrong and W. H Thu Her Most of tn .m have families.
 LoTTA's ENGLISH RECEPTION.
 NEW YORK, Dec. Cabl, special from London gives the fol lowing account of Lo'ta's Lonuon debut in Masette: The house Wa crowded; many prominent people were in the a1dience. It soon be, came evident tha. there were a nun Der Of persons present who had been organized to make hostile d'm- onsirations to make the debltant's success impossible. A row began when Lptta and Mr. Hovar |, from Wallack's theatre, New York, essay ed to sing Swce By anl By. L,ttq persevered with her part for tune but in the end was fairly frightened of' the stage by brutal menaces. The play was coatinued until the end in spite of occ lsional dislurblu- ces. Lotta was frequently recalled and generously applauded by the lower part of the house. The gener < al opinion after the performance was over. is that Lotta's style almost un- known to the English stage, is artis- tic and hlghily amusing but that Musctte is not play that cln ever be acceptable. The prevailing opiu. ion amorg critics and first nighters is, that the hostile dem 1nstrAtion against Lotta WIS organized in tte interest Of certain American aciress~ ess who have recently been greeted with q degree of favor which has astonished some people. John Rog- CTS, husband of Miss Minnie Palmer, is credited in some quarters with planning and direc ting the claque
 EARLY RIsERs.
 WASHING TON, Dec. 24.-At mid~ night Speaker Carlisle and Colonel Morrison were at the capitol, busily engaged mixing out committees.
 BIG IKE DEAD.
 DENVER, Dec. 24.-Ths negro, Big Ike, who, while attcm pting to rob bank at Durango last week. and shot dead Bruee Hunt, son of ex-Governor Hunt, died last night in jail at Durango from injuries purposely inflicted upon him self in jumping headlong from a 4)-foot embankment to avoid belng captur- ed alive. Just before he died he made confession duplicating foar others, all of whom are .der arr rest.
 ACCIDENTAL DEATHS IN SAN FRAN,
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