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Price, the Star-rOute mail contractor.
refuses to testify, in the civil action of
Walsh against Brady, relative to what
are known as the 'Price drafts" ON the
ground that his evidence would tend to
criminate himself
The first contract for the establish
ment of q mail route in Alaska has been
awarded to representative of the New
York Presbyterian Missionary society.
The service will be monthly, the dis
lance being one hundred and five miles,
by canoe.
James Russell Lowell, United States
minister to the court of st. James, is
mentioned as candidate for the rector
ship Of st. Andrews university, the
Oldest of the Scottish institutions Of
learning.
A man who was to have been married
Thursday at MiddletOwn, New York,
the previous evening shot himself with
suicidal intent, and then, closing the
door of his room, turned off gas. He
will live to repent his folly.
Mr.. John j. Finn, of Chicago. United
States consul at ChemnitZ, Saxony, is
to be displaced, after brief tenure of
Office, by Mr.. j. L. Parish, also of Chi
cago,.a member of the Illinois legisla-
ture.
The wife of the actor Frank Nor
daunt has been arrested in New York
upon the charge of attempting to shoot
her husband, the affair being the out
growth of q divorce suit brought by the
lady.
Two companies of cavalry, one COM
pany of infantry, and party of Indian
scouts have been dispatched from Fort
AssinabOine to intercept the Crees who
have been committing depredations in
northern Montana.
Five murderers paid the extreme PEN
atty of their crimes Friday-William
Banks and Green Cunningham being
executed at Lafayette, Georgia; Fred
E. Wait at Dallas, Texas; Nicholas
Walker (colored) at Graham, North Car
Dina.
Russell Brown and Patrick McGlew,
accused of the murder of Mrs. General
Doris, Browns grandmother, ut st.
Louis, entered plea of guilty of mana
slaughter in the first degree, and were
sentenced to ten years in the peniten-
tiary.
The Secretary of the Interior has
rendered adecisiOn relative to the fenc-
ing of public lands by stOck-raisers,
holding that such action is altogether
Ter promises that his department will
do all it can to- break up the practice.
More than twenty men were killed by
the Apaches in Arizona last week. 1t
is expected that the Indians are con-
centratiDg at point about twenty
miles from Tombstone. They have set
fire to the grass, and the country there
abouts is in blaze.
Negotiations have been concluded for
the production of the Passion Play"
at Louisville, Kentucky, by Mr.. Salmi
Morse. whose desire to reclaim the peo-
pie of New York by means of the So
called sacred drama. has been depressed
by the authorities of that city.
A committee of the Pennsylvania
House of Representatives has been in
structed to inquire and report whether
the absence during the whole of the
present session of Representative-elect
Dukes, the murderer of Captain Mutt,
is due to disability or vice.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal
company has by lease obtained control
of the West Shore railroad, and it is
expected that that line will speedily
enter into active competition with the
other railroads between New York and
Chicago.
The nomination of Noah A. Plympton
for insurance commissioner of Massa-
chusetts was rejected by the executive
council by strict party vote to l.
Immediately after this action had been
taken, Governor Butler again nOmi-
A verdict of guilty has been rendered
associates in the Armagh (Ireland) as
90 ain afiOr Iaopy,a Tho nrnWp oO1ncpI
in closing, charged O'Donovan Rosa,
p. j. Sheridan, James Redpath, and
John Dewey with promoting conspir-
acy.
The Glenn family, notorious III the
criminal record of Indiana, are once
more before the public, the husband,
William +. Glen, having instituted
proceedings for divorce from his wife,
Nancy, who is at present serving out a
sentence in the penitentiary for perjury.
Mr.. j. G. Bigelow, of Washington,
who was attorney for Sergeant Mason,
the would-be executioner of Guiteau,
has brought suit for So, 500 for his ser
vices. 1t is understood the ''Betty-and-
the-baby" fund amounted to $4,000, Of
which $1,000 is on deposit in Washing
ton.
A snOw-storm of unprecedented
severity for that section occurred Sun
day and Monday in North Carolina. At
Kittrell houses were crushed by the
weight of snow upon the roofs. Tele-
graph lines north of Greenville were
Frustrated. Great injury to crops is
expected to result from the storm.
The Apaches at present committing
Outrages in Arizona are said to be from
the San Carlos reservation, their num-
Der being estimated at three hundred.
"A band of twenty-seven Indians made
an attack on the town of Winchester,
Arizona, on Saturday, but were re-
pulsed. Two white men were killed.
Four young men, well known in New
York society, engaged in double
prize-fght at Far Rockaway, Long is
land, for their own satisfaction and the
edification of party of congenial
spirits. Some hard blows were struck,
but neither of the combatants was very
badly punished.