Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-14
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Special Dispatches to TIE BEE.
Nine culprits were whipped at the post
at Newcastle, Del, Saturday, for various
o~ffenses.
Henry Revels (colored) wa, hanged at
Lake Providence, La, Friday. for the
murder of Henry Hymans (white).
A private dispatch announces the
death of Gov. Israel Washburn at Phil
sdelphis, whittier be had gone for medical
| treatment.
A movement has been in%augurated by
the tin plate companies of Pittsburg and
Philadelphia for q restoration Of the pro
t~ective tariff on tin plate.
Intelligence is received from different
sections of Virginia to the effsctthat great
damage is being done to the young to.
bacco plants by the tobacco fly, and in
many instances the farmers have had all
their plants destroy ed. Planters are much
discouraged.
The attorney general OF Tennessee has
filed q bill against ex.Treasurer Polk and
bis sureties to recover the balance due
from him to the state, S29l,4 27, with in.
t~erest; also $50 600 in United States bonds
and coupons, all of which were m%isappro-
priated by Polk.
The Sunday law is being enforced at
Milwaukee against liquor dealers. The
protective association invites the co.opera.
ton of the mayor in stopping the sale OF
milk and closing barber and cigar shops,
livery stables, ETC., but the mayor declines
the invitation.
A boiler exploded in the shingle mill Of
John Guyer, at Naponee, Ind, saturday,
killing Henry Archer, o. p. Wahl and
James Brundsgs and seriously ~injuring
Joseph Guyer, John Guyer and William
Nicely. The three men killei all leave
large families.
Gov. Click has received dispatches from
Dodge City, kss., saying all ID quiet there
now and there is no danger Of further
trouble. The governor was prepared to
60 to Dodge City with a company of mill.
tia on q special train, but will await fur
Their developments.
Flotow's executors have discovered sev-
eral treasures among the late composers
papers. First among them is the manu-
script of a complete grand opera in FIVE
acts, entitled "~Sacouutala," and scarcely
less important are the scores of q comic
opera called Lies Musiciens," and of two
operettas, lie Deserteur" and "Lo Ven
gesnce des Fleurs."
Tn graves of confederate dead In Elm.
wood cemetery, Memphis, were decorated
yesterday with the usual ceremonies.
The works of the Anderson Pressed
Brick company, North Chicago, burned
LIST night. Loss, $3.50. 600; insurance,
$50. 900.
Sullivan left Boston last night for New
York. He meets Mitchell, the English
, pugilist, in Madison Square garden to.
night,
) The motion for a new trial in the case OF
Lew Houk, at Delaware, Ohio, has been
overruled and the prisoner given fifteen
. years in the penitentisry.
Ex-senator Window ia said to ha We un
der consideration the offer which has been
: made to him of the vice. presidency OF the
/ Florida ship canal and transit company.
:, William Connors (white) aged &c, who
shot dead two men and cut two other in q
o drunken quarrel, at Glenmsry, Tenn,
; WAS lynched Saturday night by negro
miners. After being hanged the body wal
i riddled with bullets.
r Preliminary steps nave been taken by
I wholesals and retail dealers to establish 8
have been obtained in the Chamber Of
. Commerce building and the exchange will
n be opened in q week or two.
= A. L. Griffin, vice president of the Unior
q Iron and Steel company, Chicago, il
q which Amass Stone was heavily interested
h says his death will not interfere with thu
n contemplated resumption of work CT
June LIST.
In q quarrel on q train of the Cincinnati
Northern road bringing a picnic home,
general shooting and cutting STRAY tool
place yesterday afternoon about twelv
miles from Cincinnati. Five men wer,
seriously wounded, none fatally.
The Metropole insurance company, o
Paris, France, has ceased business in tn
United States. All outstanding risks anc
~ polio es in this country have deem assume
~ by the Niagara Fire insurance company, o
ii New York.
George Washington Warren, age 20
d died in Boston yesterday. He was tn
/. first mayor of Charleston, Mass, nearl'
Il thirty years president of Banker Hill
Monument society, and many years presi
dent of the American colonization society
Advices from CaIiso mining district
western Texas, say immense deposits o
chloride and horn silver have been discov
cred in the section of the country lying Re
tween the Pecos river and the Rio GrAnde
Surface groupings Of horn silver are sal
= to be the richest on the continent.
A dispatch from Austin, Texas, says
- The Houston & Texas Contra railroad ha
~; defarlted In payment Of interest and sink
NJ ing fund due the state on loans made to
10 prior to the war. The amount in defaul
ne Is about S2s, 900. The state Will probabl
I'd bring suit against the company.
The first through train on the new
al Chicago, St. Louis & Pitts 1urgh r~'ilroac
~ Pan. Handle route), will be run to-day
This is the opening of q new and indeper
dent line etween New York and Chicag
W. over the Pennsylvania railroad, Pan Har
y. die route, and the new Chicago, st. Lou
ca & Pittsburg route.
i" Lieutenant Tettini, of the Third Savo
"a. cavalry, Italy, aged 80, stopping at tt
=, Windsor hotel, New York, shot himse
is in front of No. 5 West Fifty.seventh stree
en- yesterday. He has been in this countr
of several months and mixed much in soc
nm ETY.. He became e~nSInorei of a Murrs
Hill belle who did not reciprocate his low
He will die.
q The Chicago police raided a Chimes
opium den on South Clark street last nigl
and captured q woman, three white me
and four Cinnamon, all under the 4
huence Of the drug. Among the viii
- men men was Joe Brace, q confirm,
opium smoker. He says this vice is rapid
at, increasing both In New York and Chicag
re- and new dsns are being constantly opene