Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-17
NOTES

Special Dispatches TO THH Bun.
TIE business failures for the last seven
days are 255,
The river declined four inches at Hell
ena. Ark, yesterday.
General Diaz, ex-president of Mexico,
and party, have arrived In st. Louis.
Seven business houses and stores in
Bloomington. Iud burned; loss s75 .0O5.
The Missouri house passed a bill fixing
rail- Dad passenger rates at three cents pc.
mile.
Judge David Davis and bride visited Fl.
Punter yesterday. On Monday they go to
Aiken, 8. @.
Leo St,in, q prominent broker, has been
| appointed manager Of the Mexican Ma
tional band.
The democratic caucus Of Pawtucket.
Lincoln, and East Greenwich, r. l., were
carried for SprAgue.
Fannie Mordaunt has begun suit In New
York against her husband, Frank Nor.
daunt, on the charge Of desertion.
The National Reel and Rod association
hold the next tournament In New York on
the second Wednesday In October.
Mrs. Alex Allen and son, aged Is years,
were aspbyxiated with coal gas from q
self-feeding stove at Hamilton, Ont.
6Texss sheep men report heavy losses
from the cold rain Of last week. The loss
west of the Nuroes river reaches q quarter
of q million dollars.
Capt. SARGENT. commander Of the steam.
ship Indi ana, plying between Philadelphia
and Liverpool, has been offered command
of Jay Gould's new yacht.
| non w C,,eh~n.u urhn lat
tsiued money from the Concord IN. II
school philosophers by q forged check, wau
sentenced to five years 10 stae prison.
While railroad laborers ware warming
dynamite cartridges, at Marlborough, N
Y. an explosion took place and one laborer
was killed and others probably fatally in.
jured.
The train robbers,who murdered Conduc.
or Cain on the Fort Smith road, have been
pursued TO Washington county, where
they separated and are going north iutc
Missavs,. H.
De Witt I'LL county railroad bonds. is
sued in 1880, have been extensively ooun
terfeited and put on the market. A large
number Of innocent people have beur
swindled,
The trades organization. Of New York
VIII uuIbo uoAb NlOuuny oNouiuk III stibuss
to the memory Of Karl Marx at Cooper
Union. Henry George, John Swinton anc
Herr Most are invited to speak.
A serious cave In the Silver Horn mint
Is reported in Salt Lake, being o settling
down on the slope Of the foot wall of thu
old cave of two years ago. No one wa
hurt. It has not yet interfered with thu
working OF the shafts.
Jacob W. Amolung, one Of the juror
who acquitted A~ssemblyman Dukes fo
the murder of Captain Mutt, at Union
town, Pa, was attacked IN the streets o
the village of Belle Vernon, and 30 badly
beaten that his life Is despaired OF.
The American Sports. Chicago, will
publish o challenge from Eugene Carte
to play any contestant IN the recent bill
lizard tournament q match game for $50
q side. 1t is certain the challenge will b
accepted by Wallace and the game playel
the latter part Of next week.
John Powell's gin house on the Missis
sippi side opposite Helena, Ark, burned
last night. It was filed with negro refu
gees, who barely escaped with their live
IN the overflow. A child was drowned II
the excitement and stampede from tn
burning building.
Between three and four .. m. at Lime
stone, ninety miles east Of Knoxville, tn,
eastern bound passenger train was In col
lision with a.freight train. Both engine
were wrecked, and eight cars demolished
VIM. Whitlock, the engineer, wal crushe,
beneath the passenger train.