Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-15
TELEGRAPH NOTES

Special Dispatch 10 THK BEE.
The Memphis Avalanche has been sold
to r. Nichols at q value estimated at
S2OO,OO0. There is no change in editorship
or politics.
The Paris lie Temps says England has
pronounced the deposition of France IN
England, and it is possible Gladstone and
Egyptian enterprise may lead to the re-
opening OF the eastern question.
A sleigh containing three boys was struck
by an express train on the Delaware l.
Hudson Saturday night at Spring Creek
Crossing. One boy was killed and the
other two fatally injured. The horse was
thrown twenty feet over o fence and
killed.
Sullivan and Mike Cleary announce
through their counsel that they will give
their boxing match at the American thea.
tire tonight, Mayor Kings prohibition TO
the epntrsry Notwithstanding. The mayor
says they oani 60 ahead till the perform
ance begins. when he will show them who
y mayer Of PhilsdelpAis, ,sms... 80
a palnpn,es elsis,eu ndssik .na ID.
War;" published ut Pesth, has excited
considerable sensation. Tho author Is q
prominent member of the Hungarian op-
position. He asserts that ever since the
Berlin congress Russian has been deter.
mined upon war with Austria, and
that the latters army is numerically mad.
equate.
Polk. the defaulting treasurer of Ten.
nesse has reached the scene OF the thieving,
in charge of HIS captors. The reports Of
the committee of the legislature investiga.
ting the treasury default show the entire
deficiency to be Si0',O'0 In March, 1875
Polk was behind $40, ,l0J;in 1881 the short.
age was Al 600; in April, 1882, it was $2l6,
900.
A collision occurred Saturday morning
at the Indianapolis < Vincennes or ossing
of the Belt railroad. A switchman gave q
freight train the signal to advance and be
fore 1t could be CORE cted the engine
crashed into the rear coach of tho Indian.
apolis X Vincennes passenger train, knock
ing it If the track. Several passengers
were seriously but not fatally injured.
The stories put in circulation concerning
Miss Garrison, the St. Louis belle, who
was abducted last week and returned to
her mother Friday night, places the young
lady in an unpleasant position. What
gives an unpleasant color to some of these
stateme nts Is that the police knew who
were concerned in the affair and yet have
Jbhtu uCblOu buO ulubLCT, hui uhNt
the relatives of the young lady shown any
disposition to prosecute any ore.
Clarence Whistler and John Graham
wrestled in the opera house in Louisville
Saturday night in the presence of large
crowd. The stakes were $500, and the
conditions best two In three. The first
round, catch -as-catch. can. was won by
Whistler, the second GRECO. Roman by
Graham, on claim of foul against Whist
ler. In the third round, after wrestling
sc seventeen minutes Graham threw Whistler
to the floor heavily, breaking the latter's
right shoulder. The match was decided In
favor of Graham, to whom the stakes were
paid.
A snow slide occurred Friday on Mos,
quito mountain, about fifteen miles from
Leadville. A body of snow nearly Q
quarter mile long, 100 yards wide and /;
feet deep was swept down the mountain
side at a great velocity, carrying every
thing in Its course. Two miners, unable
to escape, were caught in the avalanche
and hurled a distance of 100 yards dowI
the mountain side Though still aliv,
when found, they were mutilated in {
horrible manner, and recovery is doubtful
Chas. w. Cook, committed to the Con
necticut stste prison in 1879 for the mur
der of Susan Hanson, died on the 9th
On confession cf Cook, Joseph Buswel
was hanged--for hiring Cook to sho1
Miss Hanson-Dfter q noted contest befor,
the supreme court and legislature. Cool
left confession, which admits the shoot
ing, and also that he testified falsely con
cerning Buswell being present when tn,
deed was committed. He says after Bus
we'll got to Wolfborough on the day of tn
murder he relented and drove back q
break neck speed to Brook6eld TO proven
Cook from doing the killing, but arrive,
twenty minutes too late, Couk having kill
ed the woman and gone to bed as Buswel
had directed