The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-23
NEWS NOTES.

Miss Frances Willard, the temperance
worker, is l~ectpring in Santa Fe.
De Lesseps IS to direct surveys TO
convert the Sahara desert INTO an inland
sea,
The Independents have nominated
VIM. Sprague for governor of Rhode
Island.
The entire business portion of For
est City, California, was recently de-
stroyed by Gre.
An extensive cave-in recently occur
red in the Highland mine at Deadwooi,
fatally iniuring one miner,
Two ladies named Judson persisted
in their burning residence in East Hart
ford, Conn.,, on the 18th inst.
The Missouri house of representa-
tives passed a bill fixing railroad pass
enger fare at three cents per mile.
A fire at Jacksonville, Texas, on the
10th inst. destroyed a whole block in
Guiding the post-oflice. Loss, 100000.
Some one found a broken window in
a carriage in which ex-secretary Blaine
bad been riding and started a story of
attempted assassination.
Patrick Bartwell, topman of the Colo.
RADIO Coal and Iron c%ompapy's blast
furnace at Bessemer, was killed last
Sunday by falling down a shaft seventy
two feet,
The ship Demstaffnage, from Cal
cutta, via Dundee, for Liverpool, was
wrecked off the coast of Aberdeenshire,
and the men, women and children
drowned.
Clarence Hite, one of the James gang,
who was recently pardoned out of the
penitentiary where he had been sen
fenced for twenty-five years, died at his
home in Logan county, Mo, on the 18th
inst.
Emmet p'Neill, a broker of Schen-
ectedy, NJ, recently failed for $4,000
and fed the country, Among the vic
timized were widows, orphans, and in
dustriops poor, Of Schenectady and
puanesburgh.
Ellen Conway, a woman of fifty-fYe
years, who sold newspapers on Broad
way, New York, was found dead in her
bed recently, Her rooms had a miser-
able appearance, but when searched
pver $1,000 was found,
The Russian government has propos-
ed to (pther powers, that ar interna-
tUnal Force be organized to cope with
anarchists and nihilists. Fenians and
socialists. France, Switzerland and
Austria have acquiesced in the pro-
poSal.
An Indiana journalist, after travers
ing the flooded section of that state, esti-
mates the damage to property at 49,
$4,000. Over 5000 residences have
been swept away or devastated, and
$4,000 persons are dependent upon
charity for food and clothing,
Reports of correspondents received
at the Kansas state agricultural de-
partment, indicate that both winter
wheat and rye are looking well, and
that the wheat is not so much injured
as was feared. Indications point to a
large acreage of corn and other crops.
A bill was introduced in the senate
Of Pennsylvania to prevent burning or
crematlng human bodies, making the
penalty for violation a fine of not less
than $500 nor more than $1,000, and i'm
%prisOnment not less than one or more
than three years solitary confinement.
Al. Parker was arrested near Fort
Fetterman, Wyoming. on the 18th,
charged with killing five companions
while camping with them one night
about nine years ago in Colorado. He
vas arrested shortly a%fterward, bat es-
capped and had been at large until his
recent arF6st.
Carver Defeated Bogardus in the
third contest of a series Of clay pigeon
shooting at Kansas City, of the 18th, by
u score of ninety-one to sixty-nine. At
Omaha, OH the 18th, Carver again de-
feated Rogardus in the first of a series
of twenty-five matches, by a score of
pinetysf0ur to ninety.
The superintendent of the Kelley
mine employed a Chinaman to do
mental work for the officers, and took
him to the M~agdalenas. A few miners
fearful of TIE introduction of cheap la
Dor, undertook to make him leave
which caused a row in which James
Hannis, a miner was killed.
II. T. Croker, a notorious horse thief,
suicided recently in the Grandbury,
(Texas) Jail. He had been in Texas
since 1873. and had killed three men and
one in his time. He had re-
GREETED he could not kill two more men
who had injured him, and being with
out money or friends he preferred
death to lie in prison.