San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
West.

West.
THE Michigan Attorney General is
called upon TO decide the legality Of
the election of three ladies on the
Flint School Board. More than loO
women cast their ballots for them.
Mack Marsden, leader Of gang OF hog
and cattle stealers who have infested
the vicinity of Hillsboro, Mo-, and who
was suspected of the murder OF two
men, who lynched by his neighbors.
The trial of Seth l.. Crews, q member
of the Illinois House of Representa-
tives, at Belleville, on the charge OF
obtaining money under false pretenses,
resulted in an acquital &. +. Mowbrays's
-four mill at Stockton, Mimi, was de-
stroyed by fire, causing loss OF $780,
900.
THERE are fears that the force Of
volunteers organizing in Arizona, as is
claimed for protection against the In
dams, in reality contemplate q raid on
the San Carlos Reservation, course
which Agent Wilcox tells the Depart
ment of the Interior will prove disas-
trous. A cavern occurred at the
Ridge mine, between Quinnessee and
Iron Mountain, in Northern Michigan,
carrying down the engine-house and
eight men, namely: Pat Egan, Richard
Williams, w. Henderson, John Morris,
Thomas James, Edward Wicks, William
Jeffrey and William Pollard. All OF
the men were killed. :. The greatest
snow-storm of the winter ragged at
Minneapolis, Mimi, on the 10th OF
April, causing q suspension of street.
car travel The snow crushed in the
roof of the roller skating-rink and
wrecked the walls. The storm was felt
throughout Minnesota Prof. Mac
Lem, of the Michigan State University,
comes out largely ahead in his libel suit
against James E. Scripps, editor and
proprietor of the Detroit Evening NelcS.
The paper published story to the
effect that MacLean had been criminal
ly intimate with woman whose name
was given, but jury, after two weeks
trial of the case, cast Scripps in $780,
900 damages.
THERE is great rush of immigrants
to Northern Minnesota, Dakota and
Manitoba. A recent dispatch from st.
Paul says: Arriving and departing
trains are taxed to their utmost to sup
ply the demand for accommodations,
and the resources of the roads center
ing at st. Paul are daily drawn upon
to their farthest limit. In converse
ton with railrad men upon the subject
they express themselves as surprised
at the daily accessions made to the
city's floating population. Nothing
like it was ever before seen. At pres
ent it is thought that no less than TO-
600 passengers are received here per
week and forwarded to Northwestern
points by way of the Northern Pacific
and Manitoba lines. . .Advices from
Arizona report that the people of that
Territory are much disappointed at
the inaction of Gen. Crook, and have
about lost all hope Of protection by the
army. Several independent companies
Of miners and prospectors have been
and q war of determination
will be waged against the copper-col-
ored pests -. Benjamin E. Cocker.
ID. d. LII d., professor of mental, and
moral philosophy in the University of
and man of high standing
rs preacher and author, is dead. =.
The Atlantic Milling Company, of ST..
Louis, of which George Balm is Presi-
dent, has been obliged to suspend tenn
porarily on account of dullness in the
European market and overstock of
wheat.