The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-04-27
NEWS AND COMMENTS.

VeTJlo-mlllennlal exposition Dullulng at
Santa Fe.
The Abernathy furniture factory at
Kansas City was totally DESTROYED by
fire, last week.
English gunboats find employment
in cruising off the Irish coast awaiting
to intercept vessels from America hav-
ing consignments of Internal ID achines.
The new postmaster-general wastak-
en- from the district judgeship of Indi-
ana, and his name is Walter Q. Gres-
ham. He is an Indianlan born and
bred.
George Scheller, the bar-keeper ac-
cused of setting fire to the Newhall
house III Milwaukee, has been tried and
acquitted. Only one juror was for con-
viction.
Mrs. Mary E. Schenlay has brought
all act of ejectmeut against the city of
Pittsburg, Pa, to recover a tract of land
used by the city for wharves, and val
ued at over $1,000O00.
The survey of the Ell Paso and White
Oaks railroad has finally been COM
pleted and the White Oaks people are
in high glee over their prospective com
munication with the outside world.
Kansas editors will take an excursion
to New Mexico about the middle Of
May. The editors Of New Mexico have
never recovered from their own excur-
sions to this land of the quaint and
curious.
The cyclone season has commenced.
The first one reported demolished Il
small station on the Little Rock rail-
road in Arkansas, and the second visits
Zubuta Falls, Minnesota. The town is
almost totally destroyed.
John Kinney has been sentenced to
pay fine of five hundred dollars and
10 serve FIVE years in the. penitentiary'
The motion for a new trial has been
overruled and the case Will be taken to
the supreme court.
1t is stated that intelligent estimates
based upon reports from fifteen of the
principal wheat-growing states Of the
union make the crop for the present
season fall short 1OO000,O00 bushels
from that of last year.
Gen. Crook, it is reported, does not be-
lieve that the Indians can be fought
with regular troops, and he will there
fore employ Indian scouts. The Mexi-
cans will permit the scouts to cross the
border in pursuit of the hostiles.
The Kingston bank of Raynold Bros
has been purchased by Norman G. Raft
of Albuquerque. Vincent Wallace of
Kingston and r. w. Zollers of Ell Paso
The bank will be removed to Demine
and Mr.. Wallace placed in charge.
The Silver City Watchdog has re
covered from its late dose of poison
and resumes its wonted yelps. Good
times are sure death to the Watchdog
hence it may be inferred by It's activity
that Silver City's prosperous season is
in the realm of decay.
Four thousand laborers have been
thrown out of employment by the stop.
page of the North Chicago rolling mills
President Palmer thinks that one-third
of the rails needed this year are already
in the market and that the outlook fol-
men now out of employment is a very
dark one.
A telegram from the company's su-
perintendent at Coolidge. to the presi-
dent of the New Mexico Bitumen and
Coal Oil company, at Albuquerque un-
der date of April 10th, says that free
flowing oil has been struck, but that
the Navajo Indians had fired upon the
workmen and driven them away. A de-
tachment of cavalry was sent TO invest
igate the trouble.
A meteor fell in Brown county, Texas
on the 14th of April, which is the
largest on record. 1t covers an acre of
ground, stands seventy feet above the
ground and is supposed to extend two
hundred feet below the surface. The
dwelling of Mexican herder named
Martinez Garcia was destroyed and the
man, his wife and family of five child.
rem were buried beneath the monster
Several head of cattle were also crush.
ed into the earth.
The largest sale of cattle and ranch
property on record has just been com
pleted at Edinburgh, Scotland. The
property lies il. Wyaysi6g. and consists
of $1,000 hsSsFs 1attls, 1900 horses
ard 1900 graded tbufs, with all neces
~ buildings onA range 4ox1OO miles
lin size. TIE property was purchased
by a stock company through the me
dium of James Wilson and A. H. Swar
of the Swan & Frank live stock com
pany, the National Cattle company ant
the Swan & Anthony cattle company
the consideration being s2,553,S25,