Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-15
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Special Dispatch 10 THK BEE.
The Memphis Avalanche has been sold
to e. s Nichols at q value estimated at
5000, 600. 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 xpress train on the Delaware 4
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.
ire tonight, Mayor Kings prohibition TO
the contrary notwithstanding. Ths mayor
says they oani go ahead till tho perform
ance begins, when he will show them who
2 mayor Qf Philsdelphis,
a palnpn,es eisisieu 22dssik .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 latter's 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 $4,000 In March, 1875
Polk was behind $40, L00;i in 1881 the short.
age was Al 900; 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 u
freight train the signal to advance and be
fore it could be CORE cted the engine
crashed into the rear coach of the 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 IN unpleasant position. What
gives an unpleasant color to some of these
statemen ts Is that the police knew who
were concerned in the affair and yet have
Jbhtu uO uCblOu 1 LDO ulubLCT, hut 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 q 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 q claim Of foul against Whist
Ter. In the third round, after wrestling
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
n~ecticut stste prison In 1879 for the muir
der of Susan Hanson, died on the 9th
On confession Of Cook, Joseph Buswel
was hanged--for hiring Cook to sho1
Miss Hanson-Dfter q noted contest befor,
the supreme court and legislature. Cool
left q confession, which admits the shoot
ing, and also that he testified falsely con
corning Boswell being present when tn
deed was committed. He says after Bus
we'll got to Marlborough 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 IN and gone to bed as Buswel
had directed