The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-02-16

NEWS NOTES.


aeronaut, has jumped that city, leaving
debts to the amount of $1,000.
r. S. Ehler, ]. Z. Griffin and james
Mckee were killed 10y cave-in in the
Esmerelda mine at Deadwood.
The Silver City ordinance compelling
commercial drummers to pay license
of ten dollars per day has been re-
pealed.
The Russian police claim to have de-
stroyed mhllism, and the czar walks
the streets of st. Petersburg without
an armed escort.
A recent attempt to burn the st.
Nicholas hotel, Las Vegas. nearly prov
ed successful. That city is cursed
with incendlaries.
Joseph Pawnee, the principal chief
of the Usage Indians. is dead, aged
fOrty-eight. He had ruled the 0sages
for over twenty years.
Milton Yarberry was hanged at Al
5uquerque last Friday for the murder
of Chas. d. Campbell in June 1881. He
had to be braced up with whiskey.
AT Peru, Illinois, on the 9th inst, Rev.
G. F. Brownston, of LaSalle, fell dead
at the feet of a couple whom he had
just pronounced husband and wife.
An earthquake was generally felt
throughout southern Michigan and
northern Indiana and at Bloomington,
Illinois, on the night of the 4th inst.
John G.. Hepburn WAS murdered by
a drunken Mexican mob at PinOs Altos,
near chihuahua, on the 4th inst. Five
of the murderers have been tried and
shot.
New Jersey has passed bill prohib-
iting the employment in factories and
workshops of children under twelve
years Of age, and children under fifteen
without two years schooling,
One hundred and fifty bodies were
stolen from the grave yards in the vi
cinity of Montreal during the winter
One-half Of which were sent to the
mt dical schools in the states.
Ex-mayors Hall, Ely, Grace, Cooper
and Wickham, Gen. Grant, ex-senator
Conkling. William II. Vanderbilt and
Jay Gould were summoned as a cor
oner's jury in New York, recently.
Frank James was taken to Gallatin,
Davies county, Mo-, where he will be
arraigned for the killing of Mcmillan
in the Winston train robbery, and
Sheets in the Gallatin bank robbery.
On the 3rd instant. three Cinnamon
were found murdered near Fort Bay
ard. Circumstances point strongly
to three Mexican desperadoes who had
been lurking in the vicinity for sever.
al days.
A Tucson dispatch says that Mexi
can soldiers on the border of Sonora
and chihuahua, killed one hundred and
took prisoner sixty Apaches. This is
the third victory for chihuahua troops
within ten days.
Our exchanges tell us that Col. M. j.
Gillette, who leaves the Sierra proper
ties Of Lake Valley on March 1st, will
return to his old love, the Ivanhoe, at
Grafton, and that work will be resum-
ed on that property.
Henry Harper. mining expert, sud
denly left Silver City. without telling
any one where he was going, and his
friends are out about $1,000. He left
mining properties in the Hanover
district worth double that amount.
MajOr-General Pope arrived at Santa
Fe on the Sth, and was rendered recep-
ton by the citizens of that place on the
following evening. He will visit the
several military posts in New Mexico
making Santa re his headquarters.
The house committee ON Indian af'
fairs reported adversely on Crayen's
bill authorizing the Mississippi, Albu
querque & Inter Ocean Railway Com
pany to construct railroad through
the Choctaw and Chickasaw nation.
A meeting of the stockmen of Lin
coin county and surrounding counties
is called for the first day of March, al
, the court house at lincoln, for the pur-
pose of forming an association for thei
better protection against cattle thieves
Many of the wealthiest men in New
York began poor. Jay Gould was {
cowboy, James r. Keene came from
England with twenty dollars In hi
pocket, Rufus Hatch began by dealing
: in garden sass" d. Appleton kept ;
grocery, James Watson Webb was ;
country clerk, Henry Willard was
5 reporter, Leonard Jerome was an itin
Grant printer. H. B. Claflln was Ver
mont school teacher. Charles O'Conno
was born in shanty of the poores
Irish parents, and Peter Cooper was
hatter's apprentice,