Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-08
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Tbs Germans Of New York city are
moving promptly to raise relief for the
3. hsrers by the terrib II jods in Germany
The New York bank ststement thows u
reserve increase of 81 POI, S25 Tne banks
now hold $685. 25 in excess of the legal
requirements,
The conservatory of the Golden Gate
park, in IN Francisco, with many rare
irrejoverable e%Notics, was burned Satur.
day Loss $4,000
TIE secretary of state writes to the
Chinese minister that the United STA es
gov rnment will permit the transit through
the United States of Chinese laborers.
William Barrett, the famous j1ckey
who rode Parole in England for Lorillard
AMI also roc many other famous horses,
died yesterday afternoon at Long Branch,
from consumption.
At George IL. Hayman's turpentine
farm, twenty miles from Darien, Ga, q
negro entered the house while the family
was at dinner and shot Hayman in the at.
domen. Hayman knocked the negro down,
took a pistol irtm him and shot him. Both
d ed.
hV thJuiith u lluChY btluWlu, WHO WAS
sAot in San Francisco Thursday by his
niece, are more serious than at first sup.
posed. Blood poisoning Is feared, and he
may lose his arm il not his life. Baldwin
is the owner of the Baldwin hotel, one of
the finest on the coast.
A Victoria, b. c., dispatch from Militia.
katish sass the Indians attacked Bishop
Bedlay and destroyed several of the mis-
sion houses. Serious trouble is antici.
pated, as the Indians are indignant at the
usage they profess TO ave received ut the
hands of the church authorities.
Robt. Ross and Jack Moore, two mid.
die aged men, while asleep in a house in
Webster county, West Virginia, were
burned to death. They had probably
drunken heavily, built "a large fire and
lain down. The matter, however, has
nes yet been investigated.
At a meeting of the coal miners a. Belle
vile mining district, st Clair county, u.
lino's, yesterday, resolutions were passed
to dissolve the mjnurs' union. This leayea
the men free to act ~ individuals in all re.
lations with the mine owners. and iC is
thought a better condition OF alta. re will be
the result.
Scalpers in Minneapolis are selling
through tickets, over the Omaha & Rock
Island route, TO Chicago, for so, which ia
DO cents less than the regular rates, with
allo wed commission of agents. Il tn lines
deny any participation in the cut but ad.
NIT that by some means it IS being done.
The tickets are limited to Two days.
The wife of Charles Il. Slocum, of Plano,
HIS, recently applied for a divorc, on the
ground of intdelity. Friday night he
sought her and confessed his guilt, prom
ised reform and begged her to return. She
refused, whereupon he drew a revolver
ard shot himself in the head. He died In
ten minutes.
William III. Truesdell, assistant traffic
manager of the Omaha line, has been APP.
pointed by President Cable, OF the Rock
Leland road, assistant president of the
Minneapolis Il st. Louis connection of the
Albert Lea route, with headquarters at
Minneapolis. He will enter upon his new
duties to-day.
Mary h Cherry, a young woman en-
ployed as a dress maker, ia Lincoln, Neb ,
was found dead in bed Saturday morning
and n bottle of belladonna, which she was
In the habit of taking. was found in her
bed. 1t is not known whether it was a
suicide or an accident. The coroner's in.
quest is expected to develop interesting
facts.
George Seymour, alias Stiles, (colored),
entered a pa wnotiice in Philadelphia and
offered to pledge for $75 a br~eastpin con-
tanning t~hirty.tive diamonds and valued at
$4,000. Being promptly arrested and
searched . memorandum was found on
him, showing he had pawned q very valu.
able diamond at another place. While in
the prisoners dock h. was rec ,gnized as a
former 4ter at the West End hotel, Long
Branch, where last summer Mrs. Carr, OF
Pittsburg, was robbed Of about SO, 900
worth of diamonds.
WASHINGTON.
The fertilization bill %appropriates Sl75,.
GOO. The pension appropriation bill has
been reported. 1t a%pprOpriates SS1, 000,.
900.
The house committee on expenditures of
the department. OF justice examined j. III.
htkenny, clerk of the United States SUI
prene court, in tie matter Of receipts and
expenditures of his Office, during which il
developed the fact hat the receipts this
year were Sl9,496, and during the year
previous $50, 600.
There is understood to be In possession
OF the state department at Washington
documents proving beyond doubt that the
persons found in Siberia by nr. II. West
expedition were those of Lieutenant Chipp
anS party. The members Of the party
we're all dead, Snd 1t IL said the papers
found on their persons give the details OF
their terrible sufferings and dates of the
last occasion when they were able to
record them,