The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-07-03

taught the use of it at the States ex-
pense.
"A letter from Havana, dated June
81, says: :" An officer of the military ad
ministration was lately sent from Manzilla
to Santiago de Cuba with Fl 900 in gold
belonging to the administration, and
while leaning over rail accidentally
dropped the satchel containing the gold
into the sea-
Near llurtsboro, Alabama, on the
25th nlt., Joseph Broom, white, took to
task colored woman named Rina Polite
for insulting his wife. The woman stabbed
Broom with butcher knife, when Broom
wrenched it from the woman and in turn
stabbed her, killing her instantly.
DIR. Isaac J. Hathaway, of lhiladel-
phia, in the cellar of whose residence the
remains Of number of infants were re-
Gently found burned, vas convicted on
the 9th ult. of having performed Grim
lnal surgical operation in April, 1881 and
was sentenced to n fine of s. 900 and i'm
prisonment for seven years, being the ex-
IRENE penalty under the law.
William Ray, proprietor of board
ing house at Pullman, Illinois, shot and
instantly killed Thomas Dowdle and
George Fox, two young men, on the eth
ult. Deceased had quarrefed with Ray
and had made threats against his life The
tragedy occurred in Rays house, and he
asserts that the act was in self-defence.
lie surrendered himself to the authorities
An atfray occurred in Richmond, Va,
on the oath, between Dr. w. T. Crutch-
field and W. +. Mason, in which the
former was stabbed four times. The phv-
scians say that he cannot live The diff
ticulty was the result of an old feud Dr.
Crutchield is p years old and single. Mr..
Mason is a married man, about 40 years
old. Both are of highly pectable fam
lies.
Intelligence has been received from
Sierra Leone that recent British opera
tions against Chief Giopowe were attended
with great atrocities on the part of the
natives and allies, who butchered and mu-
tilated all males taken prisoners These
allies lost over 100 men, killed during the
attack upon the main fort, which was
captured. Eighty-two Of the enemy were
killed by single shell.
MIR. Nallandigham, editor of the Will
mington (Dcl) Erery Erening, was as
saulted on Wednesday evening week by
David Lemon, defeated Independent
Democratic candidate for City Council
After the editor had been struck by his
assailant with loaded whip he grappled
with him, and soon gave him fearful
whipping. In the language of the street,
he literally wiped up the banquette with
him.
Wednesday week, in Kansas City,
John Parrey, an employee of the Kansas
City Electric Light Company, was killed
in most singular manner. For two hours
Parrey had been at work upon a 5o-foot
pole, repairing broken wire, and at the
completion of the work put out his hand
upon the repaired portion. Through care
lessness the current had been turned on
and he ranAiva1 80 r-H g., l. Kip
him backward among the wires, where he
caught and for ten minutes dangled head
downward. The shock, however, killed
him instantly.
On the arrival of the sheriff and his
posse, says a Bismarck dispatch Of the
9th, at the scene of trouble between
Count Demores and band OF despera-
does led by ODonnell, hot chase after
the outlaws ensued. A fight afterwards
took place, during which three of the
desperadoes were killed and O'Donnell
and man named Waungan were cap
tured. Great excitement prevails and
there are threats Of lynching. Demores
is at the head Of great cattle company,
and ODonnell had beseiged his rancho
and threatened to kill him on sight.
Colonel Il. l.. Farinholt was killed
Saturday week in Essex county, Nir-
GINA. lie had previously had a misun-
derstanding with a blacksmith, whose
name is not known here, and a fight en-
sued in which the blacksmith got worstcd.
On Saturday Colonel Farinholt, hearing
OF the threats made by the blacksmith,
went to his shop armed with five pound
weight, but before he could use it his OPP
ponent assaulted him with a sledgc ham
mer and crushed his skull, killing him
instantly. Colonel Farinholt was a man
Of considerable prominence in Essex
county, where he had large monetary in
terestS
At three o'clock on Saturday morn
ing, June Odd, while the coach from Deer
Lodge for Helena was crossing the main
range Of the Rocky Mountains eighteen
miles west Of Bismarck, two men with
handkerchiefs tied around the lower part
of their faces stepped from behind the
bush and ordered the driver to halt. John
Mccormick, post-trader of Fort Missoula,
was on the box with the driver, and
drawing six-shooter quickly opened fire
on the highwaymen. One was badly hurt
and GRO w lo1 bacE into tho bn,L TLn