Omaha daily bee., 1884-03-17
TRIPLES by T~ELEGRAPH.

The Mississippi legislature has adjourned
sine die.
Tho congressional committee to investi'
gate the government work has arrived at Hot
Springs.
The governor of Mississippi has committed
tho death sentence of John Nelson to Inn
prisonment for life.
The announcement is made of tho engage
ment of Mrs. Frank Leslie, the widow Of the
publisher, to Marquis do Leuville, of France.
Lincoln Post G.. A. r., of Topeka, Kas.
numbering over 500 members, by a resolution
asks President Arthur to veto the Fitz John
Porter bill.
The crevasse at Morgansea, Louisiana, on
the Grand levee, is now 300 yards wide.
The state authorities hope to save the bal.
ance Of the levee.
Oliver Douglas house, Pittsfeld, Mass,
was burned Saturday night. The family
escaped in their night clothes. A boy was
rescued with his throat cut.
The Ontario legislature has passed n bill
giving widows and spinsters who have the
necessary property qualifications the right to
vote at municipal elections.
Blunt G.. Alno, who went to New York
from Foote county, Illinois, with q lot of
cattle, was arrested Saturday, charged with
passing WORTHLESS checks.
The schedules in the assignment of the firm
of McGinnis Bros. & Fearing, brokers, show
Liabilities, 1924, 600; nominal assets, $685.
600; actual assets, $4,000
In passing upon q pension case the secreta-
ry of the interior has ruled that the fact that
q soldier had disease prior to his enlistment Ia
not an absolute bar to his pension claim.
Semomine & Co., an incorporation operat-
ing the Pike tobacco warehouse, Louisville,
has assigned. Liabilities nearly 500, GOO; as
sets claimed to DO sufficient to satisfy the
creditors.
confessed having murdered four women whom
he had married for the purpose of plundering
them, and Carl Schenk and Karl Schlassarck,
his accomplices, have been sentenced to
death.
A London dispatch of Saturday says
Weston finished his 5000 miles tramp in 100
days. Doctor Norman Kerr presided ut the
meeting held at the finish. Canon Duckworth
and many other prominent temperance advo.
Gates were present.
A Durango special says: 1t is reported tina,
n snowslide carried away tho Samson Mining
company's concentrating works, eight miles
ut an expense of $50, 900. No lives were lost
No further particulars are obtainable.
A bandit band in the province of SAINTS
Clara. Cuba, had an encounter with thu
troops Saturday. Three bandits were killed
and eleven taken prisoners. OF the remaining
twenty, two gave themselves up and elgh,
escaped. Among the latter was Durace, the
leader.
The Inter-O Oceans South Bend, Ind.
special says: Two freight trains on the Crane
Trunk roads collided six miles from there Sat
urday, owing to wrong orders. Both train
were badly wrecked. Engineer Alexander
Powell was fatally injured and four Other
trainmen seriously.
This (Monday) morning n special freight
train of thirty-one cars, all loaded with corr
for the sufferers by the floods in the Ohio
river valley, will leave Wichita for Cincinnati
The corn Is donated by the people of Sedgwicl
county, and will prove a substantial present
The body of IL man named Jeremiah Davii
was found Saturday In the debris of the ware
house of IL. j. O'Neil, which fell In Frida,
last at Dubuque, from the overweight o
grain. His neck was broken. The coroneri
jury censure the occupants of the building
for storing too much grain in the building ant
the city for allowing 1t.
A trapeze performer named Lc Haines
while performing at the Pence opera house
Minneapolis, Saturday night, fell, owing t.
Ll6 DTBukIUK Oh Lnt TOIo, Nv III dtllODR I'LL
audience, breaking his neck. The press dis
patch makes the rather contradictory state
ment that "the audience became ~paralyzec
and made q rush for the door"
1t is generally understood that the Fit;
John Porter bill, returned to tho house TO
concurrence In the senate amendments, hai
been indefinitely pigeon holed. According II
Il certain rule of the house, the bill, although
under q hundred other bills, may be taken NJ
any day, II tho majority so desire. Som,
members think the bill will be taken up II
the early part of next week.
SkThe secret service division Of the treasury
department. reports that certain counterfeiter
are concentrating measures to Simultaneous,
pass upon the public, especially in the cite
of the south and west, counterfeit go silve
certificates. A. fair sample of the same ha
Just been received at the office of the Becre
service department. The issue Is q series O
1880, James Gilfllan, treasurer of the Unite,
States. The paper Is thick, greasy and stiff
and the note Is one-eighth of an inch shorte
than the genuine.
At Wahoo, on the 18th, at 3 o'clock in tn
morning. n ire was discovered In q buildin
on broadway, midway between Fourth an
Fifth streets. The fire company turned ou
promptly, and although the whole upper stor
was in flames, soon had the fire under col
troll. The stiffness Of the air was favorabl,
otherwise even a slight breeze would have II
volved other buildings. The building was o,
cupied by Gillespie AZ q butcher shop. Th
upper story was empty. Loss on the build
Ing probably $500. The stock was damage
by water. No insurance.
BradstreetIs mercantile agency has made
list Of losses tn business men from Pomeroy
Ohio, to Madison, Ind, accustomed by the n
cent foods. The estimate il confined to me-
chandise and manufacturers. The work l
Cincinnati Is not complete. The estimate fc
Cincinnati Is $4,000 The Losses of tn
Ohio river towns foot up 100000 The larf
est losses are: l~ronton, $40, 900; Pomero,
$40, 900; Portsmouth, $4,000. The losses |
Kentucky river towns Is $4,000 The large
Losses are: I.awrenceburg, SS2, 600; Augustl
$50, 900. Louisville and Cincinnati are ut
included In the totals.
The police, on requisition from the governC
Of Ohio, made an important arrest at Wayne
boro Saturday. Several years ago an exteI
siye embezzlement occurred In Ohio, and IL
years the fugitive has been unsuccessful
searched for untilFriday last, when he was di
covered, as alleged, In the person Of A. N
Finch, depot agent at Waynesbro. It is sal
that Finch was discovered by an old acqusin
! ance who happened to pass through Wayne
boro, and VIII notified the Ohio authorize
1t Is believed hat the money embezzled
secreted somewhere near the scene OF I'll
l trangactinD Hnch will ha Italian In Ohio