The Mineral argus., 1884-05-22
Condensed Te1errama.

New York special. According to inform
alton received the liabilities of the North
western Car company are largely in ex-
cess Of the amount stated in the original dis
patches. There is said to be on standing, and
principally in the Chicago banks, over S3,W0,-
600 of the paper of the concern, and some has
been put upon the New York market. The
failure is regarded as significant of the bad
condition of things in the West and Northwest,
and due primarily to the low prices obtained
for grain and hog products, Gripping the farm
ing section, and thus indirectly resulting in
disaster to business of all kinds.
The Carver, Mimi, bank was broken into on
Thursday night. the Sth inst, but the safe is
burglar-proof and therefore withstood the at
tempt to open . The M & st. L. depot was
also entered by the burglars the same night
and ransacked thoroughly.
Jesse Mower, aged twenty-three, and Mrs.
Alexander B~elsinger, his aunt, aged ffty-five,
were arrested near Mount Auburn, Iowa,
charged with shooting Alex B~elsinger, the
wOman's husband. The woman waved examin-
alton and was bound over on 81 900 bonds.
Mower had an examination, bnt there was no
evidence to connect him with the shooting.
He was then arrested on a charge of threaten
ing to shoot Belsinger, and is held in S50U
bonds. Neither will get bail.
A large number of beautiful residences are
to be erected here this summer, and some of
them will present new features in architecture.
The designs of the houses which John Hay and
Henry Adams are to build have not yet been
shown, bat are said to be very unique and
handsome. DIR. William A. Hammond, former
ly surgeon of the general army, and the great
specialist in nervous diseases, has bought a lot
on Columbia heights, on which Don Cameron
originally intended to locate his house, and will
introduce there the Mexican style of architec-
ture. The house will be of stohe, 100 feet
square, and only two stories high. In the
center will be a rectangle about fifty feet square,
into which carriages can drive. This will be
covered with a glass roof, aud in the winter can
be used as a conservatory.
Since Sullivan's return from the West, Mer-
vine Thompson, the blower, has subsidized and
skulked away to certain mineral springs in
Michigan claiming to have the rheumatism.
Sullivan offers him 81 900 and the entire gate
receipts if he will stand up for four rounds
but Mervine doesn't show W. He isn't so
anxious for a fight as when Sullivan was sep
arated from him by 1,0O0miles. MI. Thompson
is a duffer.
Victor F1sbourg, a Waterloo veteran, is dead
in Few York at ninety-one.
Sorrow has again invaded the home of Gen.
]. A. Williamson, in the form of the almost
hopeless illness of his little grandson, the child
of Mrs. ID. X. Trip.
Arrangements are being made under Col.
Casey's direction for the difficult task of con
s%tructing the pyrsmidal top to the Washington
monument The construction of this pyramid
will be far from an easy task at this giddy height,
and one of the greatest of engineering feats.
A Sunday paper says: Mrs. Alvira F. Byers
of Minneapolis, who was visiting in this city
as the guest of Mrs. Stuart, died very sud
denly on Friday night of Bright's disease.
Mrs Byers was in the prime of life, a leader of
cultured society in Minnesota, and during her
visit here has made many warm friends. The
remains will be taken to Minneapolis.
Hudson & Co., bankers at Tombstone, have
made an assignment to T. L. Stiles. Assets
about $350,O0O; liabilities, $3.50, 600. If the
mortgages can be realized on, there will be a
surplus of assets.
While in the opera house at Erie, Pa. Chris
Human heard 1t announced from the stage
that he was required at the court house the
jury having agreed il a murder trial of which
he and James Weber were principals. Hin
man went and learned of his conviction Of
mansladghter. Weber was acquitted