The times., 1884-12-12

mel in the Mexican war and major
general in the southern conflict, drop
ped dead in the street in New York
Saturday.
The federal grand jury at Omahahas
indicted fifteen persons for fraud in
connection with the sale of Otoe In
dian reservation lands, by which the
red men were defrauded to the amount
Of $50 900.
Two men engaged in digging roots
on an island in the Susquehanna river
are said to have unearthed metal box
containing $4,000 in gold doubloons,
SIG, 900 in Mexican silver, and 81 600 in
small coins.
Samuel Wannamaker, the forger,
was taken into court at Youngstown,
tence of fifty years imprisonment. He
is 50 years old, and is still too weak to
raise his head.
Hon. i. G. Collins, late speaker Of
the Illinois House of Representatives,
has been appointed judge in the cir
cult court of Cook county, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation Of
Judge Barnum.
A member of the Smith family Of
Ohio has escaped from the penitentiary
at Columbus, and the citizens of Find
lay are greatly alarmed at the prospect
of his temperance there with his
gang of outlaws.
John Fitzsimmons, an engineer who
was permanently crippled on one of
the lines of the Pennsylvania COM
pany, refused $4,000 in settlement,
and was awarded $27, 300 by a jury at
Youngstown, Ohio.
w. p. Rend & Co., of Chicago, have
obtained from the federal court at Gin
cinnati mandatory order requiring
the Hooking Valley road to furnish at
once such cars as are necessaryto carry
coal mined by the firm.
The Iowa collection of women's
work for the New Orleans exposition
was damaged beyond repair by rail-
way accident near Burlington on Sun
day. A carload of seeds and vegeta-
bles was also wrecked.
Eighteen masked citizens of Anne
Arundel county, Maryland, took from
a deputy sheriff and strung up q co.,
ored burglar named George Briscoe,
who had repeatedly been warned to
leave the neighborhood.
An agreement for the speedy restor-
alton of eastward rates has been signed
by all the general passenger agents at
Chicago, and will be sent at once to the
managers for approval. The differen-
tlal rate was placed at 81.
Rev. John Maxwell, of Springfield,
Ohio, rendered miserable by poverty,
poisoned his four children and himself.
The effect was fatal on the little ones,
but he recovered sufficiently TO permit
of his being lodged in Jail.
Bell Mann, formerly a reputable
druggist in Chicago, has gone to
Washington to undergo trial on an in
dictment for swindling the government
by means of fraudulent vouchers for
medical supplies to the navy.
The Mexican government has caused
q thorough investigation to be made as
to the lynching of Lucian Padillo at
Crete, Nebraska, for assaulting a child,
and will probably demand that the
lynchers be brought to justice.
In 1867 the Fort Wayne road per-
sisted in taking gravel from a pit in
w. Swinney. After prolonged liGga-
tion the railway company has paid
judgment for $59, 900 for the trespass.
A court at Albany has affirmed the
Judgment rendered against Frank r.
Sherwin of fine of $500 and Impris-
Onment for two years in the peniten-
tiary. He escaped to New Mexico by
depositing $1,000 in court in lieu Of
bail.
An application has been made to the
federal court at Chicago for the re-
moval from the criminal court of Cook
county of the case of "Black Jack"
Yattaw, who was indicted for killing
special constable named William Cur
ran.
Edward Condit, a forger in Jail at
Jersey City, sawed through his cell
door, locked up two guards who were
asleep on duty, severed an iron staple
on the bathroom door, and was caught
while cutting the bars of the ventil-
ator.
At Lincoln, Illinois, Tuesday even
ing, the father of Zura Burns fired a
shot at o. A. Carpenter, who was tried
and acquitted of the girls murder. The
bullet -struck an iron column, and
Carpenter was escorted home by
friends.
Bryan Smith, retail grocer of Atch-
ison, Kansas, was forced to make an
assignment because the farmers there
about refused to sell their grain and
pay their debts. The creditors will re-
open the store and dispose Of the. stock
for cash.
captain a. II. Murphy, SuperlnCenu-
ent of the workhouse at New Orleans,
was assassinated on Claiborne street,
while supervising the cleaning of the
canal. Judge Thomas Ford and sew
enteen others have been arrested for
the crime.
Governor Cleveland receives vast
number of visitors. He has announced
that he will accept no invitations to
public demonstrations. About thirty
canes have been forced upon him, but
q dog sent from Brooklyn was prompt
ly returned.
Walter Young, q miner employed
near Pittsburg, who some months ago
became totally blind, has returned to
work, and, with the aid Of a son of IA
years, manages to earn living for the
family: He fought at Balaklava in the
English army.
In the matter of the estate of Wilbur
+. Storey, of Chicago, Mrs. Eureka G.
Storey and Mrs. Mary Z. Farrand have
appealed from the order of the probate
court refusing to admit to probate y
paper purpOrtinp to be the last will of