Omaha daily bee., 1884-03-10
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burulNe saturday,
The Massachusetts, state democratic conyen.
ton will %, neld At Wore ,ster March 81.
The grand jury ut Nnrwalk, Ohio, has in.
dioted van Fleet, the abscondiug county
treasurer.
Reservoir square, New York, has been
changed tn Bryant Park, wherein q statue OF
the poet will soon 10 erected.
The steamer City Of Frankfort has arrived
at OweusbOro, Ky, having made 10 Landings
and deliV cred 10000 rations.
Two feet of snow tell at L,conia, n. H., ON
Saturd ~ night. Heavy dilts blockadod the
railroad travel in that vicinity.
Tho pi omature explosion Of . flask at the
Crnw all, Pa, furn aces killed John Eek and
mortally Wounded Milton Eek, brothers.
Tho Redmond brothers reached Queenstown
Satur isy from Nav York, They were net by
u number of friends. Michael Davitt road AN
address If welcome.
Rev. j. S. Cantwcll, ID. D., the pastor OF
the Uniycrsalist church Of North Attlebnto,
Mass, has resigned his charge t. accept tho
editorshjp cf The Univmsalist Mt Chicago.
Tho cotton exchange of Galveston has nm.
animously passed " resolution urg ng Texas
cungIessmen u oppose tho further coinage of
silver dollars upon the prosont basis of valu-
alton.
At New Haven, Conn, Mrs. Elizabeth
Lewis aud daughter, aged Ii, were found dead
III bed, Saturday evening, from u f,cation by
gas, the burner being half way turned on,
The last heard of them was OH "Wednesday
evening,
Two of the leading glass works at st. Louis
have lighted their tires, aud others will follow
in u short time. The works Mt Alton, Ill,
have also started. This gives employment t,
moie than u thousand men, who have been
idles several months.
In u stat sm mt made by thu city auditor of
Montreal, Canada, it appears that the detal-
cations ot official la the servica ut the corpl.
ration amount to So, 900. All have abscond.
ed. 1t is understood that they have been sys
Dramatically robbing tho city treasury.
While u Boston jewelcr named Isaac Meyer
was AT dinner, Saturday, thieves entered his
store by n hole cut in the wall separating an
adjoining house, stole forty-eighJ gold aud sill
,or Watches, two hundred gold rings, u NUM-
Der Of gold chains and other jewelry.
G. ID. Sharp last August ut Galveston was
found guilty of raping Amania aud Emma
Clark, aged respectively l6 and II years.
Tho penalty in the first cas-, was fifty years
penitentiary, and in the other case death. On
saturday Sharp was sentenced to be hung at
GAINESVILLE April 70.
Developments ut st. Louis in tho Cahokia
murder case lead directly to the conclusion
that u nego named William Brown and his
wife only We're concerned in the butchery.
The murdered man was identified to-day as ~
notion peddler named Lsvere who lived Mt st
Louis, Brown and wife will have II prelimi-
nary examination in II few days.
Postmaster General Gresham, First Assist
ant Postmaster General Hatton and General
Superintendent Thompson, OF the railway
mail service, took passage, Saturday, ON the
first train of the fast mali line between New
| York and Chicago. The train leaves New
York at $40 ut night and reaches Chicago
half All hour after midnight of the following
day.
On Saturday last, while skating on tho lake
off Racine, Wis, Alex. Jones, fourteen year,
of age, disappeared through an air hole and
his companions, who rushed t. his assistance,
saw him through the clear ice twenty feet
from the hole, where he was swept by the
under.current. They tried to break through
with their skates while he bumped with his
head, but they were unable to break the ice,
and he drowned AS they ga2ed on him.
Many of the Pittsburg window glass blow
ers who went to Belgium to work during the
late strike have returned, They report that
since the settlement here forty-one factories
out of u hundred and ffty-siX have censed ope-
~rations. Owing to the great falling OFT OF the
demand manufa ctureTs have been compelled
to reduce wages ton per cent. Great diSsstiS-
tACJlDn pleVulls dHlOnB tlo ftih' cth WoTh
men at tho condition OF affairs, aud more emi-
grafton to this country is expected.
The c,ttlemen in the vicinity Of Usage, Ks.
at u meeting in that city Saturday night,
adopted u resolution requesting tho governor
to call "a special session of the legislature t.
take action regarding the mouth and hoo
disease now affecting cattle in some localities
of that state; also providing TOR n mass meet
ing of stock men, to bs held aJ OsDgo mex
I.,,l,,, o., ,,.,Fn,t N tbnrn,,rb rnI,ntu ,,ryap
~ization. There are no diseases in the count,
yet, aud the cattlemen propose to prevent 1T
introduction.
A reception was given Saturday night il
New York city by the New York State We
man Suffrage association to Mrs. a. 5. Dan
ming of Oregon, Mrs. nj. Sewall Of Indiana
Mrs G. b. Herbert of Illinois and Mrs. III
!, M. Songar of Indiana, ladies who took al
active part in the recent national convention
. If won All suffragists at Washington Mrs
, Lille Devereux welcomed the guests, and sai'
that al Senate Edmpnds had declared hin
self in opposition to woman suffrage pnblicl
/ on several occasions, she trusted every tru
woman would oppose his nomination for tn
presidency. Addresses were also made by "a
Governor Gibbs of Oregon, Mrs. Herbert an
, Governor Hoyt of Wyoming.
Late Saturday evening, In New York,
was reported that Lewis Il. Leland, prophet,
+ of the Sturtevant house, and one Ut u famil
of neted hotel keepers, was an inmate of q pr
yate lunatic asylum In that city; that demei
, tin, akin to that which ended Charles De
monico's life, was his aiiiiction; that overwor
: and worry over extensive and complicate
!. business affair, were the cause of his diseas,
o Leland was confined in the asylum about al
months ago and discharged az cured. but aft'
his release his mania assumed a violent Typ
The Disappearance and death OF Charles Da
monico occurring, caused his friends to TAX
measures to have him effsctually secured. L.
land subsequently informed the Associate
Press that the report WAS false In every pa
= %ticular.