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, 1884-03-11
Another suicide.

An old man of weak mind, a Dane
by birth, committed suicide IN the
%calaboose of Laramie City on Saturday
morning, or at least, was found, at
that time, suspended to the bars of his
cell window by a rope made out of u
portion of his clothing. At the in
quest, Sheriff Miller testified that he
first saw deceased on a passenger train
at Sherman, on the night of March 6.
A Pullman car conductor brought
deceased into the coach, and said he
had attempted to jump from the train.
Deceased sat by witness and tried sew
eral times to jump out of the window.
At Tie Siding deceased became very
violent, and was held by the conductor
and a brakeman. At Laramie the con-
ductor. Mr.. William Jamison, asked
witness to take deceased in charge.
Calling Night Waterman Allen and
Marshal Fee, witness instructed them
to lock up deceased for safe keeping
until morning. He was praying and
yelling all the way to Jail. In the
morning witness notified County Ply
stefan Finfrock, who called and pre-
scribed for the sufferer, expressing a
hope that he would soon be able to
proceed on his journey. The doctor
testified that he had interviewed the
deceased through au interpreter, but
was unable to obtain his name, he
being out of his mind and unable to
speak the English language. Mr.. F.
Prahl was called t. interpret some
manuscript found wrapped about de-
ceased's legs, inside his socks and I'M
Gerclothing. The witness testified that
he found these manuscripts concerned
the Mormon religion, and gave evil
dence that they had been written by
Mornons to convert the old man. A
verdict in accordance with the facts
thus ELECTED was rendered. The de-
ceased also had upon his person a rail
way ticket from Cornell Bluffs 20
Spanish Forks, Utah; also, a note from
parties setting forth that he was weak
of mind and asking that attention be
shown him while ON his journey.
, 1884-03-11
An Embezzier Sentenced.

Boston, March Jonathan r. Pratt,
formerly treasurer of the Reading
(Mass.) Savings bank, convicted Of
embezzling funds in 1879. was sen
fenced to-day to four years. imprison.
ment at hard labor. Pratt is 70 years
old and pending the proceedings he
was confined in jail for five years. The
original defalcation was 500, 900, but
a portion of the money was recovered
and the loss to the depositors was about
S4O, 000. 1t was shown that the de.
PENDANT did not profit by the defalca-
ton. His son, Sidney P. Pratt,
conducted his business and the loss, it
was alleged, WIS through his conduct.
He disappeared whenl the defalcetion
became known and has never since
been heard of.
, 1884-03-11

On yesterday Colonel Murrin, our
newly appointed penitentiary commits
%sioner, received a strange and supicious
looking box, which came by express
and was brought to his place of bust
ness. The colonel was a little suspicious.
What did it contain 7 Was it an in
fernal machine, sem by some enemy
who proposed to reduce the democratic
majority at the next election The
colonel was afraid, and turned it over
to his master of ceremonies, who is a
republican, with instructions to take it
out into the back yard and open it.
The colonel himself, in the meantime,
took a walk. The box was carefully
pried open and finally a horn was dis
covered protruding from the same.
Great guns and little fishes, what did
they discoy er but an ugly looking alli-
gator ak long and all the way
from Florida, too. The colonel was
sent for and brought back, and after
looking him over for a short time be
exclaimed, GOOD enough; what will
you take-to eat"
The colonel thinks he would make q
a good penitentiary warden and pro.
poses to have him installed as such
right away.
, 1884-03-11
xLVlll CONGRESS.
Senate.

Washington, March 10.-Bayard sub
mitted a resolution %instructing the
committee on judiciary to report as tn
the expediency Of amending the con-
stitution so as to provide that congress
shall not have the power to make any
thing but gold and silver coin legal
tender for the payment of debts nor
pass any law in paying obligation con-
tracts.
Garland submitted u joint resolution
proposing the following amendment TO
the constitution: Article 16, that any
portion Of the public debt of the
United States be represented by notes
issued under the authority of
law with the quality of lawful money
and as legal tender for the payn,en. of
debts. They shall never exceed the
sum of $3.50, 000, 900 unless the bill or
bills proving sueh increase of issue
shall receive the concurrence Of two
thirds of each house of congress and
the votes on all such bills shall be re-
corded by the yeas and nays on the
journal of each house.
The bills were reported on favorably
and placed on the calendar.
On motion of Plumb the pleuro-pneu-
monia bill was made the special order
for Tomorrow.
Senate then went into executive ses-
sion for consideration of the Mexican
treaty and when the doors reopened ad-
journed.
, 1884-03-11

London, March 10.-The race be-
tween George Bubear, the well known
English oarsman, and Wallace Ross,
the famous New Brunswick sculler, &C.
Cured this morning. The distance
rowed was four miles and two ~furlongs,
over the regular Thames course from
Putney to Mortlake, Ross conceding
Bubear ten seconds. The betting was
on Ross 8 to Bubear 4. Bubear was a
length behind but at Hammersmith's
the boats were nearly even. The race
was won by the American by six
lengths. After passing Hammersmith
Ross led in spite of the e~Iertions of
Rubear and come in easily. The time
WA % minutes and 10 seconds. The
contest was virtually over at Hammer
smith. Ross padded home fifteen
lengths ahead Of Bubear. Great crowds
thronged the banks. \
, 1884-03-11
Cheap Postage.

Washington, March 10.-Since the
introduction Of two cent letter postage
there has been an unexpected reduction
in the number of postal cards issued.
For five years the average annual in
crease in the issue has been Ia per cent.
Since July LIST, last. there has been an
increase Of 10 per cent. in adhesive
stamps, and rs per cent. in stamped en-
velopes issued. During those eight
months the issue of postal cards only
reached 256. 552,750, as against 26O,
226. $50 for the corresponding period OF
the preceding year. In consequence OF
the decreased demand for postal cards
the postmaster general has sent a letter
to the speaker Of the house, informing
him that the estimates for the cost OF
manufacturing cards for the next 6scal
year may be reduced 1876, 900.
, 1884-03-11
General Gordon,s EXPOSITION.

Khartoum, March 10.-General Cor
don advises the appointment of Zobehr
Pasha to succeed himself as governor
Of Sondan. He thinks Zobehr, IL ad-
equately supported, would dispose of
Mahdi within a year. He strongly de-
nounces the proposed British expedl-
tion to ~re-conquer Soudan, and ex-
presses deep anxiety about the situation
at Khartoum-unless the British act
promptly. In regard to the Zobehr ap.
pointment victory, Gordan will, he
thinks, have been useless in ~bloodshed.
Dorsbot believes in sending no further
kilograms. 1t is no longer a question
Of days but hours. 1t is reported that
Sheik Obeid, on the other side of Blue
Hill, has risen. If this is true the tel
egraphs will be cut off forthwith. 1t
is improbable that the rebels will attack
Khartoum. They will try and starve
the city into submission.
, 1884-03-11
The Sharon-HiIl Divorce Case
on Trial.
A Speculation in American
Trade Dollars. 3io4.
Foreign Brokers Engaged Ex-
tensNely Therein.
The Cattle Disease.
IN


Kansas City. March 10.-Advices
state that Major Sims returned yester-
day from the district infected by the
foot and mouth disease. The district
Is thirty-hve miles in area, is now rigid
ly quarantined and every effort will be
made to stamp out the disease. DIR.
Holcomb visited Chase county upon the
report that the disease had appeared
there, but after a careful examination,
pronounced the herd in question free
from the disease. A public meeting
will be held in Neosha Falls tomorrow,
when a systematic movement will be at
once inaugurated. 1t is proposed to
buy all the infected cattle, kill them
and burn the bodies. The railroads of
the district have given assurance OF
their cooperation in the work Of pre-
venting the spread of the disease. Re-
ports from the northern, western and
southern parts Of the state indicate
cattle and sheep In good condition.
, 1884-03-11
The sharon.Hm pixore.

San Francisco, March 10.-The
Sharon-Hill divorce trial began to-day.
After the opening statements by coun-
sci on both sides, Martha Wilson, a
dressmaker, and a colored woman.
were called. She testified that the
marriage contract produced in court
was the one Miss Hill showed her in
1880.
In the cross-examination Mrs. Will
son said she couldn't read but was sure
the contract was the same as she had
seen as she recognized certain marks
on the paper. Miss Hill had frequent
ly told her that Sharon was crazy to
marry her. Adjourned until to-mor-
row
, 1884-03-11

On March l, the Western Union
Telegraph company made a material
and general reduction of its rates.
Their maximum day rate on ten words
is now one dollar from and to any part
along their line. In our own vicinity,
local rates to Omaha and many Ne
braska points, to Denver and other
points in Colorado and to many local
points in Wyoming the rates have been
reduced some 20 per cent.
, 1884-03-11
House..
Bills introduced /;

Bills introduced;
Rosecrans to incorporate the Yellow
stone Park railroad company.
Glascock for the erection OF public
buildings at Oakland, California, TO
cost 100000.
The Deuster resolution reciting that
the United States minister of Ger
many has been assailed by semi-oficial
newspapers at Berlin and calling on
the secretary Of state for copies of any
communications and official correspond
ence which he may have on this sub
ject.
The Payson resolution calling on the
secretary of the interior for informa-
tion as to the excess of lands alleged to
have been certified to the Burlington &
Missouri River railroad company.
The house then proceeded L con-
slider the measures relating to the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The senate bill establishing a stand.
ard time in the district was passed.
The district business was temporarily
laid aside to receive a messaos from n
president and was transmitted without
comment and documents receivsd fr,m
the secretary Of state relative tn the
resolution in the house on the death of
Lasher. Hiscock Immediately offered
the following preamble and resolution
which was referred 10 the COMMITTEES
on foreign affairs.
WHEREAS. It has come IN the know,-
edge of the house that the communities
ton from It to the par,iament M the
German empire was entirely fr,end,v IN
a. Hio1' III
70 in'eh'' iespec'iui III IT'S character
, 1884-03-11

The following dispatch to the New
- D.-rn n-,l,s-, sto.lf

The following dispatch to the News,
at Denver, explains itself
Fort COLLINS, March S-James
Sweeney, sheriff Of this county, was
to-day indicted by the grand jury for
allowing Angus McKinnon to escape
from him. McKinnon gained the con
fdence of the sheriff during his con
inement in the jail, and was allowed
more liberties than any of the other
prisoners. Last Monday he obtained
permission to go To the town to con,
suit a physician, claiming to be i'll. AT
last accounts the prisoner was on the
hunt for a doctor.
Sheriff Sweeney is quite well known
here in Cheyenne and by some he IL
regarded AZ a competent officer, while
others who have had official bushes.
with him do not think quite 80 highly
of him. However, it is none of oul
kettle of fish. Unless the party whit
made his escape II held for some very
serious crime, it is not probable thai
Mr.. Sweeney has been guilty of AM
very great offense.
, 1884-03-11
Garibaldi Honored.

Stapleton, N. Y, March 10.-A large
deputation of Italians from New York
city yesterday afternoon visited the cot
tage where Garibaldi lived, at Clifton,
Long Island, and placed over the door
a white marble tablet, inscribed in
Italian, Here lived, in exile from 1851
to 1852, the hero of two worlds,
Giuseppe Garibaldi. Dedicated by some
friends" Aessandro Oldrlne, com.
patriot of Garibaldi, delivered the
eulogy. Speeches were also made by
G. F. Secchi de Casseli, editor of Ii
Echo d'Itaiia, and Lnigi Bristolzi.
, 1884-03-11

Washington. March 10.-A. NJ. Glib
son continued his testimony before the
Springer committee to-day. He reiter-
ated the statement that the government
had selected the most complicated star
route case for trial and rejected the
plain and simple The foreman of
the grand jury told witness that the
government did not wish to proceed
with the case he considered 30 clear.
He could not tell why no indictment
was found against these whom 1t had
been proposed to proceed against by in
formation.
, 1884-03-11
Trade Dollar. Abroad.

Washington, March 10.-The treas
ury department is informed that foreign
brokers are making heavy purchases in
the United States Of the silver trade
dollar at a discount of 1G per cent or
more. The purpose is to dispose of the
coin to emigrants about to sail to this
country as an American coin worth
Its full value.
, 1884-03-11
Western Kansas Stock GroWers.

Dodge City, March 10.-The Western
Kansas Stock Growers association,
representing cattle worth SO, 200, 900,
will meet In this city on the I'd of April
and remain in session three days. Lead
Ing stockmen from all over the country
have already engaged quarters. 1t is
expected the meeting will be the largest
and most important Of the kind aver
held In the state.
, 1884-03-11

There will be annual meetings of the
various stock associations at the times
and places named below:
Wyoming Stock Growers associa-
ton, at Cheyenne, Wyo., Monday,
April 7.
The North Texas Cattle Raisers' as
ISOLATION will nvene at Dallas, Texas,
IN Tuesday, March IL.
The Cherokee Strip Live Stock asso-
citation meets at Caldwell. Kas.,
March IL.
The Western Kansas Cattle Growers
association holds its annual meeting In
Dodge City, Kas., April 2.
The Bent County Stock association
meets at West Las Animas, Colorado,
April 10.
The annual meeting of the South
Park Cattle Growers association occur
on the FIRST Saturday In May.
, 1884-03-11

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, 1884-03-11

Aessrs. Gray & Pearse are always alive to
sheir business, and spare no pains TO secure
y oest OF every article In their line. They
H. secured the Agency for the celebrated
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tion only certain cure known for consump-
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, 1884-03-11
Proposals For Fresh Beef.
Headquarters Department of the |
Platte, Office Chief Commissary
Of Subsistence, Omaha, Neb.
E.hr,rv Onfh 1904

I1cAuqudI IrlS DcpdItmtuL OIL Lie
Platte, Office Chief Commissary
Of Subsistence, Omaha, Neb.
February, 10th, 1884.
The Acting Commissary of Subsist-
ence at each of the following posts, viz:
Forts Bridger, Douglas, Laramie, Nc
Kinney, Niobrara, Omaha, Robinson,
D.. A. Russell, Sidney, Fred Steele,
Washable, Cheyenne Depot and
Omaha Depot, will receive sealed
proposals until II NJ, the
21st day of April, 1884, at which
time they will be opened in the pres
ence Of bidders for the furnishing and
delivery of fresh beef from the block,
for issue, and choice cuts for sales to
officers, that may be required by the
subsistence department of the u. s.
army, at their respective posts during
the fiscal year commencing July l,
1884. Blank proposals and in.
structions to bidders giving in.
formation as to conditions to observed
by bidders, terms of contract and pay,
ment, will be furnished on application
to this office or to the commissaries a
the poets named. Proposals will not b.
considered unless accompanied by tn,
instructions to bidders" above re
ferred to. The right is reserved I.
reject any or all bids.
JOHN F. HAWKINS. Chief C. s.
, 1884-03-11
A Murderer Suicides.

Chicago, March 10.-Peter Schmitz,
a contractor, who choked his wife to
death ten days ago, suicided in his cell
In the county jail this afternoon by
tying a cord about his neck and draw
ing the same with his hand until he
stranRled. schmitz has been very des-
perate since arrested. His daughter
visited him this afternoon, and a few
minutes after she left he was found dy.
Ing. He leaves about $4,000.
, 1884-03-11
CHICAGO CATTLE
An Extended Review of Last Weeks
Market.

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mand for cows hulIs and common
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trade and a,tbouoh thu s,pn,v w.s lin
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, 1884-03-11
A Fleeinu Postmaster.

Bennington, W, March 10.-Post-
master Tiffany fled to-day while the
government officers were making ex-
animation of the affair of the office, at
the request OF the bondsmen.
, 1884-03-11

Take Ayers Sarsaparilla in the spring
of the year 10 purify the blood, invigo-
rate the system, excite the liver to ac-
ton, and restore the healthy tone and
vigor Of the whole physical mechanism.
, 1884-03-11
Adjourned

The editor Of the Corydon, iowa
Times. Mr.. 7. NJ. Casad, says hat his
little girl burned her foot and one ap-
piicatiUn of st. Jacobs Oil, the great
pain-relIever, cured 1t completely with
out leaving a mark. He was himself
cured of a torturing pain in the side
by two applications.
, 1884-03-11

On Wednesday evening, the 18th
inst, the city band will be at the
skating rink on which occasion the
rink will close for two weeks.
, 1884-03-11

For the finest imported and domestic
cigar, call at l.. Murrin's.
, 1884-03-11

Joker.o
, 1884-03-11
Fol the best dental work and lowest
prices visit DIR. Warmers dentalparlors


Spring overcoats, just in at
afai .nfoA PoLAcK's.
, 1884-03-11

Little Joker" is the best smoking
tobacco.
, 1884-03-11

s & historical Dept; Cheyenne, Eyo.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-08
AN ALLEGED CONFIDENCE MAN.
The Police Think They Have the Swindler
Who Victimized Old Man Moore.

The depot police yesterday morning arrested
a man giving the name of A. A, Barrett, on the
suspicion that he is the fellow who swindled
w. K. Moore, the old man from Miami county,
Ohio, out OF 1920, on Monday evening. He was
positively identified by Moore, but he strongly
protests that there is a mistake. He claims that
until last June he was a telegraph operator at
Frankfort, in the employ of the Lake Erie &
Western Railway Company, but that during the
last month he has been in the employ of the
Union News Company, at the Union Depot.
He has in his possession a pass over the Lake
Erie & Western, from Frankfort to Alexandria,
issued to him as an employee of the company.
Moore is very positive in his Identification, and
the police are quite sure that they have the
right man. He is held on the charge of loiter-
ing, and Moore is remaining in the city to ap-
pear as a witness against him this morning.
Barrett e~xcitedly appealed to the old man re-
peatedly to inspect him more closely, because
there had certainly been a mistake in the identi-
fcation, and he protested his innocence wildly
and vehemently.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-08
A POSSIBLE CLEW.
A Burglar Caught at HOuse-Breaking SuS-
pected of Being Muhlemann's Murderer.

Charles Taylor, Charles Diggs and Thomas
Shea were arrested, yesterday morning, shortly
after 9 o'clock, while in the act of breaking into
the Vandalla Exchange saloon. The officers
who detected and captured them were patrolmen
Spearing, OBrien and Carney. A burglars
chisel, which they had been using, was found by
the officers, and was used as evidence. They
have frequently been under arrest, and are
known as a bad trio. When they were ar
raigned in the Mayors Court, yesterday morn
ing, they each pleaded guilty to the charge of as
s~ociating with thieves, and, beside being fined
$50, with costs, they were sentenced to impris-
onment for thirty days. Diggs is the desperate
with whom the police had so much trouble about
two years ago, when he escaped from jail and
was captured northeast of the city. after
a desperate fight with a dozen or more
officers. He was recently released from the
penitentiary, and the police seem to have known
nothing of his presence in the city until he was
brought in yesterday morning. While being
taken from the patrol wagon into the police
station, Patrolmen Spearing noticed Diggs slip
ping something into one of his shoes, and in
making the usual search of the clothing of the
prisoners, Dlggs was ordered to remove his
shoes. Nothing was discovered at the time, but
IL "SNPAhS ONpf O2NSANos LII % PNShcSN
of street-car drivers change was found in the
corner of the room where he had
removed his shoes. He bears a close resem-
blance to the description given of the murderer
of Muhlemann, and yesterday morning Thomas
Pavey, the driver of the street car on which the
murder was committed, was taken to the police
station to identify Digs. Pavey was unable to
l positively identify him as the man who COM
mitted the murder and robbery, but said that he
Cooked more like the man than anyone else he
had seen" The police think they have obtained
a clew that may possibly lead to the detection of
the murderer.
Shortly after Muhlemann's murder, one of the
most efficient officers and detectives ever on the
Indianapolis police force remarked to a Journal
reporter that if the man who committed the
crime should ever be detected he thought it
likely hat it would be found that the murderer
was one of the old members of the South-side
gang of thieves, and in speaking of thems the
name of Diggs was mentioned, although the ex-
officer was not then aware that he was about
the CITY.