Daily Republican., 1885-10-31
News Summary.
SUICIDE-REDUCI EXPENSES
IN THE MENT-A PETITION
FROM RIEs,.
HACKENSACK HO RR 0 K.

J.N. Talbot, alias Otto Funk, aged
Of wears. committed suicide in a cell in
the police station at Cambridge, Massa'
chusetts, on Thursday night. While
. student at the University at Chicago,
he endeavored by laying train OF
dynamite TO blow mp the buildings. At
the time he WAS stealing books from the
|Chicago Public Library. On the ground
Of insanity he was sent TO an sylum, /,
from which he escaped soon after. This
was about year ago. He was ar
rested in Cambridge on Thursday for
bis usual offence, stealing books. He
had stolen 175 volumes from the Har-
ward Library.
DR.. Kimball, the Director of the
Mint. has red uced the estimate of the
appropriation for the mint service for
the next fiscal year over two hundred
and ten thousand dollars from the
eatimate for the present year, and over
seventy five thousand dollars from the
actual expend ditures of the last year.
he says that the actual expenditures
will be much less if the coinage of the
standard silver dollar be suspended by
Congress.
The half breed prisoners In jail at
Regina, and in the Penitentiary at
Stony Mountain, Manitoba, have sent q
| long petition tor mercy to the Dominion
lGovernment. They recite how their
lauds were given to spectators, their
pray ers d isregarded, and they weEe told
that their petitions would be answered
with bullets. Their story Is one OF sys-
tematic oppression" The petition il
signed by Louis Riel and twenty -four
others.
At Graham, Texas, on Friday, jesse
W. Jones, the sixteen-year-old stage
robber, was sentenced to ten years In
the eniten tiary. Jones was induced
to become a robber by reading the life
of Jesse James. After Jones was sem
fenced another prisoner, scarcely seven
teen years old, plead ed guilty to horse
stealing, and was sentenced to one
year, imprisonment.
The inuuest on the victims Of she
railroad collision on the Hackensack
Meadows, New jersey, two weeks ago,
resulted In a verdict, last night, cen-
surf ng the railroad company and hold.
ing Howard Rhoades. flag man OF the
Iemigrant train, and Thomas Pratt,
Telegraph operator, responsible for the
Idisaster. Rhoades and Pratt are lock.
ed up on charges Of granddaughter.
Il A stage coach running between
IRunnells and San Angelo, Texas, was
! robbed on Thursday night by two
masked bighwaymen. They ordered
the driver to throw out the mail bags,
which was done. The robbers open ed
the bags, emptied the contents into ONE
. pouch, and with 1t slowly rode away
D This is the fourth time that the Sau
q Angelo stage has been robbed within 6
tyear.
A trestle bridge or the Richmond au(
Allegheny Railroad at the South river
Virginia, being weakened by the heavy
rain and flood on Thurtday night, gav'
: way ander passenger train, which fes
: into the river. The conductor, engineel
2 and fireman were injured.
Q The First Comptro ller of the Treabur,
0 has decided that person engaged II
the Government service and receiving {
+ stipulated salary Is not entitled 20 pay
ment from the Government for e4trs
r services rendered outside OF his regulal
duties.
The body of John Burdette, aRet
lfifteep years, one Of the victims of tn,
q bridge disaster at East Saginaw, Michi
gan, has been discovered, making tn
fourth found. 1t is believed othe
bodies are yet in the river,
The schooner George B. Sloan wa
. totally wrecked on the brsakwater a
: Oswego, New York, on Thursday night
:. The cook, Eliza Tackley, was drowned
:; but the rest OF the crew were saved.
!. The body of James A. Dole, twenty
: leisht years old, was found on Frida
lin the Chicago liver. Suicide is SUI
=. pecGad.