Milford chronicle., 1885-05-29
NEWS OF THE



ent at the opening.
AT Blackfoot, Idaho, Bishop George
Stuart and four other Mormons who pleaded
guilty to polygamOus practices were each fined
$500 and sentenced 20 four months in the
Territorial prison. Stuart escaped five years
ago through the perjury Of his fifth wife.
These are the first convictions in the Territory.
Gen. Middleton ordered the titles to be
taken from two Duck Lake Chiefs and that
they be reduced 10 the ranks FOR interfering in
the late troubles.
Two young men from Fall River, while on
q fishing excursion were suffocated in the
yachts cabin by coal gas.
Several murders OF miners by Geronimo's
band Of Apaches have taken place in New
Mexico.
An explosion in a Williamsburg, n. Y,
packing house resulted in the death Of one
man and the injuring Of several others.
The steamer City Of Berlin, on her way
from New York, ran her nose into an iceberg
and gave her passengers a bad scare. She
was not seriously injured, as she was going
slowly at the time and keeping straight look
out for the ice.
The Indians who were lately on the war
path in the Northwest are fast surrendering TO
General Middleton. The capture Of Riel
ended the contest.
Forty buildings were burned in the Iowa
town Of Lansing, with a loss Of 800, 900, on
which there was an insurance Of 100000.
Two farmers fought to the death, one
with club and the other with knife in New
ark, w. Va, over a COW which had done a
slight damage to the property Of one Of the
men.
Louis Rosenzweig, a member of the Erie
bar, recovered from the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railway Company YER
dict OF S4S $50, one Of the largest verdicts ever
given in the United States for personal iniu-
RES He was put of train and injured 80 as
to become paralyzed.
Prank Bobbert, aged sixteen, shot and killed
Lizzie Lippech, four years Old, then COM
mitted suicide, at Pittsburg, Pa
Dispatches from the Northwest point to
general Indian rising as being very probable.
Marshal Henry Auer, OF New Straitsville,
o. in quarrel with Albert Guest at that
place, was shot by the latter several times in
different parts Of the body and he cannot re-
cover. GuestWas taken from jail and lynched
by mob
AT Madison. Wis, two sisters each with
an infant in her arms, we're sentenced to two
years imprisonment for perjury. Ihey had
tried to save brother who was arrested for
burglary.
Howard Cooper, the negro convicted in
Baltimore of felOniOus assault on Miss Katie
Gray, Of Baltimore county, was sentenced to
be hanged at such time as the Governor may
appoint.
An explosion took place in the second
story Of a iiye-sory brick building, in Cincin-
natl, occupied from the second story up by
Sullivan & Co.'S steam printing works. This
was followed by pnes of flame and smoke from
the open Ppos in o every Tb story 5y dP4@ sne
age by the bust Is lives were lost, three
South who, it is plam the building,
that the best Il schTS6, IN u NV lew
Jury. It Snand a scat the jury stood four
for acquittal and eight FOR conviction.
1t is again asserted that Riel is an Ameri-
can citizen.
The law against the importation of goods
the product OF prison labor is being rigidly
enforced in Canada.
In the Pennsylvania Senate the bill pro-
hibiting the granting Of free railroad passes
and making it a penal offence 10 receive as
well as to grant pass, was defeated on second |
reading.
Henry F. Post, alias "Hungry Joe, was |
arrested in New York for robbery. The police |
think that he is bound for State prison this |
time, and no mistake.
IAN attempt was made to wreck the Mont |
real express which left New York at II Friday |
night on the Hudson River Railroad. A lot OF /
ties were piled on the track near Fort Mont |
gomery tunnel part Of the train was
damaged.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart has signed an agree
ment to pay the sum Of 5000 annually for |
the support of the Cathedral See House and /
st. Paul's School at Garden City, n. T. trans
ferred by her TO the inc0rpOratOrs, and has /
executed penal bond in the sum Of 100000 /
to secure its payment in perpetuity.
The Central Railroad Company Of New
Jersey paid S25, 600 TO the estate Of Cephas Nj.
Woodruff, of Newark, who was killed IN the
Parkers Creek disaster.
"A terrible disease is prevailing in Lang
worthy, Jones county, Iowa. which causes
death in few minutes. The patient is taken
with slight sore throat. The soreness then
goes to the lungs, and from there to the spine,
when death follows. 1t battles the physicians,
some calling it sort Of ship fever, caused by
impure water.
The Confederate Soldiers Home, near
Richmond, Va, was opened on "Wednesday
with appropriate ceremonies.
in the Illinois House a resolution giving
the use loLtbGi andative chamber on Thurs
d-ye,a Mare Isl John to deliver a temper
ance lecsssi -, voted down. The Repub-
Leans Vote l lsSl solidly against it.
Rudolph, said to be the finest Hereford
bull in the world, owned by the Wyoming
Hereford Association, died after a surgical
operation, in which a tumor weighing sixty
five pounds was taken from him. He was
valued at $4,000.
-Seyenty-tive families were driven from
their houses in Elk City, Kan, by the food.
Five persons we're drowned
The Worlds Exposition Of New Orleans
will be closed May 81. The friends of the Ex-
position have raised $685. 900 by subscription,
to meet the expense of carrying it over till next
November, when it will be reopened.
~. On Tuesday John A. Logan was elected
United States Senator of the Legislature Of
Illinois The vote on the final ballot stood as
followFu5reun jos: Tree, 96i Black, 2;
Hoxie ~ - 90 g..
The seventeen-year locusts which Prof.
Reilly predicted, have made their first appear
ance in Illinois. They have been found 10
large numbers close to the surface Of the
ground, and are moving upward. The indica-
tons are strong that an unusually large swarm
win appear in a short time. Very extensive
apple orchards were planted by capitalists this
spring, and a large eruption of locus.s will al
most certainly kill them.
AT Eynchburg, Va, young Hairston
Terry, son Of Gen. Terry, superintendent Of
the State Penitentiary, who shot I. A. Jeter,
prominent business man and one of the most
popular citizens Of the county, for calling
dog by his sisters name, was hanged by mob
at an early hour in the morning.
Private Geographic advices say that Senior
Zaldivar has resigned the Presidency Of San
Salvador, and that Gen. Figaroa has been
elected in his stead. Senior Zaldivar is reported
to have sailed for Europe.
The last gap in the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road has been closed, and the line is now con-,
tinuous to the Columbia River ft'ii
WAsHrVrr0N Ntach few per
----s--~' ~srre of 2~oad experts J.
Attorney General Garland decides that In
dams preserving their tribal relations are not
competent to take the oath Of Office and can
not serve as postmasters
Secretary Whitney decides that the Dol
phin must be tested in trial at sea.
The United States Treasurer's statement
shows that Of gold coin aud bullion, there was
in the Treasury SPA, l45, go; silver dollars
and bullion, Sl64 933, 313; fractional silver
coin s3i, Os2, 024.
The Treasury Department purchased
100000 ounces of silver az one cent and q
quarter less per ounce than theloWest price Of