Western Kansas world., 1886-10-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
The fund in aid of the storm sufferers no.
succeeds s., 500.
The committee of 100 OnomInsted Theodor
Reosvelt for mayor of New York City.
Col. Charles Whittlesey, of Cleveland, O.
H. distinguished geologist and scholar
lied in his 79ih year.
Hvyn A. Wood, of Chicago, straw bonds
.en vas cent to jail for thirty days, b,
Judge Pendergast, for contempt OF court
VIC Walker, 19 years of ege, nephev
NJ J.mes q. Blaine. hes entered the orde
81 she Jesuit fathers at Santa Clara, Cal.
A fire in Eastport, Me-, has destroye,
much of the business portion OF the city
* - just two years since the town was de
treyed by fire.
One English and two American companies
arc endeavoring to secure the contract fol
the drainage of the valley of Mexico, which
prieadier General Potter. commanding
fAe department of the Miesouri, With head.
STARTERS at Fort Leavenworth, was retired,
Saving reached the age of GA years.
Governor Henry Lloyd, of Maryland, mar.
ned Miss Mary e. Staplefort, of Cambridge.
They will make q short wedding tour before
Ro1nR to Annapolis to reside in the executive
0Ansion.
Tho tenth annual convention of the Amer
fnan Academy Of Medicine convened al
PIttsburg, Pa. There were delegctes pres
Snt from all the principal cities In the
sosntry.
r. n. Hughes, q merchant OF Lamopte,
No., in getting on the train at that place,
fell and was badl2, if not fatally injured.
He was picked up in an unconscious state,
md il in critical condition.
J.F.J. Bradley, the defaulting assistant
manager of the Pullman Car company, was
russed near Cleveland. He is said to be
jshort $500.
The industrial growth OF the southern
states may be judged from the fact that
within nine months no less than $83, COZ, 900
kas been invested in manufacturing and
mining enterprises in that section of the
H1ion.
A special to the New Orleans Times Demo-
Bays: One of the most terrific and damag-
ing hurricanes ajnce 1860, has prevailed in
this neighborhocd.
The New York Sur announces that it has
peid the disputed bill OF E. Holmes d Co.,
the Saratoga undertakera, for embalmlng
the body of General Grant. The amount OF
he bill was $500.
The president appointed Colonel o. B
Wilcox, of the Twelfth Infantry, briga-
der general, vice General j. a. Potter, re-
tired. General Wilcox has been ordered to
Fort Leavenworth to assume command of
the department Of Missouri.
The president has appointed Colone
amee @. Duane to be chief of engineers,
United States army, with the rank of briga-
aisr general, vice General Newton, resigned.
General Duane is now on duty in New York
~ engineer of the third Lighthouse district.
The president granted pardon to Charles
Thomas, a coiored man now serving life
sentence in the West Virginia peniteEtiary,
fer murder of his wife's seducer, committed
n Arkansas about ten years ago. The pres
iaent, in acting on the case said he was sat-
iahed that the man had been sufficiently
Wanished for what he had done.
At the Rapcocas breeding farm, of Pierre
Llorillsrd, at Johnston, N. j., all of bis stall
Eons and br,od mares were sold. The
prices received were fair and the total real
ind wss $142, 1896 for five stations and sew
enty-eight mares. Mr.. LlorillPrd was not
preeenf, but bis son announced that the sale
meant his permanent retirement from the
turf.
Tho, mount of wreckage, cedar epars and
cabin furniture which is being washed
asore at Erie, Pa, establishes the fact be-
yond doubt that the vessel reported ashore
west of Erie went lown with the entire crew,
and left no one to tell the tale. When sight
ed tire crew were in the rigging, and num-
bered ten or twelve. Every effort was made
10 reach them by government vessels. Moth
ing has b. en- found yet which will give any
ciew to the unlucky crafts identity or the
port, except q name on board which looks
like "Peru, of Chicago"
Judge Wallace of the United States cir,
cult court of New York, has rendered a de-
eision of he greatest importance. About a
year ago the receiver of taxes levied a tax
upon the shares of national banks. The
banks resisted and demanded an Injunction
restraining him from collecting the levy.
The decision of Judge Wallace was made
apon the motion of thirty five banks to have
he injunction mede permanent. The mo-
ton for the injunction was denied.
Two Mexi ,ans condemned to to shot in
New Laredo, Mexico, for completely in the
noted Mexican national train robbery, three
years ago, were put upon the Mexican ma
tional train under q strong guard and car
xisd to Lezarieta, q station sixteen miles
from Laredo. The condemned men were
taken from the train at Lazarieta blindfold-
81, and made to stand IN the railroad track,
where they were shot by officers. They were
buried on the identical spot where they Kill
d their victims, on the third anniversary of
No robbery.
Advices received at tn estate department at
WAshingt ,r corroborste the published re-
ports of the hauling down Of tho American
6sg on the American schooner "Marion
Crimes" at She,burue, by CAPTAIN Quigler,
0f the Canadian cruiser "Terror." The
ction of the captain of the "Grimes" in run
ming up the colOrs while the vessel was in
the custody OF Canadian officers, is depre-
oiated at the department as likely to need
leeely compiicate the department in its ef-
Forts to resch satisfactory settlement of
he fisheries question
William 8. Snyder and Thomas Brown.
the two anarchists who have been held in
and were indicted for riot and conspiracy in
soanection with that affair, were discharged
non their own reoognixaDoe BY Judge
Ie>y. Mr.. Grinnell requested this disposi-
E--a Of the prisoners. It is probable that
tAey never " Il be tried. Snyder is an Amer
Ian by birth, and Brown is the only Irish
man connected with the events of May 4,
nnve the policemen. Both men are quite
young, a.d are considered by the officials
moro foolish than criminal.
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