Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-01-17
BRIEF VIKINGS.

The Danube is frozen over solidly dis
tance of eighteen miles.
A new bank, with $4,000 capital, is to
be established at Dexter, Mo.
Fire in the Central power block at
Cleveland did $37, 200 damage.
Dion Boucicault's wife, Agnes Robert
son, has been granted a divorce.
Mark Twain" and Col. Richard NAL
colin Johnston are to lecture together.
The Colorado legislature will appro-
pirate $4,000 for immigration purposes.
Andrew Paxton, well-known temper
ance worker, died in Chicago, Saturday.
John O'Connor, q member of parla-
ment, has been arrested for oflenses under
crimes act.
John Shoeberg's arm was chewed to
pulp in Fergus Halls, Mimi, paper mill.
John will die.
Henry Gillespie, colored, murdered his
white mistress at Sioux City, and then
cut his own throat.
At Baltimore, Md, Saturday James
Sample killed Edward Lepson because he
IA uoilSNt lillu.
1t is officially announced that there is
no yellow fever whatever in Jacksonville
or Duval county, Fla.
Mrs. Bennett of Point Pleasant, N. j.,
was fatally burned by her clothing catch
ing fire at the kitchen stove.
M. G. Bryant, ex-landlord of the Europ-
can hotel, Chattanooga, Tenn, has been
held in $4,000 bail on charge Of arson.
Lottie Erickson, domestic, was suffo-
Gated in a fire, which partially consumed
the residence of S. Warren Lawson of
Chicago.
Conductor L. L. Avery was run over
and killed Saturday while trying to pass
before an elevated road train near 54th
street, New York.
DR.. Kruss, of Munich, chemist, has
succeeded in decomposing cobalt and
nickel, both hitherto supposed to be ele-
mentary substances.
Messrs. Smith, Pratt & Hersik, of AL
bany, N. Y, jobbers in shoes, on Broad
way, were burned out, with loss of $780,
900; insurance, 100000.
Allen Campbell, proprietor Of the bank
Of Evert, Mich, has skipped to Canada
with 800, 900, funds Of the bank and the
village, of which he was treasurer.
DR.. Hesterly of Texarkana was stabbed
and cut, but not seiously, by a stranger,
for refusing an arrogant demand to show
tirst-class restaurant, "and be quick a.
bout it, too!
Twenty-seven cases of small pox were
reported in popular hotel i'll Denver yes
terday morning. These were all taken
to the pest house, which it is said con-
tains more than 200 cases.
At Ashland, Ohio, Saturday, Elias
Chesavew was acquitted of the charge Of
murder. He killed two officers who were
trying to serve habeas corpus writ on
him, he having in charge his own father.
Rev. F. N. Knapp, friend of Presidents
Lincoln and Grant, died at Plymouth,
Mass, Saturday. His services in the
sanitary commission during the war won
him honorary membership in the G. AR.
A syndicate has been formed in Phila-
delphia to secure recognition of the So
called Carbajal bonds, of which $12,000,-
900 are in existence. The Mexican Sec
retary of the interior says the bonds will
not be recognized.
Bill Jones, the avenger, who shot at
Guiteau one day when the latter was
being conducted from the court house to
the jail, has applied for an appointment
Oh the police force of Washington, but it
IS not likely he will be gratified.
The st. Louis Republic editorially op.
poses any scheme by congress to dig
wells or make bitches for irrigation in any
Of our western territories, and gives rs
reason that farms in Missouri and Illinois
are cheap enough and good enough with
out any artificial farms.