Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-05-21
CASUALTIES AND CRIMES.
A Double Murder in Sunny
Georgia,
SUICIDE And SCANDAL IN HELENA.
The Original Package Decision
Flooding the Prohibition
With Beer.
DOUBLE MURDER.

/ tue proprietor Ol lut hlNNlC ElSlu
House, discovered his wife and
Sheriff McColl IN a compromising
situation. He drew his revolver and
shot both dead.
SUICIDE AND SCANDAL
HELENA, Mont, May 2l.-The
greatest sucial sensation Of this city
for ycar~ was the suicide of Edward
+. Crosby, nephew of Ex-Governor
John Schuyler Crosby, and a mem-
Der of an old Knickerbocker family.
Six years ago he elOped with the
beautiful daughter of Bishop Brew
er, who has charge of the Episco-
pal diocese of Montana. The match
greatly displeased the bishop aud
his wife and they have made matters
very uncomfortable for the young
man ever since. Added to this
trouble he had difficulty with his
wife. On the evening, after quar-
rel with her just before retiring, he
went to his room and shot himself
with a 44.calibre bulldog revolver.
The affair, from the prominence of
the parties, caused great sensation,
and it is rumored that the family
scandal will be brought out at the
inquest.
| ORIGINAL PACKAGES.
LEWISTON, Me-, May PA de-
cision recently rendeeed by the o..
| S. supreme court is called the Dread
Scott decision of the temperance
cause. 1t allows original packages
of liquor to be shipped into any
state in the Union, tho local laws
forbid such sales.
Original package business on a
large scale begun here yesterday. A
car arrived containing barrels and
kegs of beer consigned to local deal
ers who took them to their stores
without interference of authorities.
A New Hamshire brewery agreed to
assume all costs of any test cases.
BEATEN BY FOOTBALLS.
VICTORIA, b. c., May 2l.-A. NJ.
Nelson, a well known citizen of
New Westminster who has been in
this city for some days, was attacked
by footpads whilst going to the
steamer last night. One man at
tempted to rob him while the other
hit him several blows on the head
with some blunt instrument. Mr..
Nelson defended himself with Il
loaded cane and called Justify for
help. The desparadoes took to their
heels and when assistance arrived
Nelson was lying on the wharf in
tai hotel in precarious condition.
LOWER CALIFORNIA CONSPIRACY.
/ SAN Francisco, May 20.-The
/ Chronicles Los Angeles Spt cial
says: Complete details f the eg-
ed consp ricy TO capture Lower
California and to found an inde-
pendent Republic, followed by
annexation TO the United States,
have been unearthed. The revela-
tions involve a number of prominent
capitalists of Los Angeles and San
Diego. The large warehouse of the
English Co., at Ensenada was to be
filled with arms aud ammunition
for use of revolutionists. One plan
was to capture Ensenada, and an
other to introduce large numbers OF
Americans onto the Peninsula, os-
tenslbly as railroad laborers, capture
the Mexican Man of War Demo
crat, and at the same time give q
grand picnic and ball in honor OF
Mexican officials, and in the midst
of the festivities capture the garris
son and seize roads and telegraph
lines. When the peninsula hnd
been seized a provisional govern
merit was to be declared aud mar
tial law was TO be enforced. The
land of the peninsula was to be ma
tionalized and negotiations for an
nexations to the United ESTATES
would follow.
A BLOODY DEED.
ALBEQURQUE, n. NJ, May 2l.-A
Mexican woman was brought her'
and lodged in Jail, charged will
stabbing her husband in the mech
and then pulling the knife through
, the breast, laying IL wide open
The crime was committed above th'
, small village of Nacimiento, thi
! county, several nights ago, and ii i
. learned that before retiring for thu
night the husband and wife quar-
relied.
Both went 10 bed, the man 4
sleep, but not ~ with the woman
After he was asleep she got up, and
; securing a butcher knife, committed
the awful deed. She then left th'
house aud went 10 the house Of he
father near hV where she retire.