Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-05-29

A report issued by the Japanese home
department shows that sixty-four earth
quakes were felt in different parts of the
empire in twenty-toar days in March
last.
A negro named Dunlap kept 200 Ital-
ians at bay with Winchester at Sutton,
w. Va, yesterday. He fatally shot two
Of the mob.
Plenty Horses, the Sioux Indian,
charged with murder, was declared not
guilty and released by order of Judge
Silvas.
At Eau Claire, Wis, the coroner's jury
brought in verdict that Mrs. Bertha
Erickson came to her death by poison ad-
ministered by Mrs. Elizabeth Russell.
The Suit for libel of Edward Scoville,
the tenor, against the st. Stephens Re-
view of London has been settled by the
Review paying Scovile 81 500 and the
costs of suit, and making an apology.
Judge Breckenridge, of St. Louis, of
the committee on seminaries, while in the
midst of his speech at Detroit fell dead
with heart disease and the assembly at
once suspended further action as well as
the banquet.
Cut worms are doing much damage to
growing corn and potatoes in Iowa and
many fields in all parts of the country
have been replsnted. The worms are
taking all the spronted stalks.
THE trial Of White, deputy sheriff, in
dicted for bribery in the Hennessy case
at New Orleans, was called yesterday,
when it was found that Leon Burthe, the
principal witness for the state, had been
shipped away.
A small war exists among the farmers
and officers of jewell City, Kas. Joseph
Benefits mortgage was recently fore
closed and his farm ordered sold, but he
refuses to leave and is backed by all his
neighbors.
The identity Of William Sherman, the
burglar in Jail at Youngstown, Ohio, for
the killing of Policeman Freed, was set
tied yesterday. The prisoners name is
SAID to be William E. Fitzgerald, and he
has lived in Detroit.
1t is said that Charles A. Pllsbury is
endeavoring to corner July wheat for the
purpose of forcing millers not in the
combine to pay an exorbitant price for
the cereal. t&
A large land scheme is on foot With
Ben Butterworth, of Cincinnati, at the
head. The capital stock OF the company
is 81 ,000, 900, fully paid up, and its opera
tions will be IN Nebraska, South Dakota
and Wyoming.
The United States supreme court, dur
ing the term ended Monday, smashed the
previous highest record of cases disposed
of at one term of the court, settling 617
cases, against 470, which has heretofore
been the largest number.
Roger Oldershaw attempted to elope
with his fathers promised wife at Bethel,
Me-, Saturday night. The elder Older
shaw intercepted them and a fight oc-
cured, in which the father was killed and
the girl received bullet in her shoulder
intended for Roger.
The Canadian minister OF agriculture
has received q cable message from Sir
Charles Upper, stating that the cattle on
the Lake, Huron had been detained on
suspicion Of disease, but after an investi-
cation the cargo was released.
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eminent has decided to grant rebate on
all sugars manufactured in Canada for
export, which will place the Canadian
refiner in the same position as the Ameri-
can refiner to trade in foreign markets.
Hanlon and O'CoDnor yesterday met
Richard Diesette, at Toronto, Ont, repre-
senting Gaudaur & Mckay, and drew up
articles for q race for the double scull
championship OF the world. The contest
is for $1,000 side, and it is to be held
about the middle Of July at place to be
agreed on later.
An unusual proceeding in jury trials is
the trip of inspection of twelve jurors
from the United States district court at
Fargo, N. D., to Wells county to examine
unimproved land sold by the Northern
Pacific railroad to A. H. Glaspell, of Den
YER, Colo.
Attorney General Miller has decided
that the secretary Of the treasury may
issue silver certificates against the gain OF
seigniorage arising from the coinage of
bullion. The seigniorage fund now
amounts to $4,000,000. The secretary of
the treasury is considering proposition
to issue certificates against the 2O,OOO,-
OOO silver half dollars in the treasury.
An action was begun in the supreme
court at New York yesterday in which
Henry Allen, nephew of Commodore
Vanderbilt, seeks half million slice of
the estate left by the latter. He states
that by his uncle's will $3.50, 900 was
given to the commodore's young widow
and the children by the first wife, but the
rest Of his estate, $125, 100000, went to
w. H. Vanderbilt.
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