Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-01-11
CONDENSED NEWS.
Actor Scanlan is dying.

Actor Seaman is dying.
d. M. Angel, lumber dealer, Houston
assigned
La grippe is alarmingly prevalent il
Hamilton, Ont.
Opposition to the Virgins Ferry com
pany, st. Louis, is being organized.
The British steamer, Llandoff CITY. has
arrived at Queenstown with broken
shaft.
Baby Ruth Cleveland was baptised on
Thursday afternoon at the Cleveland cot
tage, Lakewood.
Secretary Blaine spent Saturday at his
residence and despatched considerable
routine business.
Secretary and Mrs. Foster left Wash
ington Saturday afternoon for week q
visit to Fort Monroe.
The 7. F, G. Kimball Manufacturing
company, of Cleveland, failed. LiabiIi.
ties, S42 600; assets, $4,000.
Harris Pitt was convicted of arson in
New York Saturday, and given eighteen
years and SIX months in the state prison.
Evan Wells, of Hyde Park, Pa, while
suffering from broken back sustained
in mine accident, ended his life by TAX
ing Rough on Rats"
Nearly half the breweries of Cincinnati,
Newport and Covington, representing
3,OOO,O 900 barrels and $2,500,OO0 capital,
have formed local trust.
Mrs. Louis Fink, wife of a barber at
Columbus, Ohio, died from the effect of
arsenical poisoning. 1t is not known
whether it was murder or suicide.
The suicide of Alfred B. Omen, of San
Pedro, CAL, on the I'd inst. was the re-
suit OF defalcation to the bank of San Pc
dro,of which deceased was clerk.
Lawrence Irving, the son of Henry
Irving, the actor, who was wounded bv
pistol bullet on Wednesday is progressing
favorably. lie is being nulsed by his
mother.
At Shamokin, Pa, John Grurzcand Phil
lp Deserts were instantly killed by an ex-
plosion OF gas while at work in the Nelson
colliery. Ten other miners were slightly
hurt.
Christian Meyerlin, an East st. Louis
baker, is on his way to New York to
claim one hundred thousand dollar for
tune left him by James Everett, a pro-
fessional beggar.
District Judge Hart has decided that the
Duluth street railway company has, under
the right OF eminent domain, authority
to condemn private property for street rail-
way lines.
Hon. s. W. Wheeler died Saturday
afternoon at Moline, aged rs. He found
ed the Moline Paper mill, was president
OF the Moline National bank and had been
mayor several times.
President Patton conducted divine SER
vices in Marquand chapel on Sunday.
The old chapel, one of the historic land
marks OF Princeton, has been changed |
into recitation room.
Cincinnati is flooded with what purport
to be certified checks of Birmingham,
Ala, banks. Itis learned they are frauds,
and considerable excitement prevails
among the victims.
The remains of Mrs. Anna Kelly, who
was missed on Christmas day, were
Saturday found seated in chair in back
room OF No. 81 Central court, Chicago.
Death is attributed to heart disease.
The total number of immigrants landed
at New York during 1891 was 445, 300.
They came on 964 vessels. One hundred
and five thousand and twenty-three
cabin passengers were landed from the
same steamships.
The unexpircd portion of the sentence
OF Commander Bcknell has been remtted
He was sentenced May 27 to one year
from rank and duty, for al
lowing the Galena and Nina to founder
on the coast OF Massachusetts.
The Rev. Dr. Baggott, of Wooster,
Ohio, writes to Chief Harrigan at st.
Louis, that Lew Garfield, a
second cousin Of the dead president is on
his way to st. Louis to kill the woman on
whose testimony he was sent to the peni-
tentiary.
William Mccoy was hanged at Homers-
vile, Liberty county, Ga, Saturday for
the murder Of John w. Bowie last Sep
tember. At the first attempt to hang
Mccoy the rope broke and thesheriff had
to get a new one. The second attempt
was not made until an hour and half
afterward, and was then successful.
The shooting Of his wife by Charles de
Gear or Joseph la Rose, OF St. Louis, and
the latter suicide, promises to develop a
sensation. An examination of the room
where the shooting occurred and count
ing Of the wounds inflicted showed that
seven bullets were used in the affray,
while five chambered revolver was found
by the side Of the alleged suicides body.