Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-01-07
LATE NEWS.
CONDENSED TELEaRAxs.


Two strangers worked a Denver
poolroom yesterday for $4,000 by
fictitious kilograms.
In the senate Senator Stewards
bill for the free coinage'of gold and
silver bullion.was taken up and Sen
ator Morrill, spoke against it in a
very long speech.
Five hundred dollars in silver coins
of the new design have been for
warded from the Philadelphia mint
to the treasury at Washington and
to the sub-treasuries at New York
and Chicago.
A match was agreed tonight be-
tween Tom Ryan, of Chicago, the
welten weight champion, and Danny
Needham, of San Francisco. The
battle will take place at the Metro
politan club, in Madigras week. 1t
will be for purse of $4,000, and a
side.wagor of $4,000 from each.
The employees OF the st. Louis and
Southwestern Cotton Belt) railroad
have adopted resolutions and ap-
pointed committee to call upon
General Superintendent, Edison to re-
quest that they shall not be asked to
handle any Aransas Pass cars or
freight until the trouble on that road
is satisfactorily settled with their
employees.
A most audacious sneak thief car
RED $4,000 of jewelry and papers
valued at $4,000. away from the re-
sidence of Joseph Carrie, at 1889
Washington street, Kansas City, last
night. The papers cast away by the
thief were picked up and partially
burned by stupid negro. AS for
the thief and his booty of jewels he
has fled and left behind not the
slightest trace. Two arrests were
made, but one of the persons was re-
leased.
EGreat excitement was caused in
the department of state this forenoon
by a report that Secretary Blame
had been taken suddenly ill while at
work in his Eofiice. The report
proved to be true, but every precau-
tion was takenEtogprevent the fact
from becoming public. The alarm
was great at first, but subsided about
noon, when the secretary was re-
ported as resting comfortably aud as
being entirely aut of danger. The
nature of his illness was due alto
gether to temporary stomach de-
rangement.
Col. Ballou arrived in Providence
last night, but did not get to his
office until noon to-day. He soon
after sent for the newspaper men
and made n statement TO them as
serting hiss,belIef that DIR. Graves
had not made any confession impli-
eating him. He denied that he left
Denver'Secretly or in hurrieds IMAM
ner, declaring that his associate coun-
sci knew of his intended departure
and expressing his surprise at the
verdict. He would say nothing
about the possible action of the
grand jury against him.
United States secret service Off
GERS, after.a huntlofi four I months,
have arrested four counterfeiters at
Hamburg, a small town on the Mis-
souri, river, some thirty miles above
its mouth. last September at a
barbacue near st. Charles, Mo-, large
quantities of spurious dollars and
halves made their appearance. Sns-
picion was directed to three strangers
as showers, and they caught John and
James Johnson'and SolEBush. 81 The
detectives also caught Ed Douglass
White, who is the manufactures.
No molds were found, but spurious
money was. Douglass has lived on
an island in the Missouri river op.
posite Hamburg, and has long been
known as desperate character.
Green's lake is in good order for
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