Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-02-08
CONDENSED NEWS.

A revolution is looked for in Guats
mala.
Kimbal & Champ, ex-bankers, Dubu
que, indicted.
Blaine.is about to withdraw every few
minutes.
Eleven deaths from consumption al
Denver last week.
Governor Boyd to be baneueted at
Omaha February 16.
The Alliance Merchantile company, OF
tRichmo1d, Wis, has failed.
Fifteen inches of snow in the valleys OF
Colorado, and still showing.
Mint Director Leech says the United
States has enough gold to buy up all the
silver in the world.
Kansas Democrats meet at Leavenworth
March to elect the state delegation to
the national convention.
President Joy OF the Wabash says his
road will be running into Chicago over
its own tracks within year.
The recent cold weather at Guthrie has
caused great suffering among the new set
WIS III 1hilld1l tOuilIy.
E. Goddard & Sons, millers at st.
Louis, have assigned. Liabilities, $780,
900; assets, 100000.
The strike Of the Edison Light COM
pany's men in New York promises to
assume large proportions.
The secretary of the navy has ordered
a searching investigation of the recent
scandals at Mare island navy yard.
Col. Hall, of Dover, has been elected
department commander of the Grand
Army OF the Republic for New Hamp-
shire.
Governor Boies will be entertained by
the Greystone Club, Denver, tomorrow
night. J. D. O'Brien, late of Las Vegas,
will talk for "the ladies'"
Alice Mitchell, who murdered her pirl
lover at Memphis, wept when told that
she would not be hanged. She said she
wanted to die on the gallows.
The Rio Grande Western road has let
contract to build 220 miles, from Eureka
to Fish Springs, the contract to be COM
pleted in September. Going to the coast.
Hamilton Gray, the Oldest postmaster
in the United States, is dead, near Kings
ton. He had served as postmaster at
Gray's Hill since his appointment by
President Polk.
Charles Brayley, of the Brighton dis
trict, Boston, well-to-do young grocer,
applied for the arrest of his brother AL
fred, whom he charges with stealing his
wife.
Benjamin F. Abbot, retired ship.
ping merchant, father OF Surrogate Abbot,
of Brooklyn, dropped dead of heart dis.
ease in an office on Wall street. He was
67 years old.
At the sales of the library of the Rev.
DR.. Raffles, at Boston, the original manu-
script of Edgar Allen Poe's little poem,
"The Bells was accidentally discovered.
1t was sold for $500.
Capt. W. S. Schley is relieved from the
command of the cruiser Baltimore and
placed on duty in charge of the. third light
house division, with headquarters at
Staten island.
Judge Tuley, of the circuit court of Chi
cago, handed down an opinion sustaining
the will of the late millionaire, John
Crerar, in leaving fund for the estab-
lishment OF great library.
In dispatch from Sedalia, Mo-, it is
reported that company has been organ
zed for the purpose OF extending the
Missouri, Kansas q Texas railway from
Bonneville to st. Louis, giving the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas its much desired
st. Louis outlet.
H. Gloster Armstrong is in Chicago
negotiating with the Worlds fair officials
,or five acres of space on which to repro
luce the historic Tower of London. The
proposition is favorably received by the
officials.
"Honest john" Hogan died, St. LOUIS.
He was native of Cork and came to this
country in 1927. In 1886 Mr.. Hogan was
PRESIDENT of the Illinois board of public
improvements, and while occupying that
position the board laid out the site of the
ity OF Chicago, and the first railroads in
illinois were built while he held that
POSITION.