Omaha daily bee., 1893-01-07
NEWS OFIYESTERDIY.
D0nleStiC.

Three new cases of-typhus fever have been
discovered and one death has occurred in
New York City. ',
Martena, the little grandchld of President
Harrison is improving in health. The white
house still lremainsq1arantincd.
Bob Ray, notorious colored desperado of
Pocket township, North Carolina, wanted for
the murder of white women, was shot by Il
pursuing party and killed.
In a family row hilbert Mcdonald of Hunts
Vile, Tex, shot aMRkilled his father and fed.
Blood hounds were put upon his track and he
was caught In IL short time.
Costa Ricos minister to Washington has
received an official dispatch to the effect that
there is no truth in the rumor that war is
imminent between that country and Mica
ragua.
The Buffalo n. V, Times (Sheehan's organ)
has come out with page of interviews with
leading citizens urging the selection of Wilson
s. Bissell OF this city for attorney general in
Mr.. Cleveland's cabinet.
When President Harrisons term of Office ex-
pres he VIII return to indianapolis. MIR.
Harrison Will resume the practice of law, his
well known ability as II lawyer guaranteeing
him remunerative business.
Deputy United States Marshal Siddcll ar
rested Morris Lane, who rooms at 9O5 Penn
street, Kansas City, on the charge of using the
United States mails to do counterfeiting
business in United States money.
People of Fairfax, Mimi, are still greatly
agitated over the bank failure in their village.
II seems the opinion of the people in general
that the failure was premeditated, Some
accuse them of making away with $4,000.
Justice Barrett in the supreme court of New
York, has issued writ of habcas corpus for
the production of Mrs. Edith Steele, said to be
imprisoned by her husband, DIR. Theodore
Steele, at the Gilsey house, New York City.
The Bethlehem Iron WORKS are manufacture
ing for the Navy department several 14-nch
liarveyized armor plates, which will be fired
at by 1O-inch gun The test will be the most
severe to which the plates have ever been put
The coast defense vessel Monterey has
made her trial trip in San Francisco harbor.
The test was a severe one, but the vessel came
out of it in excellent shape, and the board of
naval experts were highly pleased with her
good qualities.
Two white men were fatally stabbed by two
negroes at Decatur, Ala. and they were in
turn shot down by the wounded white men.
The names of the white men are John and
james llerndOn The negroes names are Ed
mond Todd and Ted Bowden.
The largest iron lathe in the world is busy
Mt work in the Lake Erie Engineering works at
Buffalo, \. y, finishing the iron barbettes to
be placed on the new cruiser recently launched
by the government. In no other shop in the
world could the work be done.
party of twenty negroes from Marksvile
Avoyellc parish, La, has arrived At Fort
Worth Ten They say they left their former
residence because their white neighbors forced
| them to IL, objecting to the coored people
maintaining schools for their children,
| A scheme for the consolidation of tho eight
| separate gas companies of Brooklyn, n, Y, Is
| on foot The Boston Construction company
of Pennsylvania, which has been formed by
| Edward Addick, will acquire the stock of the
| various companies and consolidate them.
A colored woman was found wandering
| about the vicinity of Lone Jack, Mo-, in an
| apparently dementcd condition. She was ar
! rested. She said that she and her sister and
the latter's husband were working their way
| north from Arkansas; that the husband and
wife quarrelled, resulting in the man beating
| the womans brains out. The man then He'd
! Investigation proyedq the woman's story TO be
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