The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1893-12-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

vention passed resolutions declaring
/ against the extra session Of the lcgis-
/ lature.
A special election is to be held i'm
! New York to choose Successors TO
] Messrs Fitch and Fellows as repre-
| sentatives in congress
! Postmaster Merrill of south Jack
| sonville, Fla, was arrested on charge
| of embezzling money order funds
Mrs Scutliii was awarded a verdict
/ Of 800 for the lyDching of her hus-
band at New Orleans and the Judge
set the verdict aside as ridiculously
small
A dispatch from Rome TO the London
Chronicle says that Pope Leo's Christ
mas address will be dcnunciation of
Anarchisu
Edward ollcs has been appoint
ed receiver of the Hoffman house,
New York city, and other property
belonging to the estate.
One of the largest gas wells ever
drilled in Indiana has been completed.
A test proved it good for G.OOO cubic
feet daily. The well lies northwest
of Camden.
j. Minnie Sullivan was hanged at
4AI'ltIN'il, =. N.. lOI lue luOfOef OF
Herman G.. Galbreath on the main
street of Grcenvlle, 5. c.. in June,
/ 1sq2
Mr.. Leez, advanced Liberal, was
reelected TO parliament from Ian
cashire in district formerly Con-
servative. 1t is regarded as great
Gladstonian victory.
Charles w Whitman, collector for
several wholesale houses of Joplin,
Mo, has been missing for two week
and his accounts are being examined.
Lewiston, Utah. better known as
the Camp Floyd district, the scene of
the recent gold discoveries, is develop
ing into "A bonanza camp
The Italian senate, by vote of 1O2
to TO- has appointed Il commission of
five to investigate whether any of the
senators are compromised in the bank
scandals.
The well-known Chicago firm of
scenic painters, Albert S Bdrridge, as
signed The firm has decorated and
made scenery for many of the large
theaters in the West
Deputy Sheriff Ed Wright Of Wins
low, Apache county, A. r., was shot
and killed at Winslow by a Mexican
whom he attempted to arrest for
creating disturbance.
The penitentiary commissioners of
Arkansas have decided 70 enter into
contract with Austin Corbin d Co
for the LABOR of 400 convicts to work
on Sunnyside plantation,
Extension Attorney Van Leuven
and Surgeons kcssel and Pegg each
frs afgl ,i n ft, l,..
at Dubuque. Iowa, for their appear
ance in April
At conference of Populists leaders
in Birmingham, Ala, it was decided TO
put straight Populist ticket i'm the
field with Hon. Phiiandcr Morgon.
brother of Senator Morgan, as cand-
date for governor
A bomb charged with dynamite was
exploded yesterday in the village of
Soda, near Corrun, Spain A drug
store was wrecked by the explosion.
but nobody was killed.
Cholera is increasing in St Peters
burg. There are 100 cases now in the
hospital, and thirty-four new cases
and eleven deaths from the disease
were reported Thursday.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon, is in
teresting himself in revival of the
Torrey bankruptcy bill, and is quite
sanguine of success, notwithstanding
the defeat of the bin in the house.
The fire i'm the coal minos at Minonk,
Ill, from which 800 men narrowly
escaped with their lives, has been
brought under control Officials state
that operations will be resumed witnin
ten days.
Vice President Stevenson was the
leading orator at the annual banquet
held in Washington 20 commemorate
"Forefuthers' Day" lie responded
TO the toast, "Sons of the Pilgrims in
the Nation.
John A. Race Of Texas, clerk at
s., 900 per anum in the pension bureau
was dismissed for loaning money at
usurious rates TO other employees. The
department officials consider this of
fensc sufficient cause for immediate
dismissal
David L. How, president and cashier
of the First National bank of Shake.
pee, MINI. shot himself through the
temple Death was instantaneous.
Dependency over domestic and fnan-
ciai troubles are the causes assigned.
lie had insurance on his life to the
amount of S5j 900.
In the case of Hugh Eobbard
charged with numbering the Milwau-
kee railroad compauy's policemen,
Firth and Talcott, at Dubuque, last
April the jury, after being out niue.
teen hours, returned verdict finding
the defendant guilty of murder i'm the
first degree The sentence was life
Imprisonment
Nothing has been received at the
state department from Minister Willis
by the steamer Marino~l. H. is sup
posed al the department that the rev
enue cutter Corwin is u'w ON her way
back from Honolulu and 10 is expected
She will bring the rrplt of Mi i~t o.
Willis TO the instruction, sent ham by
the Corwin
Book Of the Pair.
We are in receipt of the eighth .