The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-20
ELECTRIC BRIEFS.

Ex-Governor William CASTOR of Massa-
chusetts one of he greatest lawyers and
most prominent Democrats of that state,
died at Boston yesterday.
William Hasselley. well known farmer
Of Summittville, Ohio, and heretofore
considered straightforward, is missing,
and it is alleged that be has forged names
to notes for over s., 900.
Gillian Graves who has been on trial at
New Albany, Ind, for the murder OF Jack
Milligan, has been acquitted.
In the parish of West Feliciana, Lous-
ana, the other night, mob went to the
cabin of a negro accused of firing corn
crib. to lynch him. Before they could
take him the negro killed a man Damed
Roberts and badly wounded a white boy
He was finally strung up and riddled with
bullets.
A Hong Kong dispatch says that the
silver crisis is increasing in acuteness in
the East. The situation is further com
Dlicated by scarcity of currency at
Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore,
owing to the decreasing supply of Mexican
dollars.
At Rouse Ridge, S c.. during negro
riot, Paul Green and Rhett Green (whIue)
were shot from ambush by negroes to pre-
vent them from arresting a negro des-
perado named Jeuede
Judge G. p. Thompson of the superior
court of Gloucester, Mass, committed sui
eide at bis home yesterday by shooting
himself. Dependency, brought on by i'll
ness, was the cause.
Herr Lindet. editor of the Berlin Social
ist, has been sentenced to six months i'm
prsonmenJ and to be deprived of his copy
rights for writing seditious article.
The Colorado Dairymen's association,
in session at Denver, adopted resolution
10 petition the senate of the United States
10 push the Hill interstate bill, and asking
congress TO raise the tax on oleomargarine
from to 20 cents per pound.
Todd NJ. Pettigrew, cashier of the First
National Bank of Snn Dance, Wyoming,
was yesterday sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary He built the Sun Dance
water-works and took the money from the
bank to do it with.
At New York City yesterday Augustus
A. Thompson, an Englishman, aged %
years, pleaded not guilty to the charge of
forgery, and was held to the grand jury in
5000 bail Thompson is charged with
purchasing IS, 900 worth OF the bonds of the
Mountain Home Canal and Land com
pany, and paving for them with raised
checks.
Thirteen years ago Bennett Hayden
brutsIly murdered Richard Brambill aud
wife near Red Oak, Ia, his object being
robbery. Nothing was heard from him
till be WAS located in Walla Walla, Wash,
last week. Arrangements are now being
made to bring him back to Iowa for trial
Hon. James O'Brien of Caledonia, Mimi.
chief justice of New Mexico under the
Harrison administration. is in Lansing,
Iowa, looking for his 22-year-old son,
university student, who has been missing
since Jan. =.
The new cruiser Mont gomery made ber
official trial trip at New London, Conn,
yesterday. and covered herself with glory.
She made the extraordinary speed of nine
teen knots per hour. with the tide against
her going out and In her favor returning
The result of the trial assures the builders
premium of at least Sl15 600, and perhaps
so50,0
Leon Lozier of Council Bluffs, Is., was
arrested in Omaha yesterday for attempt
ing to commit a rape on the little daughter
IF Chris Anderson. He was followed to
Jail by AN excited crowd, and threats of
ynching were freely induled in. but wiser
counsel prevailed.