Omaha daily bee., 1894-02-25
Domestic.


Secretary Herbert has invited Admiral
Stanton to give his views as to the floating
of the Kearsarge.
Five of the~ten indicted state officers and
clerks of Michigan appeared in Mason yes
terday, accompanied by their s%ureties. pre-
pared to give bail.
kid" Mccoy, who is wanted in Pittsburg,
Kan, to answer charges of highway robbery
and attempted murder, was arrested yester-
day in Colorado City.
John Yoakum and C. II. Craft were tried
at Houston, Tex, yesterday for wrecking a
Missouri, Kansas. & Texas train and held to
appear before the grand jury.
Alexander futile and Rice Williams quar-
relied at a store in Laurel county, Kentucky,
yesterday. futile shot Williams, who
struck back with an axe. Both died.
Billy Fisher of Kansas City defeated
Bish Kane of San Francisco in a Graeco-
Roman wrestling contest at Leavenworth in
thirty-three minutes for q purse of 5000.
Varioloid has broken out on the Concord.
Rear Admiral Skerret reports from Yoko-
hama, urder date of February 1, that six
cases have been transferred to the hospital.
Mutilated bodies of Farmer Moore, aged
81, and his housekeeper, aged 80, were
found lying side by side in Moore's farm
house at Bushville, Sullivan county, N. Y.
Moore had just received his pension money.
Rev. Sam Small, at the head of a strong
company of business men, will today resume
publication of the Daily Oklahoman at
Oklahoma City and will be served with a re-
port by the Associated press.
Detrimental to the welfare of the tribes
is the verdict of the international council
at Checotah, 1. t., regarding statehood.
The Indians accordingly decline to treat
with the Dawes commission.
By a bill introduced by Representative
Bynum, by request, a pension is made Il
vested right which can only be taken away
hV n i1yf.tr frinI and m tert,n- - n n
in bonds is authorized to pay pensions.
Leroy Harris, charged with forging money
orders, and who "held up" a room full of
government officers at Buffalo, N. Y, last
Saturday, escaping from custody only to be
recaptured, arrived in Chicago yesterday.
Snow ten to fifteen feet deep has caused
no end of trouble to the Rio Grande and
Midland railway companies in western Colo
RADIO. Snow plows and Hangers, however,
have kept the main lines open for traffic.
Rudolph j. Peschmann. proprietor of the
Cream City hotel at Milwaukee, who robbed
and murdered Mrs. Schums, an aged guest,
and then set fire to his hotel, was yesterday
to the state prison at Waupun for
life.
New Workers were treated to a magnih-
cent display of aurora borealis. 1t ~excelled
the western exhibition in briliancy, but
lasted only a few minutes. The lights flick
cred like flames from a coal fire and grad
ually died out in the west.
A Raleigh, N. c., dispatch says private
received there from Florida, where
Senator Vance has been for several weeks
for his health, are to the effect that the
grows worse daily. and that small
hopes are entertained of his recovery.
William Norton and James Breckenridge,
both prominent farmers near Manaffaylia,
Ala, between whom an old feud existed
about a fence line, met last night in the
street and without preliminaries drew pls-
tolls and commenced a duel to death. Norton
was killed and Breckenridge committed