Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1895-03-09

THE new American loan was quoted
~, tha npIop StncL axchanra at noon


on the London stock exchange, at noon
| OF the 2Tth. at SIS premium.
A POSSE of five deputy marshals were
| sent from Muscogee, !. T.. to appre-
hend the Hughes gang of bandits that
held up the Texas Pacific express in
daylight, about six weeks ago, and got
500, 600. They trailed the outlaws all
night. and on the morning of the 27th,
| located them in an old house miles
west of Checotah. Hughes was shot
by Naked Head, a full-blood Cherokee
officer. who was killed by the return
fire. Two OF the bandits were arrest
ed, the others escaping to the woods.
THE United States steamer Mime
apolis sailed from Newport, r. l., on
the eth, to join Admiral Meade's fleet
in the West Indies.
FIFTEEN robbers held up the north
bound Houston & Texas Central ex-
press at the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
railroad crossing, at the edge of Dali
las, Tex. at.7 o'clock on the evening
of the a7th. They took possession OF
the engine and rBn away with the
baggage car and express, with the
Wells-Fargo safes, said to contain a
large amount of money. Officers i'm
mediately went in pursuit.
ST. JosEPH's German Catholic
church. in Johnstown, Pa, which stood
the brunt of the terrible flood of May
81, 1889, was destroyed by fire on the
2Sth
THE Colorado senate, on the 2Sth,
passed bill prohibiting capital pun
ishment in that state.
THE municipal council of Havre,
France, resolved, on the 2Sth, to board
the steamer La Gascogne Immediately
upon her arrival in that harbor and
congratulate Capt Baudelon and his
staff officers upon having safely
brought the ship into New York after
her last perilous voyage westward.
UNITED STATES TREASURER MORGAN,
on the aSth. mailed l,10s checks, ag-
gregating S126, ,Ga9. so, in payment of
the interest on the funded loan of 1891
continued ut 2 per cent.
The rear wall of an old six-story
malt house on the corner of Forty
third street and Tenth avenue, New
L
on the 1st, carrying with it and bury
ing in it's debris dozen workmen.
Three men were taken out dead, and
two were believed to be dead in the
ruins, while eight others were rescued
alive. but more or less injured.
BY "a double accident on the Royal Blue
line, Philadelphia s. Reading railroad,
NJ DO tho Let fxxyr
were killed and four injured. The ac-
cident to the express train was caused
by collision, a few moments before,
between the parts of broken coal
train on another track, one of the coal
cars being thrown directly in front of
the rapidly-noving express.
By the collapse of the interior of
struction in New York city, on the
1st, one man. who could not be found,
was believed to have lost his life, and
nine others were more or less seriously
injured. The owner OF the building
and the two contractors, who were on
the ground at the time, were all ar
rested.
The nomination of Hon. William L.
Wilson, of West Virginia. to be post
master general, vice Bissen, was con-
irmed by the United States senate on
the lst.
MEXICAN farmers in the vicinity of
Paso del Norte are complaining of
scarcity of water for irrigation and
are begging the government of Mexico
to present claims against the United
States because almost all the water of
the Rio Grande is used by the people
of Colorado and New Mexico.