Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-24
NEWS BREvITIEs.

McCook, Neb., won the contest for
the county seat in the supreme court.
The prohibition state convention in
Ohio endorsed free silver at ratio OF
16 to i.
A number of bridges in the vicinity
of Port Arthur, Ontario, have been
swept away by f,od.
The Tennessee republican conven-
tion declared for reciprocity and pro-
lection and against silver.
The Hurlburt Manufacturing com.
pany of Racine, Wis, made an assign
ment, as result of the recent FIRE In
their factory.
Bob Chambers. negro who robbed
house aud burned farm near Gran
berry. N c., was taken from the Of
ficers by mob and shot.
At the democratic convention in
Nebraska, the platform asks for free
silver at ratio Of 16 to /, and refuses
to recognize the A. P. A.
James X. Culbertson, OF Chicago,
formerly OF Chambersburg, Pa, killed
woman named Lily Mccormack and
then shot himself. He cannot live.
The Chicago Blaine club has been
revived and its allegiance announced
to Thomas B. Reed. The club will go
to st. Louis in body to boom Reed.
Mexican officers, civil and military,
visited the site Of the proposed inter-
national dam above Ell Paso and pro-
nounced the scheme entirely feasible.
The ways and means committee
ordered favorable report on the bill
making Pueblo a customs port Of de-
livery attached to the port OF Denver.
Alfred Cope, who is accused of en-
bezzling 81, 900 OF the funds of the
Roaring Creek Mining company, of
Honduras, has been arrested In New
York.
Fire started in the Green h Bentley
drug store at Oskaloosa, Iowa, and
caused loss of $4,000. The cause
is thought to have been an explosion
of chemicals.
An attempt was made to wreck q
train on the Michigan Central BY plac-
ing ties on the track between Montrose
and Suspension Bridge. A freight
train demolished the obstruction.
Postmaster General Wilson has de.
MED the privileges Of the mails to
three firms sending circulars through
out the country offering to sell marked
cards, loaded dice and other gambling
devices to defraud.
The estimate Of the democratic ma
jority in Louisiana, outside OF New Or
leans Is placed at $4,000 to 5000.
Fosters majority In New Orleans Is a
little over 5000. The legislature is
reliably democratic in both houses.
Through the munifcence Of PROM |
inent merchant of Boston, whose name
is not made known, Harvard univer-
sity is to have another department |
added to its medical school-that Of |
comparative pathology. The benefac-
tor advances the sum of 100000 for
the endowment OF the chair.
After the suspension Of DR.. Brown, |
of San Francisco, by the Congregational
ministers, the suspended PASTORS sew
enteen-y year-old son threatened to kill
DR.. Mclean, who had been prominent
in opposing Brown. A scene of coDfu-
sion occurred in the church, Brown and |
his supporters using violent language |
to the opposition.
Charles Becker and James Cregan,
well known forgers, who were arrested
in Philadelphia as suspicious charac,
ters, we're served with a writ of for |
eign attachment for the recovery Of
$40, 900, which they are alleged to have
secured BY means Of forgery from the
Nevada bank, of San Francisco, and The
Crocker- Woolworth bank, Of Wood
land Gal