Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-03-24
LATE NEWS BY WIRE.

The cold weather has not injured th,
Georgia peach crop.
The Postal Telegraph Gable com
papy, of Texas, has been Incorporated
Major G. Winder, ex-president d
the Seaboard air line, died at Raleigh
of paralysis.
The steamer Three Friends arrived
at Jacksonville Sunday, with the arm,
and ammunition still on board.
Miss Eva Booth spoke before the
Salvation army in Chicago, but hel
mission is regarded as failure.
Maple Lodge sanitarium, near Osh
kosh, Wis burned Sunday. The pa.
tients all escaped. Loss. 100000.
In Huntsville, Tenn, a mob hanged
William Murphy to q tree. He was
charged with murder.
Elijah Rutter, white, and John
White, colored, fought over Rutter's
wife, near Brice, Ohio. Both men are
fatally wounded,
The Rev. J. ID. Thornton, o preacher
near Soron, Texas, was severely whip-
ped by mob. he having been warned
not to hold services.
The strike among the clothing cut
ters in Cincinnati, continues. Yester.
day cutters I fom New York arrived,
and will 60 to work.
Bertha Mcconnell, Of Cratesville,
Penn, shot Harry Thompson, her al
legged betrayer, and then tried to kill
herself. Both will die.
Fletcher Coalgrove, who murdered
John Goeting and Joseph Herring, last
August, in the coal fields, has been ar
rested near Vivian, WA.
All the records in the United States
census bureau, at Washinton, D. g ,
were either soaked with water of
scorched with fire, Sunday.
Mrs. Hattie Blaine Beale, wife of H.
Truxton Beale, ex-minister to Persia,
has given birth to son. Mrs. BeaIe
is daughter Of James G. Blaine.
!. Near Wewoka, on the line Of the
Seminole reservation, Indian Territory,
Calvin johnson was assassinated by
two men who called him to The door 10
the night4a
Edison is said to have looked
through the body Of one VI his assist
ants BY aid 81 the * rays, and has
seen the organs, particularly the heart
and lungs, at work.
The congressional committee on riv-
ers and harbors mads an inspection Of
the Ohio in the special steamer ..Vir-
ginia. I" which was gaily decorated and
carried an orchestra.
G. NJ. Witten, ex mayor, ax-police
Judge. and retired banker, has been
missing from EatIettsturg, KY, since
March 18th. He had "a. 900 on his
person when he disappeared.
Two painters employed on steeple
Of d church, in Granda OKLA, were
struck BY lightning and Instantly killed.
Their clothes took fire, and their
bodies were burned to q crisbs.
The Rev. Dr, Brown. preached in,
San Francisco for the first Time since
The exposure of the scandal. Mrs.
Cooper, bis chief opponent In the
;hufeh, hired q hall for her bible class.
Admiral MakeroH, OF the Russian
navy, who was guest OF the Cramps
al the trial OF the new Massachusetts,
was pleased and surprised at the mar
veIous resIlis Of the vessels work.
Settlers Id the western part, Of Ne.
braska are afraid that Congressman
Andrews' arid land bill co0ceals q
clause that may give large tracts Of
land to cattle companies TO the detri-
menL Of the settlers.
Wholesale pilfering by the apprais-
ers Of the New York custom house, has
been discovered to have gone on for
years. Joseph j. Cisco, an opener
and packer in the china department,
has been arrested.
Julia Bird, an old squaw, her daugh-
lteE Charlotte Bird, an infant daughter
| Of Charlotte. and q. Biquette, an In
| dian from the Bad River reservation.
were burned TO death in house on the
ontskiFts of Bay field, Wis.
Mrs, Chsrl;e Fenell,,, OF England, W be
married Ut ifteen Frapplsco FenelIi
was granted divorce at Oklahoma
Sbe says that bis entire frtune wal
brought to him by her, and that aztel
giving him $l60, 600 house In Italy