The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

Cno UdtCio RrOuuu. Inc latter Is Dy TAI
the more substantial victory.
I Congress has donated 100000 for The
food sufferers of the Mississippi Val
ley. Unless the waters subside pretty
soon the appropriation will have to be
increased.
/ The kfnef0scope views of the Carson
fight have proven miserable failures
1t has been found impossible to devel
op the negatives. The scheme has
proven a heavy loss to its projectors
Iwho thought to make small fortune
out of their sale.
I KnoS7iHef Tenn.s was visited by a
million dollar fire, on the morning OF
the 9Th instant. Several persons lost
their lives and many we're more or less
seriously injured. About one.half the
property destroyed was covered by in
surance.
1t looks now as if Greece is deter
mined to- force al European war. The
Associated Press reports fighting be
tween irregular Greeks, or bandits, and
the Turkish forces. If it is true, there
is no telling when or where the fight
ing will cease. s.,..-
If Richard Corbett, who left San
Francisco some ten years ago with a
considerable sum of money to hfs cred
lit in one Of the banking institutions of
that city, is in the land of the living,
he had better materialize pretty soon,
or his wealth will escheat to the State,
He was in Arizona in 1885, and he has
not been heard from since.
Senator Elkins is reported to have
said a few days since, that the Consul
Egeneralship to Mexico had been prom
ised to Ben Schuster, lately resident
of Ell Peso, Texas, now of New York
City, and relative of A. & B. Schuster,
the leading merchants of Holbrook and
st. Johns.
Theodore Ddrant vas sentenced to
hang on the 10th instant, for the second
time, for the murder of Blanche La.
mont in the Emanuel church at San
Francisco, some two years ago. His
lawyers have exhausted the subter-
fuges of the law, trying to save his
neck, without avail. His execution Is
to take place on the 18th of June, in the
san Quentin prison.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has insured
her life for $1,000OOO in favor of the
Stanford University. which her hus-
band founded on the death of their
only child. ODe Of the conditions is
that she is to pay the insurance com
pany $4,000 annually, and if she lives
| ten years the University will receive
$2,O00,o0o at her death.
The Associated Press dispatches have
captured Dunham, who killed his wife.
| father-in-law and four others near San
Jose, Cal; and for whom the authori-
ties have been vainly searching for more
than year. According to report he
was captured recently near Coulter
Vile, Maricora county; Cal, and hes
been identified by several parties who
claim to have known him.
Edward Bellamy, author of "Look-
ing Backward" has written new book
on the same lines, which will be issued
early in May. 1t is said the author has
spent ten years on this work, and that
it will be largest and more comprehen-
sive than Looking Backward" The
new. book will tell the story of the
gradual evolution of the great social
changes which the author holds. are
soon to come to pass The title of the
book, EQUALITY" is we'll chosen in view
of the general theme. There is nc
doubt the book will nieet with a rapid
and large sale. -~
Black Jack and his gang have again
been heard from. On the 9th ult., FIVE
men supposed to be headed by the
above named bandit, attempted to hold
mp the depot and express Office at the
Huachltnea Siding on the s. P. On the
appearance of one OF The bandits at the
window the agent put the light out and
cattleman who was in the depot at
the tlma took shot at the fellow; and
It IS thought hit him pretty hard, as he
staggered to his horse near by, was as
sisted IN mounting, was supported in
bis saddie by one of his pals while an
| 6ther led his horse away.