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4
Month
May
Year
1882
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Specials from Lordsbnrg, N. M., 6ay that the wn of QaylordBTille has been sacked by IolanB ai d 86 or 40 wbitf s murdered. Over 80 pereons have been kilUd eince th outbreak besar, a weikaeo. Col. Forsjth ia on the trail of the savaees. The Chicago in nlng exchange and the New ' ork niinini? excbange have so far consolited that each is to own fifty Beats in the other. By a rollision on the Oincianati Southern Eailroad at Lexingtou, KyM Wediiesday, EnijineerDriscoll was killed. The 600 girle employed in the Toronto shoe factoriep, who ha va been on a strike for two week?, have obtained the average of 20 per cent. ad vanee demaaded, and resumed werk. A diopatch from Martentz, Col , says a mob attacked a Chínese house and tbrew the lamate f rom the second story wlüdow. Three vere badly hurt, and two will die. Sheriff E. N. Campbull, of Lake City, Col, wbile guardiug the contente of a vacant bouse agaiBst ihiPvp, was shot through the heart aud instanlly killed by Geo. Betts and Jos. Browning Ralph Waldo Emwson died at hls home in Conoord, Thuradayevemng, at 9 o'clock, of pneumonía. Daring the f ore part of the day his pulse had risen to 110. At a quarter before 9 in the evening it feil to 120, wbich hi doctor regarded as an indicalion tbat the crinis had passttd favoiably, but after a brief absence (rom the room he returned to aunounce bis deatb. H wif e and unmari led daughter were present. Tbo ownerehip In forty-three graln elevators heretofore controlled by Barnes and Magill of Minneapolis, bas been transierred to tba Minneapolis Mülei's Association. Tbeyarelocated on tbe Nortbern Faciñc railroad and branches. Dufoft, a youth at CoudcU Bluffe, was playing Jesse James wilh a playm.ite, and puliiug tbe trigger of a revolver wbich he supposed to be unloaded, it went off and killed nis victim.who refnsed to ttirow up his hands until he was shot The Grand Trnnk has absorbed the Great Western of Canada, and the Board of the latter bare resigned. Although Senator Ben Hill bas gone U Hot Spnngs witli his surgeon, no hopes are entertained of his recovery. He has been told that he cannot live beyond Bix months. He has lost both a brother and Bister by cáncer. Prol, Chittenden, of ïale, tefltified in the Malley trial tbatthe body oí Jenny Cramer showed no traces of arsenio in the bonee, upsetting the theory that she was an arsenic eater, but that thoneh weigiiing bnt 67 pounds, it contained a total of 8.1192 gratas of anienic aufficient to cause deatb. A government detective has been in Chicago for several days, trying to find som trace of a package of diamonds, worth % 5,000, sbipped from London to the Elgin watch company in that city, and which mysteriously disappeared in transit from New York city to Chicago. Judge McArtbur has set aside the verdict for $109,000 damages in the Kilbourne ose forfalse imprisonment, asexceesive,and given each side twenty days in which to make f urther motions. In the contested election case from the"shoestring district," Misslssippi, the seat was given to Lynch aa against Ohalmers- 125 to 88. An unsucceesful attempt on the lives of W. H. Vanderbilt and Cyrus W. Field, by means of ezploBives sent to theiraddresa in email boxee, wan made on Saturday af ternoon. The packets were placed in a mail bag, with other matter for the up town district, taken to the elerated railroad station and deposited on the platform of the car. As the train starten up towu, and before reaching the Nlnth street statiOD, one of them exploded, and flre and smoke were seea to issue trom it. The burniDg bags were hastily taken to the P. O. station ai Twenty ninth street, when Postmaster Pearson was sent for to examine it. The package addreesed to Mr. Field was planged into water to prevent explosión, and wben examined was found to cousist oí a pasteboard box, coTered w'th gaudy flowers and pietures, with a sma 1 string dependió g, and inside a tin cauister contaiaing a half pound of powder, a glass jar containing a white powder, and some liquid, wbich were sent to a chemist for aoalyBis. Mr. Vandörbilt's package had exploded, by the jolting of the care, but for whicb, both packaijes might have reached their destinatioc, and caused fatal tesults, The contente of the mail tmgs were considerably scorched. The pesti ffice cffloisls wi'l do all Ihat is possible to hunt d'iwn the authors of these attempte. The impression prevails at New Haven that Blanche Douglas bas lurned etates evidence in the Jennie Cramer case and will not be tried. She tiftiajs no anxiety on her part and Bhe and the Malleys are no longer friendly Mrs. Scoville say s that the expenses attendingGuiteau's trial have lef t her and her busband penniless and homeless, and tbat Bh pioposes a lecturing tour as a menns of pecuci ary relief, beginning at Cooper Union. The New Jersey Pottery CompaDy at Trenton has failed for 100,000. The sheriff of Gunnison eounty, Texas, and nis posse bad a fight with cattle thieves near Grand Junction, Ute reservation, onThursday and three of thb thievf s wen killed.' The charter of the Firet National bank of Chicago about to expire by limitation, the stockholders have notice to put the bank Into liqaidation and to orgarize a new First National bank, uuder a new charter, to go into effect May 1. T. H. Corrigan, of Kingston, Ont., bas been arrested on a charge of selling $40,000 wortb of lots in Wbitemoutb, Manitoba, where he didn't own a foot of land, and tbe land bad not been surveyed by the government. Thomas E gere, of Pbiladelphia, af ter being disiharged from prison where he had been confined for wife beating, went straight home on Monday and shot and fatally wosnded his wife. A granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, Mrs Virginia Jtfferson Twist, died at Alexandria, Va,, last week, agedSl. She was the wife ot Nicholas P. Twist, who negotiated the treaty of peace with Mexico at the close of tbo war. A dead body, with two ballet holes, supposed to be that of Capt. Nelson, of the schooner Ironsides, who disappeared some days ago, was found floating in Chicago river Suturday. Ooi. Fortyth is on tbe trail of the Apaches ia the Dragoon mountains. Two men were killed in a skirmiah on Saturday. Thu twenty-fourth anuual report of the New York Chamber of Commerce says: It is apparent to close observers that the United States is entering npon a critical period in ite progresa, when economie and financial questions rt quire most careful exüminatiOD. A mass meeting was held at Libarty, Clay Co., Monday, near the home of the James boys and resolutions passed indorsing Gov. Crittenden's action and expreesiug f all sympathy with him in kis warfare against the bandite. The meeting was largely attended and the resalutions emphatically and ODirersally commended. Major Tapper reporta baving bad a Sght with Indians at Cloverdale, Lob Amimns mountains, in wbich oce of bis men was killed and two wounded. About 15 of the hostiles were killed, Including Chief Lacosson, and seventy-five horses taken. A fire at Mildletown, De)., on Tuesday, destroyed A. J. Oox & Oo.'g carriage factory, St inn'a Episcopal cburcb and eix intervening dwellings. Loes $80,000. The Free Will Baptist church in Dover, N. H., which cost $40,000, was desüoyed by fire Tuesday. The boiler tf the steamer Manon, on the Wateree river, 8. O., exploded, killing or fatally wounding eleven persone. One whole fam ily was killed. A party of 23 lidies and 11 gentlemen had aeked the captain to take tbem on an excursión and the steamer was about entering a email creek to take on more passenger when the explosión took place. Michael Kennedy of Troy, N. Y., still con tinnes to fast on skira milk for dial eU'B.havitig bogun it in January. Hls lace is round and rony, and he saya he never feit better in bis llfe. Welgns2HK lbs. He will continue the diet ome weeks longer.

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