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Show WAFTED ON THE WIRES. Chicago, Mar. (March) 12 - A young woman residing near Mason City, Ills. (Illinois), has made a formal complaint before Bishop Spaulding of the Peoria Diocese, charging Thomas Dugan, parish priest at Delavan, with committing an outrage upon her while she was acting as his housekeeper. The bishop has instituted a careful investigation. New York, Mar. (March) 11, - Hayden, thrice tried for murder, lectured on circumstantial evidence to an audience of a thousand, among which was Jesse Billing, the Saratoga wife murderer. Syracuse, Mar. (March) 12. - Dr. (Doctor) Geo. (George) W. Severres, who fought under Napoleon in the campaigns against Russia and Germany, died this evening. He witnessed the burning of Moscow and was nearly fatally wounded. On the advance into Germany, he was captured and held a prisoner for seven years. Substantially he visited nearly all countries on the globe. New York, Mar. (March) 12. - The World's Washington: While congressmen are puzzling themselves to find out whether Levarts meant to help or hinder Lesseps in his canal scheme by his long sermon on the subject, it may be a comfort for them to know that Levarts himself is just as much puzzled to understand whether Lesseps is pleased or provoked by his reception in Washington. He yesterday remarked to a friend here, "That man De Lesseps is very exasperating. I can't get at him at all, for he seems perfectly satisfied with everything that is said of him. I believe he would think I asked him to dinner if I kicked him downstairs." San Francisco, Mar. (March) 12. - Dennis Kearney was arrested by the police at his residence yesterday morning on two charges of misdemeanor based on his remarks at the meeting of Tuesday night. He furnished bail and was released from custody. ??? Section Garbled ??? The amount taken is variously estimated at from $120,000 to $200,000. Entrance was effected through the floor of the express office. A later telegram from Sidney, just received, says that the treasure has been recovered except $13,000. It was found under a pile of coal near the Union Pacific track where the trackmen had seen the robbers conceal something in the afternoon. The excitement in Sidney is at fever heat, many being suspected of complicity in the daring deed. If evidence should prove strong against some of these suspects, it is thought that Nebraska will be saved the expense of trial. Atlanta, Mar. (March) 12. - Ida Fry, a Mulatto girl, filed suit against Frank M. Coker, president of the bank of the state of Georgia, alleging deliberate seduction. The case is the first in the history of the state and creates intense excitement. Washington, Mar. (March) 12. - Mrs. Belva Lockwood, female lawyer, charges Ben Hill with the ruin of four families. She wrote him that she could give the name of a family residing on Capitol Hill whose sixteen year old daughter he had debauched, whose son he made a page in the Senate, to another he gave a place in the signal service office, and for the father he secured a position in the postoffice department. Cheyenne, Wyo. (Wyoming), Mar. (March) 15. - The Daily Leader received the following special from Big Horn postoffice, March 14, via Fort McKiney, March 15th - The settlements to the north of us are in a great state of excitement because of the latest news regarding the Indians. General Miles sends word from Fort Custer that the Crows have formed a treaty with the Sioux. The settlers to the north and west of the Tongue River are coming into Goose Creek Valley for mutual protection. At Big Horn postoffice all is excitement which increases from the fact that there are only two companies of troops at the post of Fort McKiney. San Francisco, Mar. (March) 13. - A Victoria dispatch to the Express brings deplorable news from the upper country. Cattle, sheep, horses and pack trains are dying with great rapidity all through Nicola Kamloops, Okanagan and Lillooet. The destruction of the stock is going on; nearly all livestock will perish before spring. The loss is estimated roughly at one million dollars; scores of stock raisers will be reduced from affluence to poverty. The snow lies from three to five feet in depth and gives no evidence of a thaw. San Francisco, Mar. (March) 16. - The police judge, this morning, sentenced Denis Kearney to six months imprisonment in the house of correction and to pay a fine of $3,000. The magnitude of the sentence was a surprise even to Kearney who expected to get off with a nominal punishment. It is probable that he will take the case to the Supreme Court on habeas corpus. Winchester, Ill. (Illinois), Mar. (March) 17. - At 1 o'clock this morning, 10 masked men boldly rode up to the county jail, battered down the door, disarmed the guards and jailer and with revolvers in hand, compelled them to give up the keys. They then opened the cell of Joseph J. Field, and dispatched him with a number of pistol shots. Field was incarcerated for the murder of James Hodges, on the 25th ult. He has wealthy connections. |