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Show BY TELEGRAM. <br><br> Coinage At the Philadelphia mint for Februrary was 4,273,067? Pieces, valued at $6,337,000. <br><br> Denver, Feb. 21. -- The Tribune's Santa Fe special says: The first of the week a shooting affair occurred in a gambling booth in a secluded spot five miles from the stage road between Fort Wingate and Bacon's Springs. Four men entered the saloon and called for drinks. The proprietor stated that he sold no whisky, but if the men wanted to gamble, they could and would be supplied with whisky. The four men then sat down with the proprietor. After some time playing a row began, resulting in the death of all the card players, each being shot several times. No arrests. <br><br> MIDDLETOWN, Feb. 25 - The mail train on the New Jersey Midland railway, this morning, was wrecked by a broken rail, just east of Ogdensburg, N.J. The combined mail and smoking car and passenger coach went down a steep embankment 12? feet high, turning over twice. Both instantly took fire from the overturned stoves and burned up. The passengers, some dozen in number, and the train men, all got out alive; some slightly hurt, and all more or less injured, but none fatally. The mail was entirely destroyed. The engine and express car remained on the track. <br><br> LOUISVILLE?, KY, Feb. 23. -- A letter from Tompkinsville gives particulars of a fendish [fiendish] murder there on Tuesday, after dark. A stone was thrown against the door of a house occupied by James Feller, aged 37 years. As Feller opened the door, a flash and report was heard. He staggered and threw up his arms, fell over dead, shot through the heart. Thirty-seven slugs were found in his body. Wm. [William] Smith is now in jail, charged with murder in the first degree. The wife and stepdaughter of Feller have been arrested as accomplices to the crime. The wife is a pretty woman, 21 years of age, and the stepdaughter is 19. Smith ran off with Feller's wife a year ago, and hard feeling has existed between them ever since. The wife is educated and good looking, but bears a bad character. <br><br> SYRACUSE, Feb. 23 -- Judge Rheigel [Reigel] sentenced the Earl gang of burglars, thieves, and highway robbers, Lon and Charles Earl, to sixty five years in the state's prison; Emma Earl, a sister receiver of the stolen property, to fifteen years; other members of the gang, Thos. [Thomas] Jacques, forty years; Frank Richard, twenty-five years; Anna Sterling, five years. <br><br> CHARLESTON, Feb. 20 -- The grand jury made a long report in the criminal court this morning. They very severely criticized the conduct of the late board of police commissioners, in regard to gamblers and lottery shop keepers, and say that all the variety theaters and vile dens, which are numerous here, are under control of the mayor of the city and police authorities, and can be closed whenever the latter choose. <br><br> WAVERLY, Ma.? Mo.?, Feb. 26 -- Two young farmers, Martin Ross and Wm. [William] Pickett, living near Waverly, had a difficulty on Thursday afternoon. They met near the line dividing their farms, and after a few angry words Pickett drew a revolver and sent a bullet through Ross' right lung. Several shots were exchanged, when finally Pickett fell pierced through the heart, and died instantly, Ross has a wound in the thigh as well as the lung and cannot recover. Both were highly drespected young men. Pickett leaves a wife, having been married only six months, and Ross is eldest son of a widow mother. <br><br> AUGUSTA, Mo., 28. -- At Chlan?, a village near here, Charles Merrill killed his mother in a barn. He concealed the body in a hay mow until frozen, then cut it in pieces; part he burned, throwing the charred remains into a [unreadable line]. The following Monday, the woman being missed, suspicion attached to her son. He was arrested, confessed, detailing coolly the circumstances. He witnessed the disinterment of a portion of the remains in the woods to-day, directing the efforts where to search of them. |