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Show GENERAL. Senator klect Eogg. St Louis, 15 Colonel L. V. Bogg was declared U. S. senator in joint session ses-sion of tho legislature to-day, alter which he was conducted to the speaker's desk and made a speech, in wnich he , promised to rupresent the people of the Stale and the entiro west, to bo a representative repre-sentative of tho people, to sorve with i fidelity and faithfulness, to favor rev--enue sufficient only for a strictly economical econ-omical governmeet "nd the payment of the public debt, tho restoration of State rights and the placing of the Southeru States on a proper looting with amnesty to all, and to defend tho interests of the west from the encroachments of eastern monopolies. WB.hluffton Advice. Washington, 15. The senate committee commit-tee on foreign relations will to-morrow report an appropriation for tho Vienna exposition, for tho purpose of securing a largo display of American productions, produc-tions, and paying tno attendant expenses. The President hnsnominatcd J. F. Sterling Ster-ling olerb of the assay office, Boise city, Idaho; and Austin Savage collector of internal revecuo, for Idaho. ' Valuable Books Burned. Philadelphia. 15. The fire this morning morn-ing at the residence of tho late Kdwin Forrest, destroyed nearly all his valua-: valua-: ble Shakespearian collection, and the famous original copy of Shakespeare . published in h's'2'S, and valued at live . thousand dollars. Tno iiro did not extend ex-tend beyond the library. It originated from ft defective iluo. Loss from $16,-000 $16,-000 to $20,000. Jiew York InieLUscuce, New York, 15. Tho work of laying the third rail on the Erie track, will begin be-gin at Buffalo as soon as tho season permits, per-mits, and Will bo extended as fast as funds are secured till tbo road unites with the Boston. Hartford and Erio. " When tho ceil in which Stokes was confined, prior to his sentence, was searched a bottle was found whiob, on examination by a chemist, was found to contain a concentrated solution of strychnine. The purchase of Samana Bay and Peninsula was effected in December. The capital of tho company is twenty millions. Allen B. Stackwell is presir dent. Tho Pacific Mad steamer company com-pany intend to run regular special steamers between here and Samana Bay, next mo th. The Tribune says the Bay and Peninsula Penin-sula aro lea od to the Samana Bay company com-pany for iW years, at $150,000 per year. Matilda Heron, the actress, recently arrived from Son Francisco and staying at the MerchanU' Hotel, has recently been sutlering from dementia. While in a lit, to-day, she became so violent as to rendor necessary her removal to Park hospital, wboro she is now under medical treatment. Credit Mobilier, Washington. D. C. 15. Durant tosti- ' find that the shares given Br. oks were tho result of a special Rgreomont with him in '07. Brooks claimed more than i a hundred shares, and bo compromised in Union Baciilc stock and bons. SVi -ness had no know, edge of congressmen being influenced by credit mobilier stock. Ho gave two checks of So.OdO each to secure tho election of Senator llarlan, of Iowa, who was an old personal person-al friend. lie thought Harlan would take care of the interests of the road. Oakes Ames was examined as to the cost of the Union l'aciiic railroad, and ho stated that tho pri'tils were about seven millions on expenditures of sixty millions, for building and equipping the road. Washington, D. C, 15 Before the Poland credit mobilier committee, yesterday, yes-terday, H. C. Crane, assistant treasurer of the credit mobilier and Pacific railway, rail-way, testified that James Brook?, on December '.Mth, lMiT, paid him flU.lXXl, for wh ch he transferred to C. H. Morton, Mor-ton, at Brooks1 request, ono hundred shares of credit mobilier, a d two hundred hun-dred shares of 1. cific R. R. stock; and the samo day delivered him live first mortgage bonds of tho Pacific railway. It was Durnnt s 6;ocl-, not the company's. com-pany's. Ho aid n"t Knuw the amount of profit realued by Brooks, but thought it ft very g.'od trade. H. C. Crane tetitied before tho Wilson Wil-son committee, thst tho dividends on Ames' coi tract ngregnted 5t. per cent. Cornelius S Bushncil testiiied belre the WiUon committee, that ho had always al-ways liberally subscribed for general political purposes. 11 is impression was, that in cno instance he contributed to senator Thayer o0,lO, which was drawQ by draft on bim. He thought this was in the Nebraska state election of 1670, when Thayer was a candidate for re-election. Thayer was ihe friend of witneM. and in giving the money he thought it might aid in securing his -.Thayer's) re-eleclion. Horrible nurder. New York, 1" A horrible wife murder mur-der wai onr milted in a tenement house on K.ut L. even in street last nighL At noon to-day, an officer ante red tbo houo snd discovered tho body of Mane SchetVeiin covered with blood, the soaio aimvst torn otf. and several flab? in the sides and tb rough the arm. The m;;rder was committed by G.-o. SciiriVi:c. her husband. cheue.inisa b-s plasterer, ar.d Las not lived with his wn- f,,r sir ni nths. The murderer is not yet in eiiJ-u-dy, but I hie mother, Ann Shetl:in, ar.d her daughter, Mary Morse, were lying on the fioor near the murdered woman in a beastly state of intoxication. The latter ia uso !a:d to hr ben drunk. When herbnsbaDd entered the houfe, he upbraided her. and finally struck hr down ; and it is supposed he completed com-pleted the bloody deed with an old table ta-ble knife found near the body covered wi.h blood. Later. Schnffelin was arrested this evening at his lodgings in Third avenue. ave-nue. A FlUlbnater. Key West, Florida, 15. The steamer Edgar Stuart arrived here on tbe 1-iih. she is under command of captain Ru-d"lph Ru-d"lph Summers, formerly of ihe L'nittd S'.ates navy, which service he left in IvjS, since which time he has been in the service of tbe Cubans, and is pretty well known as having made some seven or eight successful landings of arms, Jfcc, on the Cuban coa-t. He lauded half his lat cargo at Port Tuano, and half at Port Lino. Ulieellaiieoaf. Nashville, Tenn., 15 Got. Brown was inaugurated to-day. Cincinnati, lo. Stanley Matthews declines de-clines the invitation of the attorney-general to act as government counsel in the Union Pacific cases. Aaron F. Perry accepts. New Orleans, 15. The Kellogg legislature legis-lature has elected James Roy to rill Kel-loggs Kel-loggs unexpired term in the United States senate. Annapolis, Md., lo, Iu the Wharton trial, to-day, the cross examination of Van Ness was concluded, aod oiher witnesses wit-nesses testified, but nothing was elicited. Philadelphia, 15 This evening the committee on suffrage, of the constitutional consti-tutional convention, met & committee of women suffragists, and several of the latter made addresses strongly advocating advocat-ing the bnllot for women. Cnicago, 16. At the Tremont House, this evening, the rooms of Isaac Mills, agent of a New Yrk jewelery house, were forced at supper Lime, and $0,OUO in samples wore taken. |