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Show lATAi.oct'i: or (.itijii- A l'ollllelaii Avuiiiliialesl A. Slier. Iir Hilled In Arkareu,". Double .Murder. New Orleans, Jnly 21. Th? Tfm-emocTaf" Meridian, Mi.., special: T. M. IS. Cook, a widely-known widely-known republican jeliticiau of Jas-jr Jas-jr County, wns assassinated yeter-uay yeter-uay afternoon near Mount Zion Churchill Jasper County. Hews." a candidate fur the constitutional convention, and was reiiirted to have madea very Incendiary speech during the day. Hu was found late In the afternoon, aud had apparently apparent-ly been dead several hours, having licen lilt by fifteen buckshot. Cook had thu reputation of living a turbulent tur-bulent spirit lu thecoinniuiiity.aiid his chief desircseemed to bo tl antagonize an-tagonize r.nd engender all the race prejudices possible. A SHERIFF KILLED. St. Lor is, 5Io., July 21. Advices Ad-vices from lwi"VllIc, Ark., are to the eir.ct that Sherill May and posse atUniidcd ui arrest Dr. Chie-holm Chie-holm j stcrduy. The doctor resisted andlaith shot at ui-h other with gunaiHlrille. The sheriff t as kilh-d j and tw uf lib. ir ni:.t;.ill woiiuueti. riiie affiir - the ssqi.il toa sh.sjtmg scran- which oeiu.'itu j at Lewisville l'uu-d .y, in whim Dr. Chisholm killed Samuel Stone. MURDER IN ARKANSAS. Fort Smith, Ark., July 21. News has reached here of the killing kill-ing at Magazine, I.ogau County, of Captain William Llnugtou and his son, W. K. Kllington, by N. D. 51c-Iiiiurf, 51c-Iiiiurf, a well-known detective. Mclnturf iscajied. Kllington was n famous scout on the Union sido during the war. No particulars are obtainable. A COMEDIAN SHOT. New York, July 21. James Cavauaugh, a well-known comedian, comedi-an, was shot and slightly wounded tonight by his wife, whom it is said he left on account of her dissijiated habits. VAOAUONDS. Niv York. July 21 Montrtal late: A French dispatch from Pembroke, eighty-six miles above Ottawa, on tlie Upper Ottawa, says tiiat two days ago some miscreant) cut the ropes holding a raft of logs to the bank where the twenty-two raftsmen on board were stopping over night. The raft, with the men nil asleep ou Imard, drifted out into the river mid then into tiie rapids a mile below, and tk those aboanl awokuorcuuld avoid the rocks, the logs of the raft had broken up. Ot twenty-two men aluard thu raft (inly two survived. No traces of the bodies of the other twenty have licen found. They must have been ground to death. The authorities nre trying lo discover tlie man who cut the rojs. No further partk-w- , larsaruat hand. Acrevsl I'imjii. Toi'EKA, Kas., July 21. The grievance committee ot trainmen uf tlie Santa Fe system concluded its conference with General Manager Itobiu-uii today, having agreed u sin a schedule of wages which is sali-factory to all (crsons concerned. rulmlnllnn r Cluradn. Uknvis:, Col., July2l. The two census supervisors of Colorado have so far completed their work as to be alilu to anuounco that thu imputation of the Slate will be very close to Iiki.ocKI. The three largest cities in thu State outsidu of Deliver are as follows: Pueblo, 27,155; Lcndvillc, lb,r5; Coloroilo Springs, 11,211). Pueblo lays claim to the honor of being the only city In America which has doubled its population in two years, the returns iu ISsS giving that city 13,500. Tile t'olorniln Wntiou(. Denvek, July 21. The washout on the Colorado Central is the most disastrous that has occurred since tho rood was built Tlie loss Is approximated ap-proximated at$250,000. Thu amount of track washed out covers altogether alto-gether a distance of twenty miles, live miles from the forks of thu creek to Smith hill, and fifteen miles from Golden to Floy Hill. The iron bridge at tiio forks of the creeks looks like a bundle of wire, it has been so tangled up. It is impossible for railroad men to estimate the damage done to the road, but they admit that it must bu very large, as the road up through there is a very costly piece of railroad construction. Two work trains and one bundled men have been working on the road sllieu Tltcadav nnnti- nml If fifillilt,, I since iiicsuny noon, aim II uotliliig further happens It is promised that trains will be able to gel to tlie forks of the creek some time before noon today. Jtr. Claitstone-. IxNl'N, July 21. Through, (he phonograph to-day -Mr. Gladstone listened to remarks from General Sherman and others, given ot a recent meeting In New York. Mr. Gladstone was deeply interested. Hu said he is so accustomed to receiving notes of kindness from America tint lib vocabulary of gratitude ha- len exhnu-ted. If anything could lead him to question thu soundness of American judgment ami make him believe Americans liable to lie misled mis-led from a right understanding of human nature, it would be the exceeding ex-ceeding warmth with which they ure always pleased to frame their views of his character. It W the Mirer Kill. London, July 21. Chaplin, minister of agriculture, delivered an address at Lincoln Agricultural Hall. He said the recent rise I u thu prices of agricultural products were duo to the advance In the price o silver consequent on the passage of the silver bill by tho United States I Congress. |
