| Show IQ I 1 r T ei L ej G it A P I 1 L AMERICAN CHICAGO ciacio 16 A decatur ills dispatch tells a remarkable story of W wholesale hoIe hole sale saie murder by a female last september AW A ddrake andrake WD Drake nake rake a farmer living near ills died under suspicious circumstances and mrs york his mother inlaw in law and housekeeper was suspected of having had something to do with his sudden dea death th but po no steps were taken to investigate the matter and mrs york went to live with a son in kansas where a few da days 8 since 1 i n ce she e was taken ill lii and t the ae p physician b ys an summoned to her at aid ald d to told id her she sho was poisoned and had but a few hours to live facing inevitable death she made a confession which exposed to the world a fiend incarnate she confessed to having poisoned her husband in 1865 mrs A W drake her own daughter the two children of A W drake the wife of E R drake formerly of is thi T city and last september A W drake she then went to her sons and a short time ago made a mixture of poison to administer to him on the first opportunity feeling unwell a day or two afterwards she went to the cupboard and by mistake took the fatal dose prepared for her own son which resulted in her own death washington IV ASHINGTON 16 attorney general williams has received an off omm official leial telegram from new orleans from governor kellog in which the latter contradicts tile me report of an interview with him an ana and 1 ays says my requisition calling on the prest president was fully justified i and the presidents Vs proclamation has had the tile most salutary efrece in all respects he says the taxes are being aid ald more rapidly than ever before taid eaid i louisiana after providing for the january and february interest we have over in state funds tonight to night in the tile hands of the fiscal agents we will pay tile tilo march april and june coupons early in july that injunctions tons on only ly res restrain the tiie payment of the tiie interest on five series of bonds out of twenty five there thero is money enough 0 to baythe pay the interest on all tile the bonds bonds ill in the hands of the fiscal agents washington 16 commander green lias has been ordered to the command of the vessel to be for the discovery and relief of the polaris with lt commander white whito as executive of nicer officer the secretary is making selection of a vessel suitable for arctic navigation efforts are being mado made to start the expedition early in july the mit jit t niata is taking out her guns and they are aro provisioning lier tier fora for a voyage of inquiry and she sho may leave for the tile north the latter part ot of this week the weather is anra unfavorable for the prevailing epidemic there were nineteen interments Inter ments today sixteen of whom died of cholera and cholera the city council have established a board of health NASHVILLE thirty thirty two deaths deatie from cholera have been reported since saturday most of tile the victims are colored NEW abric the trotting race at prospect park track today to day for horses which were wore never beaten was i as won b by jack drap draper er time 30 lida P won woi 1 the S second heat beat the boston letter of the springfield 9 re republican publican says there thele h hns has as been much anxiety the past week among the few who have known tile facts concerning the alarming illness of vice president wilson mison his attack was followed by partial deafness and partial blindness and the general character of his hl is symptoms was such as to ahr threaten eaten the loss lop of his power and activity if not his 1113 life lie li IS now improving I 1 but is by no means out of dan dam damer daner danger er he has been sojourning sojo in bos nos boston t on for some weeks under the care of dr E H clark and has seen very few of 1118 his friends his incessant labors in the last election followed by the strain and anxiety anxiety of last winter and accompanied by a good deal of work on his ills anti sla very history are ate regarded legar ded as the immediate occasion of his present illness the celebrated french arrived today to day from chicago to join in t the he grand international billiard tournament which be begins ns at irving hall on the tg the he game to be played is the three ball carom game several rich prizes are offered and all the billiard experts in the countley are expected to take part washington the commission to inquire into the tile outrages on the texas border arrived here this morn ing and had an interview with secretary fish during the day they deny cleny tile the reports that the texans make raids dds r into mexico and say there is nothing there to i induce them to plunder their erty stricken neighbors all the citizens care for is protection of their then person and property against incursions from the mexicans and indians after the co commissioners went up the rio bio grande to take the testimony of the mexicans on the lower part of the river the indians crossed and began their thieving operation 4 for which they were pursued and chastised by col mckenzie the texas legislature instituted an inquiry into mexie mexican anand and indian wrongs upon the citizens of that state when some of the most respectable residents of valley went to austin and gave stronger fer ier testimony than they had previously given before tile the commission ahe rhe commissioners depre 1 se sent nt the amount of damages direct and consequential to those who have suffered ly by these raids at between fifty and sixty millions of dollars five hundred j pe petitions tIt lons ions in tilo the way of complaints with specifications were presented to the commissioners and these were supported by 1600 affidavits many of the petitioners petition ers and makers of the affidavits are represented to have been men of fine education n and most respectable character it is supposed that there are not more than warriors of them altogether one of the tile old chiefs referring to the proposition of the tile united states to the ricka Kicka to go on a reservation said to a commissioner as follows wo we would have but a rt small patch of ground and could not make in raids ids on other reservations here wo we are supported by the mexican government which not only supplies us its with provisions but gives us money and i we want to go to texas the mexican merchants merch mereb ants and planters supply us with horses guns ammunition and provisions ro visions that we may make our bread read and aej we pay them from what we wo capture besides we have a good country and a fine climate and many privileges and the whole 13 texas border to raid on the tile commissioners ners think if the captives taken by col mel McK mckenzie Cenzie enzio should be restored to the tile Kicka they tiley would be no more inclined to return to the united states than they are arc now and hence they doubt the propriety of complying with their request the tile secretary of the interior will take no present action on the telegraphic request of the tiie Kicka the commission will refer the matter to the secretary of war with the suggestion that lie confer with the secretary of state on the subject CINCI cincinnati the tile past forty eight hours have developed cases here resembling cholera proving fatal th therm there ere is no excitement the tile citizens generally not apprehending the prevalence of the tile disease as an epidemic |
