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The sample-trunk of jewelry stolen from the Palmer House, Chicago, has been recovered, and one of the thieves is in custody. At Roseburg, Oregon, recently, William Daly quarreled with his wife's brother, J Woodward, over family matters, when Woodward stabbed Daly twice and Daly shot Woodward, both falling dead. Josiah P. Colcord, a well known St. Louis lawyer, on the 17th shot and killed his mistress, Lillie G. Gibbons, and then killed himself. Colcord was a talented, but dissipated, man, about 35 years of age. Some five years ago he became separated from his wife and soon after formed a connection with the woman whom he murdered. She had led a somewhat adventurous life, and it is said that Colcord was intensely jealous of the supposed attention paid her by other men, which was doubtless the cause of the tragedy. Charles W. Angell, of Chicago, Secretary of the Pullman Palace Car Company, has abseconded with about $120,000 in cash and convertible securities, and is now supposed to be luxuriating in Europe. Judge Albert S. Marks, of Franklin County, is the Democratic candidate for Governor of Tennessee. The platform adopted by the State Convention favors the unconditional repeal of the Resumption act. Charles F. Hane, Cashier of the Canton (0.) Exchange Bank, committed suicide by poison on the 19th. He was 30 years of age and had become despondent on account of ill health. The First National Bank of Quincy, Ill., closed its doors on the 19th. The Quiney Savings Bank, a collateral institution, also shares in the default. The depositors of both institutions are assured that all their claims will be paid in full. The insolvency of the large tobacco-house of Harris, Beebe & Co., is the cause assigned forthe Bank's suspension. John Tynans and Wm. Dorin, laborers in a stone-quarry near Pacific Junction, 20 miles south of Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the 18th were found dead alongside the road to their home, literally riddled with shot. A fellow-workman named McCreery is under arrest, charged with the murder, robbery being the incentive. Dorin was known to have $100 in his posession on the previous day. Four young Swedes, named John Pierson, Swan Johnson, Andrew Bloom and Frank Westbury, were drowned by the capsizing of their boat near Davenport, Iowa, on the 18th. Three of their companions reached the shore. Capt. W. H. Coates, a well known resident of Saugatuck, Mich., on the night of the 18th shot his wife fatally and then killed himself. No cause known.
