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Bank Cashier Arrested
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 29 -F. M Severans, cashier of the defunct Farmers' bank, of Fayetteville, has been arrested on complaint of Receiver Andrews, charging him with embezzling $50,000 of the bank funds.
Cardinal Gibbons is the guest of Bishop Ireland, at St. Paul. John Swinton declines the Socialists' nomination for Secretary of State of New York, on the ground of ill-health and the necessity of mending his shattered fortunes. F. M. Severance, cashier of the defunct Farmers' Back of Fayetteville, N. Y., has been arrested on complaint of Receiver Andrews, charged with embezzling $50,000 of the bank's funds. The last spike was yesterday driven in the Denver connection of the Sante Fe road, giving that road an independent line from Pueblo to Denver in connection with its transcontinental system. George Baxter, discharged from prison at Thomastown, Me., where he had served three years for pocket-picking, was arrested at once to be taken to Michigan to answer to a charge of murder. News via Little Rock announces a fatal shooting affray near Oklahoma, between two cowboys named Adam Russell and John Clark. They quarreled about some trifling matter, drew their revolvers and kept up the fusillade until both were fatally wounded. By the falling of a derrick at the brewery of W. J. Lemp. at the corner of Cherokee and Thirteenth streets, St. Louis, yesterday, Daniel Ohmers was killed, Ferdinand Neuman fatally wounded. and four other workmen seriously injured. The men fell sixty-five feet.
(By telegraph to the Dispatch.] SYRACUSE, N. Y., September 29.-F. M. Severand, cashier of the defunct Farmers Bank of Fayetteville, has been arrested on complaint of Receiver Andrews and Expert-Accountant Myers, charging him with embezzling $50,000 of the bank's funds.
ALBANY, September 29.-Jndge Ruger, of the Court of Appeals, to-night signed the order granting a stay of proceedings until October 6th in the matter of carrying out the senteuce of imprisonment against Jacob Sharp. Won't Join the Colony. SYRACUSE, N. Y., September 29.-F. M. Severance cashier of the defunct Farmers' Bank of Fayetteville, has been arrested on complaint of Receiver Andrews charging him with embezzling $50,000 of the bank's funds. -
AFTER being out three hours, a Milwan- J. jury, on the 29th. convicted G. 8.90 Hoelzel of poisoning his uncle, Fred Letz. The evidence was circumstantial. The man tried to divert suspicion to his aunt, young as Letz and his wife frequently quarreled. Hoelzel fled, but was captured in Iowa. F. 31. SEVERANCE, chashier of the defunct has Farmers' Bank of Fayetteville, N.Y., been arrested on complaint of Receiver Andrews, charging him with embezzling $50,000 of the bank's funds. WILLIAM T. GRIMSHAW, a prominent of harness manufacturer, was at his place the business in Amsterdam, N, Y., on 29th, at the usual hour, but, on complainint of boing ill, he returned home Mrsa Grimshaw, his sother, who Tred with him, was called from the house, and on her return found her son in a bedroom with his throat cut from ear to ear. His hand clasped a blood-stained razor. THIEVES got into the National Bank at Washington, Ind., in daylight on the 30th, doland got away with several hundred lars. THE steamer T. B. Sims ( old D. R. Powwas burned at Island 40, just above beell), Memphis, Tenn., on the 30th, one life ing lost. A LONE highwayman held up the pason two stage coaches on the route the sengers from San Angelo to Ballinger, Tex., on 29th, obtaining from them about $2,500. MUNCHRATH, convicted of complicity in the murder of Dr. Haddock, at Sioux City, Ia., was sentenced on the 30th to four years in the penitentiary. The case has been appealed. THE Farmers' Bank at Newcastle, Del., was entered at an early hour on the morning of the 30th by masked robbers. Their movements awoke the cashier, who seized his and fired, wounding one of the His companions up the intruders. pistol carried picked him out fallen man and quickly the front door, making their escape. MRS. F. KINSCH eloped from Pittsburg, several days ago with Owen DobKas., bins, a stonemason. She is thirty-eight chilyears of age and the mother of six her dren. Dobbins has been boarding at house. Mr. Kinsch located the runaway couple in Kansas City on the 30th, and caused their arrest. They were put in the county jail. THE Tombstone coach, belonging to the Joe" (Joe Sheely of Texas) while parading at a combination, "Mexican Liverpool, `galloping pace through the streets of the England, on the 80th, capsized and members of the band were scattered upon the stone payments in all directions. had Four were so badly injured that they into be taken to the hospital. The band struments were all smashed. SAMUEL JOHNSON, treasurer of the Hamilton (Ont.) Powder Company, was arrested at Ogdensburg, N. Y., on the 1st, to whither he fled after having defaulted the extent of $25,000, which helost through injudicious speculation. c THREE men and two boys were suffo- with eated, and thirteen others overcome e gas in the Bost Colliery at Ashland, Pa., on the 1st. t 1 By the burning of the "English Kitch- of at Detroit, Mich., on the morning cinthe en," 1st, one person was burned to a der, one suffocated to death, and another is imso badly burned that his recovery possible. REV. HENRY CLEMENS, a Free Methodist Millerspreacher, committed suicide near muzzle burg, O., on the 1st by placing the of a shotgan in his mouth and shooting the top of his head off. THE Lupar Oil Works in Brooklyn were of damaged oy fire on the 2d to the extent $30,000. The Excelsior stores adjoining All also suffered a loss of about $10,000. insured. NEWS has been received of a serious accident on the A. O. O. road, near GladMich. A work-train, in backing the down, stone, struck a cow and derailad train. The conductor and brakeman in were killed and several others were jured. A FIRE at Mitchell, Dak., on the 1st, destroyed the Dutton & Mitchell harns Lee, and nineteen horses, including Bun the running horse. The loss is $30,000. Incendiarism is suspected. THREE unknown hunters deliberately man and a boy near Elizabett port, shot a on the 2d. The victims are Patrick lad Duono J.J., and Dennis Norton, the latter a berthirteen years. They were picking of when the men with their guns came ries, along, and taking deliberate aim, fired, inflicting probably fatal wounds. MISCELLANEOUS THE Dublin Union asserts that since
A gang of counterfeiters that has been operating extensively for some time past in the vicinity of Mitchell, Ind., was run down by federal marshals and taken to Indianapolis, Ind. At St. Joseph, Mo., John Hughes, 17 vears old, stabbed his father, Peter Hughes, to death. At Fayetteville, N. Y., F. M. Severance, cashier of the bursted Farmers' Bank, was arrested for embezzling $50,000 of its funds.