Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-11
NEWS ITEMS.

The Brooklyn common council pro-
poses prompt relief for the suffering
poor OF that city by raising loan Of
500, 900, and resuming all public work
on the streets.
Five more jurors were obtained yes
terday at the Tweed trial.
Rudolph Sammis and his brother
Royal, who were arrested for being i'm
plicated in the Kelsey outrage, were
yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of
$40, 900 each.
The overdue steamship City Of Rich
mond was spoken on the 4th instant in
latitude forty north and longitude thirty
west, with her engines disabled. All
well on board.
Fifteen locomotives, six extra tenders,
and two snow ploughs, were destroyed
yesterday at the burning of the round
house of the Albany and Boston rail
road, Springfield, Mass.
An oil refinery and seventy-fve rail-
road cars were burned yesterday at Par
kersburg, W. Va.
Yesterday was the first anniversary of
the Boston fire. An examination
showed that three hundred and sixty
five new buildings had been begun in
the burnt district, of which one hun
dred and fifteen are completed.
Fourteen Tonic Apaches were killed
by scouts in Arizona
Eight prominent participants in the
recent shooting atfray in Lonake coun-
ty, Ark, have been arrested and are
now in Jail.
Lucette Myers now contradicts all her
former testimony in relation to the
Goodrich case, and says she knows moth
ing about Roscoe or Beach, and that
General Jourdan is ga fussy old fool. p"
The execution of the four Cubans cap
tured on the Virginius was condemned
in Washington official circles as brutal.
The Secretary OF State thinks the Caste
lar Government will be ready to make
due PREPARATION but as the government
has not yet received official notification
of the massacre, no premature action
will be taken.
| Private advices from Havana say the
Cuban insurgents have again been de-
feated, with loss of twenty killed and
eighty taken prisoners The Spanish
commandant caused all the prisoners to
be shot on the field of battle.
The round-house OF the Boston and
Albany railroad at Sprin yfield, Mass.
was burned. Loss $3.50, 900.
The settlers in the Island of Anticosti
are represented to be in starving con-
dition, and steamer has been despatch
ed with large supplies of provisions for
their relief by the Dominion govern
ment.
The United States inspectors to in
quire into the causes of steam boiler ex-
plosions will meet at Pittsburg, Pa, on
the 18th instant. Experiments will be
made the following day upon three new
boilers, two of iron and one Of steel,
constructed especially for this test.
The Sheriff OF Pensacola, Fla, writes
to the Quebec papers that all the steve.
dores coming from Quebec will be pro
tected. Ever train takes large num-
bers of them, also many laborers.
/ MI. MeFrIch lne pOSl~OlnCG clerk wiz
was arrested with Patten, another clerk,
for tampering with letters in the San
Francisco post Office, has been dis.
charged, he having shown conclusively
that the letters opened by him were tc
his own address. Patten will probably
waive an examination as he has partially
confessed his guilt.
Reports from the interior of Dutchess
county, n. Y, are of a hopeful charac
ter, so far as the labor panic is concern
ed. All the factories at Matteawan are
running, also the Titus woollen factory
at Manchester, Bradbury's paper. mill
and Garner and Co. s. factory Mt Pleas
ant Valley,
Although the three men suspected OF
causing the incendiary fires at Canastota,
n. Y, have been in custody since Sat,
urday another incendiary fire occurred
on Sunday night. A dwelling and barn
were burned. Intense excitement still
continues among the people of Canas-
| tota.
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