New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-16
Local Intelligence.

ONE MORE BLOODY DEED. Early Sunday
morning the dWellers in what IL knOWns Ae
Morgans building. on Decatur, between ST.
Peter and Jefferson streets, we're astOunded
on seeing the body Of man lying in. the
court yard. near 2, cistsrns HE .head mutt
bottle. The body vas not quite cold when
discovered. His name lWss Etionne Cam
bl0ng, and he had room in the building,
on the second floor. Deceased Was seen 90
the street Saturday night about nine O'clock.
and was seen when he entered the house,
apparently intending to retire to his room,
and nothing more was heard Of him until
stated A person who knew him asserts
that he cav Camblong Saturday eyening
on the street, two men following il eeone-
what suspicious manner. -
This is all that lie known thus far but
when CorODer Grayer takes no the case to-
morrow more facts msy BE- elicitedg Llw
There ie theory that 1t was NO murder.
but that deceased met his death accident
ally. Possibly he fell over the low railing
of the second floor gallery, and his head
came in contact with the bottle. A piece Of
glass was imbedded in the skull. Deceased
was a barkeeper, and formerly kept s.
loon at the corner Of Chartres and Madison
streets, and afterward had . house at the
corner of Jefferson and Peters streets., He
lately been out Of employment. He usually
carried a good gold watch and chain, but
when his body was found the watch was
gone, but 1he chain remained. Andrew
Hines and A. &. Bronner, barkeepers, were
arrested on the superstition that they had
FIJI or uiM the HOrns-DurinR Tho time
that Nos. ands2 were intervieW1n9 each
other on the great squirt question; No.
had little or nothing to say, but itiseems
she was neither sleeping nor dead. The
members had great faith in their new. mar
chine, and would occasionally modestly re-
mark that they would soon settle the
engine would beat both the other machines
on long tbrowgo.ga Hoa
Last Sunday the steamer was placed in
position at the corner of Magazine and
Gravier streets, her hackers confident that
they would win. Proper preliminaries were
arranged, and when all was ready the ex-
pectant crowd was. silent. Water was
forced through 100 feet of hose in the short
space of three minutes and ten seconds
Away went the stream, and it appeared as
if the loose end was lost somewhere near
the lake shore. The committees report, as
follows, is said to be correct: t-l-7
New ORLEANS, September IA, 1873.
We. the undersigned, selected as judges
of the trial of Eagle Steam Fire Engine No.
7, of New Orleans, of the r. J. Gould make,
certify to the following as the result Of said
trial:
Minutes. Seconds.
Forced water through 100 feet hose. 3 10
Threw through 100 feet hose, n inch
nozzle, 3l4 feet inches.
And we consider her entitled to the cham
pionship of the Uaited States through 100
feet hose and | v inch nozzle.
The engine at the time OF throw had the
rim of pump head broken.
j. LIPMAN, Perseverance No. 10. ara
M. w. CLONEY. Philadelphia No. IA.
S. +. PARMELEE, Protector No.
first named being Gould machine, the Sec
ond an Amoskeag and the third q Jeffrey.
While the machine was working the
Judges stood near the end where the water
fell, and could readily mark the farthest
point where dead" water fell. They are
cXperienced fremen, and of excellent repu-
ton. The first measure taken was believed
TO be 81 feet, which Messrs. Lipman and
Parmelee thought about right, but Mr. |
Cloney differed, and was unwilling to allow
that much. He wished to take Oil eight feet,
considering 322 feet more than was earned.
For the time there was prospect that no
conclusion would be arrived at. While |
the controversy was going on Mr.. kalinski,
foreman of No. Z. announced that he was |
willing to accept 3l4 feet inches, as that
would give his company the championship. |
A compromise was perfected, and the report |
is made as above. The measure was made |
from the nozzle, and not from the ground
beneath, which amounts to matter Of |
seven inches or so. rrs
1t is believed that the rim of the pump |
head being broken. destroyed q portion Of |
the force, and such being the case, there
will be another trial. Az il is, No. claims |
the championship of the United States, and
will now assume the honOrs 80 well worn |
by Mississippi No. for nearly five years.
Committees from each company met last
evening. to confer on the subject of trans
ferring the horns. No. is fully satisfied
that she has lost the right to wear them,
and will not hesitate to do the agreeable ut
the proper time. El'sfrs
Mr.. +. Flood, agent here for the Gould
engines, is greatly delighted over his pet, az
well he may be. .1af