New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-29

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and was admitted to the bar. His talent
and energy soon gained him good prac-
tice, and turning his attention to politics,
he was thrice elected to the Legislature, in
1882 80 "a,
During his last term he was Speaker of
the House, and made very excellent i'm
preston as presiding officer by his kno vi
edge OF parliamentary rules and his firm
ness and impartiality. In 1886 he was q
presidentia! elector. and for six years he sat
IN the district court as presiding Judge In
l915 he was elected to Congress, and served
till 1851: He was elected Judge of the Su-
preme Court of Pennsylvania for fifteen
years in 1857. He was the Democratic can
didate for reelection in October, 1872, but
was defeated. During the latter part of
his term he was Chief Justice.
Dead.
SAN FRANCISCO, January S.-John Foley .
manager of the Atlantic and Pacific Tele.
graph Company in this city, died last night.
Action Of the Boston School Committee.
Boston, January 28-The Boston school
committee last evening refused to grant
seats to the ladies elected to the board, de-
claring them legally disqualified. The vote
stood 46 to &c.
Whisky Raids.
The State police to-day made raid on
eighteen liquor stores in Cambridge.
Drowned.
Two young men broke through the ice
near Harlem to-day and were drowned.
The Bnai Birth.
CHICAGO, January 2S-At the morning
session OF the Bnai Birth convention three
new committees were appOinted-One on q
home for the helpless, one Oh university
and union, one on Roumania. At the even
ing session the endowment report was pre-.
sented.
The Bnai Birth convention debated the
report upon endowments until midnight,
when the following was adopted:
1t is a cardinal principle of our order to
provide protection and relief for our widows
and orphans, in the event of adversity, yet
your committee is of the opinion that, in
the present state of affairs, it is inexpedient
and premature to legislate any general laws
for an endowment plan in our order.
In the Bnai Birth convention this evening
the majority report of the committee on
territories was adopted. 1t makes several
changes, including the removal of New
Jersey from first to third district, Southern
States from third to fifth, and Michigan
from second to seventh district.
The committee ON asylums reported ads
versely to making the Cleaveland Asylum
general institution, and the report was
adopted.
resolution was passed thanking Rev.
DR.. Santield, of Memphis, for his aid during
the pestilence in that city.
Mr.. Sangers report on the centennial and
literature; favored the establishment of an
official organ and the publication of his
tory of the order and of American Judaism,
to be ready for the Philadelphia Exposition.
Much debate occurred on the question of
establishing an organ and the speeches
were spirited and caustic. The report was
almost unanimously adopted.
Trichina.
CINCINNATI, January 29.-Mrs. Kramer
and three children, and Mrs. Benter and
two children are dangerously ill at Aurora,
Indiana, from eating pork in which there
was trichiua. 1t is believed they can not
recover.
President of the Constitutional COnven-
ton.
The constitutional convention, to-day,
elected the Hon. Rufus King president.
Dead.
Mrs. G. w. Tapscott, grand daughter of
General Arthur st. Clair, of revolutionary
fame, and last of the st. Clair family, died
at Hamilton, Butler county, to-day, aged
sixty years.
A Protest.
The Joint committees of the Chamber of
Commerce and Board of Trade and COM
mon council, sent a telegram to Washing
ton, tonight, protesting against stopping
work on government buildings.
General =. B. Mnxey Elected Senator from
Texas.
GALVESTON, January 2S.-A Ne,cs special
from Austin states that in the caucus last
night the friends of Mr.. Reagan agreed to
support General Maxey, Reagan withdraw
ing in his favor.
In the joint session to-day the first ballot
was: Maxey SO, ThrockmortOn 40, Randall
13, Reagan ], Dan McGary l. General s.
B. Maxey getting more than one-half, was
declared duly elected United States Senator.
The Worcester.
HAVANA. January 27.-The United States
steamer Worcester has gone to Matanzas.
The Fire Extinxuished.
The firemen succeeded in extinguishing
the fire last evening in SenOr Zuletta's ships
yard, at Cassabianca, without damage to
the village or shipping. The loss to Zuletta
is considerable.
Steamship from New Orleans in Distress.
The Swedish steamship Odin, loaded with
cotton, from New Orleans for Bremen, put
in here with loss of propeller and shaft
brokens
CarIist Operations.
BAYONNE, January 2S--The report that
the Carlists had taken Datandre is denied.
1t is now reported through Carlist sources
that that corporation is negotiating to raise
100000 piastres, which the royalisus de-
mand as their price for abstaining from the
bOmbardment of the city.
The Miners to Resume Work.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, January 2S-At a
meeting of delegates from various districts
in this mining district to-day, resolution
was adopted that miners in all districts
having basis of 1873 offered them shall re-
sumo work.
Railway Track Damaged.
WINDSOR, Ont, January 28.-The track
of the Great Western railway is badly
damaged by the treshet. 1t will be re-
paired by tonight, and trains will pass
through tomorrow.
Post M0rtem of the Sfamese Twins.
Tomorrow morning DR.. Pancoast and
several other leading physicians will leave
this city for Mount Airy, North Carolina,
to make an examination of the remains of
the Siamese Twins.
Bloody Fight in n Theatre.
A fight occurred this evening at Foxes
Theatre, after the performance, between
William Clair, scene shifter, and John Ben
son, stage manager, resulting in general
row, during which Clair was fatally stabbed
in the abdomen.
Collision.
NORFOLK, January 28.-The ferryboat
Elizabeth and the tugboat Woodward, col
!ided, to-day. Captain Smith, of the tug,
was lost overheard and drowned.
No constitutional Convention In Georgia.
ATLANTA, January 28.-The Legisla ture
oday, by vote Of 1913 to 65, indefi nitel v
postponed the proposition to hold Constis
tutiOnal Convention.
Family Feud in Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE. January 28-At Liberty,
Casey county, Kentucky, to-day, street
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