Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-04-09
SUMMARY OF NEWS,

The death Of Charles Sumner was announced
in the New York Assembly by Speaker Hustled,
and in the Senate by Mr.. Robertson. Speeches
eulogstic were delivered by Messrs. Beebe
and Col. Spencer. IA deficit of at least
s5s, 900 has been found in the accounts Of
Adolph Hammers, late Tax Receiver Of Louis
vile, Ky., who died very suddenly and under
suspicious circumstances In Peoria, ILL.,,
Thomas Fitzgerald. drunken wife-beater,
literally pounded his wife to death in fit of
drunken fury ..... Nine prisoners escaped
from the penitentiary at Laramie City, Wyo-
ming, by overpowering the guard. 1.-The
latest dispatches from the Ashantee Expedition
state that the British loss in the, war was 16
killed and 36S wounded. ..... Both branches of
the Massachusetts, Legislature adjourned on
receiving the announcement Of Senator Sum-
ner's death. The flags on the State House
and city buildings were displayed at half-mast.
The Rhode Island Republican State Conven-
ton nominated Henry Howard for Governor,
Charles C. Van Zandt Lieutenant-G Governor,
Joshua NJ. Addeman for Secretary OF State,
Willard Sayles for Attorney and
Samuel Clark for General Treasurer-all by
acclamation. The Executive Committee OF
the Centennial Commission met in Philadelphia,
and after conference with the Board Of
Finance resolved to continue the vigorous
prosecution of the preparations for the celebra-
ton in 1876, and that all the steps thus far
taken forbid the abandonment Of the interna-
al ~ Tho axhihtion Marshal
Serrano has assumed supreme command Of the
forces operating against the Carlists in the
north Of Spain. e. Fhe caulkers and ship
carpenters in Buffalo struck for an increase of
pay, or the wages received previous to the
panic. .. The California Assembly passed
bill making it misdemeanor to invite any
person to drink, or to accept an invitation to
drink liquor at any public bar. .... The Ohio
Constitutional Convention refused, 4S to 80, to
submit to separate vote the section allowing
woman suffrage. Fifty-three votes were re-
quired to secure such submission to separate
vote. ... AT the annual meeting of tho Union
Pacific Railroad Company in Boston, Oliver
Ames was chosen President and E. II. Rollins
Secretary. The report to the stockholders for
the year ending Dec. 81, 1878, gives the gross
earnings at go 266, 103.G6, and tie operating
expenses at "a, 974, ,s61,02.
Ten alarms of fro occurred during one night
in Boston, keeping the firemen almost con-
stantly on the move, and owing to the fierce
northwesterly wind and extreme cold, causing
unusual excitement aud anxiety. Two of the fires
only were serious. 49,. Dispatches from North
western Iowa, report continued suffering
among the settlers OIL homsteads in 0sceola,
Lyon, and others counties in the extreme
northwestern portion of the State, caused by
the failure Of the crops. .... The returns from
New Hampshire show that Weston will lack
about $50 votes of an election by the people
......A man giving the name of Ezra Y.
Cooke is under arrest at Providence, r. l., un-
der charge of extensive swindlng of the hay
and grain merchants of New York, Michigan,
Vermont, and elsewhere. Having leased an
old building in Woonsucket he put out the
sign Burrill & Cooke" and to this bogus
firm consignments of hay and flour have been
arriving from several remote places. The
officers found in the store only an old table
and chair. -Four car loads Of flour from var!oas
points have been intercepted.