The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-09-22
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

As party OF men were at work ON the new
lunstic asylum at Dsnvers, Mass, . thunder
belt fell among them, killing one man and
injuring another. -. While . large New York
excursion party were at Iona Island, in the
Hudson river, one woman was crushed to
death between the boat and the wharf and two
men were drowned by falling into the river. :.
While boy named Joseph Stshl, from Al
toons, was riding up the mountain in q coal
car the trap gave way and he was thrown
to the track. His body was cut into hun
dred pieces. ... The family of Hon Thurlov
Weed was poisoned in New York by q servant
girl using oxalic acid to clean the kitchen
kettles with. Fortunately all recovered. -.
a man, his wife and three small children were
found dying from starvation In New York
tenement house,. Rear Admiral Collins Of
the United States navy is dead. Three
children named Lord, aged one, two and four
years, living in the parish of Cashmere, Canada,
were burned to death in their house, their
mother having locked them in for safety while
she was attending to some work outside.
The German Journalists have asked to be
allowed to publish truthful reports of public
proceedings Of law courts e. The national
council at Geneva has resolved to suppress con-
vents and Sisters Of Charity. . The United
States inspectors have been looking after the
overlooking Of passenger boats, and on . re-
cent Sunday fifteen hundred people were left
on Rocksway beach near New York. %. .Mrs.
Lincoln hiss become 30 much better as to leave
the asylum in which she was placed. -. In
the great race at Utica, N. Y, between Gold
smith Maid, Lulu and American Girl the
Maid won the heats, in 2.1s%, 217sf and 2. 16.
Budd Doble, the Maids driver, will advocate
her withdrawal from the track The Ameri-
can rifle team were enthusiastically received
the return from Europe. .. "A tramp, after
being refused nights lodgings In house in
Miiansport. Pa, occupied only by widow,
seoreted himself behind door, VIII, re he was
detected by the lady, who got revolver and
started toward him, when he slapped her, and
she shot him twice, killing him ..... The
Fdn5uHa of Rome says the late Emperor Fer
dinand of Austria bequeathed $4,000, 900 to
the Pope, which amount has already been paid.
The New Orleans Price Current estimates
the sugar crop for 1874 and 1875 at 116, ,s67
hogsheads, against SO, 49S last year The
total amount Of canal tolls collected ON the
New York State canals from the opening of
navigation to and including the second week in
August, 1876. has been $7O4, ,24732 For the
same length Of time last year it was 81, ,4ll,-
097.6Si showing decrease Of $706, $50. SO thus
far this year ...... There have been heavy
frosts in Illinois, Iowa. Minnesot. and Wis
consin and the crops have suffered severely,
aSDaCiallv
are to the effect that yellow fever has entirely
disappeared. .....A company has been formed
in Omaha to build narrow gauge railroad
to the Black Hills ...... Jonathan Edwards,
graduate Of Yale in 1919, great grandson Of
Jonathan Edwards, died in New Haven, Conn.
ut the age Of seventy seven. The London
Times, In an editorial article on the Eastern
troubles prophesies tho gradual and inevitable
disruption of the Ottoman empire. :. Arch
bishop Ledochowsh is to go to Rome at the
expiration of his term Of imprisonment to
receive the insignia Of the cardinalate.
A dispatch from Montgomery. Ala, says that
TWO men who were in Jail for rape in Pensa-
cola we're taken out ana lynched on Saturday
before daylight. The court Of inquiry in
the case Of the steamship Abbotsford lost at
sea have found the disaster due tc the masters
having misjudged the distance from Holyhea d.
bottle washed ashore Mt Port Huron
Mich, contained this message from the dead
aeronsut: Over Lake Michigan at eieht p. n
OF the evening Of starting, about thirty mile.
from Chicago and about three thousand fee
high. A gale is coming from the northeast
The balloon Is getting out Of order the "a,
escaping fast. Cant remain ND much longer
Will surely land in the lake. Fearful storm
Donaldson. The foot-and-mouth disease ha,
broken out with great virulence in Dorsetshire
England, where twelve Thousand animals ar,
down with 1t. This distemper Is spreadins
rapidly to other parts of England. :. Tht
United States war steamers Congress ant
Hartford are at TripoH to seek satisfaction TO,
the insults offered 20 the American consul :. :.
Commodore James G. Goodenough, command
ing the British squadron In Australian wsters
landed at Santa Cruz island with q boats CROW
to open intercourse with the natives, and wal
apparently succeeding when q shower O,
poisoned ARROWS fell upon them, killing Com
modore doodenough and wounding lieutenant
and seven men. The naval authorities sheIled
and burned the native village. =. The officer,
connected with Admiral Worden In the Euro
pean squadron Of the United States navy, have
been rendered bsnquets in nearly all the large
towns they visited. The single scull race
ss Saratoga lake for the championship Of the
stste and the diamond badge, was won BY
Q. Z. Courtney, Of the Union Springs boat
club. The course Of one and half miles and
return was made in 1s.ss1f, said to be the
fastest time on record.
Capt. Webb succeeded In swimming across
the English channel from Dover to. Calais
without any mechanical aid or apparatus. he
was twenty-one hours and forty minutes In the