The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-09-08
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


Itcms of Interest from Homo md Abro,d
Superintendent Chapman, of the New York
State insurance department. has debarred the
Kansas Insurance Company of Leavenworth
from doing business in New York State, on ao-
count Ct their loose manner Of business. The
company had some twenty-five agencies in the
State. 49, The committee appointed to examine
the tres ssury accounts have reported that thew
counted and weighed every coin, and counted
all the paper money-the result Of which ia
that they. find deficit Of $47,s1S. Al, including
the $47, 600 stolen . few months ago. The
fishing on the north side of Prince Edwards
Island is prosperous, the mackerel being
plenty. The latest advices from Labrador saw
that fsh Arc very scarce. :. The report of the
Hamilton CCanada) board OF trade urges a cur.
tailment Of manufactures, decrease of i'm
portations, and the cessation Of long credits
rs the means Of bringing about sound fnan
oial condition. 80. VIM. II. Aderdice general
assignee of the bankruptcy court of Richmond
Va, has decamped, leaving deficit in his &C.
counts OF $15, 900. 49,. John d. Holden, agent
of the Oneida IN. Y.) Community in Boston.
has been held in $10, 900 bail to answer the
charge OF embezzling $4,000 belonging to the
Community. -. The London branch of tho
banking house of Dre1el, Morgan Company
will cash Duncsn, Sherman Il 90. g letters OF
credit, Mr.. Duncan's father being their &C.
curity. .... New York revenue officers have
been very successful recently in catching
smugglers OF cigars. The smugglers were in
the habit Of putting the cigars in rubber bags
and throwing them overheard as the steamers
were entering New York harbor, confederates
in small boats picking the bags up. The ofi-
GERS took tug, and after tho cigars were
thrown over, they captured the confederates
with their booty. -. Cardinal McCloskey has
gone to Rome to receive his hat and ring from
the Pope. He took S2o,O 900 gold to the Pope
rs present from New York Catholics.
Two boys ware killed and eighteen wounded
by an explosion in the Bridesburg arsenal, at
Philadelphia The exa,t cause of the disaster
is unknown. The jury in the Mountain
Meadow massacre CAGE have disagreed and
were discharged -. BENZ. II. HaIleck. a
clerk in the Treasury department., has been
arrested on charge of stealing $4,000 over
which 30 much excitement was created a few
months ago. Mr.. Ottman, proprietor of a
restaurant on Pennsylvania avenue, Washing
ton, together with a man named Brown. were
arrested as accomplices. =. Two escaped CON-
viots were killed and third fatally shot by
ranchmen near Denver, Col. " Dispatches
from central Asia report that o revolution has
broken out in Khokand, in Independent Tur-
kistan. The Khan has fed and his forces
have joined the insurgents. . The cholera
is raging in Damascus-four hundred cases
having been reported daily 80. There was
considerable noting in Glasgow, Scotland, on
the day Of the O'Connell celebration, between
Orangemen and Home Rulers. Five police
men were injured and fifty arrests made. :.
heavy earthquake shock was felt at Hollis
ter, San Benito county, Gal. No damage was
reported. ..... report from Ripon, Upper
Gatineau, Canada, states that three children
SONS Of settler there, were killed and de-
voured by bears while in the woods near their
house few days ago. Henry Coulter and
Evan Morris will row five-mile single scull
race near Pittsburgh, Pa, for $500 side and
the championship OF the United States.
The gale Of last week was very severe on the
lakes. The bark Austin and the schooner
Ataunto went ashore full of water near Mani
sou, Lake Michigan. The tug Vulcan lost
raft OF 2,000 600 feet Of pine lumber on Lake
Erie.... Ottawa (Canads) dispatches state
that the late frequent rains have greatly in
jured the crops in that section ...... Ex-
Treasurer Parker, who escaped from Jail at
| Columbia, 8. O., has been recaptured.
Through the error Of Q phyaician, who left
morphine in place of foaming draueht Mrs.
Jane Yeaton, of Gardiner, Me-, an aged lady.
was fatally poisoned, and nurse who tasted
the draugnt was with difficulty saved from
death. 80. Ira Wood, Of Harvard, N. Y, had
cut heavy tree which was about to fall, when
he perceived his old father standing where he
would be struck in the descent. He rushed to
the old gentleman, pushed him aside and was
himself crushed to death Five colored
convicts, whose sentences aggregated seventy
four years, escaped from the Richmond peni-
tentiary by cutting the bars Of window and
lowering themselves with . rope made OF
blankets. The trial Of the bankrupt mer-
chants Collie Brothers, Of London, was brought
to sudden close few days ago by the dis
covery that Mr.. Alexander Coolie had alb
seconded. The lawyers for the defense an
nounced their withdrawal from the case
About Oh, 900 Of the $47,0 recently stolen
from the treasury department at Washington
has been recovered. and Mr.. Ottman, the
suspected thief, has been held for trial in
$1O0,O bail.
Tho wheat crop Of Wisconsin is heavier than
usual and while rye and oats are abunSnat
corn Is suffering from drought go. :. The War
| department has made o new military post at
the Black Hills and one company of infantry
and two OF cavalry viii occupy it. Fifteen
hundred miners are In the bulls, but were pre-