The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-06-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Ibe New York revenue officers are daily
seizing thousands Of dollars worth Of silks,
plushes, grapes and other goods belonging to
houses which have been in the habit of in
voicing their goods too low. Deputy Collector
Kirk and several minor officers resigned on the
unearthing Of the enormous silk frauds and
have since disappeared. BY fire at Port
land, small village near st. Johns, n. B.,
st. Luke's church, sixty-eight houses and
shops, a large number of outbuildings and
a ship on stocks were destroyed, rendering
one hundred and forty families homeless.
Loss, $3.50, 600. e. The house of J. II. Cowman,
242 North Eutaw street, Baltimore, was robbed
Of tin box containing bonds, bank stock cer-
tiicates, etc., Of the value of 1000, belong
ing to Mr.. Conmans mother-in-law. The
Concord On. H. Monitor, the Republican Or
gan Of the State, calls for the impeachment of
Gov. Weston. -. The house of John Cox,
railroad fiagman near Garrisons, Putnam Co.,
N. Y, was broken into by five men, who bound
and gagged Cox and then robbed him of 81 200
gold and silver, the savings of thirty years. -.
Advices from Constantinople give brief details
of terrible earthquake III the province of
Brouesa, Asia Minor, by which six hundred
houses were destroyed, one hundred and sixty
one lives lost, and one hundred and eighty
seven persons injured. 80. The latest returns
from the Holyoke disaster place the number
Of victims at one hundred and twenty, of
whom seventy-one were killed, twenty-five
fatally burned, and Twenty-Five otherwise
burned or injured. 80. The Governor Of West
phalia has summoned the bishop of MunsteL
to resign his see. 80. Information from Fort
r hoo ~,
Gordon Black Hills outfit by Col. Anson Mills
command. The entire outfit was destroyed
and the men held as prisoners.
Stephen Grant having sued the Portland
Press for $4,000 for calling him the biggest
liar in Maine, tho jury gave their verdict for
the defendant. The Secretary Of the United
States Treasury has instructed the assistant
sell half million dollars in gold on each
Thursday during the month of June. The
total amount to be sold is 90, 600, 900. . The
referee in therecent scull race between Plasted
and Regan for the championship Of New Eng
land has ordered the race to be rowed over on
account OF the interference with Plaisted by
outsiders. All bets are declared of
Further details of the earthquakes in Asia
Minor show that several villages were de-
stroyed and two thousand persons lost their
lives. james Kelly, aged ten years, while
running down q railroad embankment in
Providence, II. l., struck his head against a
passing train, fatally fracturing his skull. At
about the same time, Howard King Morrow,
aged Ave years, sprang from the step of a
horse car and his head struck the step Of a
passing car, fracturing his skull . "A judicial
investigation shows that the offer of Friesinger
to assaesinate Bismarck was merely part of an
attempt to extort money, and that the man had
no accomplices. .... Adam Sting and his wife,
an aged couple. were burned to death in their
house in East Hamburg, N. Y. IL. A. Chase
and Daniel Millard, aged twenty-one years
each, were drowned in the Connecticut river,
at Northampton, Mass 80. The second trial
OF William Cunningham, of Newark, n J., on
charge Of conspiracy to murder his wife re-
suited in verdict of guilty. The facts, as
shown by the testimony, are that Cunningham
hired one Norwood, desperado, to assassinate
Mrs. Cunningham.
dispatch from Ottawa, Canada, states that
destructive fires were raging in the Mattawa
and Temscamng country, Upper Ottawa No
rain had fallen within the past two weeks
Houses, barns, and fences were being con-
sumed, and the fire was encroaching, upon
valuable timber limits. .. The greater portion
OF the business houses in Ripley, Tenn, were
destroyed by fire. An old shed on which one
hundred men and boys were seated watching a
game of base ball at Columbus, O., fell with
its living freight, seriously injuring eight and
bruising many Of the others Three brothers
named Hood, Elisha, and Thomas Cravens,
living near Liberty, No., quarreled about a
division of land. Thomas struck Elisha with
a hoe, when tho latter shot him through the
heart, killing him, and also shot and wounded
Hood, perhaps fatally. The trustees of the
University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia,
have received a formal notification that the
late John Henry Towne has devised them the
residue Of his estate, amounting to million
dollars.
The Republicans Of Ohio held their State
Convention at Columbus and nominated II. G.
Hayes, Of Sandusky, for Governor, and Thomas
l.. Young for Lieutenant Governor The
platform adopted favors tariff for revenue;
declares that the States are one as a nation and
all citizens are equal under the laws; is in favor
Of free education that there should be no
connection between church and State, and
opposes all legislation in the interest of one
particular sect. or the third term, it says i:
The observance OF Washington's example, in
retiring at tho close of n second Presidential
term, will be in tho future, as it has been
in the past regarded as fundamental rule in
the unwritten law Of the republic. .. Lands, |
who shot Carruth of the Viuelapd Jndepen,Ient |
has been admitted to bail in the sum Of S5O,-
900, Carruth having recovered from his
wounds 80 as to be beyond danger Fifty |