The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-17
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items of Interest from Home and Abroad.


vote Of SO to 16, in the place of Alexander
hamsey The new Senator is fifty years Of
age. An express train on the Pittsburgh
Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad was thrown
from the track and two cars were burned
Several passengers were injured, and the
strakosch Opera Troupe lost all their baggage.
...... The United States House of Representa-
tives passed the Army appropriation bill, which
appropriates S27, 900, 000.. IA match factory
Mt Gottenburg, Sweden, took fire. and the
flames spread with such rapidity that fifty en-
pioyees were cut of from escape and perish ed
In the flames. The Paris workingmen's asso-
cations are discussing the question of sending
delegates to the Philadelphia Centennial exhi-
bition. 49,. The report of the United States
Ways and Means committee ON the Pacific Mail
investigation will charge William S. King with
perjury, and report that no money has been
proven to have been paid to Congressman.
kobema Griese, girl sixteen years of age. was
committed in Boston for raising q certificate of
stock Of the Michigan Central railroad from
one share to sixty, the original value of the
same being S6s, and the pretended value ST.
OS0. Upon this we'll executed certificate 90 COO
was obtained when the fraud WAS discovered.
LEO B. Kent committed suicide in Charles
ton, Mass, by cutting his throat go. Gen.
Alexis Nord, who was recently arrested on his
arrival in Hayti, from st. Thomas, has been
condemned to five years imprisonment.
The German government estimates the cost
of its new polar expedition at three hundred
Thousand dollars. The " cruelty to chill
dren bill" before tho New York Legislature
hos o1,abl. LIN
If there is not gold in tho Black Hills there are
miners. Thirty Of them have been prospecting
with success, and without interference from
the Indians, since October. . Tho bill re-
moving the capitol of West Virginia to Wheel
ing Ii now a law by limitation. In the
United States House of Representatives the
fifth section OF the Revenue bill, raising the
tariff ten per cent, was agreed to in committee
Of the whole. The indemnity to the United
States for the victims Of the Virginus massa-
ere has been placed at $S4 900 Jesse
81. Pomeroy, the notorious child murderer
has been sentenced in Boston to be hanged
The judge and the audience were much affected
during the proceeding. Pomeroy was returned
to Jail. An effort will be made to have the
sentence changed to imprisonment for life.
u ID,
has been taken by British men-of-war. Two
slave ships and three hundred slaves were
also captured. Three years ago the man
gled remains Of a man were found in the south
branch Of the Chicago river, and recently a
man was arrested for the crime, his father hav-
Ing informed the officers that his son did it
A man in Richmond Va, is training to walk
around the world in six hundred DAYS, feat he
wagers S25, 900 he can accomplish Gov. Til
den has signed the bill to provide for the more
eaectual punishment Of peculation, and other
wrongs affecting public moneys and ri i5hts of
| properly "A project is OH foot to have the
Legislature Of New York publish history of
! the State.
! The execution of Ernest Ortwein, the mur-
derer Of the Hamnett family, took place at
Pittsburgh. Pa. The crime for which Ortwein
suffered death WAS committed on the night of
April 20 last, near Homestead, q village on the
Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston railroad.
His victims were John Hamnett, well-to-do
farmer, his wife Agnes, two daughters named
Ida and Emma, and bound boy named Robert
Smith. IA conflict of authority has arisen
between the State constables and United States
marshals in Rhode Island over the seizure of
liquors. -. The United States Judiciary com
mittee reported unfavorably as to the obiga-
ton to continue the Pacific Mail subsidy, and
the Senate voted to retain the clause in tho
Appropriation bill which repeals it "A bill
was introduced in the New Jersey Legislature
for the appointment Of State commissioner
to take measures against the spread Of cattle
disease. The United States House defeated
the Tax and Tariff bill, and, on motion of Mr..
Dawes, passed q substitute taxing whisky to be
made hereafter ninety cents a gallon, increas-
ing tax on tobacco from twenty to twenty-four
cents pound, on cigars from IS to sc per
thousand, and on cigarettes from fifty to
seventy-fve per cent. The increase of twenty
five per cent. on the present duty on sugar and
molasses, and the restoration Of the ten per
cent..duty on woolens, steel, and iron, are re-
tanned as in the committees bill.
The lower branch of the Ohio Legislature
passed the bill providing for compulsory edu-
cation in that State. The Republican Con-
vention Of the First Congressional district of
Connecticut renominated General A. H. Hawley
for Congress. -. The Prohibitionists of Ohio
hayo renominated State ticket. George
M. Chadwick, New York broker, convicted Of
uttering United States bond four years ago
and sentenced to the Albany penitentiary for
ten years, has been pardoned by President
Grant. .... .Tornadoes have been doing extern
sive damage in Missouri and the West. The
public printing of the United States cost last
year over two million dollars. The appropria-
ton for this year Is 81, ,s65, GOT. L. :. "A burning
we'll near Butler, Pa, sends up mass of fame
forty feet high by fifteen wide. The surround
Ing country is illuminated by the light. The
roar OF the escaping gas is described to be like
that Of mighty river