The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-06-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Items of Interest from Homo and Abroad.
w. q. Halpine, formerly known as q genera
in the Fenian army, gained verdict Of 5000
in New York from the Third Avenue Railroad
Company. Three years ago he was run over
by car. Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, and
fifteen other Indian chiefs are on visit to
Washington. .... "A dispatch from Berlin states
that the police have discovered numerous
and alarming plots against the lives OF Bis
marck and Minister Falk. A special staff Of
fourteen detectives have been detailed for their
protection. .... "A Chinese mob DESTROYED the
mission chapel Of the. American Methodists at
Quickang. The government OF China offered
to make reparation. .... Proceedings against
the Prince Bishop Of Breslau, Germany, for
violation Of the ecclesiastical laws have re-
suited in his removal. He has been escorted
to the Bohemian frontier. -. Directors Of the
Kansas Pacific railroad have elected Robert
Perry, s. NJ. Edgell, @. s. Greeley, and b. W.
Lewis, Jr., Of st. Louis; Thomas A. Scott, Of
Philadelphia, Sidney Dillon, Jay Gould, and
j. s. Smith, Of New York, and Oliver Ames, Of
Boston. MIR. Beach, Of Tilton's counsel
and Mr. Sherman, Of Beechers, during post
penement of the scandal trial, appeared to-
gether before New York court. " =. Judge
Z. III. Pitts died suddenly IN Norfolk, Va,
while pleading q case in the court house
In the lower house Of the Prussian Diet the
bill for the suppression Of religious orders has
had its first reading. $500 A tornado passed
over the State Of Georgia, taking in the whole
line from Alabama to North Carolina and prov
ing more disastrous in results than any has
has visited the country for years. When first
seen the cloud resembled a funnel, with it's
apex on the ground. Buildings we're demol
ished before it, houses were lifted bodily from
the ground and smashed to pieces, and in ono
case whole village was swept away. 1t il
known that over seventy persons were killed
and moro than one hundred injured. AS
poor man named Burke was picking up coal
from the railroad track near Scranton Pa, he
was struck by an engine Of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company,
which was running at the speed of fifty miles
an hour. He was struck while In stooping
position, hurled clear over the smoke-stack of
the engine and fell on the northern bound
track a mangled and lifeless mass.
Signor Wandanna, a swosd swallower while
performing at Calais, Me-, cut himself inter-
nally. Inflammation ensued, and he died in
consequence. A daring burglary was COM
mitted at Randolph, N. Y, by which the bank
ing house Of A. G. Dowd suffered small loss
Burglars effected an entrance through the
back door, which opens into the sleeping apart
ment OF the Hatchmsc, Henry Mccoy. b.
one crash they burst the door open. and before
he had. time to realize the situation he was
seized by three strong men, gagged, hand
cufed, and bound to a chair, and his life was
threatened If he offered resistance The burg
lars then blew open the door to the vault, but
did not succeed in opening the safe, as the
noise Of the explosion aroused the neighbors.
About 800 or $500 belonging to the post
office was in tho vault and was taken. One of
the burglars was captured "A procession
half mile long followed the remains of Joseph
Mullens, an American Fenian, at Dublin,
Ireland. -. In tho lower house Of the Prussian
Diet tho bill for the suppression Of religious
orders was read a second time without amend
ment, and the bill giving tho old Catholics
share Of Roman Catholic church property
F~-N">1 As' SAAAAe tSoNh'E " - NOto vi ZUA yeas
TO 75 nays. One Of the most terrible ship
wrecks we have been called upon to record for
months is the loss OF the steamer Schiller of
the German line. She left New York with
nearly four hundred souls on board, and had
nearly finished her voyage when in dense fog
she ran ashore on Scilly Island, going to
pieces and becoming complete wreck. Over
three hundred Of the unfortunate men, womon
and children ON board Of her wore lost.
AS Jacob Oatman was returning from a
funeral in Trenton, N. j., his horses ran away
and he was killed. "A terrible tornado passed
over portion Of Ohio, demolishmg everything
its route. Three houses were. blown down
at Green Springs and two children crushed to
death. Not a chimney was left standing in
the place. Passing northward through Clyde
and Bellevue, much damage was done. Along
the line of the Lake Shore railroad scarcely
building escaped injury. The track of the
tornado was two miles wide. Two masons
had fight OH a scaffold three stories high in
New York, and on the foreman attempting to
separate them, all three were precipitated to
the ground, carrying with them eight feet
of wall, which partly covered them. The men
were excavated in a mangled condition.
Dan Bryants household goods were sold at
publi' auction at his residence, realizing the
sum Of $4,000. 80. The revenue authorities
at Washington having discovered immense
frauds, seized over thirty large distilleries and
rectifying establishments in the West. :. .
Reports received iD Washington from $50 coun-
ties indicate that tho winter wheat will not be
over ive-eights Of the usual average
coroner's jury sat or twenty Of the bodies
recovered from the Schiller, and returned a
verdict Of found drowned -. Two brothers
we're drowned in New York harbor by tho cap.