The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-06-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Items of Interest from Homo md Abroad.
As q gang Of convicts were working on the
grounds Of the Sing Sing prison near the rail-
road track, five Of the most desperate made
rush past the unarmed keeper for freight
train which was proceeding at very slow rate,
and jumping on the engine drove of the en-
gineer and fireman with loaded revolvers.
They then uncoupled the engine from the
train, and pulling the throttle wide open started
ON their terrible ride for liberty. As the
engineer stepped of, however he turned the
pumps on full without being perceived by the
conviots in hope Of flooding the boiler and
30 stopping the engine. His anticipatI )ns were
fully realized, for the engine had not proceeded
far when she blew out one cylinder head, and
at the expiration of three miles the other
cylinder gave way and the engine stopped, the
oonvicts taking to the woods. The pursuing
parties had not been successful at last ac-
counts .... The divers examined the hull of
the Schiller for four hours. They found her
broken up-a confused mass of iron and tim
Der. Her lower deck rested on the rocks, and
her bottom was gone, having been torn Off by
the rocks. None Of the specie was recovered,
and no cargo was visible . Tho distillers
lately arrested by the revenue authorities have
joined together for carrying this matter into
the courts and testing the constItutionality Of
the internal revenue act. They have retained
ex-senator Carpenter, Of Wisconsin. . BY the
will Of the late James Root Of Hartford, Conn.
over 800, 900 is bequeathed to charitable in
stitutions ...... Josh Frazer, colored, WAS
hanged in Camden, s. O., for murder in the
presence Of six thousand people. He was con-
victed on circumstantial evidence, but con-
fessed his crime on the scaffold. He also
acknowledged numbering his wife and child, as
we'll as another woman, besides burning several
barns and ginhouses.
The postmaster-general has reduced the pos
tage to foreign countries from ten to five cents
for each half ounce, to take effect July LIST. /.
Ten families lost their homes in Springfield,
Mass, by an incendiary fire. The priests
imprisoned in Posen, Germany, and the neigh
boring towns, have been released and in
formed that evidence with regard to the al
legged secret administration Of the diocese by O
papal delegate is no longer required by the
government. -. Alfred Speer, Of Rockland,
Me-, while intoxicated, shot his wife in the
face. AS che was running from the room with
her infant in her arms another shot was fred,
the ball entering her shoulder. Speer then
shot himself through the head. His wife will
recover. Three men were burned to death
| in the house of Alderman John Meagher, In
Houston, Texas. "A terrible tragedy occurred
q few miles from Penn Yam, New York, the re-
suit of q thoughtless joke. It appears that
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house with his brother-in-law, George Pierce,
thought to give the latter a scare by assuming
the character Of a burglar. He raped at the
door and in answer to q reply said in an as
sumed voire "Your money or your life." He
then took or his boots and climbing up on
a roof, entered the house through q eecond
story window. Pierce, who. was down stairs,
thought he was desperado, and cried ont not
to come in or he would be killed, and seizing a
carving knife ran up stairs. He met Cole at
the head Of the stairs and Immediately grappled
with him, in the struggle cutting his jugular
vein. Cole instantly fell, exclaiming: You
have killed Edward Cole. My poor wife and
children" Pierce was thunderstruck ON find
ing that he had killed his wife's brother .
Albert Young, son Of State Senator Young, of
Wisconsin, shot his father and then committed
suicide. The father will survive. 1t is thought
that the son had committed forgery, and
resorted to this means Of concealing it.
| A collision occurred on the fourth of April
of the coast OF China between the Chinese
steamship Fu-sing and the British steamship
Ocean. The Fu-sing founded almost instantly,
causing loss Of fifty lives. :. The striking
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barre in which some three Thousand men
Joined. Everything was orderly ..... The
jury in the case of Father Gerdeman, the
Catholic priest of Philadelphia charged with
embezzling church funds, have failed TO agree
on verdict. -. Ben. Nevin, who lived on
farm near Lexington, Mo-, was called to the
door on Saturday night recently by a band OF
masked men and riddled with buckshot, thirty
two entering his head. %. .Alonzo Jackson
and Albert Smith, with their wives and two
children each, went over q dam at GAINESVILLE,
Ohio. Both women, with one child each, were
drowned. The Papal Nuncio made formal
demand for the restoration Of Catholic unity
| in SPAIN and the government has replied that
it is resolved to maintain liberty of worship.
-. The Governor of Missouri has issued
proclamation appointing June as fast
day. He states that information is received
from all parts OF the State indicating tho grass
hopper plague, causing loss Of crops and possi-
bly, famine, and 30 calls on the people to unite
in calling for divide relief. John @. Breckin-
ridge, ex-senator and former Yice-President,
i, dead. .... TT Pope has resolved to convoke
the vatican council again at an earlydate to
discuss ecclesiastical reforms
A young girl named Whitby was the victim
Of outrage and murder near Trappe, Pa. Her