The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-06
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


robbed the bank and then confessed, has been
held in $4,000 bail. His property has been
attached by the bank, under charge OF embez-
zling ...... Six murderers were executed at
Fort Smith, Arkansas, at one time. James a.
Moore, white, one OF the unfortunate men,
shot sheriff's officer who was pursuing him
for horse stealing. Daniel Fl. Evans, white,
murdered . man last November. Sam. W.
Tooy, q quarter black Cherokee, murdered
ayoung man for $500. VIM. ]. Wilmington,
white, murdered man in the Chlckasaw
nation, while infsmed with drink. Edmond
Campbell, colored, killed q man and woman
The other was Smoker Mankilier, full-blooded
Cherokee ...... The London Telegraph says
the prospects are favorable for the hop bar-
vest, which has already commenced. Damage
done by mold and vermin is below the average
The London Times, in its financial column,
says "It Is known that we shall have to
import an unusually large quantity of wheat,
and it is equally certain that all the mailing
barley will have to come from abroad"
owing to rainfall Of seven and half inches
within few days great damage is announced
in tho central provinces Of Japan, farms being
flooded, houses and bridges demolished, and
upwards OF 100000 in produce destroyed.
There were also great many lives lost. The
Chinese troops refuse to follow the aborgines
, into the heart OF the island OF Formosa, and
have revolted by regiments. The savages re-
main master Of the situation, and the Chinese
military operations have been suspended. go.
Goldsmith Maid trotted q mile in two minutes
and fourteen and q half seconds at Hartford,
Conn, in an effort to beat her own time of two
minutes and fourteen seconds -. . Heavy
rains washed away abutments on the Chicago
and Northwestern railroad, near New Jetrer-
son, Iowa, and q cattle train went through the
bridge ut that place. Twelve cars we're
smashed, and nearly all the cattle killed.
There were no men seriously injured. The
Boston and Charleston steamship company.
organized in 1879 with q capital Of $1,000
has sunk its entire capital, and has additional
liabilities to the amount of S125, 900. The
steamers have been withdrawn.
Gen. Sherman oontemplates revised edition
OF his Memoirs and has written to some off,
GERS, whom he misrepresented in the first edi-
ton, promising to correct some Of the errors in
the second. The defalcation of Ralston,
late president Of the Bank Of sCalifornia, will
amount to between $s, ,O00, 600 and a, ,OOo, 900,
and an overissue of stock has been discovered.
1t is not supposed that this will In any yay
prejudice the arrangements now being made
to rehabilitste the bank. Frederick Heitz.
laborer in Redeker's brewery, Port Jeryis,
N. Y, while scalding beer kegs fell backward
into vat. He managed to crawl out before
assistance arrived, but was scalded to such AN
extent that the flesh peeled from the bones.
The immigrant steamer Collingwood
arrived at Auckland, Australasia, from London
with fever on board. Twenty immigrants died
on the passage, and fifty more were removed
to the hospital on her arrival .... The great
strike at Oldham, England, is ended Tie
terms OF the operatives have been accepted
......The British consul has arrived at Mostar
from Herzegovina He Witnessed horrible
crueitios, perpetrated by the insurgents, who
in one instance roasted children alive. The
insurrection is put down. Only raids by the
servians and Montenegrins take place, and
these are exaggerated tenfold The popu-
laaon OF Queens county, N. Y, is s5, 1853,
against 73, ,S47 in 1870. ..... A duel was fought
between Major Edwards, OF the St. Louis
Times, aud Col. Foster, of the Journal, over
an article In the Times. One shot was ex-
changed without damage, when the dific,lty
was settled .... .Hsyden's government sur
veying party vas attacked by Indians in western
Colorado, but succeeded in escaping with the
loss OF their instruments and baggage.
Persons engaged in giving burlesque sere-
made at ElgiD, Canada, were fred at from a
house ON Saturday night. Four Of them were
wounded, one fatally. :. Canadian lumber
dealers report q continued dullness in the lum
ber trade, not only in Ottawa, but in the whole
OF Canada and the eastern States. Reports
from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick say that
many mills viii be stopped for the season
Capt Webb has again swan across the English
channel from Dover to Calais. He was twenty
one and three-quarter hours in the water with
out any covering or buoyant aid. .. .. During a
barbecue at Clinton, Miss, white man at
tempted to drink whisky contrary to the rules
OF the ground, when negro prevented him.
quarrel was instantly begun, and many pis-
tol shots fired by friends Of the parties. Three
white men were killed and many wounded.
two mortally. Ten negroes were killed and as
many wounded, some fatally. Two of the
white men who We're killed were horribly mu.
hiated, their heads being beaten to atoms
with feIce rails. Gov Talbot, Of Massa-
chusetts, declines q denomination -. Tilton's
woolen mill at Cavendish, Vt, was burned,
with loss Of e170, 900 ..... Count Stolzberg,
the prime mover in the affair, has given up the
proposed pilgrimage to Lourdes and no Ger.
mans will consequently take part in it :.
Russia is convinced Of Yakoob's hostility, and
retributive measures against Khokand are
probable, "A disease similar to the old epizoo-
tic has broken out among the cattle near Avon,
Eorkv hay sol
Twenty thousand persons were present q.