The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-10
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Items of Interest from Home and Abroad.
In the British House of Commons Mr.
Lopes, by the advice Of Mr. Disraeli. apollo
gized for and withdrew the offensive expires
sions he had used in regard to the Irish Home
RuIers. .....A riot occurred recently among
the Chinese i'll Singapore Jail, and sixty-soven
prisoners were killed, including sixteen of the
keepers OF the Jail .... "A fire ut Darien Ga.
destroyed property valued at 100000. 1t was
the work of All incendiary. 49,. Henry G. Free
man, tho Oldest member of the Philadelphia
bar, excepting Horace Bnney, died recently,
in the eighty-sixth year of his age. He was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1900 Mrs. Mccarthy
was found dead OH the floor of her house in
Portsmouth,, N. H., having frozen to death
while intoxicated. -. Darcy Boulton, Q. c.,
NJ. p. p, and Grand Master of the Ontario
Orange Grand Lodge, died suddenly in Toronto
Of apoplexy. In the English House of
! Commons MIR. Bourke, Under Secretary for tho
Foreign Department, in reply to an inquiry by
MIR. OElery, said that instructions would be
sent to MIR. Layard, tho British Minister ut
Madrid, to recognize Alfonso as King of SPAIN
The Democratic Convention OF Connecticut
renominated the present State officers, and the
! platform adopted is in favor Of hard money!
against an increase Of taxation, and condemns
| the action of the Federal government
| Near Helena, Colorado, thirty yigiantes went
to the house Of one Gibbs to hang him, and set
fire TO the house. Gibbs leaped out through
the flames with o revolver and shot three
/ of the party dead and wounded another, when
the rest took to their heels and fed Three
] or INrptl al I,,aS
named Deletield died-the first Friday, the
econd Saturday, and the third Sunday-and
were all buried at the same time .... The
British steamer George Batters, for Gibraltar,
is supposed to have been lost, with twenty-one
persons on board. -. The Canadian govern
ment has consented to grant loan of 800, 900
! to 5000 Mennonite families who desire to i'm
migrate to Canada. .....A frs broke out in
Port-au-Prince, Hayti, which destroyed five
hundred houses. The house of d. 3.
Mellott OF Belfast township Pa, was burned,
and three Of his children were burned to
death. Mr.. and Mrs. Mellott went away OH
! visit, and left the children locked up in the
house. =, The United States House committee
on Indian affairs reported adversely on the bill
! to provide for the organization Of Territorial
| government over the Indian Territory. The
Rev. MIR. Lesserman, pastor OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Lowell, Mass, was run
over by the Lowell and Andover railroad
express train and ground into many frag-
ments that it was with difficulty the remains
could be gathered up. -. The rebellion in
Bolivia still continues and the soldiers are COM
mitting the most savage excesses upon the
people.
The propeller E. A. Woodward, of New
York, sank in the ice in the middle of the
Sound. The crew probably persisted. . The
electors Of county Tipperary, Ireland, have
adopted resolution declaring that, in the
event of John Mitchells election to Parliament
being annulled, they would again return him.
..... Allen T. Caperton was elected United
States Senator from West Virginia. . Judge
Barrett, Of New York, sentenced George Wyman
to five years hard labor for swindling trades
men by borrowing jewelry Of various firms on
pretense of having sale for them so
severe has been the trial in the Tilton- -Beecher
case that during the proceedings one Of the
jurymen tainted in his seat.
A negro was admitted into the second class
OF boys in the high school at New Orleans
Twenty out OF twenty-five in the class left the
school immediately. There was no disturb
ance. The Aldermen of New York have
asked the Legislature to authorize them to
take up all the wooden and concrete pavements
in the city and to repsve the streets with stone.
..... Five German ron-clads have gone to
! Spain to look after matters there. Germany
is very anxious to have a hand in the Spanish
troubles. 80. Sharkey, the escaped murderer,
is in Havana, and can be seen at any time asso-
ciating with Spanish officers and nabobs. .....
The debt of the city Of New York has been az
certained to be about S125, O00, 900, with some
unadjusted claims in addition. Butler, of
Massachusetts,, has taken in hand the Western
Union Telegraph Company and the New York
Associated Press Ill was through Gen.
Stone, now of the Egyptian army and friend
of Gen. Sherman's, that the Khedive presented
the jewels to Gen. Sherman's daughter.
8. J. r. MeMulen, Republican, was elected
United States Senator from Minnesota by
vote OF S3 TO 10, in the place Of Alexander
! Ramsey. The new Senator Ia fifty years Of