The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-05-31
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


upward Of three thousand houses were de-
stroyed and ten lives lost in the town of Izushi.
On the same day 140 houses were burned in
Matsmai, and on April 2 twenty houses were
burned in Osaka. The Centennial commission
have decided to open the exhibition grounds on
Sundays free of charge, but to keep the build
ings closed. -. Queen Victoria has been pro-
claimed empress OF India. The treasury is
now issuing twenty-cent silver pieces. ...-
The steamer Quesssnt, from Brest, has found
cred at sea, twenty-one lives being lost 49,.
VIM. Boddie was hanged at Tuscumbla, Ala,
for committing rsre on q white woman in 1874.
he died protesting his innocence. ;. Turkey
has asked the great powers for military assist
ance in suppressing the insurrection, quoting
as a precedent the all given Russia to Iut
down the rebellion in Hungary in 1919. The
body of Edward Fuller, missing from Ruin, v
VT, for two months, was fouud in an open Vt
In Westminster, with the remains of his horse
and sleigh. AS a jug of liquor was also fou d.
it is supposed he got lost in the snow while i'll
to2icated and 20 persisted.
Militia was s,ut to the mining d's.ricts Of
Ohio to protect the miners and mines Il III
the strikers who have been stopping woI
there for some time back =. AT ST. Henediuc,
Canada, girl named Lsbouillier, a seamstr ess
by vocation, shot aud killed Mrs. Murphy.
lady for whom che was working. She IL en-
gathered up all the valusbles she could carry
aid tried to escape, but was arrested.
The report issued by the controller Of the cnr.
rency March 10th showed that the national
banks Of the country held Sc, 923, ,6s5. rs in
coin and $40, 153, 1000 in coin certifcates-a
total OF S2O,077, ,345.75. :. Prof. Blake, known
throughout the country as mind reader, COM
mtted suicide in San Francisco by poisoning.
he had carefully attempted to destroy all evil
denoes OF his identity. Ill health and poverty
were the causes ...... Owing to the Columbus
(Ohio) council failing to make an appropriation
to pay the policemen, the entire force is to be
disbanded... The revolt in Algeria is sub
dued, and the French hold the leaders as hos
tages for the good behavior Of their tribes.
King Dahomey having been fined by the Eng
lish for the maltreatment of an Englishmap.
sent word to the British commodore to come
to Abomey and he would pay him in powder
and lead. The Turks claim to have been
successful In their efforts to reviotual Nicsic.
dartmouth College has resolved to send
crew to Saratoga.
Two Afredi clans on the Punjsub Undis)
frontier have sent their families to places of
safety and revolted from British rule In their
raids they have run Of numbers of ca tle.
The Cuban insurgents fired into a train be-
tween two garrisoned stations and succeeded
In capturing it, burning all the cars. They
also destroyed five large estates. The
boiler Of steam ferryboat, plying between
hudesheim and Bingen, Germany, exploded.
As Is believed that thirty persons were killed.
......The public debt statement for April
places the total. principal and interest at
$2'224369, ,s7S.61, less $116, ,43l. .615.22 cash in
the treasury, showing q reduction during
April of %, 781, ,1S1.49 49,. The whites of
Antioch, CAL, fred the Chinese quarter of the
town and drove the Cinnamon from the CITY.
on account Of some white boys being allowed
to debauoh themselves in Chinese den.
Forty masked men, supposed to have been
striking miners, appeared at night at the coal
mines near Masillon, Ohio, and after binding
the watchman, fired the shafts Of the Willow
Bank, Mount Bank, and Rhodes 4 Co. mines.
....After the election in indianapolis, Ind,
q riot occurred, during which one man was
killed and number seriously injured 80.
While State Senator Twitchell, of Louisiana,
was being ferried over the river st Coushatta,
IN that State, in company with his brother-in-
law, King. On unknown man opened fire upon
him with repeating rifle, killing the two
-. white men and wounding the colored ferry
man.. The rifiemen of Ireland are COM
psting for the places on the team to represent
that country at the Centennial Inasmuch
as Great Britain refused to extradite Wipslow
and several other American prisoners, SEQ.
retary Fish has notified the British govern
ment Of the abrogation of the extradtion
srtic!e of the treaty $75, 600 were lost by
the burning Of Straiton & Storms tobacco fac
tory in New York city. y..... "A bonded ware
house at Versailles KY, was destroyed by fire,
including S112, 500 worth OF whisky contained
therein. The origin is supposed to have been
incendiary. The Pennsylvania Legislature
expelled Member Lynott for accepting money
in connection with the Boom bill.
Anthony Geh ring, q carrier Of morning
papers in Chicsgo, shot his wife twice, killing
her instantly, and then killed himself by the
same means. .Forcible expulsion Of the
Chinese In Califoruia is urged by various clubs
In that State. .Oregan Republicans instructed
their delegates to the national convention to
work for Blaine. After President Dominique
fed from Hayti, the new President Rameau
was approached by son of Monplasier Pierre,
who shot him down to avenge the blood Of his
father. who was massscred under the orders
OF Rameau.. In consequence of quarrels
between the great roads running west from
New York. there is every probability of q re-
duction in freight and passenger rates for the
timo ...... OF the three direct cables between
rope and this country only one Ia In work.