The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-05-03
SUMMARY OF NEWS,
Interesting Items from Home nnd Abro,,

ing naroh 81 was $3.50, ,65S, ,465-$7, ,533 465
above the estimates aud Gil, ,O49, 100 more than
last years. "A great sensation was created
In st. Louis by the impeachment and arrest of
hfteen members Of the council and other citv
officers for bribery, perjury and subornation
OF perjury. An engine on the TYRONE and
Clearfeld railroad exploded its boiler near
Lane Ridge, Pa, and three EMPLOYEES were
killed-all Of them married men. As the
engine OF the Fletcher mill, at Providence.
H. L., was starting up, four Of the sixteen
boilers exploded, utterly wrecking the boiler
mousse but damaging the main mill very little.
Ihomas Fay and Bartholomew Coffin, who
were In the boiler room, were killed. The
loss is estimated at $40 600. "A fire in
new Rochelle. N. Y, destroyed six houses
causing loss of $50, 600. =. The owners of
the property destroyed by the bursting of the
dam or the Worcester water works, claim that
the city of Worcester is responsible for dam
age, inasmuch as the officials knew the dam to
be in an unsafe condition. The Boston and
Albany railroad company will institute the
Initial suit. The Missouri State lottery
has been seized by the police of st. Louis for
fraudulent drawing. The European grain
trade is languid. The volcanoes Of Klauea
and moknaweoweo. in the Sandwich islands.
are reported to be in an active state of erup-
tion..... The income tax in Cuba has been
increased to thirty per cent, gold
Isaac Page, Of Searls Mills, Me-, murdered
his wife and cut his own throat, from the
effects Of which he will die. :. French bankers
have decided to financially assist the khediye
OF Egypt. 49,. The United States express COM
pany's Office at Akron, Ohio, was robbed re-
Gently OF s25, 600 or $780, 900 900. During the
recent heavy gale the thick glass windows
In the White Island light tower, Off Msssa
chusetts, sixty feet above high water mark.
were broken by the waves . The Wstertovn
On. ~ Security bank has suspended with lia
bilities amounting to 300, 600. 49,. Sixteen
employees Of the Boston custom house wore
discharged to reduce expenses. New York
oitys total Indebtedness April 1st was s11s
l64, 9OS.29. The Mexican authorities de-
manded forced loans from Americans in Mata
moras, and on one old man refusing to pay he
was placed on top of the Notifications between
the opposing armies 80 that in the event of
an attack he would be exposed to two fires.
our consul rescued him, and extended his
protectlon to other countrymen. A United
STATES gunboat has gone to the scene of action.
.....soufh Hadley Mass, lost q hotel, store,
TWO houses and two barns by fire ....S.D.
Conover, United States Senator from FIorids.
Vas arrested at Tallahassee On a charge Of ero
bezztng S4O, The public debt state
ment for March shows a reduction for the
month OF %, 240, ,s67; for the nine months of
$17,969, 1885,
The Egyptians are fortifying strong positions
In Aoyssinis. The Democracy of Connecti
out reelected Gov. Ingersoll and secured
working majority in both branches of the
Legislature. This will give Democratic
United States Senator. The grand iury in
chicago have found az indictment against ex-
Congressman ]. d. Ward for completely in
revenue frauds. .....A duel was fought near
Richmond, Va, by Lieut.. Thaxton T. Robin
son, OF the United States army, and Jesse
Mitchell, United States gauger, to settle an
old feud. Robinson was killed and Mitchell
will probably die. Both were young and highly
connected. Gen. Porfrio Diaz, the head Of
the revolutionists in Mexico, has taken Mats
moras with scarcely blow being struck. The
capture included $50 men, seventeen pieces of
artillery, and 712 stand of arme AS the eoy-
eminent general Toledo has taken service
unoer Dlaz, it is probable he BETRAYED the
Town 70 the insurgents. The French Senate
unanimously adopted the bill raising the state
Of siege.
The nomination Of Richard H. Dana, Jr.
was rejected by the Senate, as minister to
England. The estimates for the River and
Harbor bill were cut down in the congress-
sonal committee from s14 ,3O1, 900 to s5, 873.-
ooo.... A break fifty feet wide is reported in
the Milliken Bend levee, a few miles above
Vioksburg, Miss. "A barge containing ten
Thousand bushels Of corn became unmanage
able just above St. Louis and struck the bridge
with such force as to break in two, drowning
the entire crew Of six colored men Bradley
N. Cummings, well-known merchant of Bos-
ton, committed suicide while temporarily in-
sane by drowning himself in a shallow pool of
water. The steamer Agrigenti from Pireus
Tor Italian ports, collided with the Enelisb
steamer Hylton Castle Off the south coast OF
the Morea. The Agrigenti Immediately sunk.
and nine of the crew and twenty passenee era
were drowned. Reports from Newfou1 d.
land state that the fishing season has been nm
favorable, ard that a number Of sealing vessels
were crushed and sunk by the ice. Destitution
prevails In many parts of Green Bay. The
schooner Helen j. Holway went ashore near
FIRE Island, on Long leland and six lives were
lost.....A seventeen-year- old son Of Patrick
Pickering, in Columbus, Ohio, having asso-
oiated with forbidden companions, the father,
while intoxicated, made him 60 down upon his
knees and promise not to do 80 again. While
the youth was in this position the father dis
charged gun at him, killing him instantly.
In consequence Of Thomas Tracy and wife
being unable to live happily together, near
Carlinsville, ILL.,, the woman ccncJudad to