The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-03-22

thousand soldiers will be sent to Cuba. The
Servian minister of war has issued an order
calling out all men between tho ages of twenty
and fifty years.. IA wealthy baker named
Bauer, OF brooklyn, N. Y, while in a pho
tographer's, drank cyanide OF potassium,
under the impression that it was water and
died in consequence. :. :. The Alfonsists have
been successful in several battles in Spain,
recently. The Hungsrians OF New York
city held q large memorial meeting in honor of
the late Francis Deak. The bishop of
Munster has been cited to appear before the
German ecclesiastical court for trial, which
may result in his deposition from Office
Eight icehouses at Athens, N. Y, belonging
to the Kniokerbocker company were DESTROYED
by fire, with forty thousand tons of ice and
valuable tools. The loss OF S325, 900 was COW
cred by insurance. -. r. D. Ruaian, colored
legislator Of Virginia, was expelled from the
assembly for stealing.
The Indiana Republican State convention,
which nominated Godlove s.. Orth (present
minister to Austria) for governor, presented
the claims Of Oliver P. Morton for President.
......A cable has been laid between SYDNEY
and New Zealand. The Carlist cause is
deemed lost by those in Paris who are we'll
posted. -. June seventeenth was appointed
for the national Democratic convention. and
St. Louis was fixed as the place Richard
b. Irwin was arrested on charges by Rufus
Hatch that he had embezzled the Pacific mail
subsidy fund. An invalid lady of eighty-six
years, while sitting before q fire in New York
city, was burned to death by her clothes catch
ing fire, she being too feeble to extinguish the
flames. -. Disastrous floods occurred in the
provinces Of Upper Austria and Moravia, py
which 120 houses were washed away 1t ia
now probable that the threatened war between
the States Of Central America will be ayerted.
.... The four-mile running race for $3O,OO0
at San Francisco. which has excited so much
attention from the sporting world during the
past three months, was finally run on Wash
ington's birthday, in the presence of 25, 600
people. Foster won the race in two heate in
1Ss15 and 1853; Rutherford taking second
place. Hook Hooking, Katie Pease, Revenue,
Jr.. Golden Gate and Chance we're all dis
tanoed on the first heat. 80. George Cameron
shot Fred Schneider through the head, in
Chicago saloon, and instantly blew his own
brains out. As there was no occasion for the
crime, it is supposed the double death was pre-
arranged betwecn the deceased men.
Governor Charles R. Ingersoll and the entire
Democratic State ticket was renominated by
the State convention held in New Haven,
Conn. The condition of affairs in Hayti is
reported to be alarming. The president has
ordered Cuban refugees to leave the island,
and monetary panic Is imminent. :. :. A small
party Of citizens of Montana were attacked
and besieged by Sioux Indians on the north
branch Of the Yellowstone. . The steamship
Switzerland, from New York for Antwerp, ran
down the brigantine Hero In the English
channel, and drowned four Of her crew. BY
destructive fire in Tarrytown, N. Y, an
entire block Of stores was burned and q dozen
families rendered homeless. Loss, $50, ,01O.
..... The governor OF MaiEe has signed the
act to abolish capital punishment. The
American House, one of the leading hotels of
Boston, was sold under mortgage foreclosure
for S2iO,Go
The jury in theiuquest on the victims of the
steamer Strsch-Clyde disaster in the English
channel, rendered a verdict Of manslaughter
against the captain of the steamer Franoonia
......C. E. A. Dixon, Liverpool merchants,
have failed. with liabilities estimated at $8,-
900 ...... Warm weather caused severe
foods in Germany and Hungary, and large
districts were inundated. -. The jury In the
trial of General Babcock at st. Louis, for
alleged completely in the whisky frauds, rem
dered verdict OF acquittal. :. The Brookly
advisory council has returned its verdict, sus-
tanning Plymouth church on all the questions
submitted, except that further church inves-
tigatfon is recommended. -. A sleeping car
was thrown from the track of the Harlem rail-
road, near South Wsllingford, VT The car
was burned, and MIR. Bissel, proprietor of the
Sherman House, Chicago, and his son, persisted.
III now transpires that the steamer Strath-
more, which sailed from London for New
Zealand nearly year ago, but never ar
rived at her destination, was wrecked on
Crozet islands last July. Twenty Of the eighty
persons on board were saved by passing yes
sel. Mexico is comparatively quiet, although
revolution lie constantly looked for. Promi-
nent individuals have declared against the
government in different parts Of the country.
The city Of Mexico had experienced slight
earthquake.