Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-11-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
Rsstsvn and Middle States.

Inc carriage tActory OF Cnhfloh .. CaHiAy,
Camden. n. j., was burned. Loss on build
ings and ether property, about $50, 900 insur
cd for = like amount.
Two medical students were arrested at
meeting OF the Liberal Club In New York, 70
creating disturbance on account of the dis
Gus Ion OF subjects obnoxious to them.
At York Lynn, Del, tho snuff mills Of VIII
lam II. Garrett h Sons we're entirely burned
causinga loss Of 500, 600, Oh which there i
$40, 900 insurance. The mills were the larges
OF their kind In the country.
Considerable excitement was caused in Tren
ton, N. j., by tho arrest Of driver OF q cit!
railroad car Tor driving on Sunday.
A man was found dead In Central Park, New
York, with two bullet holes In his body and ,
note bidding goodbye to some unknown 70
male acquaintance.
Henry Hausmann residing In Christie street
New York, came home from work, and after .
customary scene Of domestic violence with hi
wife, with whom he had been In the habit OF
quarreling, no went down stairs and drank
several glasses Of wine. Returning to his home
he sent out for some beer and renewed the
alteration with his wife. Suddenly he entered
the bedroom, where his three bright and at.
tractve children were, and fired shot at each,
killing Martha, aged six years, MORALLY wound
| ing Adam, q boy Of four, and seriously wound
ing his Oldest boy, John, nine years old. The
father then shot himself twice in the breast,
| inhicting wounds from which he cannot recover.
In his statement to the coroner Hausmann said
that ho had been married eleven years, that the
FIRST five years he lived happily with his wife,
but that during the past six years existence
had been made miserable to him by her exces-
sve drinking.
Mrs. Evelne Stuart, who was married about
six months ago, and resided with her husband
in . fashionable hotel Oh Fifth avenue, New
York, became respondent on account Of her
husbands dissipation, and committed suicide
by taking laudanum.
Western and Southern States.
Congressman Smalls, OF South Carolina, was
convicted of bribery while State Senator.
The Canadian schooner Magellan, from
Chicago bound for Toronto, with q cargo Of
20, 4s3 bushels Of corn, foundered off Three
Rivers on Lake Michigan, and the whole crew
of eight men were lost.
Carl Strahl, who murdered Mr.. and Mrs.
Getz near Columbia, ILL.,, confessed the crime
after his capture, and was hanged to q tree by
body Of one hundred citizens.
Ex-United States Marshal Schaffenberger,
who has been In the Kansas penitentiary for
the past eight months for robbing the national
government of $4,000, has been pardoned by
the President.
The boiler OF the steamer Tom Morgan
exploded near Greenville, Miss, and the
engineer and owner of the boat were killed.
The schooner Berlin, OF Buffalo, struck a
reef and went to pieces in Lake Michigan.
Captain johnson and the cook were drowned.
while the four survivors chung to the wreck all
night and until four o'clock next day, when
they were taken of by lifeboat although two
the captains son and sailor--died from
exposure.
The South Carolina and Mississippi State
fairs at Columbia and Jackson, opened with
a large attendance of visitors.
A fire broke out in the immense retail dry
goods establishment of Field, Letter T. Co., at
Chicago ILL.,, and as the firemen were mis-
directed to another part of the city the flames
gained considerable Roadway before an attempt
WAS made to extinguish them, in consequence Of
which the building was completely Quilted down
to the two lower floors, which were not 30
much injured as the others. During the pro-
gress Of the fire stairway suddenly gave way,
burying number Of fremen, instantly killing
one and seriously, il not fatally, injuring four
more. The loss on the building and stock will
not be far from 81, 100000.
W. F. Coolbaugh, president Of the Union
National Bank Of Chicago, committed suicide
by shooting himself with revolver. He had
been in i'll health and was subject to fits OF de-
preston.
A fire in the building partly occupied by
NJ. j. Steinberg, halter and furrier, at st.
Louis, destroyed property valued at 100000,
which is insured.
From Washington.
The President will appoint General Goodloe,
OF Kentucky United States minister to the
Netherlands.
The Senate unanimously confirmed the ap-
pointment of John Welsh as minister to Eng
land.
The claims of the United States we're argued
by Mr.. Dana before the fishery commission at
Halifax.
The Republican Senators held q secret caucus
lasting five hours, and freely discussed the
Presidents policy. The majority held that
Democrats ought not to be appointed to offices
where enforcement of the Constitutional amend
ments and reconstruction acts is involved.
General lie Grange, superintendent Of the
San Francisco mint has resigned.
The Senate, in executive session, confirmed
the nomination Of John l.. Stevens, of Maine,
to be United States minister to Norway and
Sweden John D. Defrees, to be public printer,
etc.
General Sherman and Secretary McCrary
appeared before the State committee on ap-
preparations in regard to the army appropria-
ton bill, and urged that the army be allowed to
remain at the old standard of $4,000 men.
A delegation of business men from New York
and Philadelphia appeared before the Senate
committee on finance and argued against the
adoption of the Bland silver bill.
At a meeting Of the Senate committee on
Indian affairs it was agreed to report favorably
the bill to enable Indians to become citizens Of
the United States.
The House committee on mileage have made
an adverse report upon the bill granting men,
bers and Senators mileage for the extra session.
Foreign News.
In France forty constitutionalist Senators
have determined not to support the ministry.
Erzeroum has not been occupied by the
Russians, as was reported.
= Arthur B. Forwood, member of New York
firm of merchants, has been elected mayor
Liverpool.
Forty of ex-Sultan Murad's servants have
been strangled in Constantinople for conspir-
ing to reinstate Murad on the throne Of Tur-
key.
Steps have been taken by the French assem-
bly, to have the frauds of the recent elections
investigated.
An engagement took place in Cuba between
about 400 insurgents and some 800 Spanish
regular troops. The Spaniards were surprised
and lost over twenty-five killed and fifty-three
wounded. The report says the Cubans were
repulsed, but their loss is not gwen
A Russian official dispatch says the Turks
Q. 500 men, the Russians loss being 800 men.
COXGRESS...EXTRA SESSION.