Daily Republican., 1879-11-26
NEWS SUMMARY.
A Tramp Murder "A Kansas TRACE
dy-PvOvidence ElectiOn-COior.
cd Burglar Lynched -EcApo Of

A Tramp Murder "A Kansas TraEe
dy-PvOvidence ElectiOn-COior'
cd BurgIar Lynched -Escapo si
= Murderer-Osher Crimes, Acct
dents, Fires and Incidents.
On Monday David Van Sickle,
farmer, Of Delaware county, Ohio, gave
shelter and work to . tramp, who re-
Quilted his bsnefaotor by ransacking th'
house after the family went to bed
Mr.. Van Sickle interfering, the tramI
cut him severely with butcher knife
and also attacked Mrs. Van Sickle, al
ter which he fed. Citissns are search
ing for the scoundrel.
A telegraph from Dodge City, Kansas
reports that Q Sheriff's posse from Col
fax county went to Otero, N. NJ, q few
days ago, TO make some arrests. Th'
men they intended to capture tied, ane
the deputies accused Bassett, the resi-
dent deputy sheriff, Of aiding the iu
gitives. A fight followed, in whicl
Bassstt WAS killed and deputy named
Curtis fatally wounded.
The local election in Providence. \
l., held yesterday, resulted in the choic'
Of Thomas A. Doyle, Republican, fol
Mayor, for a fifteenth term. He receivet
2G5 majority over the Democratic and
Citizens candidate. The Republican
majority in Councils was increased, snt
license was carried by 5S2 majority.
A oolored burglar, who confessed
that he was one OF gang of robbers
WAS taken from the Jail at Perry, Ga.
OH Monday night and lynchsd by mob
Henry Walker, another colored bar
glar, was taken from the Jail at For
Valley the same night and lynched
1t is suspected that the lynchers wer'
his associates, who feared that hi
would inform upon them.
At Bloomington, Indiana, yesterday
David Tolliver, on trial for murder
was permitted by the Court, while tn.
Jury was deliberatihg on a verdict, tt
visit his boarding house in the charge
Of deputy sheriff. The deputy stood
AZ the front door while Tolliver entered
the house and escaped by a back en-
trance.
The Grand Jury at Covington, KY.
Yesterday, indicted John Freer, City
Collector. for embezzlement; County
Judge Phelps, for wilful neglect OF off
cial duties in failing to keep up hi'
record; W. P. Mclaughlin, another Off
cial, for mslfeasance, and twenty-on'
saloon keepers for keeping pool tables
without license.
Mr.. Hit, who has charge of the
American legation in Paris, writes tt
the State Department, under date o
November 1st, that "after careful in
auiry, he finds no Mormons in France;
and be remarks the French people art
indisposed to fanaticism or emigration
The Citizens Convention in Boston
yesterday nominated for Mayor F. O.
Prince, already nominated Democrats
The registration Of voters In Boston
closed last night. About 1000 women
registered, under the law allowing
them to vote in school districts.
At q large meeting in Boston yester'
day, Governor elect Long presiding,
speeches were made by several Ponca
Indians and others, and resolutions
were adopted condemning the Govern
ment's policy, especially its policy
towards the poncas.
Jonas r. McClintock died in Pittsburg
Yesterday, after q short illness, in the
6lst year OF his age. He had served
three terms in the State Legislature,
twice as Senator, and many years age
was chief melter in the Philadelphia
Mint.
The house Of Mrs. Samuel +. Tick
nor, in Columbia, Conn.,, caught fire On
Monday, and when the nelghbors en-
tered it they found Mrs. Ticknor sitting
in a chair, dead with part Of her cloth
Ing burned of.
Gooding & Allss' -four mill, at Orin-
oco. Mimi, was burned yesterday, with
30 600 bushels cfwheat. Loss $50, ,0OO
A fire in Clinton, Ont, yesterday, de.
stroyed the town hall and four stores
Loss $40, 900.
Two men, named Henderson and
Dnpn. ouarrelled while slaughtering
hogs, near Edinburg, Ind, on Monday,
and Henderson killed Dunn by cutting
his jugular vein. The murderer es'
capped.
In the Legislative Bribery trial al
Harrisburg yesterday, Judge Pearson
overruled the motion to quash the ar
ray of Jurors, and argument was then
begun on q motion to quash the indlct-
meDt.
The Eighth Avenue Railroad stables
in New York were burned yesterday
morning, with about 100 horses. Loss
about $1,000 Several fremen were
injured, one perhaps fatally.
Asa Magoon will be hanged at Wind.
sor, VT, on Friday, for the murder Of
Rufus Streeter, at Barre, in October,
1875. Streeter was ~ years OF age.
Magoon is now 62.
James Gibner, ST., q well-kpown
citizen Of Cincinnati, was found dead
Yesterday morning in his cellar, where
hs had strangled himself. He was IL
years ofags.
It is said the Russian contract for
the building Of iron vessels in the
United States has been indefinitely
postponed by the rise in the price Of
metal.
The Legislature of South Carolina
met yesterday in Columbia.
New Castle Items.
Correspondence Of the REPUBLICAN.
New CASTLE, Nov. rs.
Monday was q gala day in the way
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