Daily Republican., 1879-07-19
FIRST EDITION.
NEWS SUMMARY.

Attempted sufcfds-ExPort Du utiel
A,,olish ed-Deash OF sn Ola Com
mauder-Other Incidenas, Accl'
dents, Crimes, &c.
John w. Mansfield, treasurer OF the
Connecticut Savings Bank Of New Ha.
ven. twice attempted suicide yesterday.
Hs first threw himself in front Of a loco.
motive, but was pulled away by two
bows. lie then jumped into the river,
but was 6shed out. His physician said
bs was insane from overwork and the
heat Last evening Mansfield was re-
por.ed to be improving. An examina.
tiou of the banks securities has shown
that they are "all right"
A letter from Yokohama, received in
San Francisco, says the Japanese Prime
Minister has issued decree, that from
July lst export duties will be abolished
on cotton and silk manufactures. silk
and cotton mixtures, made dresses, por-
celaiu, precious stones, lacquered wares,
bronze., manufactured bamboo, manu-
factured copper, paper fans and um-
brelas.
In the New Hampshire House Of Rep
respntatives, on Thursday, a bill was
passed giving the Railway Commission
trs the right to regulate passenger and
freigh, tariffs on any road in the State.
and prohibiting any Railway Commits
soner from holding Office in, or owning
stock or bonds Of any railroad.
General William +. Barry, Colonel Of
the Second Artillery, commandant at
Fort McHenry, died yesterday morn
ing. He had long been suffering from
kidney disease, but the immediate
cause of his death was an attack of acute
dysentery, complicated with malarial
fever. ...
The whole number OF journalistic
publications in the United States on
July lst was 1853, an increase Of 450
since January lst. The increase was
chiefly in nonthlies and dailies. Th.
suspensions were fewer than usual.
Two men named Blanchard and
hedges, quarreled about the right to
pick raspberries on private grounds,
near Cheyenne, w. T., yesterday, and
fired at each other. Hedges was kill
cd, and Blanchard wounded in the
band.
Marcellns Floyd, colored, charged
with attempting to feloniously assault
white girl, was taken from the Jail at
Richmond, Tenn, yesterday morning
by an armed mob, and lynched.
Four boys filled tube with pow der
bnd exploded it at Elkland Pa, yester-
|ay afternoon. One of them Frank
Whitaker, aged l3 years, was fatally
Injured and died from the effects of biz
Injuries last night.
Ex Senator Ramsey, of Minnesota, h as
fccepted the Office OF Secretary of War,
: osncceed McCrary, when the latter
hall retire to succeed Judge Dillon, as
ustice of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of
|he United States.
John Brown was shot dead by John
Fiodsson, alias "English jack" no
|orious ruffiap, near Sidney, Neb., OH
thursday night. The murderer escap- ;
n. He killed man near Red Cloud a
hort time ago.
Leonard Welch, OF Saco, Me-, has
|een arrested ON the charge Of attempt I
Pg to kill his eight-year. old son ten S
|sys ago. The boy remains xacon /
fIons from the effects Of the assault up q
b him. 4
Robert Angsrton was shot dead by {
handler Williams, in Danforth, Me-, n
|esterday, because he was too intimate i,
|ltA Mrs. Williams. The murderer b
las arrested. h
James V. Nethers committed suicide :,
atlanta, yesterday, by putting his VI VI
Fad on a railroad track and letting a p
|sn run over it. a
Professor Carpenter has positively de. II II
ned the Prohibition nomination for .
PVe'nor of Iowa. >,
olthe forty millions of refunding al
|F''IIcates issued $32, 277, 900 have been CT
Inverted into four per cents. ci
The Observation-Disclosures Convention of bl
Nv York, to nominate State ticket. is
II meet at Utica on the 2sth of Au- w
|st. m,
a 'welve.year old "cracker" boy was Ae
led by falling 100 feet down the WI
Fan Shaft of the Delaware and Lack. 10
anne Company, at Scranton, yester- eMa' M
y. idl
t'hn II Watson, Jr., died in New wv wv
'h. L., yesterday, of lackjaw, caus- na w
'y nail piercing his foot. '"
poses NOSES Nye was dangerously injured bel
'he premature explosion of Llast VIII
n quarry at Wernersville, Pa, YES the
E''y afternoon. vel
F0 Illicit distillery, having a capac. the
O' about 80 gallons daily, was seiz cit,
yesterday in New Orleans. |
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