Daily Republican., 1879-05-09
FIRST EDITION.
DIJn NEWS SUMMARY.

shops Rurned-WOman sunrage-
check Rai-iDg- Assumptions oi
4 coal Mines-seuil Kace-Other La
c,hents, Accidents and Grimes.
The repair shops Of the Troy and
Il poston Railroad were burned yesterday
morning. Loss 500, 900. 1t is asserted
that they were probably fired by strik'
ing vorkmen who were discharged on
Wednesday. The Franklin House
Block at Portsmouth, N. H., containing
two public halls and several stores, was
destroyed by fire yesterday morning
1 The loss on the buildings is $4,000.
In the Woman Suffrage Association
at st. Louis, yesterday, long reports
I from Indiana and Louisiana were read,
showing the progress Of woman's work
Il in ,hose States. A declaration OF prin-
ciples was read, and addresses were
4 made by Rev. Olympia Brown, Mrs.
4 Collins of Louisiana and Mrs. spencer
of Washington.
Edward LINER, one of two brothers
4 engaged in check "raising," at Newark
N. j. was arrested yesterday in Boston,
on reouisition from Governor McClel-
Ian. The pair had opened an office IN
Boston, it is supposed for the purpose
of attempting to swindle Boston banks.
The Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal
Company's mines, Nos. 8 and ~, at
Sugar Notch, which have been idle
nearly two years, resumed yesterday.
The Diamond mines, of the same COM
rany, will start about ten days, thus
!, ling employment to all Mr.. Parlsh .
men.
A scull race, between Warren Smith,
of Halifax, and Evan Morris, OF Pitts
burg, has been agreed upon, to take
nlace Oh Silver Lake, Massachusetts,, on
tn. afternoon Of July lst. The distance
will be three miles and the stakes S5oo
a side.
William Berfoot, sentenced in Octo
Der, 1877, to two years imprisonment
in the MARYLAND Penitentiary, for hav-
ing in his possession counterfeit bank
notes with intention to pass them, Was
pardoned by the President yesterday
Mrs. Henry Lighter of Peoria, was
killed in an elevator of Chicago hotel
on Wednesday evening. She was leav-
ing the elevator when she slipped ana
f, il back and her head was crushed De-
tween the floor and the descending arch
of the elevator.
The schooner Lena, from Boston for
IN Machias, Me-, was wrecked on Little
Egg Rock during fog on Tuesday
morning. One Of her men were drown
III ed, and the captain was badly injured
Lumbar Brawne, ex Collector of'ln-
land Revenue, and Jean Paquette, eX'
cashier of the Hochelaga Bank, convlc-
III ted of embezzement, were sentenced
at Montreal yesterday to five years I'M
prisonment each in the penitentlary.
III Charles Acker, ,colored has been arres
IN ted on the charge of having murdered
Miss Tranor, an aged lady reported
III burned to death, in the house at Wes
Amboy, Oswsgo county, N. y, on the
25th of April.
III In the Custom House cases at Chica
On go, yesterday, Judge Dyer overrulet
E8 the motion to squash the indictment
IA and also the motion for bill of partic
Nh ulars. A jury was then empanellet
g and the trial begun.
A private despatch from Rome, re-
oeived in Providence, r l., says Very
|# Rev. Dr.. Lawrence MacMahen, of tha
a city, has been appointed Bishop of tn
vacant seat of Hartford.
Commissioner Hoyt has gone to New
IN York to answer an indictment agains
Es# linn for former connections with the de
funct International Trust Company.
The jury in the case of ex State Sen
ator Cornish, at Belvidere, N. j., yes
a terday, rendered verdict of guilty
W with recommendation to mercy.
II The vessel owners OF Chicago decid
Ed ed yesterday, to make reduction @
one cent on grain freight, from tina
city to Buffalo.
E# Mark Gray, who shot at Edwin Boot
in Chicago, has bsen pronounced insan
by a commission Of medical experts.
| Frank Shuster was killed by fall {
coal in the White Oak Mine, at Arch
bald, Pa, yesterday morning.
The first shipment Of new wheat fror
Southwestern Georgia was received j
Macon yesterday.
David Morgan, injured by the e1
ploson at the Stanton Shaft, Wilkes
barre, died yesterday.