Daily Republican., 1879-10-06
FIRST EDITION.
NEWS Sum MARY.

A Tramp OatraEe- D. . n r .
Rurned = Labor strikes - Other
accidents. Incidents, Crimes and
Casualties.
Thirteen tramps, armed with stones
and other missiles, boarded train on
The Central Railroad of Maine yesterday
morning, and defed the conductor to
mt them off. After going some dis
tancs the train halted on the iron
bridpe at Lewiston, and help being
called for, the rufiians quilted the cars.
Several of them were arrested.
The market steamer City Of Ottawa
was blown upon rock near st. Nicho-
las, Quebec, during a gale, on Saturday
morning. Soon after grounding she
caught fire and was burned to the
waters edge. The steam barge Alex
audsr from Chatham, Ont, to Detroit,
was burned Saturday morning, near
Buscom River.
The chair makers in St. Louis have
ioined in the demaud fol- an advance OF
is per cent. One factory employing
14O men, has granted the demand. The
cigar makers strike in that city has
ended. the terms Of the strikers having
been accepted. All but one OF the
stove and hollow ware foundries have
also yielded to the mems demands.
Frank Cooley was fatally stabbed by
Rev. George Long, Baptist preacher,
near Springfield, Mo-, last Friday night,
and died in a few hours. Both were
driving heavy wagons IN opposite di-
rsctions; neither would give way to
lot the other pass, and the result was a
fatal fight. Long was arrested on Sat
urday.
Mrs. Martha Baldwin, an aged lady,
administered large doses of laudanum
to herself and her imbecile sister, Mrs.
Miranda Dickerman, in New Haven,
Conn, on Friday night. They were
found insensible on Saturday morning,
and were not expected to recover.
Nothing has yet been heard Of the
aeronaut Wise and his companion, but
the belief is growing in St. Louis that
they descended or fell in the Macoupln
Bottom, Ill. A son Of the aeronaut has
gone to Macoupin station, and If the IN
formation justifies, q search OF the
wilderness will be made.
While the six O'Clock shift" was
being lowered in the Tioga Mine, at
Bodie, CAL, on Friday evening, the en-
gine escaped from the control" of the
engineer, and the men, eight in num-
Der, fell to the 500 foot level of the
mine. One was killed and the others
were all fatally injured.
Edward Crowley,a wealthy merchant
of Bermuda, left New York for Trenton,
N. j., a week ago, with $50, 900 in his
possession, to buy large quantity Of
crockery for the West Indies. He has
not been heard Of slice, and it is be-
lieved he is murdered.
Miss Lille George, aged IS years, a
pupil of College of Music, in Cincin-
natl, shot and fatally wounded her
self in boarding house in that city,
yesterday morning, because her af-
tianced, Frederick N. Ferriman, died Of
congestive chills on Saturday night.
Captain Stevens, of tue steamship
Cybele, at Quebec, from Glasgow, was
lost overheard during violent gale on
the morning Of September 23d. He
was not seen to fall overheard, but it is
believed to have been swept of by a
heavy sea.
A man named Mcpherson recently
killed his wife in Ukeah, Mendocino
county, Cal, because she refused to
live with him. He was subsequently
shot dead while resisting officers who
tried to arrest him.
Argument on the motion for new
trial In the case of William Ruck holtz,
convicted of murder at Bridgeport,
Conn.,, was heard on Saturday, ana the
Court announced that decision would
be rendered on the 18th inst.
Thomas Ellis, on trial at Chicago, for
the murder of Daniel VNeill, Yard
Master of the Northwestern Railroad,
pleaded guilty, and was sentenced on
Saturday to imprisonment for life.
Mrs. Susan Kennedy Mearns was con-
victed of the murder of Mary Gallagher
in Montreal on Saturday, and sentenced
to be hanged on December 5th.
Three eolored men were killed by tie
explosion of boiler ata cotton gin near
Middleburg, N. c., early Saturday
morning.
All the men employed in Lewis ore
beds, near Allentown, Pa, struck on
Saturday for an advance in wages.
Charged with Illegal VOitng.