Daily Republican., 1879-12-06
NEWS sum MARY.

NEWS SUMMARY.
Another Earth CayfDg in--hiiled
by n Drlck-COiOred Emigration
other Incidents, Accidents, ana
Csimes.
The surface of the earth at Mahoney
Plane, In Schuykill county began Ia
cave In again on Thursday night and
the foundation Of the houses to crack.
The residents remained up all night,
preparing to remove their household
effects If 1t should become necessary
The sinking Of the ground IL caused by
the excavations Of Miller, Hoch & Co. e
mines.
Scott Stephens, a notorious rough,
attacked Deputy Sheriff Nicholson, in
Columbia, Tenn, few nights ago, and
knocked him down with brick. Mich
olson shot Stephens, innicting wound
which resulted fatally on Thursday
Nicholson gave himself up.
Eighty. seven colored emigrants from
North Carolina arrived in indianapolis
on Thursday night. They were lodged
by delegation of colored men in a
church, and started yesterday for their
destination in Putnam and Wayne
counties.
The French gunboat Lamotte arrived
at San Francisco on Thursday evening
from Tahiti. She reports that the Ia
hitian Government has granted subsi-
dy Of $l50,000 yearly for al line of
steamers bstween Papeiti and San
Francisco, the service to begin next
spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jonah Boughton are
conducting total abstinence revival
in Easten. Pa, and yesterday after,
noon several ladies engaged as auxil.
aries, "visited large number Of sa'
looms in the interest of the temperance
cause"
Lizzie Falk, a laundrylgirl employed
in the Russell House, Detroit, Mich,
was killed while descending in the
freight compartment of the hotel eleva-
tor yesterday, by her neck getting
caught between the elevator and pro-
jscting beam.
At New Brunswick, N. j., yesterday,
Joseph C. Letson, ex-County Collector,
was convicted of embezzling the county
funds. The trial Of ex-County Collector
Moore Oh the same charge, was begun
| In the afternoon.
Representative Regan, chairman of
the House Committee on Commerce, has
called a meeting of the Committee for
Tuesday next, to hear argument on his
bill for the regulation Of Interstate
commerce.
An unknown burglar, while trying TO
break into shoe store, at Crestline,
Ohio, on Thursday night,was shot dead
by a man named Foltz, who slept in the
store. The burglar had two accomplices,
who fled.
The body of James Smith, retired
grocer, who disappeared in September
last, was discovered on Thursday In the
garrst Of the Exchange Bank building,
in Montreal.
More than 1000 turkeys and 1000
geese and ducks were shipped from
Ingersoll, Ont, yesterday, for England.
Large numbers of geese and turkeys
are also being shipped to England from
Nova Scotia.
The Secretary Of the Interior, re-
versing former rulings of his depart
ment, decides that the benefits Of the
Timber Culture law may be secured by
planting cottonwood trees.
Edward Linder, charged with heavy
forgeries, escaped from custody on
Thursday night, by dropping from
closet window in a New Jersey Central
Railway car, near Elizabeth, N. J.
John McCulloch, leather merchant
of San Francisco, disappeared in New
York last Tuesday. He had about him
SO, 500 in cash, a number of checks, a
valuable watch and some jewelry.
1t is feared that the schooner James
NJ. Malloy, which sailed from New
York on Nov. 10th with cargo Of phos-
phate for Petersburg, Va, has been lost
at sea.
The suit of Mrs. Wstherhold against
Judge Albright, at Allentown, for alleg-
ed embezzlement of her pension money,
was decided yesterday in favor OF the
Judge.
A. J. Hamilton, City Tax Collector Of
Los Angeles. Cal, is reported to have
absconded with $4,000. He is the fourth |
officer of that city within five
years.
Andrew McCafferty, aged l6 years,
was killed by being caught in the ma
chinery Of the Prentice Hat Manufacto-
ry, in Brooklyn, NY, yesterday morn
ing.
Stephen B. Kingston, General Freight
Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
lied in this city, yesterday morning,
aged IS years. i
The coal beavers of Boston, at a
Meeting last night, resolved to insist
lpOn an llnmeulate auVdHce VI oohtS
Der ton for unloading vessels.
The New York "Tribune" will here
Ifter be published on Sunday as we'll
IS any other day.
10 Dissensien in the Scott Church.
We are informed that so far from any
PERSONS having left Scott Church to Or
,anize Protestant Church as the pa
,srs enormously represented yesterday,
he above church has not been to ap- ,
In more prosperous state for ,
long time than now. The attendance ,
It worship is good and the Sunday ev- I
ming congregations especially are