Daily Republican., 1879-11-20
LAST NIGHTS RECORD
or Acct donss and lncl dents Occur.
ring All over the sSnntry. COn.
densea from Dispatches.

ring AL over the s0untry, COn'
densea from Dispatches.
Charles Van Horn, David Heller
John Pickett and David Mullen were
arrested in Newark, N. j., on Tuesday
night, and taken yesterday to New
town, where they were held in eS0(
bail each on the charge Of cutting down
23 poles of tho American Union Tels
graph Company on the night Of the
l4th inst. DR.. c. II. Middleton, repre-
ssnting the Continental Telegraph Com.
pany, was arrested in Elizabeth on
Tuesday night and held in $500 bail foi
interfering with the line.
The Secretary Of the Republican
State Central Committee Of California,
in accordance with instructions froul
the Committee, has telegraphed to the
National Republican COMMITTEES asking
that the place of George G. Gorham on
3the National Committee as q represen'
tative from California be declared va
cant, because OF his action during the
late canvass in tina. State.
A cable dispatch from Singapore 10
ceived in New York yesterday, reports
the burning Of the British steamer
Braemar Castle while she was loading
her cargo. She had on board about
l40OO tons of teas, spices, elk and tin
worth about $3.50, 600, aud about 70t
tons Of the cargo we're destroyed.
The first case under the Civil Dam
age act in Massachusetts has just been
tried in the Southern Middlesex Dis.
trict Court. 1t resulted in verdict of
5000 damages against q saloon keeper
who sold liquor to man who after
wards severly injured a policeman whc
arrested him for drunkenness.
K. d. Phillips was murdered By his
third wifs, in Marion county, Arkan-
sas, a tow days ago. She killed him
with an axe as he lay asleep, and drag
sed his body into the yard, where ii
was found. Phillips was 80 years
of age; his widow il 35. She Confess
ed her crime to the Coroner.
Some unknown men waylaid detec
tive named Killings in the streets OF
Troy, N. Y, yesterday, threw snuff In
his eyes, and took from him satchel
containing evidence to be used in ex,
cige cases in that city. Killings fired
Ave shots at his assailapts, and it il
believed wounded one Of them.
George Trust, who deliberately and
without provOcation shot and killed a
colored man named Robinson, in one
of the streets of Baltimore, on Tuesday
of last week, was arraigned yesterday
on an indictment for murder. lie
pleaded not guilty, and his trial was
set for December lst.
Mrs. Mary Jones, who fatally poi
soned her little daughter and attempt
ed suicide, at Browusburg, Ind, has
been pronounced insane. She will be
sent to the State Asylum as soon as she
recovers from the effects Of tie poison
administered to herself.
The schooner Gustis Wilson went
ashore near Minot's Ledge Lighthouse,
on Tuesday afternoon, and all on
board are supposed to be lost. Assist
anoe was impossible, owing to the high
SEA.
At Carlisle, Pa, yesterday morning,
the jury in the case OF Mrs. kiehl, on
trial for the poisoning of Mrs. Catha-
rine Zell rendered verdict of murder in
the rst degree. A new trial will be
moved.
The Board, Of Pardons at Harrisburg
has refused to commute the death SEN
tence OF Andrew Tracy, the McKean
county murderer. lie will, therefore,
be hanged on December 4th.
The 18th annual session of the A. NJ.
L. Union Conference in America open
ed in Petersburg, Va, yesterday morn
ing, Bishop Hood, Of North Carolina,
presiding.
James O'Donueli, an employee at a
packing houss in Cleveland, Ohio, YVES
bnriri under five feet of salt ia a salt
chute, yesterday, and smothered to
death.
The trial of Patrick Horty and John
Faunirg, for tA4 murder Of Daniel
Burke, in September, 1877, began Yes
terday at O,wego, N. Y.
James Callahan was crushed to death
by the falling Of monun'nt he was
erecting in Spring Grove Cemetery, at
Cincinnati, yesterday.
The latest particulars Of the disaster
on Lake Ontario iaiiCate that not more
than nins lives were lost.