Daily Republican., 1879-10-13
. FIRST EDITION.
NEWS SUMMARY.

Another Railroad COllisiOn-COn-
science MOney-YeIlOw Fever
Victims Of the M Michigan Central
strikes, Fires. Incidents. Acct.
dents and other Casualities and
Grimes.
Two express trains on the Baltimore
aud Ohio Railroad ran into each other
ON curve on single track at Pelton,
W. Va, about 10 o'clock on Saturday
night. James Asksw, the engineer of
the east bound train, his fireman, the
fireman of the west-bound train and a
tramp were killed. Another tramp and
a postal clerk were seriously injured.
Several passengers received slight in
juries. Both engines we're mashed and
several cars badly damaged. A mistake
in train orders caused the disaster.
Engineer Askew leaves a wife and five
children.
City Collector Webb, Of Baltimo re-, I,
received a letter from the Postmaster Of
Boston, on Saturday, enclosing another
letter to Collector Webb. This being
opened was found to contain sl450 in
a wrapper, endorsed, "For City Taxes,
for 1873" The letter to Collector
Webb was sent to the Postmaster Of
Boston, doubtless for the purpose Of
concealing the fact that it came from
person in Baltimore. The money
was turned over to the city conscience
fund.
Twelve new cases of yellow fever
and six deaths were reported in Mem
phis on Saturday, making the total Of
cases to that date l42l, and Of deaths
425. Judge Elbridge, on Saturday af.
ternoon, dissolved the injunction late
ly granted by Special Judge Galloway
against the State Board of Health.
The injunction was dissolved "for
want of equity on the face of the bill. y
The latest list of casualties by the
disaster on the Michigan Central Rail.
road places the number Of killed at Is,
and the injured at 81. All the injured
are now expected to recover. The Cor
cner's investigation seems to have de
veloped the fact that Colwell, the yard.
master, Sawyer, the switchman, and
Jones, the engineer Of the switch en-,
CINE at Jackson, were alike criminally
careless, and are responsible for the
disaster.
The freight house men Of the Lake
Shore, Cleveland and Pittsburg, and
Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati
Railroads, IN Cleveland, Ohio, struck,
on Saturday, for sl.25 per day, an ad-
vance Of If cents. The Atlantic and
Great Western freightmen stopped at &
o'clock, giving notice that they would
not resume on Monday unless at an ad-
vance.
1t is reported at Rawlins, Wy. T.,
that ever since General Merritt Joined
Paynes command he has been fighting
the Indians. The latter, being deter
mined to prevent the troops fromreach-
ing the agency, have fortified them
selves in a commanding position.-
When all the troops now on the way
to reinforce Merritt shall join his com
mand, he will have 1900 men.
Judge Henry Hayden, of the County
Court of Wood county, Wis.,, was shot
dead at Centralia, in that state on
Thursday last, by W. H. Cochran, a
bank cashier. 1t appears that the
Judge was too intimate with Cochran's
wife. Hayden was prominent politi-
clan and the Greenback candidate for
Attorney General of Wisconsin two
years ago.
George William Curtis has resigned
position as Chairman of the Republican
Convention of Richmend County,N. Y,
which met on Saturday. His resigna-
tion which was accepted, was due to
dissatisfaction at recent editorials in
Harpsrs' Weekly" asserting the du-
ty OF every Republican to "scratch"
the name Of any candidate on the tick.
Ut whose election would be injurious to
the Republican cause.
The Grand Jury, in Boston, has found
a new indictment against Charles De-
mond, charging him with embezzling
$225, 900 of the funds of the Massachu-
sets Home Missionary Sooiety-namely
$4,000 on September /, 1878; $780,
900 on March l, 1877; $65, 900 on March
l, 1878, and $4,000 on September l,
1878.
Roland D. Pollard, betrayer of a
young woman who died from the effects
of malpractice by DR.. P. B. Richards,
of Bradford, N. H., has been arrested
and confessed his guilt. The police
are searching for the doctor, who is
to be hidden in the woods.
Two unknown men were killed by a
train on the New Jersey Central rail
road, near Crawford station, on Friday.
They were sitting on the ends of the
ties when struck. A tramp named
Burns who had made them drunk and
placed them where they were killed has
been arrested.
The long drought is causing great
inconvenience in Virginia. In the
country around Petersburg the creeks
and wells are drying up, and the Apo
mattox river is lower than it has been
for years. The mills along its banks
are making only half time.
The Industrial Exhibition in Cincin-
natl closed on Saturday night. The
total attendance recorded by the turn.
stiles was 522,622, and the receipts
will cover all expenses and leave a
surplus for next years Exhibition of
1000.
The mangled body Of the conductor
of q coal train, named Hawkins, was
found on the track of the Pittsburg
of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad at Hyndman. Pa, yesterday
1t is supposed that he fell