Daily Republican., 1879-06-18
NEWS SUMMARY.

d. rer Lynch ed-.An lnsOived Bask
"A Further Record Of Incidents
Accidents, Casualties aud Grimes
There is some trouble among the
miners of the Lehigh region outside OF
the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com
nany's men. The employees of A. Par
dee & Co :, at Ebervale, have struck,
and those of G. B. Linderman Il Co., at
stockton, are also "out," because they
desire more pay for the inconvenience
of working in wet slope. At Auden'
red, strike for increased wages has
lasted for several days, and at Beaver
Meadow, the men of No. Mine have
struck because the ticket boss, they
say, docks them too much.
The proceedings and findings in the
Stanley Hazen Court Martial are pub
lished. Colonel Stanley is convicted ON
some of the specifications and acquitted
on others. He is found guilty OF con.
duct to the pref judics Of good order and
military discipline, and sentenced to be
admonished in general orders by the
General of the Army.
John ]. Moore, charged with the
murder of Miss Woodward, on the 5th
instant, was taken from the Jail at
Spartanburg, S. C., on Monday night,
by one hundred and fifty armed men,
and hanged in the woods near Wexford,
the scene of the murder, twelve miles
from Spartanburg. Moore asserted his
innocence to the last.
At an informal meeting of the stock
holders of the insolvent Mechanics
Bank, in Montreal, yesterday, the Pl es-
ident said the banks liabilities outside
OF its capital stock were $4,000 and
its assets 100000. 1t is believed, II
proper time is allowed, that all liabili-
ties can be paid in full.
A colored man named Williams has
been arrested on suspicion OF having
committed the murderous assault upoh
Ida Dunn and Cora Hesley, at Wheat
land, Cal. He was taken to the county
Jail at Marysville, on Monday, to avoid
lynching. The girls will probably re-
cover.
The Committee appointed by the
Legislature to inquire into the over
issue OF 100000 of State bonds, met
in Harrisburg yesterday. Nothing OF
importance was done, and the Commit
tee adjourned to meet in Philadelphia
at an early day.
The city election in Portland Oregon
on Monday resulted in the choice OF
Republican Mayor. The Democrats
elected majority of the Councilmen
In East Portland the whole Republican
ticket was successful.
James Bowland shot and killed hl'
wife Nellie, aged rs years, in San Fran
cisco, yesterday morning. She had lef
him on account of brutal treatment, ,ant
refused togo back to him.
Lawrence Otis Hall, the thieving ant
absconding clerk of the London ant
San Francisco Bank, was sentenced IL
San Francisco yesterday to live years
Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Reuben Bredbenner was killed h.,
being thrown from one of the trestl
bridges on the Catawissa Railroad yes
terday. He was struck by fallin
beam and fefl distance of 10 feet.
A seven year old son of James Gould
of Scotia, near Schenectady, N. Y.
shot two playmates, one fatally, Will
fodrishing his fathers revolver, o
Monday.
Reports from Southeastern Missouri
and Northeastern Arkansas, where tn
harvesting has begun, say the wheat
very fine in quality, and will yield !
to 25 bushels per acre. Corn and COT
ton look unusually we'll.
In the Louisiana Constitutional Cor
vention debate on the debt questio
continued yesterday, motion to clos
it having been defeated. Night session
will be held.
VIM. C. Rowland. an acrobat, feI
through the railroad bridge at Scht
nectady, N. Y, on Monday night, an
was drowned in the canal below.
Everett & Butler, prominent dr.
goods merchants, of St. John, N. b.
have failed for $4,000. Their cred
tors are chiefly English.
Henry W. Blair, Republican, wa
elected United States Senator in bot
Houses of the New Hampshire Legisl;
ture yesterday.
The damage to the crops by the Sur
day nights haistorm in ColumSi
county, New York, was estimated
$4,000,
Thomas Smith was killed by fall
rock in the Reliance Colliery at Pott
vile yesterday.
The Republican Convention OF Cal
fornia met yesterday in Stockton.