Daily Republican., 1879-04-18
FIRST EDITION.
NEWS SUMMARY.
wife Murderer HaHg-COmmitted
for Mur rder- Grant 10 be WeicOm..
ed--A Chapter Of Murders, Acct
dents, and lncidenIs.

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Hezphiah Shaf.r, the wife murderer,
was hanged yesterday in the Jail yard
at Chambersburg. Pa. He was carried
to the scaffold in blanket, the oonse
quences Of his attempt to commit sui
eide last Monday making him too weak
TO walk. He said nothing upon tho scat
fold, but protested his innocence about
An hour before hs was executed.
The soroner's jury in the ca of
Isaac James, at Baltimore, yesterday,
rendered verdict that James "catne
to his death from pistol shot wounds,
hrpd by the hand Of Denwood B. Kinds,
aided and abetted by his brother, Harry
Hinds." D-nwood B. Kinds has been
committed for murder, and Harry
Kinds as accessory.
In the New York Assembly ysster-
day, Mr.. Fish offered . concurrent reso-
luton for the appointment Of a commit
tee of three Senators aud five Repre-
sentatives to offer tho hospitalities Of
the State to General Grant on his return
to this country. The resolution was
laid over in accordance with the rules.
A freight train or the Housatonic
Railroad was thrown from the track
near Pine Grove, Conn, yesterday,
and the engine and six cars were
wrsckt 4. None Of the train hands
were s."iously injured. II is supposed
that a switch Was tampered with.
A man named Muros, murdered his
wife, at Eagle Pass, Texas, on Wednes-
day night. His daughter was wounded
while trying 10 save her mother, and a
neighbor who tried to arrest Muros, was
killed with an axe. The murderer has1
hed into Mexico.
Benjamin +. Patrick, lately General
Passenger Agent of the Eastern Railroad
Of Massachusetts,, arrested for embezzl,-
ment in January last, but not prosecu-
ted, was rearrested on Wednesday, and
it Is believed, will be brought to trial.
Eight miners were burned, one per-
haps fatally, by an explosion of gas in
the Otto Goll.ry, near Branchdalr,
schuy kill co Pa. yesterday afternoon.
The breasts Of the mine caught fire and
were burning al the afternoon.
A man named Foster was assassinated
while riding along the road near Mil
ford, Va, on Monday last. A nsighbor
named Hackman, with whom he had a
Ieud, has been arrested on suspicion.
Attorney General Pillars, of Ohio,
has given an opinion in support of the
constitutionality of the law Of that
State authorizing the appointment of
women as Notaries Public.
At Moorsstown, N. j., yesterday
morning, Christian Leslie shot and
dangerously wounded his wife and then
committed suicide. He had bsen drink
ing to excess.
Angelo Baccigalupi, convicted Of at
tempting to murder his wife, at Rich
mond, Va. was sentenced yesterday to
eight years imprisonment in the pen.
itentiary.
Additional returns from the Sixth
Congressional District of Texas indicate
a majority of 1000 for UpsoD, the regn.
lar Democratic candidate.
The cigar factory of Culp 4 Co., at
San Felipe, Cal, was seized on We'd
nesday, with stock valued at $50, 900,
for a violation OF tho Revenue laws.
Fishleigh's block at Brussels, Ont,
was burned yesterday morning. Loss,
$4,000.
PersOnal.
Dr. Honeywell, who is located at Cam.
den, N. j., has been paying visit to
his friends in our city, the present
week. He takes deep Interest in the
promotion of health, and his contribu-
tions on that subject to the Camden
Post, have proved profitable to the pub
Usher as we'll as to the public at large.
The Doctor holds that the man who
does the most good in this life is truly
the most successful one, in other words
q good name is more important than the
accumulation Of money.
Mr.. A. 4. Skaggs of Townsend, is re-
covering from . serious attack Of
typhoid and pneumonia, and his many
friends are pleased to see him about
again.
A Missouri Man Kills tive Negroes.
ST. LOUIS, April l7.-Daniel Sheaff-
or, a white man, shot and killed two
negroes, Philip Burgette and his son
Moses, about four miles from St. Ge-
nevie, Missouri, on Tuesday. There
had been an old dispute between them
about the possession of piece Of land
and ON Tuesday they met on the land
and renewed the trouble, all being
armed. Philip Burgetts advanced on
Sheatfer in threatening manner,
whereupon the latter shot him dead.
Moses then opened fire on Shearf-r, and
was also shot and killed. Sheaffer has
been arrested.
Nanes for Girls.
There are ten girls iua Pennsylva-
mia family whose "Christian" names
are these: Emma Angelina Adlet, Lo-
vinia Serena Cornelia, Alice Ellen
Amanda, Torvilla Susanna Gorilla.
Francine Telara Cencillia, Perlinia ST.
bylla Agnes, Christiana Efibulia Eliza,
Annie Olivia Virginia, Ida Cora Jorine
and Mary Anna Alecia. The indomita
BILE motto in that family is Fetch on
another girl. ."-"Cinc. Conn.,"
Attempted Suicide.
Tom llallard, the counterfeiter, con-
fined at the Albany IN. " penitentia,
ry, who, in July last, attempted sui
eide. but recovered, made another at
tempt on Wednesday afternoon. He
used a shoe knife, with which he was
working, drawing it across his throat,
severing the windpipe, muscles and
blood vessels. At last accounts he had
not spoken since the attempt. He will