Daily Republican., 1879-10-14
NEWS SUMMARY.

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Illegal Mail Matter-The Fair.
ground Aceident-RntirOa Acct.
demt - Massachusetts Politics -
Accidents, Incidents, Grimes and
Casualties.
! The postmaster at Louisville, KY,
having refused to deliver letters ad-
dressed "T. J. Commerford, Secretary
Commonwealth Distribution Company, ="
suit was brought in the Federal Court
to test the validity of Postmaster Cen
eral Keys order in regard to lottery let
ters. The Court decided yesterday
that letters addressed to T. ]. CONNER.
ford could lot be detained, but that the
Department order regarding letters ad :
dressed to individuals as agents Of lot
teries or to lottery firms was valid.
The coroner jury in the case of the
disaster at Adrain, Mich, where 1j
persons were killed and 270 injured by
the falling of stand on the fair
grounds, has rendered verdict declar-
ing w. T. Lawrence, owner of the
stand Sizer, the architect, and Henry
aud Il. II. Armstrong, the carpenters
who built it, guilty of criminal negli
gence. All but the last named have
been arrested for manslaughter and
held each in $4,000 bail.
Additional particulars of the railroad
disaster at Belton, w. Va, on Satur'
day night, show that only one passen
ger, little girl, was injured, and hei
injuries are slight. A boy of fifteen,
named Flanagan, who was stealing a
ride, was killed. Jasper, the fireman
Of the west bound train, George Shinn,
the postal clerk, and colored boy who
was stealing ride, were seriously in
jured.
The Massachusetts Grsenback State
Committee has nominated A. c. Wood
worth for Lieutenant Governor, in place
of Wendell Phillips, declined. Wood.
worth is also a candidate on the Butler
ticket. The committee has refused to
accept the declination of W. F. Whit
ney Of Ashburnham, the nominee for
State Treasurer.
Major Irvine, of the Canadian Mount
ed Police, who has just arrived at
Winnepeg from the West, says there is
no danger of trouble in the Northwest
ern Territory. If the Sioux should
prove troublesome the loyal Blackfeet
would furnish 1900 mounted warriors
to the Government.
William Lett, of Company c. Twen-
tieth Infantry, was shot dead by Will
liam Turner, first Sergeant of Company
L. Tenth Cavalry, at Fort Stockton,
Texas, on the night of the 7th inst.
Turner surrended himself. The
cause of the shooting is unknown.
A large meeting Of colored Republic
cans in favor of the McCulloch bill for
funding the State debt was held in
Blandford, Va, on Sunday night. The
colored people in Virginia are taking
about as much interest in the debt
question as the white.
Charles Wise, a son, and James
Downey, nephew of the missing aeron-
aut, Professor Wise, both express the
opinion that he AMI George Burr are
lost. The balloon found near Milwaukee
has been identified as one sent up from
Waukesha last Friday.
Securities to the amount Of $500
we're stolen from the house of Leonard
Fairbanks, in Milford, Mass, last week,
but the loss was not discovered until
Saturday. A house painter has been
arrested on suspicion.
A commission, appointed by the Pres
ident, will make trials at Long Branch
to-day and tomorrow of appliances for
life saving stations, such as RATS, boats,
flags, life preservers, &c.
General Meritt's forces reached the
White River Agency on Saturday, the
Indians retreating southward. 1t is
thought they will scatter into small
bands and slip into the various agen-
cies.
The body of an unknown man, ap-
parently As years of age, badly decom
posed, and with the skull split open,
was found in the woods about seven
miles below Albany, N. Y, on Sunday
afternoon.
Large public meetings have been held
in British Columbia to protest against
the employment of Chinese labor in the
construction of the Canada Pacific Rail
way.
The bricklayers Of Nashville, Tenn,
struck yesterday for So for ten hours
work per day, an advance OF 80 cents.
The employees say they will not grant
the demand.
The steamer St. Paul, with General
Grant ON board, arrived at Astoria yes
terday morning and was saluted by the
forts. She will arrive at Portland to-
day.
J. J. Wheeler, a newspaper editor of
Paris, Texas, was shot dead yesterday
by q lawyer named Bonner, whose life
he had threatened several times.
John Quincy Adams has written a
letter accepting the regular Democratic
nomin alton for Governor Of Massachu-
sets.
William Beaver was indicted at
Louisa Court House, Va, yesterday,
for the murder of his wife on the Sth
inst.
Garrett Geisler, aged As years, was
drowned by falling off canal boat,
while drunk, at Little Falls, N. Y, on
Several additional parties Of negroes
have arrived in Washington from
North Carolina, and are anxious 10 60 ,
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