Daily Republican., 1879-11-29
NEWS SUN MARY.


Inalchiug MNrmOns - Purify Ing
AesnDhiS-Ats suicide by
an Actress-A Lecture for Meade
Iurtdents. Accidents. Failures.
Fires, Grimes ana Cssuslttiss.
The Grand Jury which recently ad
journed at Salt Lake City, found four
indictments for polgamy. Great diff
Guilty was experienced in obtaining
truthful testimony from witnesses 'wLo
by their own admission and from the
circumstances, could, II they would,
have given satisfactory evidence as TO
the guilt or innocence Of parties con-
cernsd.'
The Committee OF the National Board
of Fsalth has submitted 10 the local
authorities and ,he Citizens COMMITTEES
Of Memphis, a report on the sanitary
needs OF that city. The committee re-
commends, among other things, the
adoption OF Colonel Warnings system Of
sewerage, to cost about S225, ,OtO.
Ada Clinton, q variety actress, Of
Colu N bus, Ohio, attempted suicide, by
shooting herself in the region of the
heart, at q masked ball In Cincinnati,
before daylight yesterday morning
She was too drunk 10 give an account
CT herself, and she was removed to the
hospital.
At the annual dinner Of the General
Meade Vsteran Association in Carlisle,
on Wednesday evening. 1t was resolved
to erect an equestrian statue Of Gsner-
al Meade, in Washington. and the
Army of the Potomac was requested to
take charge Of the monument.
A special train on the New York aud
Nav England Railroad ran into a hand
car in Providence, X. l., yesterday.
Michael McClrath and John Noon were
killed. The disaster ia attributed to a
violat,op Of the running rules by section
foreman White, in charge OF the hand
car.
Captain Packham, OF the brig West
mor-land, writes to friends in New
Brunswick that on the passage out
from St. John to Nassau, the second
mate, cook and one ssilor died ofyelow
fever, and were buried at see. The yes
sci is quarantin.d at Nassau.
Bennett Jackson was arrested in
Chattanooga yesterday morning for
body snatchipg. He disinterred the
body of man named Keith, who died
on Wednesday night, packet 1t in a
shos box and tried to express 1t to At
lantu as "fresh fish,"
One thousand dollars worth of jewell
~ was stolen from the residence Of w.
G.. Fargo, in Buffalo, N. Y, last sven
ing. A servant attempted TO enter thu
roora in which the thief was, but he
hut the door in her face, and she, sup
posing it to b- one of the family, wen,
down stairs, whereupon the thief walk.
ed off with his plundsr.
About S o'clock yesterday morning,
SONS people in Syracuse, N. T., heard
a loud explosion and saw bright light
In the northwestern sky. 1t Is supposed
to have been . meteor.
Patrick Hickey was killed by the
premature OK plosion of anitro-g yceriue
blast on the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and
Western Railway, near Johnsonvillr,
N. Y, on Thursday.
A tornado, accomps panied by rain,
passed over Louisville yesterday morn
ing, demolishipg several buildings, in
q udine q dist.llery warehouse, and
damaging other property, especially in
the suburbs.
E.J. McCuns, of Cumberland county,
oDs OF the alleged Legislative brlbers,
has r--spter-d bail in $4,000 at Harris
burg for his appearance ut the next
term Of the Court.
The Marcellus Powder mills, con-
tanning 5000 pounds Of powder, about
twelve miles froHi Syracuse, exploded
on Thursday morning. No lives were
lost.
At Pstrolia, Ont. yesterday, a man
clsa ming car tank with beDzins was
oyerpowered by the fumes, but was
rescued by the foreman Of the works,
Mr.. Cook, at the risk Of the lstter's
life.
Julia Ann Huber, suspected Of pois-
oning her stepmother and infant sister,
the latter fatally, was arrested at Eph-
rata, on Thursday, and is nov in the
Lancaster jail.
The steamship Arizons, which ran
into an icsierg, has been repaired At
St. Johns, N. f., aud sailed for Liver
pool yesterday afternoon.
A mass meeting OF Irishmen will he
held in St. Louis, on December Sth, to
raiss funds for the assistance OF the
destitute people in Ireland.
DR.. Freeman J. Bumstead died yes.
tsrday in New York, aged 80 years.
His reputation as a physician and a
writer upon medical subjects was world
vide.
Asa Magoon, who murdered Rufus
S.reeter in Barre, VT, in October 1875,
was hanged yesterday, at Windsor, Vt.
He leaves seven children.
Mrs. DR.. J. Mex. Holiday, mother Of
the Governor of Virginia, died in Win
chester, Va, yesterday, aged 81 years.
A stove factory aud saw mill at
Webb's Station, near Toledo, Ohio,
was burned on Thursday night. Loss
$2O, 900. =.
Henry Hulzs. farmer, aged 70
wears, committed suicide on Thursday,
by shooting himself in the head. He
has been melancholy for some time.
Captain George A. Cole, city inspeo-
tor Of kerosene, dropped dead at his
home in Providence, R. l., yesterday
morning. -
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