Daily Republican., 1879-07-12
FIRST EDITION.
NEWS SUMMARY.

NEWS SUMMARY.
smith Bennett Caso-Execu
.,.u Of Murderers-Fall 0fa Build
..r-RslIrsad Accidental Re
..rd of Crime, Accident and Incl
dents.
IN the Supreme Court at Trenton, N
Yesterday, Judge Knapp rendered
decision in the Smith-Bennett case
4 passed upon thirty. one assignment
,lror, deciding that they were no
,nusrted, and affirmed the judgm en-
he lower Court. The case will nov
TO the Court of Errors and Appeals
hsre II will be heard on Wednesday
eyt ...
Two colored murders, John William
bnyicted of the murder Of Howard
[Oltsclaw, and Winter Payne, convict
Of the murder of an old negro named
dams, we're hanged in the jail yard q
T.uenton, Va, yesterday morning
besp we're the first private execution
Virginia. The motive OF Williams
lime was robbery, that of Payne's re-
tugr for trifling quarrel.
An old building on Charter street
Oston, tumbled down while in course
demolition yesterday, burying in its
bins several children who were gath.
ing timber. Only two Of them sus.
lined serious injuries. 1t is believed
s children pulled down the building
themselves by undermining its
pporting timbers.
Lehigh Valley train, which left
ilkssbarre at l.34 o'clock yesterday
orning, met with an accident at Fair
sw. A misplaced switch threw the
gine down an smbankment, killing
ugustus Helker, the engineer, and
lTard Khull, the fireman. No one
swas injured.
In an affray at Lake Providence, La. i,
Friday, Postmaster Austin was killed
Squire Lusk, and s. L. Austin, Jr.,
Parish Judge, was mortally wound
A colored man named Smith was
lsd by stray bullet while crossing
% street.
Hezskiah Dyer, farm laborer, Of
onardstown, Md, was found dead by
sroadside on Thursday night, with
iskrll crushed in. 1t is supposed
was killed in a quarrel with his
other, who has disappeared.
In Hartford, Conn.,, on Friday morn
{, John Herr, a baker, being jealous,
lbbI Henry Msistsrling, and then
ungsd butcher knife into his wife's
Ny fifteen times. He is held to await
srssult Of their injuries, but it is
ought they may recover.
bhn Davis, oolorsd, was hanged at
pishvills, N. c., yesterday, for the
urder of Henry McDuffie, also color
in December last. Davis confessed
skilling, but said It was unintsn-
tna.
The latest reports OF the powder sx-
|aion at Bodie, CAL, says that at
et persons we're killed and 40 in
Nl. Many Of the latter will proba-
V die.
The trial Of A. r. Gibson, at Macon,
\, for the murder Of q New Yorker
Ened D. W. Coleman, resulted yes
fday in his acquittal. The jury were
y 10 hours.
Two persons were killed and eight
ued by the explosion OF a boiler in
paining mill of Adams and Setter,
Baltimore, yesterday morning.
child of Thomas Dugan was fa-
Y Scalded, by falling into q tub of
NIlng water, at Hyde Park, Pa, on
lursday.
Joseph Powers, aged 20 years, was
night in the shafting of the Rhode Is-
nd bleachery, at Providence, R. l.,
s'rrday and killed.
hsV, Charles A. Curtis, Pastor of the
nI'arlan Church, at Agusta, Me-, was
owned while fishing in Moosshsad
IKE on Thursday.
Vharles O'Brien and Jacob Andrews
N respectively IA and Ii years,
Pc killed by lightning, in Upper San
Aky, Ohio, on Thursday evening.
Jury in the Buford case at Owen
n.y., was completed yesterday, and
trial was begun.
horse and wagon backed off the
at Eddyville, N. Y. yesterday
e'h"on, and woman named Connor
rs drowned.