Daily Republican., 1879-07-28
FIRST EDITION.
NEWs SUMMARY.

sunday Rist-Rain s'or'ns-Hee-
.n of crimes, Casualties, lnci.
1,pts and Accidents. f.....
M. "Willet Club, 'of New York city
nj NJ On an excursion to College Point,
! III l., Yesterday, and there was fight
- -, NJ IN the barge oil the way. After
I.sssiua. W. Andrew Distill was fatally
. isot and two others were wounded. A
'Dy a.l;osmsn who accompanied the gang
sps,sd five shots In the crowd" but
n;stjll' ante mortem deposition charges
his M MVounding upon Stranger" John
u u Bysr was arrested for the crime.
Sundays rain storm did great dam.
90. in ths oil towns Of Petrolia and
rs,us city, and along the honoDgahels
and Youghiogheny valleys, in tho
eastern m part Of this State. Nearly all
The railroads centsring at Pittsburg,
|sIcsp. Ma Pennsylvania, were damaged.
Tbr rainfall at Irwin Station 10 re-
norted to have been I inches. A wo.
man was drowned at Shaner Station by
the flood.
Rockville, Ont, was visited by
violent storm yesterday afternoon.-
Many buildings were damaged by light
nipe, and man named Laroque was
Filled on an Island in the river. On
tbe American side a tree, under which
4 woman took refuge with her infant,
was struck by lightning, the child was
killed and The mother fatally inj jured.
The body OF . man about IS years Of
re was found floating in the Hudson
liver at Esopus, on Wednesday after.
noon. 1t has been identified as that Of
Simon Finnegan, Of Albany, who was a
passenger on night steamboat between
New York and Albany week ago. "a
The members Of the family Of Cap.
tain Daniel Dodson, In Petersburg, Va,
seven in number, we're made seriously
i'll on Saturday evening by eating ice
cream. 1t is supposed tho cream was
tainted by brass vessel in which it
vas prepared. 5E36 4
A telegram from Petersburg, Va,
says the corn aud tobacco crops Of that
section, which threatened to become
total failure from drought, have been
greatly refreshed by copious showers.
The forest fires have also been sxtin.
suished by the rains.
At Dover, Tenn, on Saturday, Will
liam BurcheIl, recently married to a
widow named Yates, shot his wife and
|step. daughter, inaicting fatal wounds,
and then committed suicide. II is sup.
posed he was insane.
John Mabony and James Sullivan
we're drowned near Buffalo, N. Y, yes
terday while fishing. Mahonsy fell
into the water and Sullivan perished
in trying 10 save him.
The house of John Russell, at Med
ford, Mass, was entered by burglars
during the absence Of the family on
Friday, and the safe was blown open
and robbed Of over $1,000.
DR.. Leyno, formerly Of Baltimore,
who recently took up his residence in
Dunnings, near Scranton, disappeared
suddenly on Saturday. and is believed
to have been foully dealt with.
Robert w. johnson, who was repre-
sentative to Congress from Arkansas
rom ls47 to 1858, and Senator in Con.
gr-ss from 1853 to 1861, died in Little
Rock on Saturday, after brief illness,
aged IS.
A gravel train on the Northwestern
Railroad struck q COW near Waukegan,
Ill.,, on Saturday and was thrown into
sditcn. Four men were killed and
several injured, one fatally.
A passenger train ran off the track at
Havana, Ohio, yesterday, killing the
engineer and fireman, and slightly in
jnring a tramp, who was stealing a
ride.
Henry Miller, colered, was hanged at
Johnsonville, Miss, on Friday. tor the
murder Of another colored man named
Murphy.