Daily Republican., 1879-07-16
FIRST EDITION.
NEWS SUMMARY.

FIkSI EUIIlUN.
NEWS SUMMARY.
yellow Fever-storms = Scuil
,..- .risdl . for Murder - Rife
.,.h--CrImes- Casualties - Acci-
1.pts and Incidents.
No more cases Of yellow fever have
,su AN reported in Memphis, and the
,,s Board Of Health announces that,
'Ir,s new cases occur, the present
srantine regulations will b. disoon-
ansd on Monday. New Orleans, Nor.
Il, Cairo and Little Rock, have sus-
pded their quarantines against Mem
bis.
Severe thunder storms, with hail and
oh winds, occurred yesterday in va
pus portions OF the province Of Onta.
On the Canadian side Of Niagara
lis the spirs OF a Methodist church
the rehectors and other apparatus
the electric light were blown down.
The single scull race between Charles
Courtney and Joseph II. Riley for
loo side, two miles and return, was
we'd at Silver Lake, New York, yes
Fdsy afternoon. The water was very
ugl. Courtney won by half length
97 minutes 37a seconds.
George Lewis, oolored, aged 10 years,
/ cut on his second trial for the mur-
Of his grandmother, at Richmond,
J., on Monday, before jury compos
entirely of oolored men. At mid
hit he was convicted of murder in
second degree, tho jury fixing IS
ars imprisonment.
Ehe 20th annual session Of the State
uucil of the Junior Order Of United
usrican Mechanics began yesterday
Altoona. Nearly 200 delegates were
Psent, representing 3 membership Of
but 5000 in the State. Officers for
ensuing year will be chosen to-day.
small bore rife match between
|ms of Ogdensburg, N. Y, and Otta-
Canada, began at Ottawa yester-
The score stood: 800 yards, Og-
bsburg Ala; Ottawa 404; 900 yards,
rnsburg 374, Ottawa 1873.
Fhe country around Norfolk, Va, is
tvring from prolonged drought
ch valuable timber in the Dismal
amp has been destroyed by fire, and
&c tracts are still burning. The
Pike of the conhagration hung heavi-
pvsr Norfolk yesterday.
NJ. Chapman, treasurer Of the
dpford fMe.) Savings Bank, who
omitted suicide on Monday, is said to
Fe left will devising his estate,
posed to bs worth $50, 900, to the
Rk. The bank rs affairs are under go
an investigation.
meeting Of the creditors of the Dem
Cn Paper Manufacturing Company
held yesterday, in Portland, Me-,
Ehich the total liabilities of the CON-
" were reported to be 1926, ,927, and
total assets S6l,09l.
be statement telegraphed from
shington that calls would be issued
Ten-forty bonds til is month was in
Fect. These bonds, aggregating
5,5OO, 900, were called in April and
sture" this month. There are no
DIS now subject 70 call.
saac Krom, farmer, of Roudout, N.
committed suicide on Monday, and
PrOner's jury found yesterday that
was laboring under Temporary in
|ity from dumb ague." He leaves a
and five children.
Wo hundred Of the puddlsrs and
perS at the Allentown rolling mills,
; struck for higher wages three
ks ago, resumed yesterday, the
lpany giving them an advance Of
fents per ton. /
lnshamton, N. Y, was visited by a
lent thunder storm, yesterday after
a. Many trees were blown down,
crops were damaged and house was
ned and a man killed by light
&.
aniel Rouger, until recently leader
The Murphy temperance movement,
Dayton, Ohio, was drowned in the
uni River while drunk, on Monday
rn0on.
he Louisiana Constitutional Conven-
Yesterday considered articles rela. !
TO the Judiciary. 1t is thought :
Convention will adjourn on Satur- :
ne Maryland Republican Convention
meet in Baltimore on the 18th of =
tember next.
the Georgia House Of Representa-, ,
yesterday a bill was defeated !
FISHING the State Bureau of Agricul ,
severe storm at Coatacock, Quebec, |
Monday, threw down a church /
pie and damaged the crops in the
hborhood.
ol'leib CHASER was killed while
ENG on the Lehigh Valley Railroad .
x, near Allentown, last evening. !
iahps Durham, prominent citizen t
o'sm, l.. l., was fatally gored by a d
yesterday. t.
Dishonest Negro. |,
last Monday Mr.. William R. Long, b
Iontrctioner, 30l East 9Th street, O
listed a negro named Frank Hall 0
large can CT ice cream to dispose s.
u 'ae street. He proved to be an ii
fIlrnt salesman not only selling out s,