Daily Republican., 1880-08-27
NE We SUMMARY.
what IL New ALI over the World
News OF q Day and Might.

hMsEicb cOuCtuu0u lth Ed5blOnb III Oul
oa9o yesterday. It will meet in New
York next year. The officers are John
Corbut, Of Philadelphia, President; G,
A. Douglass, Of Chicago, Secretary ;
Alex. Hesler, Of Chicago, Treasurer
and J. E. Ryder, Of Cleveland, e. l..
Wilson, editor Of the Philadelphia Pho
tographer, and L. Klauber, Of Louis
vile, Executive Committee.
The sentence Of Sprague, convicted
OF the murder Of T. Wallace Moore, in
Ventura county, CAL, two years ago,
mas been commuted by the Governor OF
that State to imprisonment. Jones, the
States witness, whose testimony con.
victed Sprague, asserted, on subse-
quent trial, that be had been bribed to
testify against the prisoner, and re-
traotcd all his statements against him.
| The Commercial Bulletin, of Chicago,
publishes dispatches from $50 counties
in the Northwester States showing the
condition Of the corn crop. The crop
lwill be larger than was expected, the
damage from drought having bsen con
dned to narrow limits. In some districts,
especially in Iowa, the yield will be
the largest on record, and the crop, a.
a whole, will be "large average"
| Arosse Of Bast Providence, R. l., po-
lice made raid upon oyster thieves in
the Sekonk river on Wednesday night.
Two boats, containing five men, were
captured after desperate resistance, in
which one Of the posse was shot in the
cheek, and another in the arm. There
were $50 bushels Of oysters in the cap
tured boats.
The recent outbreak Of fever on the
United States steamer Portsmouth, 1t
has been found, was caused by defec-
tive pipe connections, whereby waste
matter, instead Of passing of through
the proper channel, was carried be.
tween decks and lodged there. 1t is
alleged that this source Of disease con-
tinued for months.
In the Admiralty Court at Montreal,
yesterday, in the case Of the bark Ge-
nos, Of Hantsport, N. s. which collided
in February, 1879, with the bark Elba,
Of New York, the Chief Justice decided
the Genoa in fault, and directed q ref.
erence to ascertain the damages to be
paid to the owners Of the Elbs.
The body Of an unknown woman,
horribly beaten, was found in ravipe
near Sidney, Ohio, on Wednesday. It
was discovered, by post mortem ex-
animation, that she would soon have
given birth to twins. William Curtis,
canal boatman, has been arrested on
suspicion.
Deputy Marshal Evans has arrived
at Tucson, Arizona, with Captain Tadeo
Yresetagena and eight men Of Reyes
band, and they have been sent to
Camp Lowell for safe-keeping. After
the fight with sheriff Butner's posse,
Reyes escaped to the Santa Rita Noun.
tains.
President Hayes and family left
Washington last night for Fremont,
Ohio. The President and Mrs. Hayes
will leave Fremont on September lst
for the Pacific coast. They will be
Joined In their Pacific coast trip by Sec
retary Ramsey. General Sherman, Gen.
Mitchell and W. D. Howells, editor of
the Monthly"
General Sheridan and party arrived
at Colonel Dodge's camp, near Los
Pinos Agency, Colorado, on Tuesday,
under escort OF detachment of the
Fourth Cavalry. The party left on
Wednesday morning for General Ma
kensie's came. They will leave the
wilderness near Gunnison City.
James McIlvey was shot dead by s.
R. Phelps, member Of the Kentucky |
Legislature, at Springfield, Ky, yes.
te1day. 1t was the end Of an old feud.
Phelps gave himself up to the police.
Rev. DR.. John F. Chaplain died yes
tarday at Allentown, Pa. He was Pre-
siding Elder of the Lehigh District of
the Philadelphia Methodist Episcopal
Conference.
The State Department is advised of
the arrest and imprisonment at
Zitacure, Mexico, Of eighteen of the
rioters who killed the American miners
in the State of Michoacan last March.
The treasurer's box at the Hampden |
Park races at Springfield, Mass, was
robbed by an unknown person of $lJ5C |
during the trotting last Friday after
noon.
The camp meeting Of the Ocean
Grove Association closed yesterday
morning nearly ten Thousand people
participating in the closing exercises.
Calvin Conklin was struck on the
temple and killed by Bennett Boyd in
drunken quarrel at Penn Yan, N. Y,
last evening.
Charles Brush, the constructing en-.
gineer of the Hudson River Tunnel has
resigned, and his resignation has been
accepted.
The jury in the case Of Wolfgang
Hoffman, on trial at Somerset, Pa, for
the murder of his wife, rendered a YER
dict of not guilty last evening.
The completed census of Wisconsin
give that State population OF 1,3l5,-
464, an increase of 206, ,794 since 1870.
The census of Hudson county, N. j.,
shows a population Of $4,000, of
which Jersey City has l22, ,2O7. l.
The Navy Department is advised {
Of the arrival of the U. s. training ship
Saratoga at Madeira, with all on board
veil.
The U. s. training ship Minnesota
eft Portland, Me-, yesterday, for New
York. |.
The U. s. ship Constitution sailed
rom Halifax, N. s., on Wednesday, for
New Bedford.
COuntermaude ded.
Owing to the action taken by the