Daily Republican., 1880-01-24
NEWS kUMMARY.
A Kaad ON tire Indians Projected -
An odd Fellows Monument Train
Wrecked - Relief for Ireland -
other Incidents, Accidents, Etr.

An Odd Fellows uOnuuent AFnht
wrecked - Relief for Ireland -
Other Incidents, Accidents, Etr'
The Interior Department Is advised
Of movement ito organize . band foi
the purpose Of raiding the lands of the
Indiansn in the Indian Territory. The
headq uarters Of the gasg are at Wichita
Kansas. The War Department will
distribute troops so as to check the
bond.
The Old Fellows Monumental Socie-
ty Of Cincinnati yesterday awarded 9
contract for the erection Of monument
over the graves OF the Society's un'
known dead in Spring Grove Cemetery
The structure will be 80 feet high, o.
bronze and American gray granite.
A material train on the Virgins
Midland Railroad ran of the track a.
Rockford Station yesterday, and plung
ed down q fifty foot embankment. Biz
cars were wrecked. The conductor
and two brAkemsn were killed, and
Captain II. D. Luckett and six road
hands were seriously injured.
At the meeting Of prominent citizens
OF Philadelphia, held in the Mayors
office yesterday, steps were taken
towards raising funds for the benefit oI
the su ffsring people in Ireland. Drexel
h Co. have contributed $1,000 to the
Irish relief fund.
In the Baltimore County Court, yes.
terday, John NJ. Douglass, convicted OF
murder in the second degree for kill
Ing Joseph NJ. Landos, in February last,
was sentenced to fifteen years impris-
onment in the Penitentiary.
All the prisoners, fifteen in number,
In the county Jail at Greensburg, Ind,
escaped yesterday morning before day
light. They got through hole in the
floor of the upper cells made by escaping
prisoners about two weeks ago.
Tho House select Committee on the
Yorktown Cele bration agreed yesterday
to report bill appropriating 500, ,O0C
Tor the erection Of a monument at York
town, and $40, 900 to meet the expenses
OF the Yorktown Centennial.
The German citizens Of Petersburg
Va, have made liberal contribution
to relieve the famine stricken in Upper
Silesia, Germany. The money has
been forwarded to the German Consul
at Richmond, for transmission to Ger,
many.
Several Of the ladies attending the
Woman Suffrage Convention in Wash
lngton were before the Senate Commit
tee on the Judiciary yesterday, arguing
In favor of a Sixteenth Amendment to
the Constitution for the enfranchise-
ment of women.
John Mcguire, alias William Love,
has been arrested in Welland, Ont,
for murder committed in Pennsylva-
MIA seven years ago, and will be held
for requisition. He is said to be a
Mollie Mcguire.
Lewis Matthews and Philetus Smith,
counterfeiters, were arrested In Mexico.
N. y, yesterday afternoon. They be.
long to gang of whom fifteen, includ-
ing four women, are in jail.
Governor Blackburn, Of Kentucky,
yesterday pardoned eighty-ssven con-
victs in the penitentiary at Frankfort.
The reason for this wholesal clemency
is the condition of the prison and its
inmates, already reported.
William Ruffin and James O'Brien,
both solored, quarrelled on Frederick
street bridge, in Georgetown, D. c.,
last evening, and falling into the canal
were drowned.
The Senate Committee on Territories
yesterday agreed unanimously to re-
port favorably on the nomination of Eli
II. Murray, of Kentucky, to be Govern
or of Utah.