Daily Republican., 1880-08-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
Accident ON q Long Branch Hail.
road - A Big Batch Of shocking
Grimes - Sickness OF Prominent

Accident ON Long Branch Ha1A'
road - A Big Batch of shockinR
Grimes - SIckn moss OF Pr eminent
Men.
The fast newspaper train from New
I York for Long Branch collided with Q
rain of empty passenger cars near the
Long Branch station yesterday morn
ing. The side of one car OF the news
| train was torn away and two other cars
we're wrecked. Three young men
we're severely injured, one of whom,
jeremiah Culliland, is in critical con-
dition. The disaster is ascribed to the
carslessness Of John Erickson, engi-
neer.
At Pleasant Hill, NO., on Saturday
night, William and Robert Van Holtz,
brothers, while buying provisions in
the store Of Henry Stock, we're ordered
out by Stock, who, at the same moment
fred pistol at them. They returned
the fire killing Stock aud severely
wounding another man, named Alexan-
der, and then surrendered themse.v
to the police.
| The house of Martin Weinrich, on
the line between Dane and Columbia
counties, in Wisconsin, was discovered
on fire last Sunday night. The door
being forced, the bodies of Weinrich
and his wife, bearing fatal shot wounds,
were found within. The couple had
lived unhappily, and it is supposed
Weinrich shot his wife and then COM
mitted suicide.
Frank Stillwell was shot dead by
George Glass on Saturday night while
attempting to force an entrance into
the latter's house, disreputable place
in Urbana, Ill. Stillwell had been
drinking. He leaves wife and child.
Thomas Smith and Wesley Thomas,
negroes, quarrelled in Burlingame,
Kansas, on Sunday night, and Thomas
was killed. A second shot, fred by
Smith, passed through the window of a
saloon and mortally wounded a man
named Baker.
Michael Wood was arrested in the
act OF setting fire to building in Col
lege Point, L. L., last Saturday night.
Seven incendiary fires have lately oc-
CURED in this place, aud it is believed
that all can be traced to him.
John Dismen was found dead on the
stoop of his house at Red Bank, N. j.,
yesterday morning. While helplessly
drunk he had fallen fiat on his face
with his arms beneath him, and been
smothered to death. He was 45 years
of age.
The report of the robbery on Third
avenue car in New York is oontradicted
by the police Of that city. They say
the affair was nothing more than dis
turbance made by two drunken men,
who refused to pay their fare to the
conductor.
The quarterly interest on the four
and halt per cent. loan, due septem-
Der lst, will aggregate $2,6OO,OOO.
Checks for the payment of the interest
on the registered bonds will be sent
out by the U. S. Treasurer in a few
days.
Mrs. Moles, aged 50 years, was found
banging to tree near Wheeling, W.
Va, on Saturday night. It is sup
posed she committed suicide to escape
family jars"
The trial at Deadwood of R. O.
Adams, for embezzling nearly ZOO,
has resulted in his conviction. 1t is
thought he will give bail and appee l
the case to the Territorial Supreme
Court.
J. C. Miller, one of the proprietors
Of the Daily Critic, in Washington, D.
c., was severely if not fatally injured
yesterday, by falling from third-story
window.
Joseph Wilmer, aged s. years, COM
mitted suicide in Troy, N. Y, on Sun
day morning. He has been suffering
from sickness, which, it was supposed,
had effected his mind.
A telegram from Montrose, Pa, says
Warren has been convicted of murder
in the second degree. The jury were
out thirty-nine hours.
A jewelry store iu Danbury,> Conn.,,
was robbed of about $500 worth Of
by three burglars few nights
ago.
General Albert ]. Myer, chief Of the
Signal Service, remains in precarious
condition at Buffalo. His death was
momentarily expected last night.
The condition of Washington Nc
Lean, sick at Long Branch, was fur
ther improved yesterday, but is still
considered critical.
Alfred Terry, oolored, was shot dead
by James Thorp, in a quarrel, at Kan
sas City, on Sunday.
John Smithwrite, fireman on the pro-
peller Canister, was fatally shot by
Francis Trainor, in Buffalo, last night.
Trainor escaped.
General Grant and party left Denver,
COL, yesterday tor the East. The Gene
sral will 60 directly 10 Galena.
Is 1t the Truth. g
A man said to bear close resem-