Daily Republican., 1880-02-12
NEWS SUMMARY.
Biil 10 TqualIxe BOunties-shst
his Wife-Other Incidents, Aeci.
deuts, Grimes ana OutraKes.


his Wife-Oiher Incidents, Aeci
dents, Grimes ana OatraEes.
Speaker Randall has consented Il
recognize Mr.. Finley, Of Ohio, ON Mon
, day next, to move suspension Of tho
rules for considering a bill to equalize
bountiss OF soldiers who served in the
late war. A bill similar TO Mr.. Finley's,
introduced In 1874, would; according to
an estimate Of the Secretary Of the
Treasury, have required more than
$lOO. loco, 900 to carry out Its provisions.
! In Buffalo, yesterday, Peter Kertle, an
habitual drsnkard, shot and danger
ouSly wounded his wife, because, after
having been driven away by his vio-
lence, she refused to go back and live
with him. He then attempted suicide
by shooting himself and jumped into o
cistern. He Ia not expected To recover.
Edward Mulherin visited the house
Of man named Goldberger, at Lehigh-
ton, Pa, on Tuesday night, TO contra
diet scandal about himself and Mrs.
Goldberger. A quarrel followed in
which Mulherin was shot by Goldberg
or, aad died in . few minutes. Gold
berger was arrested. His victim leaves
wife and seven children.
The examination OF Garland Will
liams, ,olored, arrested in Cincinnati
last week for the murder Of Darby Mar
tin, in Scott county, Ky, sixteen years
ago, took place in Georgetown, Ky, on
Tuesday, and resulted in his discharge.
An extra freight train on the Missis-
sippi and Tennessee Railroad came into
collision with bridge train near Court
land, Miss, on Tuesday night. Both
engines and several freight cars were
wrecked, and the conductor of the |
bridge train was killed.
Philip Krieger, Sr., President Of the
defunct Broadway Savings Bank, in st.
Louis, has been convicted OF swearing
falsely tot statement Of the banks
condition, and has been sentenced to
three months Imprisonment and fine
of $500.
U. s. Deputy Collector Davis reached
Columbia, Tenn, on Tuesday night,
after five days raid through Lawrence
Wayne and Giles counties, in which he
destroyed FIVE Illicit distilleries and ar
rested seventeen persons. The posse
was fred at in Wayne county, but no
1ne was injured.
Andrew Smith, Town Treasurer of {
North Andover, Mass, Is defaulter
or $4,000, sand possibly more" He
las surrendered himself, but refuses to
make any statement. He is believed
o have sunk the stolen morsy in spec
ulations.
Secretary Sherman was before the
Ways and Means Committee yesterday
living his views on the refunding
question. He advocated a 4 per cent.
'ond, but was disposed to cOncede the b
possibility of negotiating one bearing a '
over rate of interest. a
The railroad from Rattle Mountain y
tation on the Central Pacific Railroad ~
D Austin, Nevada, was finished on h
londay evening. 1t opens up the n
razing and mining districts in the CEN II
e Of the State. "
An investigation of charges Of malad- ca
Illustration against the officers Of the p,
tate prison of New Hampshire was p'
sgun before the Governor and Council r
that State yesterday. PI
The Protestant Episcopal Church of
10 Holy Trinity,in Harlem, N. Y, was
'stroyed by fire yesterday morning.
le building cost $l25, 900, and the or. R,
N $4,000. IN ~
John O'Connell attempted to kill his all
fe with an iron poker, in Albany, N. de
, yesterday, and inflicted injuries of Pa
lich she may die. tn
The body Of James Welch, aged 2S bs
ars, formerly Of Buffalo, N. Y, was m
Ind yesterday morning in the ruins HI,
used by a fire at Tarport, Pa, on rel
Iesday evening. ~
Mrs. Ellen Fitzgerald committed sui
Ie in Louisville, yesterday, by set ,
g fire to her clothing with match. ~ a
One man was killed and another Sc ctr
usly injured by railroad train, at the
ewerton Station, near Syracuse, N. the
yesterday. bro
,u the
lanes Yard, Jr., was killed at Cen rnr
vile, N. j., yesterday, by the prema- con
g discharge Of his gun. Ian
Jrban Boyer, attacked with hydro not
,bia, at Weissport, Pa, died on
esdsy. .