Daily Republican., 1880-01-21

Telegraph operator stabbed-A
Murderer Convicted-An IndiaI
right - other Incidents. Acct
dents. Crimes anu CasualIiies.
| The Commission appointed by th
last Legislature TO count the vote cas-
at the last State election, met in Har
risburg yesterday, Governor Hoyt pres
iding. The vote was compiled as fol
lows: Butler, Republican. 2Sv, l52
Barr, Democrat, 22l, 7i5; sutton, Green
hacker, 27,207; Richardson, Prohibi
ZIONIST. 32l9.
Charles Andrews, a telegraph opera
tor. was fatally stabbed by q coloret
man named Polk, while walking slopl
the street in Lawrence, Kansas, ON Sun
day evening. A companion Of Andrew
had some words with Polk but Andrew
himself gave no provocation for the Is
sault. Polk escaped.
The trial Of James M. Young for tn,
murder Of George HiBtoni at Peters
burg, Va, resulted yesterday, Ia yer
dict of murder in the second degree
the jury fixing the penalty at ten year.
imprisonment in the penitentiary. The
prisoner is q years OF age. A new tria
will bs moved to-day.
1t Is reported from Tucson, Arizona
that Major Merrill had fight with Vic
toria's Indians on Monday, and that j.
Hansell French, Second Lieutenant Of
the Ninth CaValry,is among the killed
Two scouts were wounded.
Arthur p. German, ,mocrat, wal
elected U. s. Senator by the Maryland
Legislature yesterday, TO succeed VIM.
Pinckney Nhyte, whose term will ex.
pire on March 4th, 1881. The Repub.
licans voted for James A. Gary.
The House Military Committee agreed
yesterday morning on Mr.. Bragg's bill
restoring Fltz John Porter, with amend
men:s, one of which will make his al
lOwance for arrears about $j5, 600, in
stead of S75, 200, as at first proposed.
The Louisiana Legislature went
through the motions Of balloting for a
U. s. Senator yesterday, but no election
is expected until the Democratic caucus
has effected . nomination.
Ex-Governor Westcott, of Florida,
died in Montreal on Monday, aged 80
years. He was a native Of Virginia.
Hs had resided in Montreal since the
breaking out the rebellion.
Wong Frock, chinaman, who was
to have been hanged for the murder of
another chinaman, ,at Portland, Oregon,
yesterday committed suicide by strang-
ulation in his cell on Monday night.
The boilers OF the Montgomery Fur
mace, at Port Kennedy, Pa, exploded
last evening. No person was injured,
but there will be heavy loss, as the
furnace will have to bs put out Of
blast.
The trial of Charles Demond, ex-
Treas urer of the Massach usetts Home
Missionary Society, for embezzlement,
began yesterday in Boston. 1t is al
legged that he has embezzled $55, 900.
Three men we're sufFocated by the
fumes of blast in the Bonanza shaft
at Howland Flat, Sierra Nevada county,
Col, on Monday.
Mayor Merrick, of Cleveland, Ohio,
has declined to preside at reception
to be given to Messrs. Parnell and Dill
Ion in that city.
There was strike of coal miners at
w. Va, on Monday, be-
cause one of their number was dis
charged.
A great fire in Toxic, Japan, on Dec.
Goth, destroyed $1,000 houses, making
30, 900 people homeless.
A new steamship line has just been
started between Halifax, N. s., and
Jamaica.
A company in Mon :real asks an in
for the purpose Of lighting
that city with the electric light.
Fifty.two cases Of small .pox and nine
ieaths have been reported. in the Dis
.-ict of Columbia to date this season.
The work of sewering the city of
Memphis is to begin to-day. 1t is ex-
pected to be finished by the middle of
May.