Daily Republican., 1880-08-28

An.Enjnstfce on the r. W. Il B.Rhu'
road deompsny-As sparrlng matoi
ends In ears est-0th or lncidsn o.
| Accidents, Grimes nad Casual
ties. .........
The Pennsylvania railroad company
Having failed to comply with noti6ca
Ition OF the Board Of Public Works o.
Jersey City to lower its tracks to tn.
street level, Street Commissioner Con
don yesterday employed q large forcs
Of men TO make the alteration. He was
stopped by an injunction granted by
Judge Knapp "restraining him In the
premises.
Paddy Ryan, OF Troy, and Charles
McDona.d, champion Of Canada, gave 4
sparring exhibition before crowded
house in Pembroke, Ont, on Friday
evening. Becoming excited they threw
of their gloves, and pummelled each
other until both blsd copiously. The
dght was ended by Mcdonald falling ia
the ground with dislocated ankle.
Eleven attaches OF Boyd & Peters
Circus were placed on trial at Somerset,
Pa, yesterday, for the assault upor
Miss Saloms Burkett, in July last
They were allowed separate trials, and,
after hearing the evidence in their ca
SOS, the jury acquitted them all.
Mrs. Catharine Scheffsr, widow Of
sixty years, has brought suit for breach
Of promise against young Italian
named Fersariere, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
She claims 80, 900 damages. She .also
charges that the youth obtained from
her . mortgage Of $1,000 under false
pretenses.
A despatch from Fort Nojave, Arizo.
ma dated the 22d inst, reports fu-
rious storm. The company quarters
were blown down, three men killed and
several injured. The omcers quarters
were destroyed, the hospital and store
house much damaged.
During Wednesdays storm cyclone
one mile wide swept over Little Neck,
Great Neck and Creedmoor, L. !. Hun
dreds of acres Of growing corn were de-
stroyed and many buildings were dam
aged. One house was damaged by
lightning.
Two drunken quarrymen, named
Dooley and Dundss, quarrelled and
fought at Beamsville, Ont, on Thurs
day night, and Dooley died an hour
after from kicks received in the ston-
ach. DundaS escaped arrest.
While descending the shaft of q new
sewer in Boston, yesterday. Jas. Clark,
foreman of gang Of laborers, fell out Of
the cage to the bottom, distance Of so
feet and was killed. He leaves . wife
and seven children in Maryland.
The engagement Of Jesse, youngest
son Of General Grant to Lizzie, ,daughteS
of N. s. Chapman, large landowner,
of California, is announced in San
Francisco. The wedding is to take
place next month.
Taylor Chase shot and killed his
brother, Harrison Chase,a at Washington,
Ind, on Thursday. They were drunk
At the time, and had long cherished q
grudge against each other.
The body Of an unknown man, absut
Is years of sge, which had been cut in
two by q train, was found ron the Ha-
lem River Railroad, at Ninety-seventh
street, New York, yesterday morning.
An iAcendiary fire at steelton, Pa,
early yesterday morning, destroyed a
warehnuse and three stables owned by
J. B. Litch, and another building own.
ed by Henry Bonholtzer.
President Hayes and family reached
Fremont, Ohio, yesterday. Next We'd
nesday the President will attend q re-
union OF his regiment at Canton.
The funeral Of General Albert J.
Myer took place yesterday, in Buffalo.
After service at st. Paul's Episcopal
Church, the remains were temporarily
deposited in the church vault.
E. A. Waggoner, Of Ithaca, N. Y,
has been arrested on the charge Of de-
frauding the Government out Of $3.50,
on dead mans application for q PEN
sion.
James Colts, aged 27 years, steward
of the schooner CANA, anchored at the
Hoboken coal docks, was fatally injur-
ed on Thursday night by falling into
the schooner's hold.
Green Ellis, oolored, who had beaten
and robbed white woman, was taken
from the Jail at Guthrie KY, on Thurs
day night, and lynched by a mob of 80
men.
Joseph Glassford, a constable, was
shot dead by a mill watchman named
Fisher, at Milford, Utah, yesterday
There was an old grudge between
them.
A telegram from San Francisco says
DR.. Chalfant, who killed Josiah Bacon,
has been convicted of murder in the
second degree.
Ex-Governor Fenton, Of New York,
is sick at his residence in jamestown,
but his physician anticipates a speedy
recovery.
Jacob Winding, aged Is years,
hanged himself in New York yester-
day, for no reason that is known.
The Ohio Wheel Co.'s car Works, at
Delphos, Ohio, were damaged by fire
y yesterday, to the extent of $40, 900.
The New York Democracy.
The Democratic State Committee of
Nav York (reeular) met Yesterday, and |