Daily Republican., 1880-02-16
NEWS SUMMARY.

Garr0tte and Robbed - Peter
Herdic No Fraud-The Ohio
Floods San Francisc0 Work.,
Ing Men-A st. vanIentine Muir
der-Other Accidents, Incfdents,
Grimes and Casualties.
Thomas +. Philips, retired mer-
chant, partially paralyzsd, was CARROT
ted and robbed in Thompson street..
New York, by three colored women, last,
night. The women were afterwards
arrested, and gave the names of "Mary
Vanderbeck, Elizabeth Wilson and.
Jane Henderson, Of Philadelphia."
In the United States District Court,
at Pittsburg, on Saturday, Judges
Atchison and McKsnnan filed an opin-
ion discharging Peter Herdic from
bankruptcy without conditions. The
Court, in delivering the opinion, de-
clares that it has not been shown that
Herdic has committed any fraud or IL
regularity.
Accounts continue of damage by the
foods in Ohio and Kentucky, showing
considerable loss to railroads and mill
owners. Frankfort, Ky, was in dark
ness on Saturday night, the gas works
being submerged. Two men were
drowned near Wilkesville, Ohio, by the
sweeping away of bridge.
The unemployed vorkingmen Of San
Francisco marched to Pacific Mail
dock on Saturday and committee had
an interview with agent Williams, but
obtained no direct satisfaction"
They then called on several Of the firms
and companies, but no answer was
given to their demands.
Herman Schultz was twice stabbed
in the back by Michael Suffrans, at
Port Johnston, N. Y, on Saturday, and
is believed to be- mortally wounded
Suffrans had received a "Valentine''
representing hangman, and supposed
that Schultz, with whom he had
long had feud, was the sender.
A man named Beames, was murder
ed in Newfoundland, twentp-one years
ago. Six months ago witness of the
murder testified before magistrate in
relation to the deed, and man named
Collins has been arrested and lodged
in Jail.
The New York "Hsrald's" IrishSRe-
lief Fund reached $200,092 on Satur-
day night. St. Mary's Catholic church
in Bordentown, yesterday contributed
$1,000 for Irish relief, and collections
for the same purpose taken up in tbs
Catholic churches of Wilmington, Dol. A.
yielded $4,000.
Captain Rucke', Of tbs Ninth CavaI-
ry, with one of the columns pursuing
hostile Indians in Arizona, overlook
them on the 10th inst, in strongly
fortified position in a canyon. The
troops were driven off by the indians,
with loss Of several man.
The Uaited States House of Repre-.
sentatives was in session on Saturday
for debate only. Most OF the tins was
occupied by Messrs. Hayes of Illinois,.
and Chittenden of New York, in dis
cussing the financial question.
Charles R. Smith, R. A. McCauley
and Isaac Jones, the latter colored,
we're overcome BY noxious gases, aud
drowned in the bulkhead OF q barge
used for transporting night soil, near
Baltimore, on Saturday. Smith de.
scended into the buIkhead to stop Q
leak, and was asphyxiated; the others
perished in trying to save him.
The tender and baggage car CT a train
on the New Haven aad Northampton
Railroad were thrown from the track
by the breaking of a truck, on Satur-
day morning. A passenger was injur-
ed, but not seriously.
The steamer Louisiana, which sailed
from the Mississippi river bar on Satur-
day afternoon for New York, put back
in the evening with her machinery
disabled and was towed to Port Eads.
John Allen, the missing merchant Of
Baltimore, was in New Orleans on Satur-
day. His accounts are said to bs COZ
rect, and his disappearance is at.ribut-
cd to domestic trouble.
The schooner Leander A. Knowles,
from Horse Island, Me-, for Baltimore,
with ioe, went ashore on Nantucket
Shoals last Friday evening, and has
gone to pieces. Her crew were all
saved.