Daily Republican., 1880-02-20
NEWS SUMMARY.


Gale - spoon Factory Bnrnsd -
Other Grimes, Incidents, Accf.
dents ana Casualties.
Mr.. Charles s. Parnell arrived at
Frankfort, KY, yesterday morning. He
was met at the depot by Governor
Blackburn, and escorted to the Capitol
Hotel, where he held reception. He
subsequently delivered an address in
Legislative Hall, and then left at noon
for Louisville.
William Theison murdered his di-
vorced wife, Mrs. Rsdewald, at Colum-
bus, Ohio, yesterday morning. Hshad
been annoying his wife, and was ar
rested on her complaint for breaking
her furniture. When released from
custody he went to her house and shot
her dead.
Capt. Archibald Milliken, of the
schooner Henry Congdon, accompanied
by his mate, G.. Addison Rose, and the
lattsrs brother, started from Providence
to reach the vessel in yawl, during a
gale on Wednesday evening. They
failed to reach the schooner, and their
yawl was found yesterday morning
capsized.
The spoon factory connected with the
Booth & Hayden Works,in Waterbury,
Conn,, was burned yesterday morning.
1t was large four story brick building
containinga heavy stock OF plated ware,
and the total loss is estimated at $780,
600. One hundred persons were en-
ployed in the department.
The steamer Prince Alfred arrived at
Owen Sound, Ont, yesterday, from
Wharton and local ports, with passen-
gers and freight, aud was to leave last
evening on her return trip. Her cap
tain reported the Georgian Bay TO be
clear of ice, and the weather "mild
and spring-like."
William l.. Sebring, father-in-law of
Ex-Governor Hartranft, died yesterday
in Easton, Pa, OF apoplexy, aged "a
years. He has filed several county
offices and served one term as member
OF the Legislature and one term as an
Associate Judge.
Nineteen valuable horses, shipped
from Communipaw on Wednesday night
to Homer Henderson, Red Bank, N. j.,
were stolen in transit. 1t is supposed
the car was opened at Communipaw
with duplicate key and took ont the
animals.
Collector Patterson telegraphs to
Washington from Memphis that two
Illicit stills, and 1000 gallons of beer,
have been destroyed and two distillers
arrested in Henry county, Tenn, near
the Kentucky line. The revenue par
ty was surrounded in house all night
by thirty armsd men, but got back in
safety.
Barton & Babco0k's distillery, at
Peoria, H., was wrecked by the explo-
sion of boiler on Wednesday evening. n
Two men were killed, two mortally lin
jured and three others badly burned
and scalded. The water in the boiler
was allowed to get too low.
The trial of Henry J. Gum for the
murder OF his father, set for yesterday
in Plymouth, Mass, has been postponed
1ntiI the May term, the accused hav-
ing been UEa5le to secure associate
counsel,
Violent wind storms did considerable
damage in Troy and Albany, N. Y,
yesterday afternoon. Buildings wers
unrnoigd and trees, fences and chimneys
leveled. Two men were injured by
falling tricks.
John Young, a member of the City
Council of Chester, Pa, died in that
city yesterday, aged AZ years.
The Greenback State Convention of
Pennsylvania will meet in Herrisbu-g
on the 23d of March.
The Supreme Court or Virginia rem
dered q decision yesterday affirming
the right of the seventy-fve or eighty
County Judges elected after the 1st of
January to enter upon the duties of
their office at once.
Job W. Green, employed in the Col.
lins Manufacturing Company's Works
at North Wilbsrsham, Mass. was
caught in the machinery yesterday and
killed.
Richard Pasco, Of Lackawana, step
ped in front of railroad train near
Pa, yesterday afternoon,
and was killed.
The collections taken in at Chester,
Pa, for the Irish Relief fund, amount
ing to 81 400, will be seut to the New
York "Herald."