The daily gazette., 1880-03-27
General News.

SbOt tNC"s1s
The agreement between the Secretary
of the Interior and the Ute Indians is TO
be finally acted on by the House Com-
mittee on Indian Affairs next Tues
day.
Jacob Frey, aged 50 years, cut his
wife's throat ami then his own, in g..
Louis, yesterday. Neither is expected
TO recover. They had quarreled about
monev.
Jesse Arthur was shot dead by Will
liam Ray in drunken quarrel about a
woman at dance in Mason County, W. .
Va, ON Wednesday night. Ray es
capped
William Barton. colored, aged IS
years, was hanged at st. Charles, Mo.
yesterday morning, Tor tue murder OF
James Chatterbuck in February of lasI
year. Two thousand persons witnessed
the hanging.
A bill providing for general reduc-
ton of the salaries of Government etn-
ployes was considered by the House
Committee on Public Expenditures yes
terday, but not disposed Of.
Christian Steiner, living with a family
named Carl, in Williams port, Pa, went
home drunk on Thursday night asd
qusrrelled with Mrs. Carl Her eliesr
son, Frank, interfered, and was stabbed
~ SecAhoA III bhO dDdOhlCus olclueT
in Jail.
Three workmen employed on
the st. Gothard Tunnel have been ad.
mtied into Turin hospital to he treated
Ter microscopic lDserts in the intestlnes,
sdecies of IrichiEosis. They assert
and the Alrolo doctors confirm it, tha'
hundreds of their comrades are suffer
ing from ihiG disease, hitherto cousid-
cred very rare.
Mary Stock has starved herself to
death, at Allegheny, Pa. She believed
that Ia consequence of her sinfuluess
God had commaded her not to eat.
Shs was kept a live in hospital bv
having the food forced down her throat
Dat ON her return home she refused to
take any Dourishment and died afteI
six we eks OF almost entire abstinence.
zens Protective Union of San Fran cisco.
published a card to the public" yester-
day saying: ave desire to state that
the negotiations are going on and no
communication whatever IL being had
between tAis Committee and Repre-
sentauves of the Sand Lot, ali romors
and statements TO the contrary notwith
standing"
Gen. Grant arrived at San Antonio.
Iekas, last evening, and was rece we'd
with the usual honors. Business was
almost wholly suspe nded, ami M ont of
t1e houses were decorated with haps
aud flowers. The General will ~ To
Houston on Moudav, aud will leave
HoHs'on for New Orleans on Tuesday.
Genersl Sherid ridAn and party have gons
M. ,de Lesseps arrived In Chicago last
evening. on his return from San Fran
CISCO. he was entertained by the
OWL Engineers Club. He declined To
discuss the Monroe doctrine, saving
that his mission was purely CONNER ciaj
and on this continent he was merely n
canal builder.
An attempt was made to wreck a
Southoound passenger train between
Weldon and Halifax, N. c., on Thurs
day night by blaolng rails on the track
Nothing serious Resulted beyond an
hours delay to the train.
1t Ia stated that suits agQreeatipg
$50 700 will be iusti uted in Potfsyllje
IN Few days against the Directors of
the Miners. Trust COMPANY Bank
which failed in 1876, for 81 ,25o 900.
The Mason Female College at Lump-
Loss $40 900. D =" 1nufSasy
An employees boarding house near
ned BUN, Col, was burned on Thurs
Gay night. One man was burned To
death, and all the other inmates were
injured. "''e
While Isao Wales was working on
tne Improvements at Ieversiuk PARK
N. D., eslerday, he was accidental '
struck In the head with pick-ax hy n
fellow workman, and fathlly injured
Professor Alexander Agassiz's gifts to
Harvard have been bestowed in the most
modest manner, The public knowing
hardly quarter of the mount. II he sees
need in the university, he supplies il,
pays the bill and SAYS nothing about it,
lt1s IN THIS way that he has gwen Har-
vardS230. 900.
Wood carving is receiving especial
attention in Germany as an industry
OF national Importance. The wood
carving schools of the empire now
numbering about leo, are to be iu-
creased to 200, and great number
OF prizes will be distributed
Because a funeral party was behind
the appointed time in reaching the
church with one of his dead parishioners.
the Rev. j. Hamilton, of Lynsted, E :
gland, rel fused 10 let them enter ,he
building, or to rea thed buria. service
After much delay the coli n vas admitl. d
10 the churchya and placed in thu
open gave, and there left unt the next
day, when the service was read over il.
and the gave filled IN. ~
Sadie Z. Brown, II years old, step-
ped off the New York express, at this
station, 2 O'Clock yesterday morning.
She has been residing with relatives in
Troy, Illinois, and on Tuesday night
left st. Louis for Elkton. Railroad
officials kindly cared for her on the wav
and at this place Mr.. Lungren of the
Lewisville and Elkton stage line took
her in charge and conveyed her safely
Q her parents in Lewisville. Cecil
Democrat.