Daily Republican., 1880-08-16
NE WS q RUMMAMY.


American RineMen.-A R"uRd
House BuFned.--Other Inctde dents,
Aectdests, Grimes and Casusti.
ties.
R. s. Smalley OF Spring Lake, Mimi,
accompanied by his wife and three
boys, aged l, 10, and l6 years respec-
lively, drove pair Of horses to wagon
in which they were riding into the
lake on Saturday, in order to let the
animals drink. The horses became
|unmanageable and overturned the
Wagon, drowning the children. The
wife was saved with dificui.y.
The international Rife Match at
Creedmoor, L. l., bstweea American
and Canadian teams, aix rihsmen on
I ssch side, was wor by the former, the
total score at each range being 800
Iyards--Americaus, ,439; Canadians, 427.
1900 yards-Amerioans, 4,6, Canadians,
4O7. 1900 yards-Americaus 4ls; Cana
dians, 40l.
The preparations, IN Chicago. ILL.,,
for the grand trienaial conolavs Of
Knights Templar this week, are com
pleted, and q great influx Of strangers
has begun. Many Communicates from
a distance have arrived, ana with those
of the city have gone into camp.
The round-house of the 0gdensburg
snd Lake Champiain Railway At 0g-
lelsburg, N. Y, containing five loco
rotives, was totally destroyed by Are
yesterday morning. The Are is sup
posed to have been caused by train
which arrived a! 2 A. II. Tho loss is
$10o,000 insurance unknown.
Herman Rockers killed his father,
| George, yesterday morning. The old
man, who had been drinking, was
bout to strike his wife with = poker,
because she refused him money, when
bis son struck him with q spade, crush.
ing his skull.
John DobleE, Of Chicago, Illinois, has
won the O'Leary 'F72.hour go-as-you-
please" pedestrian contest, at Buffalo,
N. Y, beating the best record for q
contest Of this kind by two miles, his
SCORE being 4l4 miles.
Charles Richmond, conductor on
the Northern Pacific Railroad, shot and
killed his wife, at Minneapolis, Mimi.
on Saturday, riddliug her body with
more than sixty shot wounds, with a
double barreled gun, aud then shot
himself in the head with revolver.
An explosion of 1000 pounds of pow
der on Friday night, At Red Hill, 3
small station on the South Park Road,
COL, blew the railroad depot and four
adjacent buildings to atoms, killed
Charles Hilton, and terribly injured
three other railroad employees.
John Lucas, a gardener, was killed
on Saturday morning, by train on the
Reading Railroad, at Pottstown, Pa,
the head being severed from the body.
II is believed that he had laid down to
sleep.
William Jones, % years old, the only
support Of widowed mother, was
drowned on Friday while bathing in
CrossRick Creek, near Bordentown,
NJ.
William Evans, aged 20 years, was
drowned at Bay Ridge, Md, yesterday,
while in bathing. He ventured out too
far in the bay and was swept of by the
strong current.
Forty.Gve young ladies took the
black vel! on Saturday morning a. the
Convent Of Notre Dame, Govaustown,
Nd. Several Of them belong to Phila-
delphis, Pa.
Mrs. Laura Miller, 90 years old, died
on Saturday, at West Springfield MASS,
through tasing fly poison instead of
medicine prepared for her.
Attorneys have fled petition in the
Supreme Court at indianapolis, Ind,
for rehearing Of the case involving
the validity Of the constitutional
amendments.
DR.. Tanner will W. his sather-in.
law, in Ohio, this we7k, and will prob
ably return TO New York in September,
when he will begin his leOturing tour.
John Sitzmon, Of Syracuse, N. Y,
shot himself in the right temple on
Saturday, dying Immediately. The act
was caused by continued i'll health.
The Indiana Democratic Central Com
mittee opened the campaign on satur-
day with over 200 speakers in the va
rious cities and towns Of the State.
Frank Happier, German, was
burned to death at the city hospital,
Silver Cliff, COL, on Saturday. He
fell out OF bed and pulled lamp over
on himself.
Nine ont of ten prisoners who had
overpowered the jailer at Gonzales,
Texas, aud escaped, were Iecsptured
yesterday.