Daily Republican., 1880-01-27
NEWS SUMMARY

Ot Locomotives - An EDGtDeel
DrOwned = other Topics, Facts
Incidents, Acetdeuts, Grimes ant
casualties.
!, The first sub committee Of the Hous,
Committee on Elections yesterday di
rected the clerk to notify Mr.. Harrison
contestiDg the seat Of Mr.. Shelley, o
Alabama, that they will report to the
full committee on Thursday in favor o
dismissing his appeal unless cause II
shown In the meantime why such &C.
tion should not be taken.
| Twenty-two locomotives belonging t.
the Reading Railroad Company in thi,
city was seized yesterday by Govern
ment official for non-payment Of inter
nal revenue tax, alleged to DO due ths
United States on the wages certificates
issued BY the company.
There IL trouble In the Butchers
Union at Chicago, over the money col
lectsd 70 carry on the recent strike. The
collections were $l2, 900, but the Off,
GERS Ct the Union cannot account for
more than $4,000, and they charge a
member OF the Relief Committee with
having abseonded with the balance.
Benz amin Archibald, engineer Of the
steamer Iowa, at Boston, fell overheard
on Sunday morning, and was drowned.
While the harbor police were graphing
for his body, they found the corpse of a
sailor named Lloyd, who belonged to
the steamer Victoria.
The Supreme Court Of South Caro-
lima has decided that the tax levy pass
I'd by the Legislature Of that State, last
session, Is illegal. There will be an
extra session Of the Legislature next
month. .....
Matthew Tracy,a farmer, of Whitele
county, Ind, disappeared on Thursday
last, after having sold some hogs, and
is believed to have been robbed and
murdered. His coat and empty pocket
book have been found beside a stream.
The steamboat Charmer was destroy
ed by fire near the mouth Of the
Red River, in Louisiana, yester-
day. fight lives were lost. The boat
had cargo Of 2l00 bales cotton, and
the loss on property Is about $l3O, 900.
Stephen Murrill, colored, was shot
dead by Eugene Arnold, colored, at
Glasgow, KY, last Saturday. They
were hack drivers, and had quarrelled
about a passenger.
Several persons have been poisoned
in Halifax, N. s., by eating partridges
which were kept too long after death,
and some of them have narrowly escap- |
I'd death.
Eli Jackson, a colored youth of l6
years, committed suicide by hanging,
in Harrisburg, on Sunday night. Re-
ligious fanaticisn is supposed to have
affected his mind.
Henry Highfeld, who shot Robert
Johnson at Scranton, on Saturday morn
ing, surrendered himself yesterday.
Johnson died on Sunday.
The House Committee on Coinage
agreed yesterday to report fayorably a
bill authorizing importers to use the
Metric system Of weights and measures.
Jason p. Scribner, convicted of he
murder of two of his children, was
at Augusta, Me-, yesterday,
% imprisonment for life.
There was a snow storm in California
extending as far south as
Monterey Bay. The fall was light in
San Francisco.
The l25th anniversary OF the birth
lay Of Robert Burns was celebrated by
lis admirers in this and other countries
Benjamin G. Pabodie, aged 81 years,
prominent citizen Of Pro sidenos, R. l.,
ell down stairs and broke his neck on
unday.
DR.. Joseph Clark, Of Pughwash,
I. s., killed himself with a dose of
arbolic acid taken in mistake, on Sun {
.ay night.
Two boys, while playing on pond,
Iear Providence, R. l., yesterday, ,
roke through the ice and we're I
Rev. Mr.. Hayden was admitted to !
all in the sum Of $4,000, at New Haven
esterday, his counsel becoming his !
ureties. a
Diptheria is increasing and small /
OK and typhoid fever are Decreasing I
4 Montreal. t