Daily Republican., 1880-12-16
NEWS SUMMARY.

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Hallway Mono OpoIieS-Osh'F In
eidenis, AecidsRts, Grimes ard
Casual1ies.
An ox-District Attorney, Of Wash.
ington, attempted 10 commit suicide yes
tsrday afternoon, by Jumping from the
dome Of the capitol, while suffering
from delirium tremens. A policeman,
neticing his condition, followed him,
and csught him just as he had got ont.
side OF the upper railing near the top
OF the dome.
In the Ohio State Grange, yesterday
resolution was adopted declaring hist
hereafter all candidates for public Of
fees ASKING support of the Changers
shall be required to publicly express
their views upon railway corporations
and their relations to the people"
The lighthouse on Thimble Shoals, at
the entrance to Hampton Roads, bnrn-
ed on the 30th of October, has been
rebuilt. The light is Of the fourth or
der, showing fixed white light for one
mn tte, followed during the next min.
ute by six consecutive flashes, at inter
walls Of ten seconds, alternately red and
white.
John Price, who had served IA years
and 4 months of a Is years. sentence
in the Maryland Penitentiary for mar
der, was pardoned by Governor HRmil.
ton yesterday. Price lie 65 years Of
age, and has spent 80 years Of his life
in prison, having been three times SEN /
tsnead for homicides.
Fall returns Of the municipal cleo
tion in Boston give Prince, Democrat,
for Mayor, 81 ,226, and stebbins, Re-
publican, 20,754. The Democrats
elected 7 Aldermen and the Republic
ans s. The Republicans have 45 Coun-
cilmen, the Democrats &c.
A "confdence man. fleeing from
policeman in St. Louis, on Tuesday
night, attempted to cross the briige OF :
the railroad track, but fell through,
there being no flooring between the
rails, and was drowned. The bridge
track is 80 feet above the water.
Charles Hinsworth colored Trojan,
was arrested in Albany, New York,
yesterday, On the charge Of having at
tempted to poison several persons by
treating them t1 beer which he had
druegsd with Paris green.
Two rear cars Of an express train
from ST. Louis for Kansas City ran off
the track near Eureka Station, twenty
miles from St. Louis, on Tuesday night
aud several persons were injured, three
severely.
The dye works of Macintosh & Sons
and Tnttls,s rubber works at Bolyoke,
Mas5., were damaged by fire yesterday,
and eighty hands are temporarily
thrown ont Of employment.
At the election In Lowell, Massaehu-
setts, on Tuesday, the Republicans So
cured majority Of both branches Of
the city government, and Of the School
Theodore Parker, aged Is years, wAs
stabbed to death, yesterday, by John
Piermar. aged Is, in quarrel at Lam
bertville, New Jersey. The murderer
was arrested.
J. Bradley, aged 50 years, was shot
lead by a magistrate named Squires, at
Summit, North Carolina, en- Tuesday.
The murder wAs the result OF an old
Srudgs.
T. Elsey was arrested at Columbia,
Tennessee, yesterday, for having in
ais possession counterfeit ten dollar
green backs.
Thirty children have died Of dip
,heria 4t Gilbertviile, Beauce county,
! uebec, within two weeks.
The sehoonsrs Maggie and Success, \
rom St. Johns, Newfoundland, for '
rwilingate, are believed to have been
ost, with all hands, in the recent gales.