The Phoenix herald., 1880-07-16
TELECRAPHIC. News of the World for the
 Past Seven Days. Associated Press Dispatches to The Ph@nIx "HeraId."
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Children, were reported to Board of Health within 24 hours, ending at hoon yesterday.
 PROTECTING THE FAMILY HONOR.
 DANvILLE, Pa, July 9.-Last night about midnight T. D. Degarnette en- tered q bagnic and inquired for Mol lie Degarnette and at his requ est the two went into private room and soon after pistol shots were heard in the room occupied by them where upon the police broke into the room and found the girl on the floor and her brother standing by with pistol in his hand. He confessed to shoot ing his sister, saying he had done 1t to wipe out the family disgrace The girl was shot five times, and her wounds will prove fatal. She pro- tests that her brother was right in taking her life, and hegs that he be not punished. Before the brother was taken to prison, he and his sis ter embraced. The brother is q tele- graph operator, aged twenty, and the sister is eia hteen years old.
 HANGED.
 CINCINNATI, July 9.-Gen- Allen Price, the colored murderer of Willie Black, q tobqcco merchant, was hanged in the yard of the Hami lton county jail this morning.
 LIBEL.
 RENO, July 9.-James H. Kinkead has sued the Evening Gazette for $15,OOO. for publishing the speeches made at q meeting of the creditors of | the Reno Savings Bank, on Tuesday l evening, and also for publishing facts connected with the failure of | the bank
 NAPA, July 9.-Edward Stanley, | only son of Judge Stanley,was fatally shot in Pope's Valley this afternoon, while out hunting by the accidental | discharge of his rifle.
 SAN FRANCISCO, July 9.-Assess- ment iof twenty-five each has been levied upon Belridere and Real Del monte. Census returns give pOpula- tion of San Francisco as 233,OG6, in cluding 20, ,549 Chinese.
 ONE MORE COLORED MAN PAYS THE
 DEATH PENALTY.
 REYNoLDsBURG, N. C., June g. The execution of the negro Howard for the murder of an old white man by the name of Baldwin last July took place here to-day and was wit messed by about 2,0OO people How ard protested his innocence to the 1 last and made q very narrowing speech from the scaffeld but the crime was fully proven against him by his step-son who was his accomplice in . the crime.
 STILL ANOTHER.
 AGUsTA, Ga, July 9.-Henry Ryan colored, was hung ID Wayneshirc, Burk county. to-day for the murder of woman named Mary Bohams last December. He killed her to get her money; which was about six dollars. He confessed that he con- mitted the deed. Execution was witnessed by fully 1000 people.
 KILLED BY A LOCOMOTIVE.
 LANCASHIRE, Pa, July 9-While Phil Schumack, leading citizen of this city, and his wife were crossing the Pennsylvania R. R. their carriage was struck by the Niagara express and both occupants killed.
 INDIAN STATISTICS.
 CHICAGO, July 9-JOurna's Wash ington special says that a set of special schedules for recording statis tics relating to Indians is being pre- pared by Col. MaIlcry of the army Schedules will be so arranged that all material facts regarding situation, number and condition of each tribe will be given under their appropriate heads. Walker, Super intendent of Census, has assigned the task of procuring as full and ac- curatc census statistics as possible of Indians, not taxed, to Maj. Powell, >and his assistants, who are working under the Smithsonian Institute Superintendent Walker, in order to give wide circulation of the result of his work has devised plans where by special portions of it may be available without costing a great amount of money. He proposes that each one of the more important subjects of inquiry be published in volume by itself in quarto form that they may be bound together and also to issue a pocket edition.
 FUNERAL OF COL. PELLToN.
 NEW YORK, July 10.-The funeral | of the late Col. Pellton, ne phew and i private secretary of Gov. Tilden, took 2 place this afternoon from Tilden's residence in Gramercy Park. Among q those present were ex-Police Com ( missioner Mclean Corporation Coun sellor Whitney, Mayor Cooper, Clarkson N. Potter. Col. John R. Fellows and w. IT. Green. I
 FORK HANGS HIGH. V ChICAGe, Juiy IO--I lme5 says an } upward sweep in the price of pork ! has occassioned lively awakening d on change. It has been discovered by capitalists that Armour & Co., $ have hold of both ends of the string i ThIs firm it is understood controls h almost the entire produce market of f this citS for months to come and is f also supposed to control the New q York market. It is estimated that {, not less than five million dollars are employed in the corner.
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