Daily Republican., 1881-07-21
A EAY'S GENERAL NEWS.
ON THE ACTION OF
THE TEXAN GOVERNAENT,
The Sprague Estates Value-W1fe
Murder in six Weeks
Niagara Falls
Mystery.

4 AyBteTys
A mass meeting of citizens Of all par.
ties and creeds was held in Dallas, Tex
as, on Tuesday evening to protest
against the attitude of Governor Rob
erts in refusing to join in the appoint
rHent of thanksgiving day upon the re-
covery of the President. The following
was adopted: "Resolved, That the cit.
izens of Dallas will spend the day set
apart by other states as day of jubilee
aud Thanksgiving at the recovery of our
President. Other cities of Texas are in
vited to do likewise" Bishop Elliott,
of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Western Texas. telegraphed yesterday
to the Governor of Ohio as follows !:
The church represent will earnestly
JON you in observing the day of thanks
giving for the recovery of the Presi-
dent.
A telegram from Providence says the
General Butler Syndicate, which has
had an expert examining the A. & w.
Sprague properly, yesterday "intima
ted an offer" of 81, ,347 200 for the entire
estate, or lutte less than 80 per cent.
of its Indebtedness. The committee of
creditors did not approve the offer, and
the auction sale of the Sprague property
will take place to-day, if not enjoined
by the courts.
The wife of Henry j. Freeman, of
Lovington, H., died last Friday even
ing, after an hours illness, with symp-
toms Of poisoning. A coroner $ Jury,
after holding a post-mortem and hear
ing evidence, found that she died from
the effects OF strychnine, probably ad-
ministered by her husband. The latter
is in jail They had been married only
six weeks.
The body of man recently found in
the Niagara River below the Falls, and
supposed to b, that of Oliver ROwell.
who has since turned up in Ohio, is now
thought to be that of IL. r. Raymond, a
miller of Manitoba. 1t is believed he
was murdered for his money, as he had
q large amount while in Buffalo.
The head of q coiored woman was
seen floating in the canal, at Highspire,
near Harrisburg, on Tuesday evening,
and search was made for it Yesterday.
1t is supposed to be the head of Mary
Andrews, believed to have been mur-
dered by her husband, at that place.
To keep pace with the cutting of rates
in New York, the Boston and Albany
line has reduced its rates from Boston
as follows To Chicago, Sl2; st. Louie,
Sl6.25; Duluth, SO, and proportionate-
ly to other points. The tickets are, of
course, limited to two or three days.
The body Of a young woman, ap-
rarently about 20 years Of age,
which has been in the water five or six
days, was found floating in the river at
Lewiston, New York, on Tuesday even
ing. 1t is supposed she went over Nj
agara Falls.
Mrs. John Tichtner threw concentrat-
ed lye into the face of DR.. q. w. Priest,
n dentist, at his office in Louisville. yes
terdav, and it is feared that his eyesight
is destroyed. She alleges that he betray-
ed her, but he denies the accusation.
While Hudson River steamboat was
passing Cornwall, on Tuesday, two
blasts started by railroad laborers scat
tered large stones upon her deck, caus-
ing panic among the passengers and |
injuring two of them.
One thousand lumber mill laborers at
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and its vicin.
ity, have struck for reduction of the
lim9 of daily labor to ten hours They
have been required to work twelve
hours.
The journeymen brewers strike in
Cincinnati continues. but work is going
on in all the breWeries, and the propri-
etors assert that they are not seriously
inconyenienced by the strike.
The Treasury Department has rem
Tered decision relative to the counting
Of passengers on STEAMBOATS,, according
counted with the rest,
Enoch Long, before the war promi-
nent anti-saverv leader, and one of the
founders of Presbyterianism in Illinois,
lied yesterday at Alton, in that State,
aged 81 years.
The wife of jeremiah Foster, of War
wick, Rhode Island, committed suicide
)u luoSudy, Doodust VI lllucSS. out
Vas 60 years of age
The Illinois Press Association met
in Chicago. A resolution
If sympathy for the President was
pdopted and teiegraphed tc Washing
on.
Thomas L. Brayton, Deputy Collector
If Internal Revenue at Central South
Carolina, was killed yesterday morn.
ng by illicit distillers. ,
Levi p. Morton, our new minister
% France, sailed from New York yes
erday for Havre in the steamship ,
s
Mrs. Samuel Cox was fatally burned !
n Franklin, Texas, on Tuesday morn
ng, while kindling fire with kerosene
,il. Ii
Two men were killed and two were
INJURED, one fatally, by boiler explo !
ion in a saw mill, at Watertown, Ohio,
Isaac Shelby was arrested yesterday t
It Knoxville, Tennessee, for passing a +,
ounterteit 800 greenDack. 8
Sixty-five liquor dealers of Wilkes q
'arre were arrested yesterday for keep
ny open bars on Sunday. l.
President Garfield's mother, who is ,
ow in Solcn, Ohio, is reported to be I
ding well.
VINO is the Lucky Man?