Daily Republican., 1881-08-15
NEWS SINCE SATURDAY.
THE VIDE WORLD'S RAPPEH
IHGS BRIEFLY TOLD.
A Balcn Of b BloOay Deesls-Rall'
r0Ad Aecidents-Strikes Con-
ttnue-SasuFday,s Horn
Abroad.

| OnArleS hOiD, 1geu ~, was pursuing
. coiored boy who had thrown an apple
at him, in Baltimore, on Saturday
nipht, when he was stabbed by An un
known cOlOred man. Kolb died of his
Injuries yesterday morning. George
Dawson died yesterday in Cheyenne
Wyoming, from fracture of the skull
received on Saturday night in a fight
among several me1. His assailants
were arrested. He had just arrived in
Cheyenne from Russell, Kansas, where
he leaves a wife and two children. The
body OF Hugh McVay was found yes
terday morning in the river at Pitts
burg, with marks of violence on the
head. 1t is supposed he was robbed
and murdered.
| A violent storm in Chambersburg
Penna, IN Saturday afternoon, un.
rooted and otherwise badly damaged
the St. James Methodist Episcopal
chur n, unroofed number OF othe,
buildings, upset one frame house, and
demolished the sheds of the Fair Com.
pany. During severe thunderstorm
in Petersburg, Virginia, several railroad
shops and freight warehouse were
unrOofed, and the grand stand at the
West End Park and two houses on the
AlrHshouse grounds were blown do En.
Stella Crane, aged l2 years, was shot
dead Oh Friday night, IN Newark, New
Jersey, by a toy pistol given her az a
forfeit by boy, who did not know
that it was loaded with ball cartridge.
The bullet passed through the girls
hraiu EranL Arpol.! blo nf
Esopas, New York, was dangerously
shot by the accidental discharge of a
pistol, on Friday night. He was search
ang for Papers in a pocket, and the pis-
tol, being in the same pocket, was dis
charged.
A train on the Grand Trunk Railway
was thrown from the track near Pres.
colt Junction, Canada, about half-past
three o'clock on Saturday morning, by
a COW straying upon the track. All the
cars except the sleeper weee capsized,
and the express car was "knocked into
kindling wood" The engineer was
killed, and three train hands and q
number of passengers were injured.
An immigrant train ran into wash
out near Los Vegas, New Mexico, ON
Friday evening, and the engineer and
fireman were killed. 4 train carrying
four companies of soldiers broke in two
white descending grade pear Marshall
Pass, Colorado, on Friday, and the rear
portion subsequently, ran into the other,
killing private Miller and dangerously
iDjuring private We.zel.
No trains from the East have arrived
at Tucson, Arizona, for several days,
owing to Washouts on the Southern
Pacific Railroad. One section of the
road is three feet under water. The
town Of Marlcopa is also flooded.
The headless body If Ernest Henrici,
a resident Of Lancaster, Penna was
found on Saturday nigh. lying beside
the railroad track at Columbia When
last seen he was drunk.
David Tre1ior, aged IS years, commit
ted suicide in Williamsport, Fenna., on
Saturday afternoon, by hanging him
self to d closet door. He had been in
sane for some time.
One hundred and thirty stone cut
ters, employed at Newark. New Jer.
sey struck on Friday because their EN-
ployer refused TO discharge nom Union
hands.
The Georgian Bay Lumber Company's
mill, at Waubashee, Ontario, was burn
I'd yesterday. The loss is stated to be
heavy.
The bark Glacier, from Belfast for
Wilmington, North Carolina, put in at
Vineyard Haven, on Saturday, her
crew having mutinied.
The horses at La Sale, Illinois, are
being prostrated by a strange epidemic.
About four hundred animals have been
The strike Of the driver boys Of the
Coai Company at Nantl-
coke. rtnna., continues.