Daily Republican., 1881-06-01
Death Of Self Made Man-Stage
COseh Robbed-Death Of an Ex-
Congressman other Crimes,

q PonChO Springs. The robbers secured
G 5000 i'll cash, IA draft for $500, and Sev,
G erat gold watches and other valuabcs
e Later III the day the same robbers EN-
. tered ID store III Ponrho Springs and
GnupelIGa the proprietor to give ur
$ S45o They were not masked, and the
, leader WAS recognized aS Charles Ali.
1 son, an rN-deputy sheriff.
The annual meeting of the stock
) holders OF the United Railroad and
Canal Companies OF New Jersey wa,
l held yesterday in Trenton. Ont OF
2OI, ,9Oi shares in all III ,463 We're voted
aud the following directors were elected
John Jacob AStor, John Q. Barron,
= VIM. Bucknell, A. l.. Dennis, Chas. L.
Green, Robert LenoX Kennedy, Thomas
Mexican, Isaac W. Scuddcr, John r.
Stevens, II. f. Stockton, AShbcIl
WEIGH and Saml. WEIGH.
In the u. s. Court of claims yester.
day the petition of the Union Pacific r..
Il. Company for additional compensa
ton for carrying the mails in postal
cars, was over ruled, and the past and
present rates remained unchanged. The
Court gave judgment in favor OF the
Pacltic Mail Steamship company for
carrying the Chinese mail in 1873 and
1919, to the amount of SOL, III. The
Court has adjourned until December.
Hugh Anderson died yesterday in
Portland Maine, aged 80 years. He
was Representative in Congress from
that State from 1887 to 1871, and was
its Governor for three terms, from lS43.
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President Pierce, and from 1866 TO 1869
held the position as Sixth Auditor Of
the Treasury.
Dennis Dannahy, aged 23 years. was
run over on the railroad at East Buff
falo, New York, on Monday. The cngin-
crr says he was lying on the track, and
upon examining the body Immediate
! ly after it was run over, it was found to
be cold, which would prove that he
was not killed by the train.
John GriScom, after seventy-two
hours of fasting, in Chicago, remains
apparently in "a healthy normal con-
dition." He has lost eleven pounds in
weight. "He plays games, visits the
theatres, and when feels the need Of
stimulation takes leisurely walk"
One freight train ran into the rear of
another on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
near Princeton junction, New Jersey,
on Monday night. The fiagman, named
Hill, had both legs and shoulder-blade
broken. The engineer and fireman was
slightly injured.
IN Observation-Disclosures, ,on Mon
day evening, John Graham, lazy
white convict, paid IL colored convict
% cents to cut off his hand at the wrist,
to keep him fro n hacking hemp. The
COlored man did the job with an axe, at
a single blow.
The General Synod of the Reformed
Church in America will meet in Hud- |
son, New York, to day. About 300 dele
gates will be present, representing the
church throughout the United States
and the Foreign Mission stations.
The South Carolina Railroad Com
pany has begun to extend its tracks to
the water side at Charleston, and will
be prepared before the opening of the
fall trade to receive and deliver goods
on its own piers.
The 2Sth annual COnclave of the
Grand COmmandery Of Knights Temp
lar of Pennsylvania met last evening in
Scranton. The grand parade will take
place tomorrow morning.
Mrs. GARFIELD has been entirely free
from fever since Saturday last and is
rapidly convalesCing. The President
will attend the graduating exercises of
the Naval Academy, at Annapolis, on
the 10th Of June.
James and William Reed were killed
and Samuel Reed was seriously injured
by the explosion of a portable Saw-mill
boiler, at Caseyville, Mississippi, on
Monday.
The striking miners at Straitsville,
Ohio, have re-cOnsidered their reSOln- u
tion to resume work to-day. Some
miners are at work, and trouble is =
feared.
James Gamble has offered his resigna
ton as General Superintendent Of the y
Pacific Division Of the Western Union Il
Company, to take effect on =,
the 10th of June.
The first crate of Georgia peaches left
Macon for New York on Monday night. d
The croD in that section is estimated at o
,bout 10000 baskets, and the fruit is CT
inc.
About half:past three o'clock yester- II
lay morning, slight earthquake was Il
eli ut Murray Bay, Quebec, and heavy
hocks were felt at Les EhOulements 81
md L'Islet, in the same Province. CO
The Virginia Read,juster State Con- "
,ention will meet in Richmond to-mor- :,
ow. A large number ofthe delegates 8,
ayor the nomination of Cameron for p
Governor, and Senator Lewis for Lieu el
enant Governor.
Charles Smith, lumber dealer on the n
Iiramichi river, in New Brunswick, h
las disappeared, and is reported TO be f
efaulter for $4,000 o.
The flax mill of John Casely & Sons, pi
t Knightstown, Indiana, was struck T
" lightning, on Monday night, and m
urned to the ground. The loss is $780, al
90. t' 10
U. S. Deputy Collector Davis tele- to
raphs from Chattanooga that he has II
aptured John Welch, who shot Davis
a December last. Welch is badly q
rounded. oo
John Kohler, aged 40, saloon-keeper, an
ommitted suicide on New York ferry "a "a,
oat yesterday. Domestic trouble was pr T,
le cause. he
A party of 1876 English immigrants
rriyed at Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Mon
ay, in seventeen days from Liverpool.
The Treasury surplus for May is esti-
lated at $40, 200, 900.
The Rhode Island Legislature met
in Newport, and both houses
.gapized,