Daily Republican., 1881-09-10
NEWS ALL AROUND.
A VIRGINIA TRAGEDY CAUSED
BY wHIskEY.
Attempt 10 Rob q Baltimore Bank.
Terrible Railroad Accident.
Wholesale Aang1ng-Other
Incidents, Accidents,
Grimes, DC.

! Robert Williams and his wife quar-
relied, near Danville, Virginia, on
Thursday, ard tho woman fed 70 {
magistrate to have her husband arrested
The magistrate appointed Williams
warrant When the son arrived at the
house he found his father lying on a
bed quilt in the yard, with the head
nearly severed from the body and an
axe laying beside it, Two daughters
of Williams, who We're in the house
when their mother left it. had disap-
peared, and are supposed to have done
the deed Williams was "an educated
man, but addicted to drink, and dan
gerous when drunk
Four men attempted, yesterday morn
ing, to rob the bank ..of the Baltimore
Savings Bank, in Baltimore. They en-
tered the trea'urer's room, where there
were several Customers OF the bank and
one OF them engaged tie attention ofthe
treasurer while another walked back k
towards the vault in Il rear apartment.
a clerk, observing the movement fol
lowed and arrested the rObher in front
of the vault, whereupou the others ran
out and escaped The captured robber
gave the name Of Thomas Smith.
A passenger train on the Louisville
Short Line railroad, was thrown from
the track by COW, near one end of a
bridge, II few miles from Anchorage,
Kentucky, on Thursday night. The
train after leaving the track, broke
through the side of the bridge. and fell
into the creek distance of thirty feet.
Seven persons We're killed, and two or
three are supposed TO be still under the
ruins.
VIM. Brown, G5orge ". Padgets,
Patrick McGovern, and Abel and Amos
Mantley, the two latter Creek Indians,
were hanged yesterday for murder at
Fort Smith, Arkansas. The execution
was private. All confessed their guilt,
professad repentance, and expressed "a
confidence that they wodid so to Heav.
en-.
TheSupreme Judicial Court OF Massa-
chuset1s, on Thursday, dismissed the
petition of Leila j. Robinson to be ad-
initted to practice as an attorney in the
Courts, on the ground that her seN We're
excluded by the laws OF the state from
practlcing as attorneys. Miss Robinson
Is u regular graduate OF the Boston Cnl-
versity Law School.
The local e'ection in San Francisco on
Thursday resulted in Il victory for the
Republicans. Clark, their candidate
tor Mayor, received 2O92 majority, and
they elected all their other candidates,
except III two Of the wards, where the
Democratic Surveyor and supervisor
were chosen.
The large engine in the Chesapeake
Nail Works, at harrisburg, broke down
yesterday afternoon, causing stoppage
of the works, whiCn will last for about
a month. The pululers had just gwen
notice OF demand Tor S4.Ju per ton,
which, IL is Thought, would have been
complied with.
Tue War Department will furnish
arms to the authorities Of New Mexico
and Arizona, tor defence against the
Indians, upon regular requisition
made to the Ordinance Department.
Each Territory is entitled to 2OOO rifles
for self protection.
Pink Flagg, q notorious gambler, ar
rived in st. Louis On Thursday night, in
search OF his wife, who had left their
home in Coplin. He found her in a
house ot evil Tepute, and shot her, in
tlcting fatal wound.
A convention Of coal miners vii meet
in Plttsburg on the l3lh inst, to con-
slider the eXpediency Of demanding /
cents per bushel on and after the 10Th,
and OF striking on that day in case OF
refusal.
Dr.. George w. Bookwalter, OF Anso-
MIA, Ohio, was arrested at Union City,
Indiana, on thursday, with seven hum
lred and fifty dollars in counterfeit,
two-and-a-h and five dollar gold
pieces in his possession,
William Ross, aged %, track walk
nr on the Central islllroL1 Of New Jer-
sey, was struck by a train near Red
bank, on Thursday night, and so bad
ly injured that he died in about two
hours.
At meeting of the National Asso-
citation Of \ matuer Odrsmen, in Wash
lngton, on Thursday eveninga u resolu-
ton of sympathy for the President was
adopted.
Tho remains of Archbishop Henni, of
milwaukee, were lying il state at the
Cathedral in thst city yesterday, and
were visited by thousands OF people OF
all creeds.
Colonel Richard S. Jetfers proml-
nent lawyer of Atlanta, ,comitted suicide
y yesterday morning nJ the Alabama
White Sulpher Springs.
Charles Mulberry, music teacher OF
Penna., was found dead from
on the road near Lewlstown
yesterday.
Secretary Krkwood, returned to
Washington yesterday from Long
Branch, and was at his desk in the In
.erior Department.
Yesterday was observed in New
under the Governors pro-
,lamation, AS ID day of prayer for the
President.
The Chinese qcarter in Oroville, Cali
forllil, WAS burned On Thursday
light. The loss is estimated to be SO
'UO.
The U. S. Steamer Michigan, Of the
Lake services arrived at Erie, Pcnna.,
N the 9Th instant.
state OF the ThernsOm eter
Il the REPUBLICAN Office, in the shade,