Daily Republican., 1881-10-01
ONE DAYS NEWS.
VIGOROUS SPROsEC U TION Or CHE
STAR ROUTE CASES.
Crushed to death-St0rms in the
Invent Jones. Conk Hug ConfsS-
Otner Items OF Interest.

A violent wind storm in Green,
Guthrie and Kossuth counties, Iowa, on
Thursday, did serious damage to prop
erty and caused injuries to several
persons. A train on the Fort Dodge
Railroad was blown from the track,
near Ripley, the same afternoon, three
cars We're wrecked, and eight persons
injursd, two seriously The North
western Depot at lrvington, was struck
by lightning, and eighteen men We're
knocked senseless, one of whom has
since died,
Th" counsel for the Government in
the Star Route cases yesterday fled in-
for rmation III the Supreme Court of the
District OF Columbia against EX- assist.
ant Postmaster General Brady, Chief
Clerk French, Contract Clerk Turner,
George l.. McDonough d Samuel =.
Brown, tor conspiracy to detraud the
United States; and the Court ordered
warrants to be issued tor the arrest of
the parties accused.
John s. Smith, a wholesale boot and
shoe dealer and Alderman, of 10
rontO, was run over and killed by a
street car in that city yesterday.
Charles Parmenter, foreman OF rhe
paint department at the National
Armory at Springfield, Massachusetts,,
was crushed to death yesterday morn
ing while attempting to pass between
the spokes of a large wheel which he
was painting.
A disastrous wind storm prevailed
yesterday throughout the Northwest.
In many places the telegraph wires
were blown down, and full particulars
of the damage could not be learned
The town of Madison Nebraska, CON
ly demolished by a tornado on Thurs.
day. Two persons are known to have
been killed.
Two drunken cowboys from Texas,
rode on horseback through the rail way
depot at Derulng, Arizona, on Thurs
day evening, scattering the people in
all directions. One Of the rutfians
strucka merchant with a revolver and
then took possession Of the uiniug-room
in the depot. He was shot dead by a
deputy sheriff while resisting arrest.
The live stock of Homer, Stuart and
Burnside, doing business at the Ma
tiUnal Stock Yards in East St. Louis,
suspended on Thursday. Their LA
bilities are stated at SOC, 900, while
their assets are small. Joseph S. Homer,
senior member Of the firm, drew s64UO
Of its money from the bank on Thurs
day of last week, and disappeared.
The service of the Western Union
Telegraph Company from Cleveland,
Ohio, during the three days Of Presi-
dent Gartield's 0bSeuules i'll that city,
amounted TO 292, 800 words F0ur-ttths
of this matter, it is said was trans
mitted between the hours of 9 O'Clock
in the evening and midnight.
Republican primary elections were
held in New York city last night to
choose delegates to the district conven-
nnns, which will elect lneinDers of the
state Convention TO meet on the 9th
inst. All the Assembly Districts, ex-
cept the Ninth, chose C0nkling caudi-
dales.
The long drought at Emporia, Kan
sas, was ended on THURSDAY by one of
the heaviest rains ever known. The
rain was followed by a cyclone, which
demolished number OF buildings,
killed four persons, and injured many
others.
The three young ruffians who robbed
the Iron Mountain Railroad train in
Arkansas last week, were captured on
Thursday, two in the Indian Territory
and one i'll Texas. They are in Jail at
Hope Arkansas.
Nothing tries the patience of man
more than to listen to q hacking cough,
which he knows coua easily be cared
by investing % cents in d bottle Of DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup.
The four men, Rogers, Mason, Stem
gall and Frazer, who attempted to
wreck and rob u Central Pacific Rail.
road train near Cape HDrn, on the night
of August 3lsJ, have nren held in $1,000
ba!i each.
The trial ofeX-C Congressmen Voorhees,
at T-enton, New jersey, on the remain.
Jig indictments against him for embez.
cling the funds OF the H ,ckensack Ma.
tional Bank, resulted yesterday in his
acquittal.
/ The Republicans Of the First Dis
trict of Cayugo county and the First
District otQueens Coul in New York,
have chosen anti-Conkling delegates to
the State Convention.
King kalaka.S visited the Navy
Yard at Norfolk, Virginia: yesterday
morning, and was received with the
usual honors by the cOmrAandant. lie
returned to Washington last night.
Popular trial shows the worth OF
every article, and "a years constant use
has proven the grea6 efficacy OF Dr.
Bulls Cough Syrup; it has no superior
A Life size ehigy of Guitea.' was
hanging from a tree in the Cha lies
ton district OF Boston yesterday mhf fh-
ing.
The French visitors to the Yorktown
celebration are expected to arrive in
New York ina body by the steamer
Canada, about tue 9Th inst.
b. W. Hicks, convicted of the mur-
der of his wife, was hanged yesterday
at Spartanburg, South Carouna. He
confessed his crime.
Secretary Window left Washington
yesterday afternoon for Boston. Sec
retary kirkwood will Return to WASH
ington to-day.
Senator Fair,of Nevada, has received
a telegram from Senator Platt, Of Con-
necticut, by which it is settled that
shey will pair for the extra session.
BY the blowing down OF dwelling
near Centralia, Kansas, on Thursday,
one child was killed and another fatal
ly injured.
Park Wilson shot and killed his step
father near Lyons, Texas, few days
ago, for i'll treatment of his mother.
The subscriptions to the. Garfield fund
have reached total Of S333, 195.
At silver Brook.
A prayer and experience meeting Will