Daily Republican., 1881-02-01
NEWS SUMMARY.
OF Incidents, Aoeidonts,
Grimes. Casnastfes and Happen
fnxs Of Interest Complied From
the nOrning Exchanges.

Grimes, Casualties nAu hhpPeh
fnxs Of Interest COMPLIED From
the Morning. Exchanges.
Louis Grumms, aged 35 years, a soap
manufacturer, committed suicide In
Chicago on Sunday night. He made
fourteen small cuts on his wrist, but,
failing to sever an artery, hanged him
self from cross. beam. His shirt-front
bore dark stains, supposed to be from
poison. A female servant in WestmiD'
ster, Ontario, committed suicide on
Sunday by saturAting her clothes with
coal oil and then setting them on fire.
Detectives in New Mexico have ascer-
tanned that Colonel Potter, Of the
United States Geological Survey, who
has been missing since October last,
Was murdered and robbed by three
Mexicans, while on duty in the field.
One of the murdsrers was hanged few
days ago for horse.stsaling; another Is
believed to be in custody at Albuquer-
que.
1t is said that the nomination Of
Stanley Matthews to be Associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court will proba-
bly, be acted upon by a special meeting
of the Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections in few days.
The Ledyard block at Grand Rapids,
Mi;higan, was burned on Sunday
night. Loss $50, 900. Mrs. Rose Lowe,
who occupied rooms in aD spper story,
perished by suffocation. The pistol
and gun factory of Charles 8. Shattuck,
at Hatfield, Mass, was burned yester-
day. LOSS, $25, eco.
King Kalakaua has informed San
Francisco reporter that the object Of
his visit to Asiatic and European coun.
tries is TO secure q desirable class OF
Immigrants to the Sandwich Islands, to
take the place of the natives, who
seem doomed to extinction at an early
day.
About thirty Indianians, headed by
Senator. elect Harrison, and Congress
men elect Pierce, Demottse, Steele and
others, unexpectedly arrived " in
Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday, and at
once started for Mentor, to urge Gen
eral GARFIELD to select amsmber OF his
Cabinet from Indiana.
A terrific snow storm, with high
winds, prevailed at Victoria, British
Colum bia, on Saturday. In the ooun-
try districts the snow was three feet
deep on a level, and along the coast it
piled in huge drifts. A thaw set in
yesterday.
Less than a quorum again voted for
U. S. Senator in yesterdays joint con-
vention Of the Legislature at Harris
burg. The vote stood: Oliver, AZ /;
Wallace, 81; Grow, 80; McVeagh, 2 /;
Phillips, 2; scattering, 2.
Abraham Twiggs, cclored, who testi
fed against tive other eolored men in a
recent murder trial, was lynched in
Burke county, Georgia, on Thursday
night.
| A train on the North Carolina Rail-
road ran of the track near Gibsonville
and was wrecked, on Sunday night.
Two train hands were killed, and
another was severely injured.
Israel Chichester, aged SO years, was
frozen to death on Sunday night while
cunning on the ice at the mouth Of
the Housatonic river, in Connecticut.
He leaves a wife and one child.
Well, Kahn & Co., cigar manufactu-
rers of Cincinnati made an assignment
yesterday. Their liabilities are esti-
mated at from $l50,OO0 to 5000, 900,
and their assets at $50, 600.
The schooner Nellie Baker, Of New
Orleans, with cargo of cider, has been
wrecked at the mouth of the Tuxpan
river and will probably be total
loss.
Mrs. George Stone and her young
daughter and son perished by the
burning of a tenement honse in Union,
Connecticut, yesterday morning.
Senator Matthew Carpenter, of Wis
consin, who had been sick in bed for
some time past, is reported to be rapid
ly convalescing.
The boilers Of the steamer Pitpan
burst in the San Juan river, Central
America, on the I'd ult., killing three
persons and injuring several others.
The total population Of Kansas, is
995, 96G, of whom 0,24l, are females
foreign born, and 43, $40 colored.
The President yesterday nominated
John W, Jacobus to be U. s. Marshal
for Southern Ohio.
Fhe Mother KIeg hant Taking Qui.