, 1881-01-14
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
HY TELEGRAPH To DATE.

The fight for L. 5. Sc nator in Peunsyl-
vania SO far is in favor OF II, s. Oliver
Texas teIegrams of January 81 Gjyc ac.
count of heavy snow and sIeet ana iI"
severst winter ever known.
At Philadelphia on January ith John
L. Evens, aged l5, was fatally stabbed by
Martin bort, aged IA. Evans had ASSAULT
ed him.
The Tennessee Legislature elected re-
publican greenbacker speake OF the
house and democrat as president of the
senate.
There is no secretary Of the navy and
no business with that department can be
transacted until one is appointed, confined
and sworn IN.
Receipts of freight over the eight lines
terminating at Council BlutfdurIng 1850
were SS,sO6 cars. The average tonnage
25,000 pounds per car.
Raritan bay is frozen solid from South
Amboy to Perth Amboy and as far out as
Staten Island Sound. Several vessels
with cargoes and others in ballast are
frozen in the ice.
There has never been such activity in
Chicago in turf matters in winter as at
present exists. 1t is intended to give the
public next season track and acres sor-
les which will do credit to the city.
la the Pennsylvania legislature last
Monday L. b. Coke, democratic member
saidhe could not swear himself in because
money had been spent to secure his elec.
ton. This is reported as a remarkable
case of conscience.
On January 4th passenger engine on
the Charleston and Savannah railroad
went through bridge over the Ashelpoo
river ~ miles from Charleston. The
engineer, james Wilkerson, and two col.
ored tiremen, were killed.
An atrocious murder was committed at
woodchoppers' camp four miles east of
San Antonia, Texas, Juan Ray telling
Bruno Hilago with an ak for refusing to
loan his horses, and then chopping him
to pieces. Ray was captured.
The excessive weather in the east has
broken up and great thaw has set in.
On the 4th the thermometer stood ut AZ
deg. Night closes In with warm rain
falling, which seems likely to produce a
great freshet in the streams.
The general assembly of Ohio convened
on Tuesday. The governors message
shows the state debt to be $6,480,0O0,
which can by July lst be reduced to So,
100000. 1t recommended that a 4 per
cent refunding scheme be put in opera
tion.
A Carson Nevada dispatch of January
Sd says the senatorial contest in the leg
islature of that state is decidedly warm
with indications that Fair will be success
full unless Sutro and Sharon who are op-
posing him put up very large sum of
money very soon.
The Rappahannock river is closed with
ice eight inches thick. There is great
scarcity Of frewood. The authorities
have taken possession of all wood In the
yards in order to protect the destitute,
and the supply Of water has been almost
cut off by the freezing Of supply pipes.
The residence of Elisha Sperry. New
Haver, was robbed Saturday night of S45,-
600 in bonds by some one who must have
been familiar with the house, for the Sc
curites were in cabinet safe. Bunging
attempts were made to deceive the police,
but they have arrested Harland, nep.
hew of Sperry and held him in $4,000.
A fire broke out in tenement house
at No. 80 Madison street New York on
the morning of the 4th and the means of
escape for large number of tenants be-
ing entirely inadequate, ten persons lost
their lives and many others were badly
injured by jumping from the window of
the burning building. The fire was
caused by the careless use of gasoline by
plumber, He was arrested for criminal
carelessness.
Quid nuncs now assign the interior de-
partment under Garfield to the Pacific
slope or some far western state, like Col
Orado, with Governor Routt as the most
likely subject for the choice to fall upon.
Statements are also put forth to-day, with
much positiveness, that Senator Don
Cameron, being tired of the senate, will
be given his former position as secre nry
of war. 1t is not thought that the south
will have any representation in the new
cabinet.
The New York Post ofJanuary 3 says:
Over one hundred millions were driven
out of United States bonds because Of The
buying last year by treasury pnrhres
for the sinking fund, and invested in rail-
road bonds chiefly, besides twenty-five
millions ofnew money now likely To- he
disbursed by various corporations. All
precious metals mined during the year
in this country have been returned and
are to be added to the large amount i'm
ported and TOR the most part in cirruIa-
tion as currency.
In Brooklyn, January Sd, James w ash,
aged 10, killed Barbara Groenthal, aged f,
because she refused to marry him I.
procured dirk and went TO the house of
James Carlisle, SOP Wiloughby avenue,
where the girl was living, called her to
the door and stAick here to the heart.
She died almost instantly. After the
murder. Walsh went down to Gowanus
canal and attempted to commit suicide by
drowning, but was ished out and taken
10 the Long Island College hospital. 1t
was not known at time that he was the
murderer, but he confessed and was re-
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