Daily Republican., 1881-01-29
NEWS SUMMARY.
Tho Happenings of Oae Day
Called From ExeDa Nges.

q murder.
A safe in the Office Of Mellow d Camp,
at Navasota, Texas, was blown opsn
and robbed OF $4,000 on "Wednesday
night.
Judge Stuart, in the Admiralty Court
at Que bee, yesterday, confirmed she
award 0! tho assessors in the A'ehsfa-
laya case.
Pour laborers wers seriously injured !
by the explosion OF q stationary engine
on o whalf al Boston, yesterday morn
ing.
A pudding furnace in tho PhTu'z
Iron Company's works, at Ph@aixVille,
Pa, burst last evening, severely inJuT-
ing FIVE men, two OF them-Mich asl
Hagen and his broiher-dangerously.
Six persons we're scalded, one per
haps fatally, by the blowing ont OF one
of the steam drums Of the tug-boat
Bengal Tiger, at California, Ohio, yes
terday morning.
John Maxwell, OF Maiden, New York,
the principal blue stone dealer IN tae
Hudson Valley, has made an assign
ment. His laborsrs and quarryDen
are preferred creditors.
Cleophas Lachance, Il years of age,
con yicted of the murder OF young wo.
man who had resisted his improper ad
vances, was hanged yesterday at Ar
| Quebec.
Charles Kehos, aged 40, section
boss on the Mount Carbon branch OF
tie Reading Railroad, was struck and
killed by passenger train, while cut
Iting Ice from some rocks overhanging
the track, yesterday afternoon.
John Lover was killed ina moulding
shop, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Thurs
day, being struck on the head by the
end Of q boiler, blown out in conse'
quence OF his neglect TO keep it sup
i piled with water.
One of the burglars who blew open
the safe of the South Chicago Iron and
Steel Works in the early part OF thia
week, has been captured with S400o In
his session. The amount stolen
was $40, 900. The prisoners name is
withheld by the police.
| Charles g. and Herman q. Siegler.
brothers, tsllers in the Detroit Savings
Bank, at Detroit, are reported to have
embezzled over s25, 900 Of the banks
funds. The stolen money was spent IN
Ispecula.ions and iu-the support OF an
extravsgsnt family.
The buck board conveyance used tt
Iosrry the mails from Tuscoxa to Fort
Elliott, In Texas, has been found with
, tie mail bags and harness, but the two
passengers and driver missing. 1t Ii
, believed they perished In the reeen
snow-stOrm.
There is a general upward movemen
in grain and provisions al Chicago
| which is attributed to the large foreign
demand, rather than TO any comblna
tion to force up prices. A reaction
, however, though II may be but mod
! crate one, is among the things expected
. The growing winter wheat crop, thi
7 year, covers 3,C49, ,63l acres, agains
q Il go, $50 last year, and from presen
lindioations 50 good fair average yiel'
Y at least" is anticipated.
The War Department has received
> number OF dispatches relating to tn
7 movements of s,5,ttlpg Ball and his In
n diana, but they contain nothing OF IN
!. lterest beyond what has already bee
), published. Relative to Major llses
Inquiry whether he shall go to tn
a Can sdisn border to receive Sitting Bul
o and his followers, in the event ofthei
:. surrspder to the Canadian mounte
I police, it is said at the War Depar
o ment that "some diplomatic correspor
I. Idence will be necessary before such a
I order can be issued"
RI In Whi.evale, Ontario, yester3a,
. daring her husbands sbsence, Mr.
=, ,r Sheppard killed her two little boy
"a one an infant of seven months, II
=. other three years. old, and then cut h'
u own throat, it is believed fatally.
m NJ. Lemay, a merchant, was shot des
N by his drunken brother, Clinton,
Cat OF, Louisiana, on Wednesda
q. evening. The franticide escaped.
ra horse trader, named Shelton, was XII
sr ed by Samuel Smith in quarrel
1e Viola, Warren county, Tennessee,
or Thursday.
,v The drainage Of Lake Okeeono6e
-. contracted for by the authorities ofFl
If rida, will, If successfully accomplish
ed, result not only in the reelamatif
nv Of the bed of the Lake itself, but, 1t
believed, in that of the two swami
known az the Everglades" and Il
"Big Cypress" which lie south OF II
o. Laks, and cover the greater portion
Id the lower end of the peninsula. II
h, Everglades, sixty miles i'll leugtl
,r- and about the same in width, res
oh constitute q vast lake from one to 81
g, feet in depth, studded with thousan'
. of small islands.
v, The fancy cotton mills of L. Fish
\. j& Son, in Grafton, Massachusetts, wei
" burned sou Thursday evening, Lo
81 1925, 900. A fire in Oswego, New Yorl
C.. on Thursday night, causad loss
&. sG5 900, of which S45, 900 falls on Il
T. dry goods stock Of Robert Gordon. I'll
III oar shops of the Jacksonville, PENS
ID cola and Mobile Railroad, in Tallaba
IN ses, Florida, were burned yesterda
r. morning. Loss about $50, 900. A FL
D. in West Point, Georgia. yesterds
ID morning, destroyed the Young Men
Library Association rooms, the bankin
N house Of W. C. & L. Lanier, and 81
ar stores. Seven buildings, includingtN
IN large dry goods stores, in south Benz
RI Indiana, were destroyed by fire yeste
I'd day morning. The fire. gained hea'
g. way, owing to the fact that the ny
90 drapts were 80 solidly frozen that
Ireauired three hours to thav them ou
The flames originated from the expl'
Ision OF an oil stove. The loss 10 est
n mated az $GO,OO0. The factory Of Sin
ne mons, Clark & Co., in Chicaso, WI
x burned yesterday, in consequence OF