Daily Republican., 1881-06-14
NEWS SUMMARY.
PELLETS OF NEWS GATHERED
BETWEEN THE SHORES.
A Paragraph OK ftesf.%ages-Oestruc.
tive Eires-Women's Suffrage
Convention, &c.

Rube Patrick was shot dead by his
brother Sydney, in IL quarrel about a
dog, near Golden, Colorado, on Sunday
morning. Timothy Mahoney, police
man, was shot dead while trying to
arrest two drunken burglars, in Chica-
go, on Sunday night. The murderers
escaped. Elizabeth Shultz, 10 years of
age, murdered her new born babe, near
Shutdown, in Rockingham county,
Virginia, last Thursday afternoon.
Peter Magnus, respectable butcher, of
Chicago, kicked his barn tender, VIM.
Gordon, on Sunday, for abusing his
son. The kick broke Gordon'S neck
and he fell dead. Magnus surrendered
himself
The whole business portion of the
village of Ludington, Michigan, was
destroyed by fire on Sunday night. Be-
sides number Of stores, the Episcopal
and Congregational churches and the
City Hall were burned. The loss is eS-
timated at 100000. Lulington is situ-
ated on Lake Michigan, at the termi-
nus Of the Flint and Pere Marquette
Railway. Robert Dunlap & Co.'S to-
bacCo factory, in Louisville, was burned
on Saturday night. The engineer of
the factory, who slept in the building,
went to bed drunk and perished in the
flames. The fire is attributed to his
CarelessneSs.
The Woman Suffrage Convention, un-
der the auspices of the National Wo-
man Suffrage Association, began yester-
day, in Hartford, Connecticut. Ad-
dresses were delivered during the day
by Isabella Beecher Hooker. Mrs. Ma
tilda Jocelyn Gage, Miss Rachel Foster,
Mrs. Elizabeth Merriweather, Miss
Susan b. B.Anthony, Rcv.Olympia Brown
and others.
The strike of the PeppereIl and La
coma Mills, at Biddeford, Maine, has
extended to the weavers, and is eXpec-
ted 10 become general. The weavers
ask an increase of u per cent. They
soy they work over eleven hours daily
and, running to looms, can make
but about 80 cents.
An election for members of the
National and Grand Councils and for
District officers i'll the Cherokee Nation,
will be held next August. A bitter
canvass is already going on between
the factions, and one prominent candi-
date has been murdered.
The brakcmen Of the Arkansas and
Texas Divisions of the Iron Mountain,
st Louis and Northern Railway struck
on Sunday nil hit for higher wages.
They receive $50 per month, and de-
mand $50. All freight trains are stop
ped on the line.
During the Sunday exercises at the
Sand Lot, at San Francisco, DR.. O'Don-
nell, who runs meeting in opposition
to Kearney, in the course Of his haran-
que produced the British and Chinese
flags, and, rolling them together, burned
them on the platform.
Michael Connolly was killed, and Pat
rick Burke and John Hawkins were
seriously injured in a mine of the Della
ware and Hudson company, at Ply
mouth. Pa, yesterday, in consequence
of the premature discharge of blast.
A despatch from Palestine, Texas,
says that Captain H. S. Hayes was yes
tertlay elected First Vice President of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and
Texas and Pacific Railroad Companies,
in place of Bond, resigned.
At the close of Griscord's sixteenth
days fast, yesterday noon, he weighed
173 pounds-a loss Of / = pounds in
twenty-four hours-his pulse was 6G
Is, and temperature 9Sl!.
Michael j. Houstin, aged &c, and his
son, Michael D., aged 80, both of
WaynesborO, Pa, We're sutfOcated at
Frederick City, Md, yesterday morn
ing, by foul air from we'll while they
We're taking out pump stock.
Messrs. Flanagan and McDermott, of
White Mills, We're drowned by the up
setting of a row boat at Kemble,
Penna., on Saturday afternoon. They
were going to LackawaXen on pleas
ure trip.
A private cable dispatch, received in
Chicago, reports the death, in Brighton,
England, of George Armour, of the Chi,
cago firm of Armour Dole, & Co. He
was prominent both in business and pol
iticS.
II the General Lutheran Synod at
Altoona, yesterday, a resolution was
declaring is eXpedient to estab-
Iish an institution for exclusively Ger
man theological education.
Rear Admiral c. r. p. Rodgers, the
new Superintendent of the Naval ACad-
emy at Annapolis, assumed command
Of the post yesterday morning.
The Dauphin County Court, at Har
risburg, yesterday granted a new trial
to Henry and Frank Rumberger, con-
victed of the murder of Daniel Troutman
in December last.
A patent water back burst from the
boiler ut the Grape Sugar Works, in
Buffalo, yesterday morning, severely
scalding three men.
Pres't. Garfield and several members
If the Cabinet will probably attend the
exercises of the Indian School at Car
isle, on Thursday next.
Secretary Lincoln has returned to
Washington, and resumed his duties at
he War Department.
Liquid or Dry.
-