Daily Republican., 1881-10-31
NEWS OF TWO DAYS.
DESTRUCTION OF A NEMORIAL
CHURCH BY FIRE.
The French VISITORS The Flames
Window gets Mis- CredeD-
iials -- Indianapolis ana
the Sunday law.

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The French delegation arrived AT
Newport yesterday morning from New
York, having been delayed in the Sound
by q storm. They were received and
entertained by a committee, and last
evening sat down to q grand banquet,
at which Rhode Island was officially
represented by Lieutenant Governor
Fay. To. day they will be recel we'd by
the Governor and Lesis' atnre in, provi.
dence.
The Sunday law being now rather
strictly enforced in Indianapolis, the
Germans who do not wislG to be de-
prived Of their favUrl.e beverage on the
day of rest are organizing So-caled
Literary Clubs" for the purpose OF
evading the law. On Saturday the
Garfield Literary Ciub" was formed,
to enable It's members to drink as much
beer on Sundays a. they wish.
EX- Secretary Window recet yed his
credentials ~ l. ;. Senator fron Min
nesota on Saturday. The President has
requested him TO continue at tho bead
OF the Treasury Department until re-
liered by his successor, and he will do
50 for Il tew days at least. Until Judge
FoIg r. taxes Charge of the Department
the official letters will be signed by As
sistaut Secretary French.
II. II. McGuiye, "a tobaccouist Of ST.
Louis, was closed out by Lis creditors
on saturday. He was about 81 900
short, owing chiefly 10 embezzIcmrnts
by a plausible young scouudrel named
haas, who has been acting as his clerk
for about year. Haas disappeared re-
Gently, leaving six page letter "full Of
good advice 10 has employer.
The Warren Memorial Tabernacle
Presbyterian Church, IN Louisville, the
finest church edi.iCe in the city, was
destroyed by tire on Friday night. 1t
cost about SlJo,0Oo. .nctndiarism is
suspected. A fireman was bad y iniur-
ed by falling walls. Brltings brew
cry at Ottawa, Ontario, was burned on
Saturday. Loss, $4,000.
Two.thirls o. the Vi lage OF Elgetield,
South Carolina, was destroyed by fire
on Saturday night, Only three stores
remain in the business section. The
loss is placed at SiO0,00O. The
planning mill of Menke, Grimm - Co.,
and two.story brick house in Qaincy,
H., was burned Yesterday. LossS2O, 900.
Louis kripger and Charles Lloyd,
principals in a recent notorious dog
fight in Louisville, were indicted by
the Grand Jury, but, although the
matter was concealed fro Il the news
paper reporters, Lloyd and his associate
were beyond Kentucky jurisdiction be-
fore sunset on the day OF the match.
Edward Mclean, alias Hamilton, a
notorious sneak thief, was arrested IN
New Yo'k on Saturday night on sus-
ciciOu Of having, on "Wednesday eve
ming last, defraudcd a diamond cutting
company Of Boston out OF S47OO worth
of diamonds.
The tota, number Of lost by the sink
ing Of the stearI. IT .jeunie Gilchrist at
Rock Island, Illinois, is now reported
at eleveu--S"ven men and four women.
Two b)li' have been recovered by a
diver from the sunken wreck.
The State and City Boards of Health
in indianapolis are dead-locked owing
to the appointment OF some ho"~o-
paths among their members. Mean
while indianapolis is suffering from
almost an epidemic Of typhoid fever.
The dwelling of Henry Cannon, color
ed, in Cross COunty, Arkansas was
visited on Saturday night by number
of armed coiora,l men who shot Cannon
dead and nrrtally wounded his wife.
No cause for the outrage is known.
An encounter took place between a
Chinese gunnoat and pirates near Ming
Pc on October 10Th. More than 200 pi.
rates were killed or drowned them
selves, . were captured alive, anu 40
escaped.
Mr.. Frank Eatt0u took formal charge
nf the First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral s office on saturday He has left
for Burlington, Iowa, to settle private
affairs, and viii return to Washington
in few days.
The rainfall at New York, between
three o'clock on Saturday afternoon
and seven o'clock yesterday morning,
was less than half an inch, not enough
to avert a water famine there.
A man nlmei DonlOey committed
suicide by ;aking laudanum, in Tarboro,
North Carolina, on Friday, after writ
ing his will. He leaves diary written
in French, German and English.
Rev. j. NJ. Spargraye hanged him
self to bed post i'll u hospital, at Pitts
burg, last evening. Pecuuiary embar-
rassment is supposed to have caused his
suicide.
The official vote of Iowa gives Sher-
man, Republican, jo,929 plurality over
Kline, Democrat. and y. l23 majority
over both his opponents.
The registration of voters in New
York, which closed ON Saturday night,
shows II total of 10, 0,ll9, against 2l',-
043 last year ami l67 ,S31 in 1879.
The Governor and Council of MaSsa-
chusetts, on Saturday, decided to ap-
point November oath as Thanksgiving
Day in that State.
Cong essman Brown, Of Indiana, is
recovering from a very severe spell OF
sickness.
Two immense icebergs were seen
from St. John, Newfoundland, ,on Satur-
day, moving southwark.
state Of tho ThermOm eter
at the REPUBLICAN, office, in the shade,