Daily Republican., 1881-09-14
Yesterdays NEWS.
WHAT THE PLANES DID YES.
TERDAY.
A Balloon Trip - Disturbing
Public W0rshfp-Marder
Lynched-Gulteau Case
The Drought In Ottawa.

| --%R%--
A fire at Battle Creek, Michigan, OF
Monday night, destroyed the Uniol
School Furniture Factory and Huber
& Knights sash and blind factory ad
joining. Loss 1000. Fifty men art
thrown ont or employment by this fire
Watsons Brothers lvmber mill, Bay
City, Michigan, was burned on Monday
night. Loss, 1000. The whole busi
ness portion OF the town of Beaver
J Utah, except the Court House and CO.
operative store, was burned the same
night, The loss is not stated.
Professor Kirk and six others-a sig
nal service employe, and five journal
lsts-letG Minneapolis on Monday al
ternoon III a balloon, for an aerial voy
age to the Atlantic coast. The balloon
made little progress, and at night was
anchored in II wood near St. Paul
"waiting for wind" Yesterday, aftel
throwing out good deal of ballast, il
rose again, and after narrDwl y escaping
wreck in the tree tops, sailed slowly
southwark.
George Bannister was arrested or
Monday for disturbing public worship
in church near the scene of the recent
railroad robberJ, in Missouri. While
the minister was preaching, on Sunday,
Bannister jumped up, fired Oft d pistol,
and hnrrahed for the train robbers. He
then ran on. of the church, and escaped
until next day, when he was caught.
His apparently insane outbreak and
subsequent actions have led to the sus-
picion that he was one of the robbers.
The Great Council of the Improved
Order of Red Men met yesterday in
Annapolis. Mayor Martin welcomed
them on behalf Of the city and w. T..
Iglehart on behalf Of Chesapeake Tribe
Charles II. Lltchman, of Massachusetts,
the "Greao lnCohOnee,' responded.
The public exercises took place on the
State House hill, the naval Academy
Band furnished music.
1t is now believed that no civil pro-
ceedings will be taken against Sergeant
NJ son for his attempt to kill Guiteau.
There is a rumor that charges of disc
bedience of orders and breach of dis
cipline have already been preferred
against Mason and forwarded to q en-
eral Hancock, who is commander of the
military department in which the Of
fence was committed
Yesterday was Connecticut's day of
prayer for the president, in accordance
with the proclamation Of her Governor.
The observance was general throughout
the State. The day was similarly OBJ
served in Delaware by large atten-
dance at the churches, the closing Of
public institutions and general sus-
pension of business.
A telegram from Ottawa says that,
owing to the drought in the upper part
of that city (Which is not reached by
the water works. water has been selling
for one dollar a barrel, and twenty five
cents bucket. Bishop Cleary has
ordered special collect to be said at
the massee in the churches Of the dio-
cese for rain.
A three-story brick buiidiag in
course Of erection for the offices OF the
Richmond and Allegheny Railroad, in
Richmond, Virginia, tumbled down yes
tcrday afternoon, killing one man and
injuring several others, one fatally.
The disaster is attributed to "a badly
planned root, which could not bear
the weight OF the slate placed upon it.
John Taylor and J. 7. Bruce charged
with murder in Yell county, Arkansas,
were taken from the Jail at Darda-
nelleS, last saturday night, and lyncn-
ed by a mob. Samuel isomney, ac-
cused of the murder Of John Smith,
was taken from the jail at Downings-
vile, Kentucky, on Monday morning
and hang4i by masked lynchers.
Returns ofthe election Of Congress
man in the Second District of Maine,
held on Monday, indicates that ex-Gov-
ernor Dingley, the Republican candi.
date, will have about 5000 majority.
The Republicans majority last year
was 1887.
An engine on the Lehigh Valley Rail-
read exploded rear Packerton, Mon
day night, throwing fifteen frei hit ears
Oft the track and slightly injured the
engineer.
Between Shalokin and Pottsville, yes
terday morning., a passenger train ran
into an empty coal train, wre king the
engine of the latter and piling up thirty
cars upon the track. Noperson wasln-
jured.
Nearly six hundred and fifty Mormon
recruits Tor Utah, gathered in England
and Scandinavia, arrived in New York
yesterday by the steamer Wyoming,
from Liverpool.
Two men were killed, and three others
seriously if not fatally injured, by the
bur, sting Of u boiler at a dry.dock in
Jersey City.
DR.. Cantwell and his son were killed
by a tenant, namedCox, ina "ditficulty,'
1t Weatherford, Texas on Monday
evening. Cox was severely wounded.
Governor Jerome, Of Michigan, will
attend the Yorktown celebration, with
zen members of his staff and an escort
If six companies of infautry.
H ,gh CDhahan, a miner, was killed
" falling down the slope OF a mine
learWilkesbarro, early yesterday morn