Daily Republican., 1881-07-12
THIRD EDITION.
NEWS SUMMARY.
A Terrible Roof Falling Disaster
Stabbing Cases-HOt weather I'm
the West - China's Smallpox
Smttten EmperOr-Otner Items.

were killed Dy the ldlllns VI cnuisn
roof. have been received in the City OF
Mexico. 1t appears that the church
was being rebuilt, at the same time That
people were worshipping in it. A work
man fell from the roof and all the 9th
ers rushed to get of at the same instant
causing the roof to fall in. Twenty of
the workmen were killed and several
fatally injured, while thirty OF those in
the church below were killed, the latter
being mostly women.
Silas Massey, colored, was stabbed to
death by Captain $. 5. Lee, near Acqula
Creek, in Stafford county, Virginia,
last Saturday night. Massey was nn-
mercifully heating and threatening to
kill a white woman who lived with him;
Lee entered and was attacked, hence the
stabbing, A coroner's jury found that
the stabbing was in elfdefence. John
Lewis was fatally stabbed in a quarrel
with three brothers named Brooks, in
Spottsylvania county, Virginia, on Sat
urday.
The United States Signal Service
thermometer in Cincinnati registered a
maximum temperature OF 103.3-lo on
sunday afternoon. In st. Louis a max
imuln temperature OF l04.l was report
ed-the highest ever recorded in that
CITY. Twenty three tatal sunstrokes
have been reported in that city since
Friday; At Vicksburg, Miss, where
the temperature was slightly lower u
fatal cases of slnstroke have been re-
ported since Saturday.
The latest advices from China recelv-
ed in San Francisco say the young EN-
perur has partially recovered from his
attack of smallpox, but it appears that
| he is destined to fade in early age" 1t
! was reported that the French authori,
ties in Cochin China, were planning an
1expedition for the detinlte annexation OF
Anam, and intended to establish q pro
Electorate over the whole of TonQuin.
A fire in toilette, Quebec, yesterday
murning. DESTROYED lhirtv-tive build
ings, causing loss of $4,000. Davit
Sternberg's dry goods store, i'll Louis
Vile, Kentucky, was damaged by fire
on Sunday to the extent OF S3o, 600. The
mill of Dean Brothers, in South Ches
ter, Penna. was burned yesterday morn
ing. LOSS, sou,VVV.
John Griscom began his last day.
fast, in Chicago, at noon yesterday
His weight was l4o, the same as on Sun
day at noon, his pulse 90 respiration l;
and temperature 81 3-5. His maintt;n
anre of weight during the rs hours from
Saturday at noon is attributed to tn.
cool, damp weather which has set il
there.
Fourteen cars of a freight train OF
the Chicago, st. Parl and Omaha Rail
road, broke loose at Hudson, Wisconsin
on Sunday, and crashed down a steei
grade into another freight train, causing
damage estimated at $4,000, and kill
ling George Flider, an engineer.
An inquest was held at HighSpire
near Harrisburg, on the remains of Mrs
Andrews, supposed to have been mur
dered by her husband last Tuesday
The Jury found that she was killed 10y
her husband, who burned the body II
conceal the crime.
The body of l.. X. Pugh, son of eX
Senator Pugh, who was recently cartur
ed by Indians, has been found by
scout of Mexican troops, near CarreZal
chihuahua. 1t was horribly mutilated
He was tortued to death, and after deat
three shots were fired into the body.
The first bale of Texas cotton Of tn
present season was received in Calves
ton on Saturday, and sold at the EX
change yesterday torS425, for New lor!
parties. 1t was raised by Mrs. NJ
Houseman, in Dewitt county.
While unloading coal ftom cana
boat at Reading yesterday, the chai
broke, and the basket, containing SeV
eral hundred pounds of coal, tell upo
Mahlon Young, killing him on the spot
He leaves wife and two children.
William c. Peterson, a sailor on tn
bark Antoinett, was drowned Iii III
Delaware, near Chester, on Sunda
night. William Bayne, a colored wait
er, aged % years, was drowned Will
bathing, in Utica, New York, the sam
night.
Two tiremsn were caught by a fallin
wall at fire in Montreal on Sunday
and one of them, James Towers. Wa
killed. The other, James Smith, is b'
! lievcd to be fatally injured.
One hundred and fifty masons {
New Brunswick, New Jersey, struc
yesterday for s., 80 per day. An hol
afterwards the contractors yielded
their demands.
George H. Won Spreckelson, age
about 80 years, and believed to be frol
Baltimore, was killed by railroa
train at Rockville, near Harrisburg
last evening.
Eighty-tve members of the Gig:
Makers Union in Allentown, Penna
struck yesterday for an advance
wages. They ask 81 per thousand.
Seven bricklayers were seriously il
iured by the fall of a scattold at the ne
Ocean Oil Works, at Constable Hoo
near Jersey City, last Saturday.
Theodore Ditzenberry, a butcher,
Middletown, New York, commit.
suicide yesterday morning by shootiI
himself, while insane.
Ferdinand Pooch, a saloon keeper,
years of age, committed suicide III Ne
- York, yesterday, ON account OF buslne
y. troubles.
in The subscriptions to the fund Tor MI
=. Garfield and her family, reported up
* last evening, aggregated Sl22, ,753,
or Twenty five persons were injured
railroad disaster near San Antoni
Il Texas. yesterday morning.