Fair play., 1881-06-25
Personal AND GENERAL.

PITNEY, Custodian Of the Treasury,
has refused to testify before the Investisat.
ing Committee, and he maintains they car
not compel him to testify under cath.
ANTHONY w. GARDNER has been
elected President Of Liberia, and Rev. W.
+. Russell, ice-President. They are
pledged to the educstion Of tiae masses and
numerous other needed reiorns.
The Ute CoTznision, with an escor,
OF soldiers, as left Los Pinoe for the Grand
hiser c5dntr5. to select the lauds for the
Me- = reservation. ass.
Ar EspanolA, N. NJ, two desperadoes,
Knowles and Cennora, were summarily dealt
With by the viyilantcs, the former being shot
and tAe iatter hanged. Fr
A APntLADELPHIAp patent-lawyer. Mr.
Cednelly, i said to have received S25O,00t
iron the Bsll Telephone Company for a sim.
| pie dsyiee, of his invention, by which cen:
tral Telephone oflce can be done AWAY with.
NEAR Padncah. ky.s anegro boy died
from eating mulbesries poisoned by locust.
dcpositing their eggs upon them. From the
same cause several others were made very
Sick - 81
DuBINs the eclipse on the night Of
| the llth, about 200 men rode up to the Jail
at Greensboro. N. c., and demanded the
keys. The Jsiler refusing to comply with
their demsnds,S they broke open the doors
and seized John TAYLOR, negro confined for
an assault upon white woman, whom they
took cff \ distance Of several miles and
banged to q tree.
Two brothers, Rub and Sidney Pat
rick, living near Golden, Colo. quarreled
over the ownership of dog. Sidney shot
aud instantly killed his brother. The muir
deyer MAS arrested.
A BREAK in the Erie Canal, near Al
bion, n. Y, caused much damage on the
18th. The water flooded all that section,
carrying away fences, bridges, ETC., and
working destruction n general. A womai,
and two children were saved by getting on a
pig-pen, which fosisd about mile before
they were rescued.
WM. HENRY, Samuel Buckner and
Peter Cook were fatally Injured at Lafayette
Ind, the other day. They were tearing
down the roof OF the C.rrt- -house, when it
fell
TIE Italian exploring party which
started from Assab Bay, Abyssinia, con-
sisting Of a subaltern officer, ten sailors and
four soldiers, has been massacred In the iptes
rior.
A PASSENGER train on the Ohio &
Mississippi Railway, at Tineennes, Ind,
dashed into wagon containing three men.
James Bradley was seriously injured and the
others badly bruised.
Miss LIZZIE HUTCHINSON and Miss
Cox We're killed and Mr.. and Mrs. Hutchin-
son injured by lightning while driving near
Archer City, Texas.
ANDREW ID. RoBEsoN. nephew of
eX-Secretarv Rubesoh, Of New Jersey, was
killed Z, lightning near Hunneweli. Kans. =,
on the 18th. His clothes were literally torn
from his body, his watch chained melted,
and his fate and body much torn.
REIMHEILER, the German who shot
and robbed Al Angel, near Irish Grove, No.,
recently, twas taken from Rockport Jail on
the 10Th by some twenty-five men and
hanged.
A CoLQRED boy who was bitten by a
spider, at Natchez, Miss, the other day,
died soon after i'm great agony.
Mr.. ALFRED CRIswELL, a farmer re-
siding near Raymond, H., was returning
with his family from a meeting In town Oh
the night Of the iith, when in crossing the
track " the Wabash. St. Louis & Pacific
Railroad his wagon was struck by the ex-
press train. running at high rate OF speed,
instantly killing Mrs. Criswell. her babe
two wears old), and two nephsws, aged re-
spectiyely eight and fifteen years; also one
horse. Strange to relate, Mr.. Criswell and
Mr.. Clark and wife, who were in the wagon,
were only slightly injured. The verdict of
the Coroner's jury was that they came to
their death by the criminal carelessness of
the conductor and engineer.
AT Kingston, N. c., Quincy Gardiner
and James Bryan engaged in cutting nftray
which proved fatal to the former. They
had taken up quarrel begun by their wives,
who were compelled to witness its sansuin-
ary termination.
JOHN ScHsRALM, prominent busi-
ness man Of Canton, Ohio, died on the llth
from paralysis Of the stomach caJsed by
drinking iced seltzer-water.
GEORGE ARMOUR, head of the WELL
known Chicago grain firm Of Armour, Dale
& Co., has just died in England, where he
had gone for rest and recreation.
The house of William Stout, a pros
porous farmer near Agency Ford, Buchanan
County, No.. burned on the 18th, and Mr..
Stout's mother, an aged and infirm woman,
who had been left alone on the premises,
perished IN the flames.
OFFICER THOMAS MAH0NEY was shot
dead at Chicago on the morning Of the 18th
by burglar whom he undertoekto arrest
An earthquake has devastated thirty
four villages In Armenia One hundred per-
sons are reported killed and sixty injured.
OFFICIAL dispatches to Oran, Alge-
ria, state that General Detrie defeated =
body Of insurgents, killing fifty. The French
had two wounded.
THE Iron Mountain brakemen struck
at Little Rock on the 18th.
JOHN P. HOWARD, of Burlington, VT,
has given 81, 600 to endow = Professorsfnr
Of Natural History in the University Of V,r-
mont.
AT Maysville, Ky, George Evans, a
colored bootblack, aged l., went to see his
sweetheart, Ada Brown, girl about his
own age. During the evening they quar-
relied. and in fit Of jealous rage he drew a
pistol and shot her in the face. inflicting a
serious wound. He then ran to the river,
shot himself through the lung, and plunged
in. He was rescued, but WAS not expected
to live.
ANOTHER shock of earthquake at Scio
overthrow . m!naret and injured two men.
A tremor in the valley Of the upper Rhone
extended Is far ss Geneva.
A SHOOTING affray occurred at Heel
string Church, Ellis County, Texas, on The
I2th. Several shots Were exchanged, and
one OF the assaulting parties WAS mortaily