Daily Republican., 1881-08-10
YESTERDAYS NEWS.
FIRE IN RHODE ISLAND CAUSED
BY AN INFERNAL MACHINE,
Virginia Republican Convention
A Maniac from a Stroke OF
Lig ighiniug-Ofher News.

destroyed by fire on Monday night, tn,
occupants being aroused in time to save
their lives. DR.. Bowen was absent at
the time. After the house had burned
down fire broke ont in the barn near by
bllt the flames were eXtingushed, and
1t was found that the fire had been
caused by an Internal machine operated
by clOckwork. There is no dOut that A
similar device hal been used to ire the
dwelling. DR.. Bowen had been verv
active in enforcing tho law against
llluor selling.
The Republican State Convention of
Virginia meets in Lynchburg to-day.
All the counties will be presented, =,
and twenty or thirty of them send con.
testing delegations. The Secretary of
the State Central Committee, who is a
Coalitionist, claims l33 ont of 227 dele.
gates as favoring coalition, but the
Straig hts, though not giving figures,
also claim Il majority. There are -.solnt
indications of IA spit.
A tent occupied by men employed in
grading the Canadian Pacific Railway
near Grand Valley, Manitoba, was
struck by lightning on the 3Otl ult.,
and two of the men We're killed. A
third, supposed to have been killed,
was laid out for burial, hut recovered.
On seeing the blackennd corpses Of his
comrades on either 81 ie he became q
maniac.
1t is reported from Lancaster, New
Hampshire, that several prominent per
sons have mysterously died there With
in year, and youlg woman of the
place is suspected of having poisoned
them. Arsenic i, said to have been
found in the stomach of one OF the de-
ceased, and an Immediate examination
of the other bodies is proposed.
The pumps Of the new water works
at Omaha were started on Monday and
the reservoirs are now being filled pre-
paratory to filing the supply pipes
The pumping capacity Of the works is
about 5,jOO,0O0 gallons per day, and
the storage capacity is S,OO0,0O3. The
works were begun last year and cost
$3.50, 900.
An unknown man, apparently 4 Ger
man, about 80 years Of age, well dressed, F.,
WAS run over and killed by train in
Elizabeth, New Jersey, on Monday
night. James MorriSSey, aged 50 years
recently arrived from Ireland, was
killed by u train 1T Worcester, Massa-
chnsetts, yesterday morning,
Judge James u. Colt, of the Supreme
Bench of Massachusetts,, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head
at his office, at Pittstield, in thaG State,
Yesterday. Judge Colt was born in
1916, and was appointed to the supreme
Bench in 1856. He lad been in ill
health for some time past.
The Long and Short Men, notorious
Mghwaymen, are reported to be again
| dopredatirg in Western Texas, and to
nave robbed two stages and their Occu.
pants near Fredericksburg. One OF the
ctages was robbed at u place enphoni-
ousIy entitled "tohberS' Delight
The Amana Societys WooIlcn Mills,
ut Amana, Iowa, were burned on Mon
day night; loss, SO, 900. The Mclean
Manufacturing Company'S woolicn
mills, at GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin, were
burned yesterday morning; loss, Sjo,-
600. Fifty persons were thrown OUT of
employment by this tire.
Thirty.three men in the card-room,
thirty in the winding room ana fifty in
the packing-room OF the Norfolk aui
New Brunswick Hosiery Works. at
New Brunswick, New Jersey, struck on
Monday for an advance of 10 per cent.
Others are expected to Join the strike.
Secretary Blaine did not leave Wash
ington on Monday, owing to the PreSi,
deut's condition, but it is possible that
in few days, he may @ to Fortress
Monroe. llh is suffering from symptoms
Of malaria. and his p"yoician i, anxious
10 have him 20 to the seaside.
The Dcmocra'ic Cpnvrnti0a, OF
Montgomery coUhty, me- yesterday, in
No.riatoWp, and un,.niuUDriy rrnomi.
uAtcl Ilcury p. Ross, for r. silcut
Judge. \ resolution WaS adopteI rx
pressing sympathy Tor President Gar
field.
\ reunion Of OK soldiers and sailors,
which, it is expected, will hcOur Of the
hrgcSi ever held in the West, is to begin
at Lincoln, Nebraska, on September jtll,
a"d cont nue. tive days
Judge Lynch, in Krokuk, Iowa, on
Monday, held John s'turges to answer
charges of irregularities III connection |
with the disappearance Of grain from |
ths ke1 kuk elevator.
A Sudden flood. at Central City and
Idaho Springs, Colorado, on Monday
afternoon, caused damage to properly
estimated q: more than $40, 600, and the
loss of two lives.
Mrs. II. G. Robinson was g0red by
bull wLic going to visit u neighbLr at
Monroe, Cunntuti ut, on Sunday, and
ras since died Of her injuries. She
leaves Il husband ;r!i two children.
The Treasury Cattle Commission will
meet to-day III Saratoga. New York, to
organize, and begin work with the ap- ,
which became available on
July lSt,
Mrs. Ida Harris, Of Ea ton, Pa, com
n:tcd suicide, yesterda0 morning, in a ,
il of insanity, by Jumping from the
bird Story OF IL hotter in Newport, I.hode
sand.
News has been received in San Fran ,
suo OF the killing Of II. klelnSchmidt, ,
German naturalist, by natives of the
sland of New Britain.
1t WAS reported yesterday that Gil !
,crt l.. French, dry goods merchant, Of /
,uttalo, had mad, IN assignment. His /
liabilities are estimated 1T about S1j,- t
90. -,
Mrs Snoed was fatally burned at Aus !
in, Texas, Oh Monday, while iilirG q )
asUline stove which was lighted at the |
ime.
Allen Cockscy was arrested yesterday
u Mason, Illinois, for dt;t,ins il coun-
2rfeit money.
j. NJ. Hay, clothi"r, Of Waterloo,
owa, made an Isishnent on Monday. {
lis liabilities were S2t, 800 assets under ;, :,
$4,000. n
Tunison Coryell, one OF the most prom
lent citizens of WilIlauSn"rt, P"llna., h
led in thai cl,y last evening. as"t VI %
ears. -,