Daily Republican., 1881-05-16
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE NEWS OFTWO DAYS FROM
THE EXCHANGES.
A United States Oa7eer Killed
Mistake I'm q tax bilI-TrOubles
Of a Work OF the
Flames-A business Fail.
ure-SuppOrt for Rob.
erts0n-OtherI Items.

Fifth Cavalry, while scouting with al
escort for highwaymen, near Neobrara
Nebraska, a few days ago, suddenly
came upon them, and fight took place,
in which Cherry was killed The high.
waymen escaped. Lieutenant Cherry
was Adjutant of Thornburghs com
mand in the Ute Expedition, and dis
tinguished himself in the action at
Milk River. He was engaged to be
married to the daughter of Congress-
man Harry White, Of Pennsylvania.
A telegram from San Francisco says
that in the engrosSing of the Tax Levy
Dill the clause fixing the rate OF taxa
ton was omitted by u mistake of the
clerk, and the Governor signed the bill
before the omission was discovered.
The extra session of the Legislature
had then adjourned, and most of the
members gone home. The validity of
the bill in its present form is d matter
OF controversy.
The steamer Polynesian, went ashore
near Three Rivers, Quebec, was toated
safely on Saturday afternoon. The stea-
mer Valetta, from Montreal, arrived at
ST. Johns, Newfoundland, on Friday
night. She was hemmed by ice at the
mouth of the St. Lawrence for three
days, and broke her propeller trying to
force a passage. She passed through
vast muititudes of seals. Her damages
were repaired at Sydney.
Trouble is feared with the Navaioe
Indians in New Mexico. The rations
for them are exhausted, but, it is said,
they are abundantly supplied with
whiskey by Spectators. The young
men wish for war, and have interfered
with the United States surveyors. A
military force will be detailed for the
protection Of the latter.
AT large meeting of Republicans in
Davenport, Iowa, on Friday night, res
0lutiOns were adopted urging upon the
United States Senate the propriety of
Immediately confirming Judge Robert
son as Collector of the Port Of New
York, and expressing desire that the
Senators from Iowa shall vote for his
confirmation.
The Empire Hosting Works at Park
City, Utah, with smith shops, assay
office and tramway, were burned on
Saturday, The cost of the buildings
and machinery was about S4j, 900. The
freight sheds of the Hamilton and
Northwestern Railway, at Hamilton,
Ontario, were burned on Saturday morn
ing with their contents. Loss, $4,000.
+. S. Moses, a contractor and builder,
was killed at Spencer, Massachusetts,
on Saturday morning by the cars. W.
G. Robinson, aged II, was drowned
while fishing in the SuSquehanua, at
PittstOn, on Saturday afternoon. His
line caught first, he vert ont to loosen
it, and was seized with cramps and
perished.
Gilmore & McCullough's furniture
factory, at Minneapolis, was burned on
Saturday night. Loss, S4O,0OO. Win
termeyer ~ Dempsey'S box factory and
planning mill, in Chicago, was burned,
yesterday morning. Loss 81 ,OOO The
pulp mill of Hollingsworth and Whit
Rey in Gardiner, Maine, was burned
yesterday. Loss, S3O,OO.
Charles Given, cook at hotel, shot
his wife dead and then committed sui
eide, in Atchison, Kansas, on Saturday
evening +. T. LangstOn, Il guard was
killed by three coIOred cOnvicts on
arm in Green county, Georgia, few
lays ago. The murderers escaped
A train on the Logansport and Terre
daute Railroad, in Indiana, struck a
Freak in tho track near Cutter Station,
m Saturday afternoon, and the engine
vas thrown over trestle The fireman,
lamed Moynahan, was killed, and sew
raj others were injured, two seriously.
In New York, last night, Bridget
luinlan, aged A years, was shot twice,
md, it is believed, fatally wounded, by
Ter drunken son Patrick, aged "A,
because she would not give him money.
The son was arrested He is a notorious
haracter, and has spent much Of his
ite in prison.
Two sons of John Thomas, the young
r only five years of age, were drowned
t Block Island, near Providence, on
aturday, by the upsetting of boat.
The Committee on Public Works, in
ne Mexican Congress, has reported in
lvor of approving General Grants rail- l
'ay contract.
L. j. B. Lincoln, broker in canned r
1ods, nuts, etc, at Boston, failed on j
His liabilities are variously /
timated at from 5000, 900 to $50, 900. o
Mrs. Garfeld's condition continued to
lprove last night, and q further abate-
ent Of the fever encouraged her medi-
u attendants.
A planning mill in Galveston, Texas
as partly demolished on Saturday, and
rec men injured, two Of them severe
The Confederate graves at Memphis N
ere decorated yesterday. Ex-Con-
essman Casey Young delivered the
alton. al
No fewer than twenty finback whales :
ere shot with bomb-lances, near
rovincetown, Mass, on Saturday. h,