Daily Republican., 1881-08-20
YESTERDAYS NEWS.
A MAN TOO MUCH MARRIED
TRIES HIS HAND AT FORGERY.
A woman '.Crank" Wants 10 Cure
the r. 'esident-Texas Outragcs-
A Murderer II Hnmg-Other
cidents, Crimes and DC,


/ Arthur Merritt,a man of many aliase.
arrested at Lynp, Massachusetts
on Thursday for forging draft on a
q Chicago bank, was arraigned in Boston
yesterday and held in $4,000 bail. He
, is the same scoundrel who. under the
name of Marvin, recently betrayed a
yolng lady of Richmond. Virginia, into
marrying him, and chen tieecel and de.
serted her on their wedding tour. lie is
known to have married six other women
ut different times and places, and to
have been engaged to the daughter OF
an eX-Governor in Missouri This dan
gerous Lothario is "a white bearded tel-
low. 80 years OF age.
Ea:Iy yesterday afternoon q Young
woman, attred in u bathing suit, ap-
pear Il at the entrance to the White
House grounds, and demanded adnis-
sion, saying "she must see the President
Immediately, or he would be dead in
an hour" She carr ed u "miniature
saw and vial containing some LIQUID
After repeating her demand, in the
midst ofa curious crowd, she was taken
in charge by a policeman. She said
she was Just from Manhattan Beach,
and her husbtud was Il fireman in
Brooklyn :"
In Orange, Texas, on the l7th, Sher-
in Mitchell was seriously wounded by
party OF negroes iustigated by some
white men, a posse Nent to tue
Sheritfs assistance, and the encoun-
ter ''r"snNtel fatally TO three negroes,
o'e of WHOM was hanged" SAyera.
Others were wounded, and eight ne
.rocs and one white are under arrest.
Charles S.ockley. convicted of the
murder OF Johu Welker, was hanged
yesterday AT Batavia, New York. The
murderer was committed on the 27th OF
| April last, the motive being revenge
for refusal to allow Welller's sixteen
year.old daughter to marry Stockley
who was Welker's : farm hand.
John ii. Adams, one of the first set.
lers Of tie Northwest, died on Wednes-
day night at Green Bay, Wisconsin,
aged 80 years He was member of
the SeEa'e Of Illinois from 1852 to 1868,
anl at the time of his death was Presi-
dent .of the Second National Bank of
treeport, Illinois.
William Baker, thirteen years Of age,
fired at II bird with pistol in Halifax,
on Thursday evening. The weapon
missed fire and he placed it in his
pocket, when it went of, tearing open
the lower portion of his stomach and
killing him o.. the spot.
A fire in Yale, British Columbia, on
Thursday afternoon, destroyed nearly |
all the business houses, tn rec hotels the |
court house, the Jail and u number of !
dwellings. The loss is estimated ~
100000. All the business portion OF
the town was destroyed.
Lafayette Greenlea and Charles Nell !
son, of the Gloucester fishing schooner |
Grace l.. Feare, were lost in Il fog
while visiting travis on the Grand
Parks, on the 10th inst. AS there
was a large fleet in the vicinity, it is
hoped they were picked up.
Rodney Willis and Ezra Skillman,
both colored, being rivals in love,
fought duel with daggers, in the
stable-yard at Princeton, New Jersey,
on Thursday. Willis was dangerously |
wounded, and Skillman was lodged in
Jail.
James Corrigan had his skull fractur-
ell by George johnson in a sa Oou fight,
in Chicago, on Thursday evening, and
died of lis injuries yesterday. johnson
and his three brothers, who were also
in the fight, were arrested
An incendiary fire in the Central
Block, at New Haven, Connecticut, yes
terday morning caused damage to the
amount of $4,000. William Williams
colorcd, was arrested ON suspicion OF
having started the fire.
The revenue cutter Rush has been or
lercd from San Francisco on a police
cruise in the Artic regions. She will
ply between the Seal and Aleution
Islands, aud obtain any information
possible relative to the missing whalers.
A cyclone near Albert Lea and Am
boy, Minnesota, on Wednesday, dcmol-
lShed two houses and destroyed nearly
all the vegetation in its path. Cattle
we're lacerated by the hail but no per-
son was injured.
Our exports of domestic brcadstuf1s
Turing the seven Inc lths ending July
81, 1881, were valued at Sl2l ,S62, 7O9,
against 1888, ,5S7 1862 during the CORES
bonding period of 1880.
The strike among the driver boys and
'late pickers in the Gaylord mines, at
Penna., end ed yesterday,
he Company yielding to the strikers
lemanGs.
Kate Shelly, of Boone, Iowa, is re-
ported dangerously ill from the effects
# exposure while saving passenger
rain on the night of July 9th. ,
The New Hampshire Legislature ad-
ourned finally yesterday, after having
elected an Excise bill and bill to pro,
'ide tor the purity of the elections. .
John Munley, Thomas Butler and =
|ames McNoury, all boys, were +,
mothered by the fall Of sand bank :
t Scranton on Thursday afternoon. &
Harvey Fellbourn was beaten and
tabled by masked robbers, in one Of
no streets of New Brunswick, New
ersey, on Thursday night. e
The amount embezzled by Captain 1,
Iowgate, ex-disbursiug officer OF the
iena! Service, is now stated at G7O,-
90
The temperature reached 1903 degrees -
n the shade at Des Moines, Iowa, Oh +
thursday afternoon.
The wheat in New Brunswick is re-
orted to be damaged by rust and the .,
otatoes by bugs. =
harced With DeserssOM and
Forgery.
RICHMOND, Va, August 1S-The ct
hiet of Police of Richmond, received .