Daily Republican., 1881-03-21
NEWS BymMARY.
Incidents. Asctdenss amd other
News Items Called frsm she
Merning Exchanges.

Incidents. Accidents amd other
News Items Called frsm she
Morning Exchanges.
Two stock trains collidsd al Parsons,
Kansas, on Friday night, and both On.
gines and twenty cars were demolished.
Two train hands we're killed. The 40.
cident was caused BY the csrslsssness
of conductor In opening switch. A
freight train ran into q passenger train
near Palestine, Texas, the same night;
both trains we're wrecked, an express
messenger killed, and ten or twelve
others were injured, two Of them SO
riously.
The trustees Of the Western Reserve
College, at Hudson, Ohio, decided on
Saturday to remove that institution to
Cleveland. The conditions of the gift
Of $780, 900 to the College by Amssa
Stone are that the name is to be changed
to Adelbert College, and that the city
Of Cleveland shall raise money for the
site, which has been done. Itis thought
the new buildings will be ready for
occupancy by January l, 1882.
In Charleston, Illinois, on Friday
night, printed posters were put up in
the streets, warning twenty persons,
about half of them women, to leave the
place, if they would escape "rsgula.
tion" by the Vigilsnts. Most Of those
named left on Saturday. Sems OF them
were whipped few evenings before.
Robbery, arson and even murder are
among the crimes imputed to the per-
sous warned away.
1t is said that Courtney, the oarsman
has "signified his accsptance" Of Han
lan's proposition to give him l6 Sec
onds start in five mile race. Court
ney expects to row other matches dur
ing the summer and says he cannot
meet Hsnlan bsfore the fall when he
will row him on Toronto Bay.
A solemn requiem Mass for the re
pose of the soul of the late Czar was
celebrated yesterday morning, by Rev,
Father Bierring, in the Greek chapel,
New York. Among these present. were
Mayor Grace, all tbs foreign Consuls in
New York and ex-Minlster Stoughton,
John +. Hsvsnnsr, a prominent Odd
Fellow of the District of Columbia,
having represented the District in the
Sovereign Grand Lodge Of the Order for
the last eighteen yyears, died in Wash
ing,on, on Saturday night.
The one hundredth anniversary Of the
Incorporation of Bath, Maine, was cele.
bra,ed in that city on Saturday, by the
firing Of salutes at noon, the reading Of
an historical address and a poem, and
the delivery of an GRAFTON.
Isidors Levi, a crocksry dealer in
New Orleans, whose store was recently
destroyed by ire, has been arrested,
with Matthew May, his clerk, and Pat.
rick stinson, a packer, on the charge
Of arson.
Maurice Campbell committed suicide
by taking morphine ia Waco, Texas,
on Saturday morning. He said he had
been "robbed OF his fathers legacy by
relatives"
Aportable boiler ia a saw midi neal
Frankfort, Kentucky, exploded on Sat
urday, killing three men and severely
injuring Eve others.
The ice in the Psn0bscot river wen
out yesterday and the port OF Bangor
is now open. The river had beer
closed for ll3 days.
John Rois, a we'll known furniture
dealer of New Orleans, committed sui
eide yesterday by shooting. He leaves
a large family.
Thirty-two cases Of typhus fever, 40
of smallpox, Is of diphtheria, and 1876
of scarlet fever were reported in New
York last week.
Whitelaw Reid was elected Presi.
dent of the Lotos Club, OF New York, at
its annual meeting on Saturday even.
ing.
The training stable Of James s. Offert,
in Paris, Kentucky, was burned yes
terday morning, with seven valuable
horses. An adjoining dwelling was al
80 destroyed.
The bridge across the Scioto River,
at Circleville, Ohio, built in 1886, was
brrned yesterday morning.
John Russell, while drunk, fell from
the gallery Of Exposition Hall in New
Orleans yesterday, and was killed.
There is a freshet in the Della ware
river at Bordsntown, and the docks
and wharves there are Hooded.
James Black. aged 62 years, hanged
himself in Providence, Rhode Island,
on Saturday.
Eighteen children died Of diphtheria
last week in Thurso village, near
Ottawa, Canada.