Daily Republican., 1881-06-21
NEWS ALL AROUND.
THE NEWS THE TELEGRAPH
BRINGS.
snow stops an ExpedittOn-A Great
London Show in the SheriTs
Clutches.

dicate's engineer, who went to explore
Howse Pass, "was stopped by the snow
ON the Selkirk range of mountains,
and had to break up his party and re-
trace his steps. He will make another
attempt soon to get through. 1t is be-
lieved that the effort to find a new pass
will fail, and that the Yellow Head
Pass must be adopted.
The mate and four men of the schoon
er EuStace, from San Francisco for
Mazattan, arrived at the latter port on
the 18th inst. and reported that during
the voyage the Chinese cook killed the
captain, and was imprisoned in the
cabin, but set the vessel on fire. The
cargo, valued at $4,000, included a
quantity OF giant powder and gun
powder.
Aranza, the famous three-year-o
race mare, recently purchased by Mr..
Pierre Lorillard for ST., ,000 was severe.
ly injured, on Sunday evening, during
the transportation from the Rancocas
stud farm to the Coney Island race
course. Her head was badly bruised,
and it Is feared the injuries may extend
TO ner brain.
The severest thunder storm of the
season in Baltimore visited that city
yesterday afternoon. Tie rainfall in
half an hour was more than two inches,
/ Ii inches falling in ten minutes Of
that time. The wind reached velocity
of 30 miles an hour, and the tempera-
lures fell from 81 tn IS degrees. Many
sewers were burst and streets torn up
by the rain.
! The roundhOuse of the Boston and
Lowell Railroad, at Lowell, Massachu-
settS, was damaged by fire on Sunday
night, to the extent of 100000. The
BrVckt)n House, the principal hotel in
Brockton, Massachusetts, was damaged
| by fire the same night, to the amount of
$4,000, Several OF the CUES lost all
their baggage.
The tents, horses and paraphernalia
Of the "Great London Show, and circus
was seized by deputy sheriff from
Chicago, at Des PLANES, Illinois. on
Saturday afternoon, just as che per-
formance was about to begin. The sci
Zure was made on an attachment for a
debt of $500. The circus material was
taken to Chicago, yesterday.
4NSdI hOuuIFllIci cuutb., Oll ouHudy
afternoon, John G. Pyle, track foreman
of the Pennsylvania Railrc ad, discover
ed three boys in the act of placing an Oh
struction on she track, to wreck a
freight train then due. He tried to |
catch them, but they jumped on down
freight train and escaped.
John Griscom, the Chicago faster, at |!
noon yesterday weighed 1G734 pounds,
a gain OF q of a pound in the twenty
four hours since Sunday noon, during |
which time he drank As ounces of water.
His pulse was 81, respiration Ii, and
temperature 9S $40.
The store of DR.. Conkling, at Cen ter
vile, California, was blown up with
giant powder about two o'clock yester-
day morning. C0nkling, who slept in
the building, was taken out of the ruins |
in critical condition. The explosion
is attributed to an enemy.
At meeting of the Council of Cleve-
land, Ohio, last evening, ]. II. Wade
offered as gift to the city large tract
of land, on its eastern limits, valued at
$500, 900, which he has been converting,
during several years, into beautiful
pain II NlIl 'JC hilON IL 90 w fbbC L bI N. |
The shipments of the Newfoundland
Copper Mining Company, since May
18th, have amounted to nearly 10000
tons of ore, valued at nearly 100000.
The total output for the year is estima-
ted at 80, 900 tons, equal to nearly $780,,
600.
Several superstitious persons in
Quebec sat up all Saturday night
awaiting the anticipated ending of the
world" and many others were much
frightened by slight shock of earth
quake on Sunday morning.
At meeting of the California Rifle
in San Francisco last Satur-
day, the Association medal was won by j
+. N. Shook, who scored 80 out of a
possible 100-ten shots each at the 200 |
and 800 yard targets.
Charles X. Taylor, Schuylkill coun- ,
ty lawyer, convicted several weeks ago, !
in Pottsville, of embezzling county funds
was sentenced yesterday to two years b
and full restitution of the $
amount embezZled.
Michael Schreiner was struck by a !,
locomotive, while crossing the Reading "
Railroad track in a wagon, at Lancaster, .,
morning, and is believed to 5;
,e fatally injured.
DR.. Albert G. Mackey, of Washing st
on, one of the most prominent Masons la
n the United States, and author of
'Mackey's Masonic Manual" died yes u u
erday at Fortress Monroe. ~
Christopher Brash and William and q
frederick Hoffman, the latter only ten pt
ears of age, were drowned yesterday,
n Long Island Sound, by the capsizing m
# sail boat. 81
Sextus N. Wilcox and A. G. Bell,
,rominent citizens of Chicago, were d,
rowned last Friday, on a fishing ex- yt
ursion at the mouth of the North Man p'
tou River, Lake Superior.
IA vessel in the harbor and dwelling u. u.
n the town of Elizabeth, New Jersey, St
yere struck by lightning on Sunday
fternoon, but the damage was not hi
reat. az
Ia telegram from Victoria, British b.
Olumbia, says that an American out
Nv recently crossed the boundary into 81,
le Province and brutally assaulted nc
atholic priest and number of citizens. nc
During hail-storm at Babylon, Long -
,land, on Sunday night, hailstones as ~
.rge as walnuts fell, smashing windows In
ad badly damaging the crops. -
Ryerson, Moses & Co., merchants and ~
nip owners of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Ia,
ave made an assignment. Their liza d''
lities are stated at $1S0,000. tn
If you want to have your baby healthy "''
ld beautiful, four things are necessary:
resh air, good food, bright sunshine
ld Dr. Bulls Baby Syrup. =
General Grant will be prevented by
RS. Grants indisposition from attend
10 the commencement of Union Sol
ge, at Schenectady.
The annual procession in celebration
Corpus Christi, at Montreal, TOOK
no r iHinltan