Daily Republican., 1881-07-22
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
THE YELLOWFEvERR RAGING IN
HAVANA.
HOn0ring the Confederate Dead
New England SsOrms-Destruc.
tive Fires Western Union,

HOn0rfng the Confederate Dead
. New England SsOrms-Destruc.
tive Fires s-Western Union.
.. News has been received in Pittsburs
of the death, by typhus fever, in Rio
Janeiro, on the 14th inst, of Colonel w
Milnor Roberts, noted civil engineer
At the time of his death he was Chief
Engineer of Public Works in Brazil at a
salary Of $40, 900 year. He had been
Engineer-in-Ch of the Ohio River,
Superintendent of surveys of the Penn
sylvania Canal and the Columbia, the
Portage, the Philadelphia and Erie, the
Cumberland Valley, the Allegheny VAL
ley, the Iron Mountain and the Ohio
and Mississippi Railroads. He also
IN ade the plans for the construction of
the great st. Louis bridge.
BY the recent fire at Wallace, Michi-
gan, two saw mills, the railroad depot,
several stores aud stables, twenty-five
dwellings, the whole years stock of
logs and large quantity of piled lum-
Der, posts and telegraph poles are de-
stroyed. A school-house and two
dwellings are all that is left of the vii
lage. The 10 is estimated at S75, 900,
and it nearly all falls Oh "a Mr.. Meller-
smith, who owned the greater portion
of the place.
A man named Rinfret, from Quebec,
was arrested in Montreal, on Wednesday
night, for swindling number of mer.
chants of various sums of money by
representing himsefto be a son and rep.
resentative of Ludwig Rothschild, of
Rothschjld u Brothers, importers, of
New York. Rintret confessed his guilt
and was committed on the charge of
forgery. Over thirty persons are al
ready known to have been victimized
by the young man.
There were severe thunder storms in
New England on Wednesday night. At
Lebanon, New Hampshire, farm build
ings valued at $500 were destroyed. At
Brockton, Massachusetts, there was
zone of the most violent thunder storms
ever known in that vicinity" and it
was accompanied by large hailstones,
which smashed window glass through
out the town. In the surrounding
country much damage was done to veg
citation.
The monument to the Confederate
dead, at Culpepper, Virginia, was I'M
yelled yesterday in the presence of
about 5000 people. There was a pro-
cession of military organizations to the
Citizens Cemetery, where the cercmo-
MES took place under Masonic auspices.
Addresses were made by Ex-Governor
kemper, Congressman Goode, Generals
Walker and q. f. Fitz- Lee. All the
buildings, public and private, were dec
grated.
The suit of Thomas A. Edison and
others against the Western Union
Telegraph Company, to prevent the
Company from infringing patent of
complainant for a system of quadruplex
telegraphy, was dismissed yesterday in
Washington. The Judge sustained the
plea of defendants, setting up in bar the
pendency Of similar suit in New
York.
The summer encampment of the
Grand Army of the Department of
Pennsylvania will begin tomorrow at
Gettysburg. The attendance will be
unusually large. The comrades will
camp on the battle ground and take
their meals at the hotels and boarding
houses. Colonel Batchelder will be pre-
sent and lecture upon the battle.
A Montreal train on the Delaware
and Hudson Canal Railroad struck
rock which had been washed out by Il
heavy shower, near Dresden, New
York, at two o'clock yesterday morning
Charles Carswell, the engineer, was
killed, and ltich the fireman, was
slightly injured.
The Salvation Army" meetings in
Jersey City having caused blockades of
the streets, the Chief Of Police yester-
day issued an order for enforcement of
"Lhe section OF the Dlsorderly act re-
Iuiring the abatement Of such nuis-
ances."
Nils Peterson, committed in Brooklyn
attempted to kill companion in the
same cell, hanged himself yesterday
with piece of rope taken from
his bed. He was to have been sent to
the insane asylum at Auburn to-day.
The body of Owen Murphy was found )
in Bacon's pond, at Mansfield, Massa-
,huset,s, yesterday morning, with
marks upon 1t indicating that he had +
been murdered. His clothes Were on
;he shore. He was about 10 years OF /
sge, and leaves family. i
l.. S. Goodman, fireman of the De
smet mine, at Deadwood, was killed on :
Wednesday by the giving way Of an a
arch at the entrance to the mine, which
)recipitated him into shaft 200 feet II
leep. 5
United States Marshal Blythe, ac-
,osse, left Greenville for Central, in <
south Carolina, on Wednesday after ST
loon, to arrest the murderers of Deputy
collector Brayton. u
At ~ meeting of the Roman Catholic :,
lergy of Montreal, held yesterday, Il
'eition was signed asking the Pope to ci
rant pDwerS Tor the establishment of II
III independent un versity in that city. p
The open cut Of the Caledonian Mine, -
t Deadwool, Dakota, caved in during +,
night, burying seven men. te
'hree of them We're taken out alive, the 5,
thers are supposed to be dead.
Hereafter, during thick and :oygy ~ ~
'eather, II tog bell, struck by machin- h
ry, will be sounded at intervals of
wenty seconds at the Narrows Light 81
tation in Bos. Oh harhor. di
Associate Justice Clifford, of the Su- NJ NJ
rene Court or the United States, was u
sported to be in dying condition, at
is residence, in Cornish, Maine, last re
light. pt
1t is estimated that the total number aa ~.
{ Immigrants who arrived in the Uni We
I'd States during the year ending June
}, 1881, was 66S,O0O, the largest record TT
l any year.
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