Daily Republican., 1881-07-14
DRIFT OF GENERAL NEWS,
A Hot Day-A Batch Of Murders
DisasterOus Fires &c,

The wife of Benjamin Crossulan, sup.
posed to have been murdered, was found
in the woods on the river side in Edge.
combe, Maine, on Tuesday, shockingly
cut, and was taken to a neighboring
house, where she remained yesterday in
an apparently dying condition. During
an interval of consciousness, she said
that on her way home from Wiscassett,
her husband fell out of the boat, and AT.
ter great exertion she got him in, when
he beat her with his fist and then cut
her with broken knife.
Fifteen acres of wheat We're burned,
near San Jose, California, on Tuesday
by passenger in coach throwing a
lighted cigar into some dry grass, on
the roadside. All the people in tbt 10.
cality had to turn out to prevent the
flames from spreading to the other
grain feds in. the valley.
-Four colored men, named Dodson.
Adams, Bates and Benton, were con
vlcted in Greensville, South Carolina
on Tuesday night, of burning the Acad..
cmy Of Music at that place in 1879.
they were sentenced to be hanged on
the ninth of September next.
Henry Smith, colored, was taken
from jail at Desare, Arkansas, on
Tuesday night and hanged by a mob.
He had teloniously assaulted and mur-
dered girl of fourteen years and con-
fessed his crime.
Chancellor Merritt, at Nashville, yes
terday, dismissed bill OF injunction
against the State Funding Board, on
the ground Of "want of eqnity on its
face" An appeal will be taken to the
Supreme Court.
Joseph and Richard Kingsland, pa
per makers, of Newark, were yesterday
fined $500 and costs for polluting the
Passaic water with carbolic acid from
their factoy. They have applied to the
Supreme Curt.
While digging cellar at Chautauqua,
New York, yesterday, ten skeletons
were found together in small space.
1t is supposed they are the remains of
Indians or Frenchmen hastily buried
after a battle.
John A. Appleton, the oldest OF the
brothers composing the wel-knoWn
publishing firm of ID. Appleton Il Co..;
died yesterday merning, at Clifton,
Staten Island, in the Goth year of his
age.
A tunnel on the Cincinnati Northern
Railroad, two miles from Cincinnati,
caved in last night, upon thirty work
men. lC was not known at last ac-
counts if any were killed or not.
William L. Bennett, brakeman on
the New Jersey Central Railroad, and
II resident of Wrightsville, Penna, was
fatally injured at Jersey City yesterday
by being struck by a passing train.
Michael Mcmahon, died in Chicago,
on Tuesday night, of hydrophohia. He
was slightly bitten eight weeks ago, by
a little house dog, which has not shown
any symptoms of rabies.
The Asherman Lumber Company's
large gang saw-mill, at Potsda,n, New
York, was burned yesterday morning,
with 100000 feet OF lumber and Is
houses. Loss, 100000.
Oil reports of petroleum for the eleven
months ending May &1st, 1881 amounted
to 332, S9l $50 gallons, against 3Hj,226,-
420 gallons during the eleven mouths
ending May ;ilst, 1880.
The weavers of the riverside Mills, in
Providence, Rhode Island, have re-
sumed work at the old rates.
John d. Jones, a miner, was killed
at Denver City, Colorado, on Tuesday,
by falling into a shaft 200 feet deep.