Daily Republican., 1881-01-06
NEWS sUMMARY.
Redpath and the Irish LesEue-A
COaenman shOf-Business Fall.
nres-Other IRciasnts, Accidents
Grimes and Casualties.

nres-0ther Inciasnts, Accidents
Grimes and Casualties.
Lammens and Mrs. Meisrnoffsr art
to be hanged in Newark, New Jersey,
day. L2mmens refuses, but the
woman accepts, spiritual consolation
Application was made at Harrisburg
yesterday fer reprisye for Patrick
Hayes, the wife murderer, but 1t was
refused BY the Governor.
Twenty one deaths from diptheria
were reported in New York City during
the twenty four hours ending last sv-
eAiug.
Louis Ehrnsperger, astreet car con.
ductor of St. Louis, is reported to have
become heir 10 an estate in Germany
valued At 800, 900.
The frame spiurers and weavers Of
the Webster and Pembroke hilig, at
surGook, have struck sga,nat e .sdpc
!ion Of ton per cent. in their wages.
other mills are expected to join the
strike.
The dry goods stock Of uarsood, the
Minneapolis bankrupt, was sold in
oulk on Tuesday by the Sheriff to q
New York firm, fer GGS per cent Of the
invoice price. The net loss Of the Hsr-
w0sd failure will be about $4,000.
Otto Dressed, a well-known Demo
cratic politician Of ofCOl1mbss, Ohio, and
momter Of the Legislature, committed
suicide yesterday by shooting himself
in the head. II Is believed lie Tss in
pecGniary trouble.
Of1so rata OF timber ahich we're
started down the Delaware ri7sr at tle
last fall freshst. only 50 reached tide
water. The remainder are frozen in
the ioo between Laokawaaen suG Tred-
ton.
The waters Of Newark Bay havs besn
esvsred for several weeks with oil,
which, it is said, leaks trgn tle pipes
across the Hac&en5ack river. Fisler-
men say the oil is killing the fsl and
will destroy the oyster beds.
A meeting to organize another branch
OF the Irish Land League il Jersey
City was held last night. Congress
msn.elect HardsHburgh presided, and
$50 members we're enrolled. There are
nine other Leagues in that county, one
Of them composed of women.
Certificates Of the Electoral votes of
Colorado and Louisiana were delivered
to the Vioe President yslterdRy by
special messengers. Duplicate csrtid~
Gates, by mail and messengers, have
now been received from all the States
in the Union.
The Dixon Crucible Company OF Jer-
sey City suspended on Tuesday. owing
TO the failure Of Fowler, Compton &
Co., Of New York, and Edward r. C..
Young was appointed receiver. The
Cruoibls CompaDy's liabilities and as
sets are estimated at about 81 ,0G0, 900
each.
An "ice bridge railway" was laid
scrosS the river at Longueil. Quebec,
yesterday morning, and large guam
tity of freight was sent over. In the
afternoon an engine broke through and
lie, in twenty feet of water. The er-
Eineer and fireman, hearing the ice
crack, jumped of and saved them
selves.
The sleeper and passenger coach OF a
mail train going north, on the VIII
mington aud Weldon Railroad, in
North Carolina, were thrown down an
embankment and wrecked, near Mag
nolia Station, on Tuesday night. Thir-
ty passengers were injured, one OF
them, Mrs. Mary Brown, of Philadel-
phia, seriously.
Amaziah Livingstone, coachman at
the State Lunatic Asylum at Harris.
burg, was'found near the asylum gate
last evening with pistol wound in the
back of his head, from which he died
soon after. There seems no doubt that
he was shot by John Lauser, an inmate
Of the asylum, whom Livingstone hal
taken into town to visits brother. Lau.
ser was arrested and lodged in jail.
Mr.. James Redpatb, OF Boston, leo
tured TO a large audience in Toronto
On Tuesday evening, on tie land wa
in Ireland. The lecture was delivered
under tho auspices Of the Irish Lard
League. Mr.. Redpath described the
condition OF the peasantry in
the west Of Ireland, spoke Of the cruel
ties and immsrality Of tho late Lord
Lsitrim, and concluded by hoping that
Ireland would secure home rule.