Daily Republican., 1881-04-20
IN A NUTSHELL.
GATHERED NEWS FROM TIL III
MORNING EXCHANGES.
An Important DOcument Lost and
Found, Peculiar Horse Disease.
The Work Of the Flames.


A telegram from Chicago reports that
a mortgage deed executed by the Penn
sylvania Company for S2U, ,oOO 900, was
temporarily lost in thdt city. 1t ap-
pears that Mr. Gilbert, pittsburg
lawyer, went to Chicago on business
connected with the NOR gage, and while
in the waSh-room Of the Grand Pacific
Hotel, accidentally dropped the docu-
ment from ispocket. 1t was swept up
with the waste paper, thrown into an
alley near the hotel, and found by a
rag-picker, from whom it was recovered
yesterday, The mortgage was made on
April l,t, 1881, 10 Wistar Morris, Ed
mund Smith and Samuel l.. Felton,, Of
| Philadelphia, rs trustees Tor the NOR
tagees, and is to secure 10000 interest
bearing bonds for $1,000 each.
\ peculiar disease has appeared
among the Strcct-rar horses in Chicago.
Ii begimS.with "a swelling Just below
| the tetlOCk, which, after n little while,
testers and becomes a discharging sore. ]"
If skiliulIy treated in the beginning
| the disease yields slowly, but if ne
elected, blood poisoning sets in, fol
lowed by death, The milady is attri-
buted by veterinary surgeons to expo
sure in the cold and sluSh during the
long winter just past, 275 cArhorses
were effected yesterday, and the disease
was spreading to the stables of express
companies and private persons.
\ fire in Meridian, Miss, on Monday
MI l,,. linr
origin, destroyed block Of the princi-
pal stores, causing loss estimated at
$3.50, 900. The north wing Of the South
crn Insane Asylum, at Anna, in luion
county, Illinois, was burned early yes
tarday morning. One of the patients is
missing and supposed to have periShed.
The loss on property is about Sl50,0 900
All of the street cars in Cincinnati
were again running yesterday, the
strike being at an end. The strike of
street car employees continues in New
port, Kentucky, and trouble is expected
there. The street ear conductors and
drivers in ST. Louis will hold II meeting
Tonight to formulate IL demand similar
70 that made by their brethren in Gin
cimlati.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Yesterday received an official account
Of the murder already published, Of L.
5. Deputy Marshal SeagraveS, Sumner
county, Tennessee. Collector Wood
cock, who gives the details, expresses
the belief that Scagraves was killed for
aiding in the discovery of Illicit distii-
lrrirS.
The trial of Thoma, De Jarntltc in
Danviir, Virginia, for thr murder of
his sister in hous" of i'll rrputr, result
lrd yesterday in a verdict of moi guilty,
because Of insanity at the time he COM
lnttel the act. The prisoner was r.
manl"l to await the further action Of
til" tOurt.
The lower portion of Rockford, Hi
noi>. Is inundated by IL rise in the Rock
River. and the people have been driven
| from their homes. BY the stoppagr Of
factories run by water power, 100 per-
sons are already thrown out Of employ
meni.
135 Indians from Sitting Bulls camp
arrived ut Fort Buford, Dakota, and
surrendered on the 1lth inst. ~ of the
number were men. Sitting Bull was
expected 20 start for Fort Butord, with
Captain Mcdonald, Of the Dominion
Mounted Police, on the 18th.
A new counterfeit ten dollar gold
piece has appeared in San Francisco,
II is of base metal, sufficiently plated
with LoIl to resist acids, but is lighter
than the genuine coin and has not the
true 'ring."
A woman named Mutt, being insane,
drowned her five children in wcllne
Camden, Arkansas, ON Monday. The
eldest, n boy Of T. years, she knocked
in the head before throwing him into
the well.
Tie boiler makers in PittSburg, Pa.
numbering about 800, struck yesterday
for an agreement for one year at the
present wages. The contest between
them and the employers is for II fixed
rate.
The typhus feveriS increasing in New
York. SiXty-ciGht new caScSand twen-
ty deaths We're reported last week.
There were III smallpox and lO3 ty-
phus patients in the hospital i'll New
York yesterday.
The President yesterday nominated
General James LongStreet (now Minis
ter to Turkey to be |. $. Marshal for
Georgia, and Philip II. Emerson to be
Associate Justice for Ntah.
Several leading farmers of Tarrant
county, Texas, have applied fora charter
incorporating company to D'llld Il
Sl00, 900 cotton factory i'll that county.
There is no foundation for the report
that the 1Olst call for bonds (twenty-
five millions in five per cents, issued
bv Secretary Sherman, will be revoked
by Secretary Window. 4
NJ. p. O'Conner. Congressman from
the Second District, of South Caroiiaa,
is dangerously i'll, at his residence, in
Charleston.
A general strike of platform laborerS
is reported at all the railroad dcpots i'll
Louisville.
The carpenters strike in Cincinnati is
rnnnrted TO be extending.