Daily Republican., 1881-08-29
NEWS SUM MARY.
A DUEL NJPPED IN THE BUD nv
APREACHER- TERRIBLE OUT.
RACES BY INDIANS,
Marine Dtsasfers--DOubie Shoot.
Ing Anair-A Greenback Camp.
meeting Other Incidents
Grimes and Caaualtias.

Thomas Il, Watkins, young lawye
OF Richmond, Virginia, was arrested OF
Saturday, OF an attilavir of Rev. Hor
ace Stringtellow, charging that Wat
kius and Waverly \ Ragiand wer
about to fight duel. Watkins wa
held in $1,000 bail to keep the peace. Hi
alleged antagonist could not be found
Tho thirst for gore appears to have beer
excited by an editorial, the compo.itio,
OF Rag and, published in u l.eadjuste
journal, which DE-, ,criDed Watkins as q.
polilica, scayeIger.
The bark Lancefc'i and Schoone
Minnie v. col'iied ri St john, New
brunswick, Oh saturday, aud one o
the schoonar's crew, who jumped over
board, Was drowned. The stea,ne,
Missouri, from Liverpool, ran into an,
Sank the schooner Jesse Williamson
Jr., IN Boston harbor, on SATURDAY,
morning. The captain and crew of the
Williamson Were picked up by tn,
steamer, but The cdp:.in, Andrew =
traggs, died immediately after beins
taken aboard.
Chauncey Ltnoreanx. of Huntsville,
Pa, WAS taken from the i,anv.lle In.
sane Asylum last Thursday by his
friends, who thought they could take
care OF him. Al NanticGke, having
shown no sign of arrangement, he left
his seat Ill the cAr to get d drink of
water, and jumping from the train, dis
appeared. On Saturday his body was
found floating in the river at Nanti-
coke.
In Stephenson county, Illinois, last
Friday night, two men called at the
house Of farmer, named D'Brien, and
told aim that tAeir wagon had broken
down on the road. While O'Brien and
one of the men were going to the sup.
posed wreck the other stole back to the
house, gagged the farmers wife and
robbed the premises of $1,000 in cash.
John Nngent, d sailor, fatally shot
Mrs. Sherman, q boarding house keep
hr, and then shot aud morally wounded
in Galveston, on Saturday. D..
Ossbury, City Marshal of s,ilverton,
Colorado, was mnrdered on Thursday
night by two rutiians, named Wilkin-
son and Eokridge. Ii captured. they
will be lynched.
1t is reported from Tombstone, Ari-
lona, that Indians attacked the village
)f Eureka, New Mexico, last Friday,
md killed al. the inhabitants, 10 in
number. The body Of Lieutenant Smith,
killed by Indians near Mutt
station, New Mexico, fell into the
lands OF the savages, ard was horribly
nutIated.
y "tireenbacll Camp Meeting' was
leid yesterday at Lake ManOnCook,
Maine. In the morning a temperance
service was held, and in the afternoon
addresses W ne made by Congressman
Gillette, OF lowi, Colonel Daniels of
' irginia, and others. The President $
threw gloom over the gath
ering.
The trial of John Tobin for the muir
ley of hi, daugher by kicking her to
leath, was concluded in Chicago, on
Saturday, by the Court sentencing him
% Imprisonment for life. He had
which, it is believed, would have result
I'd in his hanging. He is Al years of
we.
Norman NJ Allen was on Saturday,
for State Senator in the
Thirty second New York District, to
'ucceed Sessions, who has been under a
loud since the charge of bribery
brought against him during the recent
contest for U. s, Senator, ~ Albany.
William H. Lewis, proprietor of the
derkimer House IN Now York, WAS
atally stabbed yesterday by Walter S.
Mclean, whom he attempted to eject
rem the hote! for quarre.ling. During
he melee Mclean Was shot in the head
~ one of his own companions.
BY the capsizipg of yacht near
4ong Branch, yesterday afternoon,
JoloIel William Chalmers, Of l67
Maiden Lane, New York, was drown
d. Charles HOlznacher, clerk Of
\. T. Stewart n Co., Was drowned yes
e-day by falling from an excursion
teamer.
Rev. Z. Bowen, Welsh clergyman,
Il Gibson, PenI3, attempted to Jump
II moving tram AT the Delaware aud
Hudson Depot, i'll Carbondale, on Sat.
Irday, and lad one OF his legs cut Oft.
lis condition is critical.
Five men, named Kennard, Hening,
ohnsou, BON bach and Frida, We're ar
este'l, N Chicago, on Saturday, on the
h u pt hn aJ 70 Ia ~
he Chicago Stove Works, from which
hey were locked on, by a strike.
John Sheridan, night watchman at
he Pennsy lNaula Cual Company's car
hops 1T Pittsrou, was found drowned |
Il a barre OF wa,er on Saturday |
norniDg. He had been sick for sew |
raj weeks, an, IS supposed to have COM
litteu suicide.
Ten persons, neIonglng to one family, |
ear kautuan, Texas, were poisoned a
ew days ago by eating canned peaches
obtaining arsenic, and none o! them
Vere expected to recover
-Four hundred dollars worth of lead |
encis, which came from the United
tales by the way OF Rouse's Point,
ave been seized by the Custom House
t St. John, Qncbe., for evasion of their
uty.
The Union Stove Ccmpany's works at
iarret, Massachusetts,, were destroyed
y fire Oh SATURDAY. might. The loss is
,tinated AT $4,000. Seventy five
orkmen eInploye1 by the company
st their tools.
The body OF young woman, cat in
,O, and much ueconposed, was found
a lonely place il u swamp near Free
,rt, Long Island, ou Friday evening.
here is no rluc IT, It's identity.
Navigation is reported to be virtually
o5ed through the entIre length OF the
hio river, owing to the lowness of the
ater.
Six cases Of smallpox are reported at
ittston, Pennsy .vahia. There have
sen three deaths there from the strlcN-
4 disease
Chang Isao ~, Customs lntcndant at
ieutsin, has been appointed Minister
the United States, in place OF Chm
an Pin th. nr.sent incumbent,