Daily Republican., 1881-08-31
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Two dwellings a. whitehall, Now
York, were robbed Of 5000 worth Of val.
uables on Monday night. The burglars
who gave the names of Lewis Proctor,
and John Murray, were caught on q
railroad train near Mechanicsville yes
terday, and the property was recovered.
In making the arrest, one of the officers,
Deputy Sheriff named Post, was shot,
and badly wounded In the neck, while
both the robbers were wounded, ,one SER
iously.
Mrs. Hannah Cox died At Holderness,
New Hampshire, on Monday, at the
age Of 105 years and two months. She
was the daughter Of Captain Isaac W.
Stanton, of the Connecticut Volunteers
during the revolutionary War, and was
born in Connecticut. At the time OF
her death she had been . widow for 80
years. She had seven children, two Of
whom survive.
During a disturbance between white
ana colored men at a dance in Point
Coupee Parish, Louisiana, on Monday
evening, one white man was killed and
another mortally wounded. Several
negroes were ahot, but none fatally. 1t
is said the whites were trying to pre-
serve the peace. About twenty of tie
cOlored men were arrested.
The "San Francisco and Oce VI Side
Railroad" mas been surveyed from San
Francisco to Santa Cruz, and on Mon
day ground WAS broken for it on the
beach near Lake MERGED. This road is
tn, connecting link In the California
Central line, projected to New Orleans,
by way Of Utah.
The Delaware, ,Lackawanna and
Western Railroad company is erecting
large cattle pens In its yards a. Wash
ington, New Jersey. Here the Western
cattle, on their way to New York will
be xatered, fed and given few days
rest, so a. to reach their destination in
good condition.
Atan exhibition Of hammer-throwing
in Montreal, ON Saturday, Chief cf Po-
lice McKinnon, of Belleville, Ontario,
beat all previous records in America.
Ue threw the heavy hammer 90 feet 3
inches and the light hammer 12l feet 10
inches.
The disaster at the Torpedo station in
Newport hsrbor will b. Investigated by
the Navy Department.. The victims,
Lieut.. Commander Eies and Lieut..
Spalding, will have an imposing mill
tary funeral. All work at the station
was suspended yesterday.
An explosion in the loading-room of
the Winchester Eiflo Factory, at New
Haven, yesterday afternoon, damaged
the building to the extent OF about $500,
and injured nine persons. two serious
ly. One of the injured is not likely to
recover.
Isaac Rossfeld, q physician O. Now
York, has been held for examination As
to his sanity. He imsgines that he
prescribed medicine for Presidtn5 Gar
field which the attending physicians
failed to administer.
Virginio G. Steavens, divorced wife
of Henry j. Fisk, q merchant Of Mon
troal, has begun suit in that city to re-
cover 500, 900, which she alleges he OBJ
tanned from her At the time Of their
marriage. t
Horace Montgomery and Kate Bar
tholomew Of Waddington, New York,
were drowned yesterday ut Norris
burg, Ontario, while atte npting to run
the Du Platt Rapid in small boat.
The First Battalion of Royal Mum
ster Fusileers il to be withdrawn from
the garrison at Halifax, leaving only
the Seventy se zenith Regiment, bat
terry of artillery and some Of the Royal
Engineers.
Sir Alexander T. Gait has returned
to Winrepeg from tip West q, far as
Fort Ellice, and "speaks in the highest
tetms of the fertility of the soil and the
prolific crops peing harvested"
Mrs. Margaret Whitlock was fatally
burned while starting q fire with coal
oil in Brooklyn last night. Mrs. Louisa
Stankke was badly burned while try.
ing to save her.
Otto Wick was found in the canal
near Montreal, on Monday with a
knife stab in his side. He was una
Bile to give any explanation of the mat
or.
No application for space In tho Inter
national Cotton Exhibition ut Atlanta
will be accepted after September 10th.
Large additions must be made to the
buildings TO accommodate those already
accepted.
James Wolluff, thirteen years Of age,
WAS found dead yesterday morning in
= grove near Brunswick, New Jersey.
He had attended the Grand Army pic
mic there on Monday. Foul play IL sus-
pectcd.
William Mills, aged 80 years, was
drowned at the Lazaretto, near Chester,
on Monday evening. Frederick Fry,
aged II, was drowned in the river at
Chester yesterday afternoon.
Senator Beck, of Kentucky, returned
to Chicago last Saturday night, from
bis trip to tho crd of the Canadian Pa
c;fic Railr. al. He left yesterday morn
ing for Washington.
Tbs public debt statement for August
is expected to show reduction OF about
$l4, ,ooc, ,oOe.
Ryman & Shaeffer's RAW mill, at
Dallas, Pennsylvania, was burned last
evening, with 15O, 900 feet of lumber.
Johu King Walker was killed by
beirg thrown from his buggy neat
Augusta, Georgia, yesterday.
Another Tanner.
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