Daily Republican., 1881-03-04
SECOND EDITION .
NEWS sUM MARY.

CeliectioB OF NJ ws, Incidents, Ae'
e,aenta and DONEGAL news of She
day a. euited from tho morning
Exchanges.
The seventh ofthe great snow storms
Of thi wipter is reported in the Moth
west. 1t ragged on Wednesday and yester
day in Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan
and Illinois. A high wind blew the
snow iato huge drifts, aud there was
general suspension Of business and
travail in the gvaatar portion of ID"
States named. At Madison, Wisconsin
"about three feet Of snow has fallen,
and the drifts are from sixteen &c
eighteen feet high
A fire in Poughksepsie, New York,
yesterday morning, destroyed w. A
Cleveland's dry goods store, W. X.
Harrington crockery, and other build
ings, causing a loss OF nearly s9V, Ooo'
The railroad depot and hotel building
of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad, al GAlesburg, Illinois, were
burned yesterday. Loss $4,000
The failure Of W. and T. P. Currie Il
Co., iron mongers, in Montreal, is more
serious than wss at first anticipated,
$3.50 900 being due in Montreal alone.
It's said the irm bought largely with
in few days Of its suspension, and
also sold goods below the market value
to raise money for the purpose OF main
tanning its credit.
A detachment of the Seventy first
New York Regiment. yesterday visited
the Confederate graves in New Orleans
and decorated the monument with
flowers. The band played dirge, a
funeral salute was fred and Rev. M.
Martyr, Chaplain of the Regiment,
conducted religious services.
George B. Sullivan, aged 80 years, a
Young lawyer OF BowageDe, Michigan,
went 10 Niles last Monday, argued a
case, and left in the evening for home,
hut there were MT dlpgs Of him until
Wednesday, when his to1y was found
in q field adjoining the Central Rsil.
road, near the village of Pakagou.
A Farmers's Convention has been
held in Salem, Oregon, to consider the
"wheat question" and has adopted q
resolution c0ndsmring the law which
prohibits the purchase Of forsiSp bullt
ships. 1t is estima:ed that the wheat
stored in the Williametts valley for ex.
port amounts to 1000.
A freight train and material train
on the Chesapeake and Oaio Railroad
we're totally wrecked yesterday by run
ming into each other at full speed near
Caldwell, Virgins. Two engineers,
two fremen and Dr.. Caldwell, Of White
Sulphur Springs, were killed.
The President esterday signed The
Legislative, Fertilization, Agricultural
and River aud Harbor Appropriation
bllls;also the bill authorizing the regis
tration aud protection Of all trsde
marks.
0'Reilley the undertaken, convicted
at Albany, New York, OF swearing t."
fraudulent bills against the county has
bte1 sentenced to three years imprla
onmen, in the PenitentiarJ.
A special Cabinet meetiDg-ths last
OF the Hayes Observation-Disclosures held
Yesterday afternoon for the disposal OF
routine business. A number Of pArdons
were signed By the President.
The body Of Miss Catherine Ksith,
Lost in SNOW storm a weak ago, was
found yesterday in snow drift on 81
unfrequeuted road, six miles from Ac
ton, Ontario.
A coal field, six miles long and more
than half mile vide, has been die
covered seventy miles north Of Tuscon,
ia Al zonis.
Thu dis,illsry Of Hiram Atkins, at
New Pal!z, New York. was seiz9d yes
terday, for violation of the revenue
laws. Atkins wili oe arrested.
V. GLASS; Philade'phian en- route to
Wsshinnton, was found dead in bed
yesterday morning, at the Mansion
House in Baltimore.
Frederick RelIon shot himself dead in
Lykens, Peuna., on Wednesday night,
while suffering from the effect OF drunk
enness.
Benjamin Hogan, prizs fighter, was
shot and mortaLly wounded by james
Jourdan, a saloon keeper. AZ Bia5ee,
Arizona, on the 20;h ult.
Attorney General DsvsDs dscidas
that Hhite man cannot be legally en-
listed in c0loEe regiment.